XKCD Substitutions Chrome extension(chrome.google.com)

90 pointsby posnetvor 13 Jahren37 comments

chrome.google.com

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xkcd-substitutions/jkgogmboalmaijfgfhfepckdgjeopfhk?hl=en&gl=001

17 comments

yahelcvor 13 Jahren

Developers 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.

minikitesvor 13 Jahren

The author of the "cloud-to-butt" extension has some interesting tweets on the topic: https://twitter.com/stevenf/status/342698187204751360

themstheonesvor 13 Jahren

At least it wasn't showing images from frontbutt.net.

_deliriumvor 13 Jahren

Two solutions that do something smarter than just global search/replace on the raw HTML:

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/spotlight-...

http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/find-and-replace-text-w...

JRobertsonvor 13 Jahren

You don't need an extension to have fun with this stuff.

Try (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.

terabytestvor 13 Jahren

You could say those images are up in the butt.

joshguthrievor 13 Jahren

I say "what what?" in the cloud.

Bsharpvor 13 Jahren

Randall 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.).

furyofantaresvor 13 Jahren

He's the only person I know of that can program using stick figures

matthudsonvor 13 Jahren

cueball, megan, and black-hat guy: an entertaining visual programming language

Legions of xkcd fans: collectively a "sufficiently smart compiler"? an "eager-to-please interpreter"?

netrusvor 13 Jahren

Met so many "IT professionals" who program mostly with drawings ;)

gmrplevor 13 Jahren

I'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.

ultrasaurusvor 13 Jahren

I'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

Intermernetvor 13 Jahren

So much information about atomic cats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Motors

EDIT: Dammit! Just saw the alt text on the original... ah well, great minds and all that...

Danieruvor 13 Jahren

In case anyone else is interested in reading the alt text: http://xkcd.com/1288

Semaphorvor 13 Jahren

Unless everyone stopped the image from loading, you are reading the title text. Sorry for nitpicking.

yaphvor 13 Jahren

For 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/

emhartvor 13 Jahren

Already 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-fact...

berrypickervor 13 Jahren

Another one of these substitution extensions...

https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

golergkavor 13 Jahren

Oh, this one is perfect. It makes a lot of links posted to HN much more interesting than they originally are.

richbradshawvor 13 Jahren

keyboard -> 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.

MattBearmanvor 13 Jahren

Your comment really confused me until I viewed source, apparently this plugin also silently does the keyboard > leopard swap.

MattBearmanvor 13 Jahren

According 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.

yaphvor 13 Jahren

According 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..

krrishdvor 13 Jahren

I 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....

xendovor 13 Jahren

When 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.

buyogvor 13 Jahren

I made a Bookmarklet implementation: http://www.buyog.com/code/post/i-made-a-thing-news-fixr

earlzvor 13 Jahren

Am I the only person looking at this and cringing and thinking "It's xkcd, not XKCD god damn it"

yaphvor 13 Jahren

Randall himself states that all upper case is an okay alternative, whereas "Xkcd" is frowned upon http://xkcd.com/about/

jonesetcvor 13 Jahren

http://imgs.xkcd.com/static/terrible_small_logo.png

yes

ArekDymalskivor 13 Jahren

I wonder how many people here planned to do this. Thank you and congratulations on the speed.

jiaarovor 13 Jahren

implemented in javascript:

https://gist.github.com/jiaaro/7372006

bazzarghvor 13 Jahren

There'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.

JasonFruitvor 13 Jahren

I think a reeating contest sounds . . . challenging.

krrishdvor 13 Jahren

Could you possibly minify it?

adamb_vor 13 Jahren

Phew, this guys a quick-draw-mcgraw.

[deleted]vor 13 Jahren

SeanLukevor 13 Jahren

RIP, Homestar Runner.