Juke

Selection Bookmarklet

Every word has its own sound. In order to actually hear it, highlight a word and click this bookmarklet. The script will open our jukebox in the sidebar of IE and Firefox, or in other browsers pop up a small window, and start playing the jukesound of the selected word. If a word has no jukesound assigned to it, the default sound will play and other tunes can be chosen. The list is growing on a monthly basis and as there are now more than 120 words written in the magical book of Juke, it 's getting real hard to avoid them.

The code

The content of the href attribute of the bookmarklet link has been reproduced with added whitespace and highlighting. It features an anonymous function which looks into the window.document.selection object, which may not be compatible with every browser.

javascript:
(function() {
 var r = window.document.selection.createRange(),
 window.open(
  'http://4umi.com/juke?' + ( r && r.text.replace( /\W/g, '' ) || 'time' ).toLowerCase(),
  '_search'
 );
})();

The words

The 165 enchanting words are: queen, moses, amen, nights, respect, gunn, egypt, hava, come, drive, dancing, moonlight, clock, bachelorette, heart, tired, up, jamming, eclipse, mondays, dies_britten, race, game, qui, church, encounter, gangsta, name, dance, dynamic, five, space, lets, vanavond, black, smoke, rumours, personal, nothing, bewoners, bom, doris, skunk, smoor, storm, sun, waiting, hotel, hula, lonesome, whatever, 1984, dreams, pavane, pavane2, relax, ready, kaap, freedom, rose, grease, lightning, hall, jungle, paradise, november, pink, hallelujah, sitar, funky, gone, voodoo, james, bond, violin, lola, train, night, model, allelouya, complainte, days, toten, totentanz, opera, phantom, summer, gun, music, matter, boogie, touch, like, billie, criminal, startin, burning, honey, bright, ground, dies_mozart, pacem, bangkok, mountain, roses, godfather, breed, speak, wonderwall, fortuna, leave, ways, dogs, hopes, money, breathe, shadows, stranger, capulets, jesus, mama, sweet, mad, show, rock, you, paranoid, will, sonne, jack, bolero, californication, religion, loca, bee, cortege, scheherezade, dj, satisfaction, time, macabre, macabre2, smooth, reverie, diamonds, goldfinger, hedonism, tonight, moldau, helpit, empire, fool, breakfast, sobriety, rain, twilight, lemon, mysterious, sunday, papa, dies_verdi, gloria, everybody, lonely, and zombie. They should suffice for now to make anyone's web a little friendlier and livelier.

The listing is drawn from the root database, but rendered in no particularly obvious order and some words are more revealing than others when it comes to the sound you actually end up with...