Revving Chrome for a Cause

Google's launched this great initiative/Chrome extension called "Chrome for a Cause," where for every tab opened (up to 250 tabs/day) Google will contribute towards charity. You can download the extension here:

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cause/

Now let's say you're in the mood to speedily log 250 tabs open, but your Ctrl+T muscles are sore. Several code solutions have popped up, including a full-on Chrome extension which automates the process.

My question: why can't this run in Javascript?

My response: Chrome for a Cause Fastest bookmarklet

Here's the code:
javascript:i=260;function addTab(){if(--i==0){clearInterval(j)}x=window.open('');x.close()}j=setInterval('addTab()',1000);void(0);

Just let it run for ~5 minutes, and you're done. You've helped provide a year's supply of clean drinking water for someone on earth.

Browser Bonanza

I've noticed that a lot of my posts on here are simply reminders for myself, but really, does that matter at all?

First off, I'm trying to compile a list of my personal favorite Firefox add-ons, so I can simply come to this post on a new download of FF and install everything. I did a post on add-ons and stuff a while back, but in the 1.5 years (!) since that post my focus in add-ons has moved. Here is my new list.

• Adblock Plus (and EasyList USA subscription)
• Download Statusbar
• Firebug
• FireFTP
• ReloadEvery
• AutoPager
• Pixlr Grabber
• Resurrect Pages

Onwards, to bookmarks and bookmarklets. Things to have in a bookmarks bar:

• jQuerify* (source)
• pixlr
• Note in Reader* (for Google Reader)
• meebo
• mibbit
• whipplehill flash*
• Show Hidden FB Content* (I made a Facebook page for this!)
• Hide long FB Posts*
• Grooveshark

*denotes bookmarklet.


Finally, Chrome 5 is here, so get it, right now.

TwitterRep Bookmarklet

In support of the Iranian people, I've decided to help distinguish between the trustable users on Twitter and the non-trustable users. I built a bookmarklet to aide in this process.

FindTheRats, this one's for you.

TwitterRep <-- drag to bookmark bar

This code looks at a user's follower count, following count, and update count and alerts back a number. No saying how reliable it is (won't work for users with more than a million of any of those values, BTW), but it seems to do a good enough job of picking apart the wheat from the chaff.

Example time!

Good users:
mousavi1388 -- 712174233
iran09 -- 681975
TehranBereau -- 371922
persiankiwi -- 82745541
StopAhmadi -- 8964349
Change_for_Iran -- 149722592

Bad users:
simonjake -- 19
tahria -- 27
giti456789 -- 1
Toby1776 -- 18
iranianlecturer -- 174
serv_ -- 3898
Karmuk -- 89

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As you can see, the users you should follow have TwitterReps several orders of magnitude larger than those you shouldn't follow.

And by the way, I've got a TwitterRep of 46. Stop laughing.

Note: Just because you have a low TwitterRep does NOT automatically mean that you are un-trustworthy, as my account is an example. Just follow th converse: you CAN trust the sources with TwitterReps over, say, 50000.

Oh, and for the curious: aplusk has the highest TwitterRep (calculated manually) of 105,292,837,174.
Sorry, this is wrong. Both TheEllenShow and CNNBRK have higher TwitterReps, CNNBRK winning with a TwitterRep of 638,462,456,808, over 6 TIMES aplusk.

Also for the curious: the calculation scheme I use is:

b = # of following
a = # of followers
u = # of updates

TwitterRep = log10(10+u)*a*(a+1)/(b+1);

wimp.com Download Bookmarklets

More fun with bookmarklets! This one lets you download videos (.flv format) from wimp.com.

wimp.com download

Yay!

Sweet, a Proxy -- Bookmarklet!

I wanted one, so here is a bookmarklet which will automatically change your links to redirecting through 6a.nl:

6a.nl proxy!

You're welcome, world. I also made a program which gets around my school's idiotic nanny system, but since it won't work for 99.9% of nannified users, don't bother to use it.

Node 3 Poll Final Tallies

According to AP, Colbert won the Node 3 naming contest. They say that Colbert shut out Serenity by over 40000 votes.

Let's take a look at the real numbers in play here. We'll be using this page's poll results and source code.

In total, 1190437 votes were cast in the poll. If you enter in the address bar

javascript:alert(document.getElementById( 'hiddenTotalVotes' ).value)

you'll see how many votes were cast for one of the four given options. I see that value as 265594. If 265594 votes were cast for the given options, then the remaining 924843 votes were for write-in suggestions.

Now Serenity received 70% of the given votes, or 185916 votes. If Colbert beat Serenity by 40000 votes, then Colbert had about 226000 votes.

How do those numbers stack up? Well, if you do an actual poll, Serenity received 15.6% of the vote, and Colbert received 19%.

At least it's now over until NASA announces their choice in April.

EDIT: Somehow, I missed the part of the AP release stating that Colbert got 230539 votes. OK, I wasn't too far off.