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Monkeying With the Web – A new browser tool lets you rewrite anyone’s homepage.

Remix culture has hit the browser. Just as you can pimp your Scion with snap-on parts, you can modify Web sites to suit your tastes – whether the authors like it or not.

The enabling technology, called Greasemonkey, was created by Aaron Boodman, a software engineer who got sick of dealing with the Web on other people’s terms. "I would often encounter a Web page that didn’t work the way I wanted," says Boodman, who now writes code at Google and still tinkers with the software.

"And I’d think to myself, I could easily fix it if I could just run my own JavaScript in the page."

By Paul Boutin

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.09/start.html?pg=7?tw=wn_tophead_6

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