Holy crap, I had an <i>extremely</i> similar idea last month for a bookmarklet that let you machine gun and blow up pages. In fact, it's sitting half complete in a projects folder. Erkie, get out of my head!!!!<p>At least it's open source, so I guess I can fork it and add in my ideas.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery.<p>I think these Asteroids are a fun to use, web design tool to cut out what is not necessary. :))
Not only great, in a few situations it's a useful and fun way to 'cross off' content on a site you don't need to see anymore. Like stories you wish were not on hacker news.
The HN homepage is very reliant on everything being there. One shot to a number did this: <a href="http://skitch.com/jackowayed/d29n5/hn-ass-kicked" rel="nofollow">http://skitch.com/jackowayed/d29n5/hn-ass-kicked</a>
I'm surprised no one has commented on the security issue about the bookmarklet allowing javascript to be placed/executed on any website... I can see the next wave of session hijacking in the making. Your DOM is not safe ;]
Let's have a leader board for every site with Points accumulated/second. "Kunjan Killed this site with a score of 1700". Are headings and hidden fields worth more points?
Reminds me of Quelsolaar's excellent toolkit for his LOVE game: <a href="http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/tool_video.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/tool_video.html</a><p>It also has Asteroids integrated in a similar way, as shown at around 70% into the video (unfortunately the video doesn't have a timecode, but it's worth watching in its entirety anyway.)
Nice! Maybe it can be hooked up to a gmail or facebook stream to literally "destroy" spam or unwanted messages... email cleanliness could be a few laser shots away :-)