May 07, 2007

Swampland, but without Wonkette (Ana Marie Cox)?

I continue to be amazed that Time Magazine has stooped to the National Inquirer level of employing Ana Marie Cox - formerly with Wonkette - as their Washington Editor and a contributor to their blog Swampland.

Now, there's something you can do about it!

Simply use Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension, together with this handy-dandy script that will remove all posts by Wonkette from Swampland. This is unsupported and barely tested, but it seems to work. Simply copy it into a file named something like 'wonkette.user.js', and drag that file into a Firefox window and choose to install it. Of course, you need to install GM first. Then, when you visit the site her posts will magically disappear.

Don't worry, you won't be missing anything.

// Remove Wonkette posts from Swampland // Version 0.0.1 // // Copyright (c) 2007 LonewackoDotCom // Released under the GPL License // // Removes posts from Time's Swampland blog that are // written by Wonkette (Ana Marie Cox) // // ==UserScript== // @name Wonkette Bye Bye // @namespace http://24ahead.com/ // @description Remove Wonketteishness from Swampland // @include http://time-blog.com/swampland/* // @include http://*.time-blog.com/swampland/* // ==/UserScript==

var spans = document.getElementsByTagName( "span" ); for ( i = 0; i < spans.length; i++ ) { span = spans[ i ];

if ( span.className == "postedby" && span.innerHTML.match( "Ana Marie Cox" ) ) { span.parentNode.parentNode.style.display = "none"; } }

Posted to Bloggage at May 7, 2007 08:34 PM