I love those funny quotes. I thought it would be cool to have one of them displayed on every PerlMonks page.

So I came up with the following Free Nodelet Hack, which displays a string, chosen at random from a list. If you integrate this with your Free Nodelet, then each time a page is loaded one of the fortunes is displayed in the nodelet. (Actually, the <p id="fortune_p"></p> could be anywhere, such as in your Personal Nodelet.)

<p id="fortune_p"></p>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- 
  var fortunes = new Array( "Abandon desire", "Abandon normal instruct
+ions", "Accept advice" ); // etc.
  var p = document.getElementById('fortune_p');
  var txt  = document.createTextNode( fortunes[ Math.floor( Math.rando
+m() * fortunes.length ) ] );
  p.appendChild(txt);
// -->
</script>
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