Dear-sir-or-madam: a bookmarklet that transforms web pages into ransom notes

Completely illegible due to the colors and lack of contrast. Would be greatly improved if newsprint gray + black were used.

holman 12y

I hate it when my ransom notes aren't legible.

xerophtye 12y

Submitted an issue. Might submit pull request later. She limited the foreground range but not the background range, so we can assign them mutually exclusive ranges to keep it under control

ekianjo 12y

yeah, usually ransom notes are made of cut-outs from newspapers, therefore only in black and white on greyish kind of background :)

gulbrandr 12y

  javascript:var i,s,ss=['//raw2.github.com/notwaldorf/dear-sir-or-madam/master/ransom-it.js','//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);

Do you really need jquery for this?

css771 12y

Substitute magazines instead of webpages and you've got an answer to one of the most famous interview questions.

iwasphone 12y

Perfect! I hope ransom notes come back in style.

kalmarOP12y

Yeah me too. For those who haven't checked it out yet, here's a screenshot of HN as a ransom note: http://i.imgur.com/Io2bqof.png

piyush_soni 12y

May be it has some nostalgic/historic importance which I don't know, but if not, why would you want to do it?

xerophtye 12y

It's sort of an old cartoonic reference to ransom notes which were assembled from cut out letters to hide the hand writing of the author. (obviously now u could just email them)

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