Add a name to Silence of the Celebs' gag list, and boom! It's as if that celebrity is suddenly a D-lister, and all articles featuring that person are gone. We particularly enjoyed typing Justin Bieber's name, and as soon as we clicked the "Silence Them" button, a post about him faded to white, as if it were vanishing into the ether. Satisfying.
There's a catch: The magic doesn't work everywhere -- only on the four sites enabled for the extension thus far (The New York Times, CNN, The Huffington Post and TMZ). That's too bad, because we'd like to be able to use this capability all over the Interwebs. But wait. It so happens that developer Michael Surtees is doing just that, planning to make this extension work web-wide.
"There’s a lot more that we’re building into this (like the ability to remove headlines from any site)," he says.
If your animosity for Charlie Sheen is particularly strong, we could also recommend Tinted Sheen, the Charlie Sheen Browser Blocker, a Chrome and Firefox extension.
Think about it. There are plenty of filters for porn, but why can't we have a worldwide filter for annoyances?
