I hope you all realise what day it is tomorrow. Kevin Reynen writes on the drupal.org development list:
It’s one thing to change your blog. It’s another to change all the sites of your coworkers browse!
http://greasemonkey.makedatamakesense.com/browse_like_a_pirate/
Rumour has it that this is how one of the original on-the-web site piratizers worked: it would translate your webpage into piratese, and also change all the links so that they linked back to the piratized version of the page. This was all well and good until webcrawlers started to hit it, and be redirected to it at every link they crawled. At one point Google’s indexes contained a shadowy, sinister twin of the entire web; several of the piratized sites, being slightly more random and novel than the originals, were ranking higher on the results. Everything had been piped through the piratizer.
Yarr, that be what young Willison related one stormy night, whilst the twain of us were bebarcamped some fifty miles east of Pompey. Many a rum were sunk that day.
… Sorry, I seem to have peaked too early.
