Bork Bork Bork!

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What better way to break the silence around here than to point out that there exists a Firefox extension called Bork Bork Bork that will read a website to you using the Swedish Chef's voice. It's stuff like this that reaffirms that the interweb is a weird and truly wonderful place.

I happened to run across said extension while trying to find one that will show missing images at the correct HTML-specified dimensions. Basically, if an image is missing from a page, by default Firefox only shows you the ALT text. So, if you specified a 300 pixel by 200 pixel image, when that image doesn't load you get a compact little piece of text instead of a big rectangle. Safari and Internet Explorer display an empty but correctly sized object in lieu of the missing image. Anyone know of a way to make Firefox do it? Is there a greasemonkey script or an extension for it?

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Orli Yakuel -

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Daniel,

You simply made my day with this extension!!

Thank you :-)

Michael Gauthier -

There's a bit of history here too. Opera was the first "borked" browser as a protest against Microsoft for MSN's filtering of Opera users.

The Internet truly is great.

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My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm one of the founders of Milk Inc.. For several years I was the creative director at Digg and previous to Milk, I was the director of design at Tiny Speck. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

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