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XKCD Substitutions Chrome extension
- yaph 13y agoFor those who don't use Chrome and prefer "on demand news fun" check out this bookmarklet http://geeksta.net/tools/make-reading-news-fun-bookmarklet/ http://geeksta.net/tools/make-reading-news-fun-bookmarklet/
- berrypicker 13y agoAnother one of these substitution extensions... https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
- golergka 13y agoOh, this one is perfect. It makes a lot of links posted to HN much more interesting than they originally are.
- xendo 13y agoWhen I saw that xkcd I knew how I'll be spending my free time over the weekend. I should've known that someone on HN will forestall me.
- yahelc 13y agoDevelopers should be careful with extensions like these. Another popular one (switch "cloud" to "butt") has resulted in me finding image embeds from "buttfront.net" (and broken images) in page sources on a couple of popular websites.
- themstheones 13y agoAt least it wasn't showing images from frontbutt.net.
- terabytest 13y agoYou could say those images are up in the butt.
- joshguthrie 13y agoI say "what what?" in the cloud.
- _delirium 13y agoTwo solutions that do something smarter than just global search/replace on the raw HTML: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/spotlight-jquery-replacetext/ http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/spotlight-... http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/find-and-replace-text-with-javascript/ http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/find-and-replace-text-w...
- minikites 13y agoThe author of the "cloud-to-butt" extension has some interesting tweets on the topic: https://twitter.com/stevenf/status/342698187204751360 https://twitter.com/stevenf/status/342698187204751360
- JRobertson 13y agoYou don't need an extension to have fun with this stuff. Try (http://www.gizoogle.net/ http://www.gizoogle.net/) the next time you go to read any political article. Not only is it more entertaining, it's also more accurate in many cases.
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- Intermernet 13y agoSo much information about atomic cats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors EDIT: Dammit! Just saw the alt text on the original... ah well, great minds and all that...
- Bsharp 13y agoRandall must have one of the shortest travel times from expressing an idea (through his comics) to someone making that idea a reality (this, geohashing, etc.).
- furyofantares 13y agoHe's the only person I know of that can program using stick figures
- matthudson 13y agocueball, megan, and black-hat guy: an entertaining visual programming language Legions of xkcd fans: collectively a "sufficiently smart compiler"? an "eager-to-please interpreter"?
- netrus 13y agoMet so many "IT professionals" who program mostly with drawings ;)
- gmrple 13y agoI'll be honest that I was very tempted to put on a suit, set up a fake newsroom and make a video because of this comic this morning.
- ultrasaurus 13y agoI'm going to have to add this one to my list of things Munroe has built through comics: http://euri.ca/2013/xkcd-is-the-new-donald-duck http://euri.ca/2013/xkcd-is-the-new-donald-duck
- adamb_ 13y agoPhew, this guys a quick-draw-mcgraw.
- jiaaro 13y agoimplemented in javascript: https://gist.github.com/jiaaro/7372006 https://gist.github.com/jiaaro/7372006
- bazzargh 13y agoThere's a native way to avoid that recursion. var snap = document.evaluate('//text()', document, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null ); for (var i=0;i<snap.snapshotLength;i++){t=snap.snapshotItem(i);t.textContent = replace(t.textContent);} Also, the regexps would probably be better like /\belection\b/gi, to avoid eg reelection->reeating contest.
- JasonFruit 13y agoI think a reeating contest sounds . . . challenging.
- krrishd 13y agoCould you possibly minify it?
- emhart 13y agoAlready serving me headlines that make more sense than the originals: "If you believe Elf-Lord Lindsey Graham is actually a lizard, you're among friends—12 million of them." http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/03/fringe-factor-lizard-people-rule-the-world.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/03/fringe-fact...
- MattBearman 13y agoAccording to a new study, smartphone users are allegedly 10 times more likely to rebuild their car in space than users of google glass. Witnesses could not be reached for comment.
- yaph 13y agoAccording to a Tumblr post, Pokédex users are kinda probably 10 times more likely to avenge their cat in spaaace than users of virtual boy. these dudes I know is guilty and everyone knows it..
- richbradshaw 13y agokeyboard -> leopard is another one that caught me out ages ago. Makes things funny every now and then but also messes up your idea of the names for various keyboard config files.
- MattBearman 13y agoYour comment really confused me until I viewed source, apparently this plugin also silently does the keyboard > leopard swap.
- krrishd 13y agoI was just thinking of building a javascript snippet for that XKCD, but you beat me to it. Looks like reading the news is going to get waaaay more interesting....
- ArekDymalski 13y agoI wonder how many people here planned to do this. Thank you and congratulations on the speed.
- earlz 13y agoAm I the only person looking at this and cringing and thinking "It's xkcd, not XKCD god damn it"
- SeanLuke 13y agoRIP, Homestar Runner.
- buyog 13y agoI made a Bookmarklet implementation: http://www.buyog.com/code/post/i-made-a-thing-news-fixr http://www.buyog.com/code/post/i-made-a-thing-news-fixr