Google is celebrating Newton’s Birthday today with a poppy javasript falling apple. Google recently added javascript to their homepage with the fade in /  fade out of the text around the edges. Google usually adds cool graphics for holiday’s like Issac Newton’s Birthday but they have decided “what the heck,” we are already using javascript on the homepage, let’s add something else. I think it’s kind of delightfully tacky.

While Thickbox had its day, it is not maintained any longer, so we recommend you use some alternatives.

• colorbox
• jQueryUI Dialog
• fancybox
• DOM window
• shadowbox.js

I really like the google image relinker script for greasemonkey, but sometimes when there’s a hotlink protection or something else funky, you just want the original google images link. i updated this greasemonkey image re-linker script so that it relinks the images, but also provides links to open the original link (both in a new tab, and in a new window)

Download the script:

google_image_relinker_v2_00.user.js.txt (rename to just .js)

google_image_relinker_v2_00.user.js (right click and save as)

Greasemonkey scripts can be used with chrome or firefox

so, everyone knows that Chrome is the fastest browser for running Javascript. But it is almost 4x as fast as FF2 for running jQuery UI elements. WOW!