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A deeper dive through my ever-increasing number of feeds in Google Reader turned up this bit of info on Dana Epps site that gets you past the incredibly effective no-right-click “security” that some sites have.

Just drag this bookmarklet:

to your bookmarks bar/menu and invoke it on any site. You should see a new window with the full site source in an editable text box.

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Like the AJAX-y news box at the top of the site? You can get your own, courtesy of the Google News Bar Wizard.

It has a full API and can be displayed in a couple different formats (so far, vertical or horizontal).

If you use the wizard, it generates a bit of HTML that you can just add to your existing site (provided you have a Google account and API key for your site). There are some interesting possibilities with this. For instance, altering the news displayed based on a search performed in your blog. For now, I’ll just keep playing with the keywords to try and find the best news mix.

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