Favelets

AKA bookmarklets. Saw these mentioned on www.pidster.com yesterday, and then blow me, saw one in action today... as I get it it's the art of putting a little bit of javascript in as a bookmark / favourite... I've not done this exactly, but the new "approve" links are a bit like this...

UPDATE: That was written a long time ago, now I get it and have written many, including;

javascript:void(z=document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')));void(z.language='javascript');void(z.type='text/javascript');void(z.src='http://www.popex.ukshells.co.uk/gmapTown.js');void(z.id='gmLatLonJS'); Get latitude and longitude from google maps
javascript:void(z=document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')));void(z.language='javascript');void(z.type='text/javascript');void(z.src='http://www.popex.ukshells.co.uk/blogThis.js');void(z.id='blogThisJS'); Blog this page
javascript:void(z=document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')));void(z.language='javascript');void(z.type='text/javascript');void(z.src='http://www.popex.ukshells.co.uk/blogAmazon.js');void(z.id='blogAmazonJS'); Blog this amazon page
javascript:void(z=document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script')));void(z.language='javascript');void(z.type='text/javascript');void(z.src='http://www.popex.ukshells.co.uk/addToGoogle.js');void(z.id='addToGoogleJS'); Add this page to google

They're mostly not very useful to anyone else, but help yourselves...

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