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No this is not a post about exploiting lab animals for oily fun and profit on the Internet.  Instead, this is a simple “Post-it” note to myself to remind me where to find Greasemonkey.

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add “user scripts” (mostly DHTML) to any web page to change its behavior.  The “parent” extension can be found here.  A large repository of user scripts is located here.  Some of these scripts are very useful, some are just geek-fodder.  Use at your own risk.

Mark Pilgrim’s excellent print resource on programming Greasemonkey hacks can be found here.

Here lies a very nice introductory comparison of the predominant scripting languages on the web. The article compares PHP, AS, Perl, and Coldfusion.

For background and more on Squeak, a portable and open-source Smalltalk, an object oriented programming language, read "Squeak, the Smalltalk of the 21st. Century" by German Arduino. For more on Squeak check out squeak.org as well.

Article tip to: whysmalltalk.com