I hate celebrity gossip/"news" more than anyone you'll probably ever meet. But you know this. Remember what I do to tabloid magazines? Well, there's a way to do that same type of thing - but on the internet.

It's a Chrome extension (called In My Words) that you can install on your computer that replaces any words or phrases that you're sick of seeing with words or phrases you'd prefer. Once you install it, you can browse the internet and never ever see the words/phrases that annoy you. For example, any overexposed celebrities that I can't seem to escape, I've replaced with just the word "irrelevant." Is that dumb? Maybe. Has it made my internet life much less irritating? Bigtime.

How it works :

Add the extension to Google Chrome
Click the Wrench icon, go to “Tools-> Extensions-> In My words”
Click “Options”
Enter words and their replacements
Click Save and start browsing

March 1, 2016

Site Of The Day

by Liz Heather in Links

Hemingway Editor is a site (or more of a writing tool) that lets you paste in your text and suggests edits for you. It highlights sentences that are hard to read, alerts you of phrases that are written passive voice, keeps count of your adverbs and tells you the grade reasoning level of your writing.

Amazing!