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For the past few months, I’ve been learning Javascript. One of the fun things about learning Javascript is when you get to start playing with Greasemonkey. If you’re not familiar, Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to write Javascript that executes inside the context of a page once it’s been loaded… effectively allowing you to manipulate pages before you see them. If you’ve never played with Greasemonkey, I highly recommend it. It’s great fun!

The real purpose of this post, though, is to share with you a couple of userscripts I’ve written:

• Dinosaur Comics Easter Eggs NG — shows the three Dinosaur Comics easter eggs (comic title, RSS title, and comments subject) beneath the comic. Works for archive pages too!
• Twitter Avatar Name Display — shows name next to the small avatars on Twitter pages.
• TWoP recapper cleaner upper….er — removes the side and top/bottom bars from Television Without Pity pages and resizes the content width to 100%, thus allowing you to read most recap pages without scrolling. Huzzah!

I’ll very likely be writing more scripts as time goes on. I’ll keep posting them on this page. You can also get them from userscripts.org.