Dear-sir-or-madam: a bookmarklet that transforms web pages into ransom notes

https://github.com/notwaldorf/dear-sir-or-madam

by kalmar • 12 years ago

28 10 12 years ago

iwasphone• 12 years ago

Perfect! I hope ransom notes come back in style.

kalmar• 12 years ago

Yeah me too. For those who haven't checked it out yet, here's a screenshot of HN as a ransom note: http://i.imgur.com/Io2bqof.png

bagels• 12 years ago

Completely illegible due to the colors and lack of contrast. Would be greatly improved if newsprint gray + black were used.

holman• 12 years ago

I hate it when my ransom notes aren't legible.

ekianjo• 12 years ago

yeah, usually ransom notes are made of cut-outs from newspapers, therefore only in black and white on greyish kind of background :)

xerophtye2• 12 years ago

Submitted an issue. Might submit pull request later. She limited the foreground range but not the background range, so we can assign them mutually exclusive ranges to keep it under control

piyush_soni• 12 years ago

May be it has some nostalgic/historic importance which I don't know, but if not, why would you want to do it?

xerophtye2• 12 years ago

It's sort of an old cartoonic reference to ransom notes which were assembled from cut out letters to hide the hand writing of the author. (obviously now u could just email them)

css771• 12 years ago

Substitute magazines instead of webpages and you've got an answer to one of the most famous interview questions.

gulbrandr• 12 years ago

  javascript:var i,s,ss=['//raw2.github.com/notwaldorf/dear-sir-or-madam/master/ransom-it.js','//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);

Do you really need jquery for this?

Dear-sir-or-madam: a bookmarklet that transforms web pages into ransom notes

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