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Dave Winer's worst nightmare

February 28, 2005

Dave Winer’s worst nightmare

In the spirit of the childish foot-stamping that is marking the “debate” around Google’s Autolink toolbar functionality, I now present Dave Winer’s worst nightmare. Drag this bookmarklet onto your toolbar, and hit it every time you read his rantings.

Scripting.com fixer-upper

The code is mostly search-and-replace a webpage, with the following rules at the end:

searchWithinNode(document.body,'Google','the world\'s finest search engine, Google'); searchWithinNode(document.body,'Adam','inventor of podcasting, Adam'); searchWithinNode(document.body,'Scoble','my boyfriend, Scoble'); searchWithinNode(document.body,'wrong','probably correct'); searchWithinNode(document.body,'Dave','Google'); searchWithinNode(document.body,'Winer','Inc.'); searchWithinNode(document.body,'RSS','Atom (and its inferior predecessor, RSS)'); searchWithinNode(document.body,'Bing','Duh');

If I get a free minute, I’ll make it into a Firefox extension so you don’t even need to click the button.

It’s a slippery slope, my friends.

Comments

About 6 years, 11 months ago, Dan Dickinson commented:

Some would argue that replacing "RSS" with "my cock" leads to more unbridled hilarity, but cheers regardless for leading us down the slippery slope. I need a laugh on this dreary Monday.

About 6 years, 11 months ago, Phil Wilson commented:

bwah ha ha! this is brilliant! well done :)

About 6 years, 11 months ago, If fields are required, then say so on the form! commented:

"and it\'s inferior predecessor"

You mean "and its inferior predecessor".

About 6 years, 11 months ago, Chris M. Dickson commented:

That's naughty. In a good way. I approve.

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