Do you have an elephant as an enemy?

Question:
Do you have an elephant as an enemy? Remember, they've got great memories -or is it memorys?

Source:
"Experts from Africa, Europe, and cities across the United States—a panel consisting of a veritable "who's who" of elephant experts—traveled to Chicago to present irrefutable evidence in support of the city's pending elephant-protection ordinance. On February 23, the experts testified before the Chicago City Council's Committee on Rules and Ethics while local "ele-friends"—donning their bright green T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "This Proud Chicagoan Supports Kindness to Elephants"—packed the gallery. The room was filled with nearly 100 compassionate pro-ordinance, pro-elephant." [1]

What is a BugAThon?

The Gecko BugAThon: "What is the BugAThon? (A call for volunteers)

Without help, the number of bugs submitted in the core areas of Gecko (Mozilla's Web display engine), such as the DOM, CSS, Layout etc. would overwhelm the developers.

Do you care about Web standards? Do you hate working around browser bugs? Don't just stand there--with engineers bleeding by the side of the road, are you going to be the Pharisee or the Good Samaritan?

You can help, and you don't need to be a C++ programmer! Simplifying bug reports to the simplest possible test case doesn't take too long per bug, but when you've got this many bugs, it really adds up. And every hour Gecko engineers spend decomposing bug reports is an hour they can't spend on FIXING bugs. The more bugs that are simplified, the faster Gecko engineers can fix them, and the fewer bugs there'll be!

Writing a testcase is the best and most productive way to vote for a bug. Overworked engineers tend to focus on bug's with testcases. If a bug bothers you, why it does still not have a testcase?"

Does a platypus get perplexed?

Source:
"In 2001, I published a paper about something I called 'Active Browsing':

...In active browsing, the client browser actively modifies content before display. Instead of accepting web pages 'as is', active browsers transparently modify, delete and edit web pages according to specific user needs.

but it wasn't until I saw extensions like Greasemonkey, Aardvark, and Web Developer that I saw how Firefox and Mozilla's technologies supported user mediation in a transparent and useful way.

Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser -- 'What You See Is What You Get' -- and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script so that they'll be repeated the next time you visit the page. Editing pages to suit your needs is dandy -- but making those changes 'permanent' is the real payoff.

Some of the things you can do with Platypus include:

* Remove parts of the page you don't wish to see.
* Move a part of the page to a different location.
* Change the style and format of page elements.
* Modify all the links on the page using a regular expression.
* Insert your own HTML code.

Of course, web pages change all the time, so Platypus doesn't work well on some pages, and your Platypus script might break if a web site changes its format. And some times your changes will break a web page in unexpected ways. But you can always undo your changes by reloading the web page, and if a script breaks, just delete it and create a new one. So play around and enjoy yourself!" [1]