Favorite site burning a hole in your head? Cskinner can fix it! It is an extremely useful GreaseMonkey script that places CSS control back in your hands so you can alter a site to your tastes. Sure, the web designer built the site to look like that, why mess around? Well, some site designs can literally give you a blinding headache without even reading the content. Ever try reading green text on a black screen? Yup, as soon as you look away all you see are little lines squiggling about like floating worms.

Metafilter is my nemesis in this regard. When I can tolerate the snarky backbiting and sanctimonious attitudes it can be a great site to trawl for links off the beaten path but the colors are enough to make me nauseous. To fix that I reskinned it to be black on a light gray:

body{background:#CCCCCC; color:black;}
a:link {color:blue;}
a:visited {color:green;}
a:active {color:#ffc;}
a:hover {color: green;}
.sidebar {background: #CCCCCC; border-top: 1px solid #fff; border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;}
.smallcopy {font-size: 10px;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: black; margin-right: 20px;}

It’s not a beautiful redesign but I’ll save on aspirin and trips to the optometrist.

Oh, and it’s for Firefox only and if you’re not using it what the hell is the matter with you (I’m talking to you, Windows user!)?