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xendo
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.
yahelc
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.

themstheones
At least it wasn't showing images from frontbutt.net.
terabytest
You could say those images are up in the butt.
JRobertson
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.

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Bsharp
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.).
furyofantares
He's the only person I know of that can program using stick figures
matthudson
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"?

netrus
Met so many "IT professionals" who program mostly with drawings ;)
gmrple
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.
adamb_
Phew, this guys a quick-draw-mcgraw.
jiaaro
implemented in javascript:

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

krrishd
Could you possibly minify it?
bazzargh
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.
JasonFruit
I think a reeating contest sounds . . . challenging.
MattBearman
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.
yaph
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..
richbradshaw
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.
MattBearman
Your comment really confused me until I viewed source, apparently this plugin also silently does the keyboard > leopard swap.
krrishd
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....
ArekDymalski
I wonder how many people here planned to do this. Thank you and congratulations on the speed.