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XKCD substitutions

7,000 users

2016-03-13

alec.posney

This extension is being deprecated because it doesn't follow Chrome extension best practices.

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Making the web a stranger better place.

Is the news getting you down? Well about to be cheered up with substitutions that make reading the news more fun.

see http://xkcd.com/1288, https://xkcd.com/1625/

Now with custom substitutions! Simply right click the extension icon and click options to add your own.

some other xkcd jokes have made it into the newest version.
https://xkcd.com/1004/
https://xkcd.com/1418/
https://xkcd.com/1031/
https://xkcd.com/1625/

all credit to xkcd

also checkout s/keyboard/leopard, which inspired this extension.
http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/skeyboardleopard/oheflacdocadefgdpiimpapbkomhgbbe

source: https://github.com/Posnet/xkcd-substitutions

Reviews

Lars Jörgensen

Love it. Little thing though: for "expand" --> "physically expand", the extension gives me 10–20 physicallys, probably because the substitution contains its own trigger word. And as others said, uppercase and lowercase distinction would be nice but that's just cosmetic. Edit: they are getting more and more. I am at over 50 physicallys now.

Ye Wang

I tried replacing "."="!?" but instead it just replaces every space with "!?". Other than that it worked fine and I had a lot of fun.

Peter Nielsen

Very nice... worth the install. Laughing for days. Don't forget to turn it off if you're doing something serious, though... it can get confusing. Still. Very good.