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This is a filter I made that makes reading news more fun, I got the idea from http://xkcd.com/1288/. Since it's a userscript it should be easily install-able in Chrome or Firefox. In chrome it's as simple as downloading this file and dragging it into your "extensions" window.
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// ==UserScript== | |
// @name FunNewsSubstitutions | |
// @namespace http://mauve.us.to | |
// @description This is a filter I made that makes reading news more fun, I got the idea from http://xkcd.com/1288/. Since it's a userscript it should be easily install-able in Chrome or Firefox | |
// @include * | |
// ==/UserScript== | |
// Wrapper to keep things in their own scope | |
(function(){ | |
// Generate the replacement map | |
var f = { | |
"these dudes I know":/witnesses/mig, | |
"kinda probably":/allegedly/mig, | |
"Tumblr post":/new study/mig, | |
"Avenge":/rebuild/mig, | |
"SPAAACE":/space/mig, | |
"Virtual Boy":/google glass/mig, | |
"Pokédex":/smart\s?phone/mig, | |
"atomic":/electric/mig, | |
"Elf-Lord":/senator/mig, | |
"cat":/car/mig, | |
"eating contest":/election/mig, | |
"river spirits":/congressional leaders/mig, | |
"Homestar Runner":/homeland security/mig, | |
"is guilty and everyone knows it":/could not be reached for comment/mig | |
} | |
// Gets all the text nodes from a given DOM node | |
function getTextNodes(from){ | |
var n, a=[], w=document.createTreeWalker(from,NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,null,false); | |
while(n=w.nextNode())a.push(n); | |
return a; | |
} | |
// Processes an array of TextNodes and performs substitution on the text they contain | |
function substitute(a){ | |
a.forEach(function(e){ | |
var key; | |
for(key in f)e.nodeValue=e.nodeValue.replace(f[key],key); | |
}); | |
} | |
// Do the substitution on everything at page load | |
substitute(getTextNodes(document.body)); | |
// Perform the substitution whenever a new node is added to support AJAX sites | |
document.body.addEventListener("DOMNodeInserted",function(e){ | |
substitute(getTextNodes(e.target)); | |
}); | |
})(); |
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