Show HN: A Chrome extension that adds moustaches to every face on the web

This is not that novel of an extension. It's essentially the following (see <a href="https://github.com/forward/mustachio-chrome/blob/master/mustachio.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/forward/mustachio-chrome/blob/master/must...</a>):<p><pre><code> var i = document.images.length; while(i--) document.images[i].src = "http://mustachy.heroku.com/?src=" + document.images[i].src; </code></pre> I might be more impressed if the author ported mustachio (<a href="https://github.com/afeld/mustachio" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/afeld/mustachio</a>) to JavaScript.

It works but their poor server must be hurting, tons of 500 and 503 errors.<p>Tested loading <a href="http://celebrityhairstylespicture.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://celebrityhairstylespicture.blogspot.com/</a><p>Example <a href="http://mustachy.heroku.com/?src=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KI0L4JXyzy8/Tann4CJl_5I/AAAAAAAAA5I/gb7laorTFCM/s1600/Celebrity-Hairstyles-2011.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://mustachy.heroku.com/?src=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KI...</a>

We've also open sourced the code for this extension here: <a href="https://github.com/forward/mustachio-chrome" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/forward/mustachio-chrome</a>

A sysadmin could use this to setup a funny prank involving background caching through a squid proxy -- replace all HTTP requests for images with mustachioed versions, for everyone on the network.

A capital jape, my good sir - but it is as nothing compared with the monocular terror which awaits us.

Wouldn't it be better to use a JavaScript face detector? Like <a href="http://liuliu.me/detect/detect.html" rel="nofollow">http://liuliu.me/detect/detect.html</a><p>I don't know the details about this algorithm though, no idea if you can get the proper position for the mustache.

bookmarklet<p><pre><code> javascript:void(location.href="http://mustachify.me/?src="+location.href)</code></pre>

Needs access to all my data on all websites. No thanks.

It would be neat if this was all in JS and required the user to put in his face.com API key. You could add a context menu on an image and then replace that image w/ a Canvas w/ the image and the mustache on top of it.

This has turned my Google logo black while searching:<p><a href="http://mustachy.heroku.com/?src=http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo83.png" rel="nofollow">http://mustachy.heroku.com/?src=http://www.google.com/images...</a>

Very cool idea, I so need to do this for <a href="http://laserey.es" rel="nofollow">http://laserey.es</a>! :)

hahaha okay props for an awesome idea (:

What is this good for beyond wasting your time?