Something I've been meaning to post for a while, a straight dump of my collected bookmarklets. Some of these I wrote, some I collected from other sources, some I modified, and in no particular order other than this being the bookmark-menu order that works best for me.

No warrantees expressed or implied. Your mileage may vary ...

Instructions:

1. rightclick on the link.
2. add it to your bookmarks.
3. go to some page and click the bookmarklet from your bookmarks.

Drag and drop from the browser window to your bookmarks may also work.

Lookup Selection

Googles the selected text.

Open Selection

If the selected text is a full URL, it will open the URL as if it was a hotlink. This was needed for sites where comments or news items mention URLs but where they are not automatically linked as hyperlink anchors.

Dictionary Lookup

Lookup the highlight text in the Dictionary.com databases

What's this site running?

Kinda techie, this one tells me who has the wherewithall to be running a proper webserver vs who was sold a Microsoft ball of wax.

WayPaths

Not as useful as it seemed it might be, this one formulates a query from the keywords on the current page and does a search through the proprietary WayPaths search engine. Many false positives but to be fair, I haven't used it in ages.

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Blog Tools

A selection of bookmarklets I find useful in day-to-day weblogging, and mostly tucked in here to keep from cluttering my bookmarks.

Blog this book ...

Uses BookPost to find and prepare a blog posting about the book you've highlighted. Seemed like a good idea, but I've never used it because JigZaw does everything I need.

Feedster Selection

Like the Google search, but this one searches the blog ecology via the Feedster service. Tends to give up to the minute information about the keywords.

Who's Blogging This?

Uses Technorati to gather a web cosmos of blogs that are linking to the current webpage.

BlogDigger

Yet another blog-search based on the current page, this one by Dave Winer

myRSS Scrubber

Send the current location to myRSS.com to be scrubbed into a provisional daily RSS feed.

RSS Discovery

If the current page has an RSS feed, this bookmarklet will find it. I got tired of searching for chicklets and find it's easier to just let the robot do the checking. Seems to be pretty reliable and fast enough to be useful.

Blogroll this site

Standard Blogroll.com bookmarklet to add the current page to your current blogroll.

Jigsaw Pieces

Lookup the current selection as an Amazon product and return ready-to-paste HTML complete with your affiliate code.

TinyURL

Collapse a long and ugly URL into something short and suitable for email -- links are not permanent, so it's not suitable for archived links.

Make a Shorter Link

Like tinyURL, collapses a long and ugly URL into something more amiable to email

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Webpage Annotations

Includes links for creating QuickTopics, which I used before I had MT with built-in comments. These links also include a page-comment service that also seemed useful but in practice I've never used: The idea is to tag a site with a comment that can be later retrieved; kinda like post-it notes for the web.

QuickTopic

Create a topic forum, returning a link you can put into a posting.

QuickTopic Document Review: One step to begin! - QuickTopic bulletin board

Creates a collaborative document authoring page; MsDOC or HTML documents are annotated with comments on every paragraph. No images.

Read Comment

Comment bookmarklets manipulate a cookie with a comment on the current website. Read Comment displays the cookie.

Site comment

Comment bookmarklets manipulate a cookie with a comment on the current website. Site Comment sets the cookie.

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Skeletonize this page

Create a condensed version of the page showing only links and image links. Written by Yaacov Iland as a way for bandwidth-challenged regions to access increasingly bloated web content.

Show Links

Like the skeletonizer but even more simple: Extract all the links from the current page ... useful for those sites that try to be clever, but for those of us on Mozilla, it's redundant because the service is already part of the View menu.

Show Emails

Extract all mailto links from the current page.

Send Location

A more intelligent version of your browser's "send page" menu option, place the title in the subject and the URL as the initial body.

Activate Plugin

Another that I have never used but seemed like a good idea. Technically, it calls the plugins.refresh method, and it may only work in the Netscape/Mozilla browsers.

MIDI Kill-Switch

Shuts down those annoying MIDI webpage soundtracks. Why does website MIDI always sound like arcade games or new-age music?

Tile Image

Use the image as a background tile on the current webpage. Why, I haven't a clue, but here it is anyway.

Babelfish

Hand the current page to altavista's Babelfish; I stopped using babelfish and have been too lazy to adapt this one to Google.