Debbie Reid on acid

I have no idea what that means. Sorry about that…

arstechnica had a cool article on how to ‘hack’ Google in order to see their new interface. I have shamelessly pasted the following figuring that the link back to them, cancels it out. I’ll do a re-write when their lawyers start to call… Please note that I changed the tld to ‘.ca’ as I am Canadian ‘eh.

The steps are as follows. First, navigate to google.ca. Second, paste this string into your address bar, and hit enter. It’s going to respond with a dialog box; just accept it and move on…

Note: the string must be a continuous, single-line entry, so you’ll need to open a text editor and paste the sting, formatting it to be on one line. In reality, this is the first step but you’ll sort it out… Hey, no one said this was gonna be easy.

Additionally, the portion “domain=.google.ca” should be modified to whatever Google search server you are using (just do it all on google.ca; it’ll be easier for you). Now you are looking at the same Google page that you started out on.

Thinking mentally with your mind, come up with a word to enter into the search box. After typing your word, hit enter and voilà; the new interface

Wasn’t that fun? So I was playing around with this new interface and discovered something… Yahoo Travel was displaying images from my Asian trip pages! Hey asshats, I didn’t post those to your site and I don’t want them up there… Luckily I had done some .htaccess magic with the new host which prevents image theft but the thumbnails were still cached…

Well, I’m done. Good day.

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