Add Firefly Quotes to the Google Homepage!

POSTED BY: randomdan
UPDATED: Sunday, December 25, 2005 20:05
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RANDOMDAN

Sunday, December 18, 2005 12:02 AM

After, um, several beers last night, it occurred to me that the Google homepage should really display a random Firefly/Serenity quote next to the search box. Just think of all the opportunities we are missing to introduce people to the series! Clearly a late night programming session was in order. Following are instructions on how to add the resulting BrownQuote module to your Google search homepage:

UPDATE: I just registered www.BrownQuote.com to make it easy to point others to BrownQuote. The latest version of the setup instructions will always live there. Also, after like the ten thousandth request, I added Buffy and Angel quotes .

SERENYTY

Sunday, December 18, 2005 12:39 AM

*hugs*

I. LOVE. YOU.

That's very, very cool! I immediately added that to my Google Homepage.

~A message from Serenyty~

JOEYWIT

Sunday, December 18, 2005 3:48 AM

Since I didn't even realize that google could be personalized, this is extremely shiny! Way cool idea! Thank you!

DONCOAT

Sunday, December 18, 2005 3:03 PM

Now, if only we could make that appear on *everybody's* Google page, not just our own...

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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.

GELASSENHEIT

Sunday, December 18, 2005 3:43 PM

It won't work for me. I get to the place where you enter the url, I hit GO and it tells me:

Quote:
Your search http://poetryremix.com/brownquote.xml
did not match any feeds.

Please help!! My home Cyberguru is too busy playing Warcraft to help me.

Gelassenheit means Serenity

SERYN

Sunday, December 18, 2005 4:24 PM

nifty.

sorry i can't help, unless it goes wrong and then i somehow fix it (a cunning combination of swearing, 'well its worked before' and the old, lets press this button and see' mentality) I can't help others, hopefully someone will happen along to help you.

have you tried swearing?

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'do not fear me, ours is a peaceful race, and we must live in harmony'

RANDOMDAN

Sunday, December 18, 2005 5:38 PM

gelassenheit,

I tweaked some settings - can you load the quotes now? Also, you may want to try using a different web browser and copying and pasting the web address directly from my post above. Is anyone else having problems?

JULESONG

Sunday, December 18, 2005 9:14 PM

Shiny!! :)

I added it to mine, thanks!

By doing this, does it mean that the quotes might begin showing up in the "Quote of the Day" section for mundanes, too? (hopehope)

RANDOMDAN

Sunday, December 18, 2005 9:35 PM

Quote:

By doing this, does it mean that the quotes might begin showing up in the "Quote of the Day" section for mundanes, too? (hopehope)

I wish that were the case! It looks like the default "Quote of the Day" section comes from www.quotationspage.com. We could add Firefly quotes to that database, but since there are tens of thousands of quotes in there we probably wouldn't show up on the homepage more then once every few years :(. However, I've submitted the Firefly quote module to the official Google module directory, so if lots of people add BrownQuote we could get highlighted as a "popular" module, which might catch some people's attention...

GOPHERMUNCHER

Sunday, December 18, 2005 11:43 PM

It only works for me in IE unfortunately =( Is there any way you can get it to work for Firefox?

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