'Someone With Tiny Hands': the Best Chrome Extension Mishap Ever?

"Suddenly, Someone With Tiny Hands was only the nation’s second-most-compelling political psychodrama."

This correction on Wednesday morning at the bottom of a Wired piece about Donald Trump read as follows:

Correction at 9:58 a.m. on 3/09/2016: Due to an oversight involving a haphazardly-installed Chrome extension during the editing process, the name Donald Trump was erroneously replaced with the phrase “Someone With Tiny Hands” when this story originally published.

If you’re Wired, it’s probably not an error you’re happy to have made, but if you’re not Wired, well…

As Donald Trump coverage moved from a one-day curiosity when he announced his run to an inescapable, all-platform assault on the senses, Chrome extensions popped up to save the day for those wanting to control the level and manner of Trump content within their browsers.

There’s an extension created by Fusion that places one of Trump’s own quotes between his first and last name, à la Donald “We need global warming” Trump.

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