Downworthy, a browser plug-in.

Worth a post. Don't know how good it is yet.

http://downworthy.snipe.net/

From the Chrome Store description:

Replaces hyberbolic headlines from bombastic viral websites with a slightly more realistic version.

Downworthy replaces hyberbolic headlines from bombastic viral websites with a slightly more realistic version. "Literally" becomes "figuratively", "Will Blow Your Mind" becomes "Might Perhaps Mildly Entertain You For a Moment", and so on.

I've installed it. If I run into problems with it I'll report back.

In the future we may be able to have all sorts of agents filtering our incoming news.

ETA: Crap, it filtered its own description! Hang on, let me fix that. :)

This was an excellent evening for a hot tub soak.

We've just emerged from the community tub at Inman Oasis. Days like today are why I got a Frequent Soaker Package (ten half-hour soaks). I bought it years ago and have gradually been working my way through them.

I'm inspired by this to do a bit more planning for the "Spa Town Tour of the World" I've been thinking of ever since going to Baden-Baden some years ago. There really are a lot of potential stops.

Also, ever since sukitawdry suggested it ages ago, I've wanted to visit a jjimjilbang. There's been one in North Jersey for some years now which got a review in NJ Monthly a couple of years ago, a blogpost with lots of photos last spring and more recently a writeup in the Star-Ledger. Completely unsurprisingly, they run shuttles from Flushing and Manhattan.

Anyway, more hot tubbing. :)

Following up on the saris.

Here's one of the sari (saree) ads I mentioned a couple of posts back:


The site has many photos of pretty saris. It's really a riot of color.