Get around the Wikipedia Blackout

30 minutes ago I loaded up Wikipedia only to be blocked from accessing any content. Well after looking a little closer, I found it to be pretty straightforward to bypass it. My belief is that blacking out a global website for one nations policy choices seems pretty silly to me. I’m for Wikipedia; against SOPA.

Steps:

1. Find the wiki page via google
2. When the page loads and the black overlay appears, copy/paste this text into the URL bar:
3. javascript:$(‘#content’).show();$(‘#mw-sopaOverlay’).hide();

Enjoy wikipedia during the blackout!

Shortcuts

A couple of days ago I wanted to promote my ‘poll’ on facebook.

I wasn’t getting many responses so I clicked the “Ask friends” button

It looked time consuming to click everyone manually, so I thought: There has to be a better way

Once I was in the mindset that everyone was going to be invited to answer this poll one way or another,

I devised a small little javascript console hack to select everyone’s name programmatically. Saved me quite a few minutes and it’s a another tool for the box.