An Ad Blocker with an Axe
Readability is a bookmarklet that clears the visual clutter from a web page so you can just see the text. As the person who posted it to undrln notes, it’s a “Useful hack, and sad commentary on the state of webdesign all in one…”
Basically, you set some parameters on the site linked above, add a button to your bookmarks toolbar, and hit that button anytime you want to put the text on a page into a neat column. As far as I can tell, this works by replacing the stylesheet of whatever page you’re looking at, which means that it could be going even further than it is now. Just refresh the page to make it go back to normal. It’s not perfect—one page I tried it on ended up losing a graphic that should’ve been included—but it is an “experiment,” after all. I’m hoping future versions of this will let us mess with fonts and leading a bit more.
Update: I can’t help but notice that using this on our own Doombot.com works all wrong. Hah. From now on, I test to see whether a service makes me look good before I recommend it to the world.
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