Today's XKCD webcomic, Substitutions, proposes a set of word-substitutions to "make reading the news more fun." Naturally, it's already a Chrome extension.
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6:42 am Fri
Nov 8, 2013
XKCD's Substitutions: the Chrome extension that makes reading the news more fun
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