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Bonus Feature for MT Bookmarklet

CogDog The Blog on July 16, 2003February 25, 2026

Scott Leslie recently posted some well deserved praise for Bookmarklets (little Javascripts to perform tasks), citing them as vastly under-used but powerful tools in your web browser.

The MovableType Bookmarklet makes blogging any website a snap, see our Blogging with the MT Bookmarklet summary.

But by pure accident, I discovered this tool has an added bonus.

The MT Bookmarklet tool is even a bit more powerful because it can also grab a portion of text from the page you are viewing, and include that in your blog editing form.

Cool Tool Fool, On Web Rabbit Holing

Web Serendipity Machines

CogDog The Blog on January 29, 2026January 29, 2026

Who would not answer “yes” when asked if they would like a dose of serendipity. A word that conjures a bit of magic. A rather well worn tag around here. So I am coming back again to relish in my own weird obsession, not saving vats of time asking LLMs to do my tasks but […]

On Web Rabbit Holing, Photography, Random Musing

A Peachy Trip Down the Web Rabbit Hole via a Random Public Domain Photo

CogDog The Blog on January 1, 2026January 1, 2026

I will take the castigation for my ongoing use of Google Chrome as a web browser in 2026, mainly because of all the work flows and systems I have come to use over the years. One of these, maybe the most precious, is the one that distracts me from tasks. That;s right, because when most […]

Dog Tricks, Rants

Finding the Secret Settings Doors to Continue Paywall Jumping

CogDog The Blog on December 18, 2025December 20, 2025

I’ve been pretty happy with my discovery of using archive.today as a means to jump and read stuff hidden behind subscription and paywalls even niftier with my bookmarklet tool. Knowing that its likely to be ripped down, I accepted it was to maybe be shortlived as Publishers have to bucks and the muscle, as reported […]

On Web Rabbit Holing, Photography

Where on Fifth Avenue in 1918? Another Public Domain Rabbit Holing Adventure

CogDog The Blog on December 12, 2025January 6, 2026

I just can’t explain this habot/obsession. But I get curious about a public domain image that comes up randomly in my browser, and rather then W-O-R-K-I-N-G I am digging down the internet rabbit holes of curiosity. Yet another one spawned by the Free to Use Browser Extension, aka my curiosity portal. Today’s random image came […]

Experiments, Random Musing, Rants

Unsure an Evader Machine is Needed to Duck the Slop

CogDog The Blog on November 28, 2025February 25, 2026

This sounds entrancing, especially with the spooky like melty text splash screen, heard about just a few clicks ago in 404 Media as “‘Slop Evader’ Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022” taglined “search the internet before AI”. A browser extension for avoiding AI slop. Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that […]

Conferencing, One Post To Reclaim them All, Presenting, Reclaiming Your Web

Lessons from Rewilding Landscapes… in the Wild

CogDog The Blog on November 4, 2025November 14, 2025

If all the technical widgetry works, this post will be published November 4 at the time it will be revealed as its own post (now available post conference) on the Reclaim Open Conference, as my slot on the “Blog-a-thon” day. In the saturated metaphor nature of this post, consider this post having being rooted here […]

Coding, Cool Tool Fool

Jump The Paywalls in One Click

CogDog The Blog on September 6, 2025February 25, 2026

Like Archimedes never said, “Give me a Javascript Bookmarklet short enough and a browser bar on which to place it, and I shall jump over the web world’s paywalls.” I blabbed recently about the extraordinary story and service (archive.today) created by an elusive figure that lets you easily jump the paywall. It includes what i […]

Archiving, Cool Tool Fool, How To

Jump the Paywalls and Help Others Over the Top

CogDog The Blog on August 24, 2025February 25, 2026

A typical scroll trip through almost any social media stream. People share a link to something from the New York Times. Clunk. Another from the Washington Post. Thud. MIT Technology Review? Splat. Almost anything resembing a newspaper? Clank. Sure you might get one free read a month, but with every annoying frequency, reading most sources […]