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Albert Hoffman, the "father" of LSD, turns 100 today, and to celebrate I've whipped up a javascript bookmarklet that will turn any drab website into a groovy riot of colour.

Drag the link below to your bookmark bar, navigate to your choosen page, click the bookmarklet, sit back and wait for the effect to kick in...

psychedelia (to try it on this page, just click the link.)

The function iterates through every child node of the "body" element. If it finds a text node, it wraps each individual word in a new span element (styled with a random websafe colour), which it in turn inserts into a holding span which is then used to replace the original text node. Far out.