Gesture Theory have come up with a way of filtering out Brangelina, Posh and Becks et al from your news. [hat tip Lifehacker]
It’s called Silence of the Celebs and works on Android at the mo.
“Sick of hearing about Charlie Sheen when you go to your favorite news site? Well now you can do something about it!
This extension allows you to add any celebrity to the Celebrity Gag List. When you load your favorite sites, all those celebrity articles will magically fade away.”
Currently the extension works with Twitter, The New York Times, CNN, Huffington Post, Google News, Gawker, Mashable, and TMZ.
It looks useful. Of course, in old media, this all used to come in an easily avoidable “entertainment section”. Antiquated yes but surely far preferable to having to spend hours typing Rihanna or Russell Brand into some gag list only to find out that by the time you’ve finished they aren’t celebrities any more?