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Something you can do with IE's bookmarks (This may wotk with other browsers too, haven't tried) is embed JavaScript in them. To see this in action, do the following:

> - Create a new short-cut (Right-click in a folder, New -> Shortcut). This starts a wizard.
> - In the location-box, enter a valid url (for instance http://www.flipcode.com) and click next.
> - Name the shortcut "dictionary" and click finish.
> - Right-click on the newly created shortcut and select "properties".
> - Replace the URL with: javascript:Qr=document.selection.createRange().text;if(!Qr){void(Qr=prompt(' Query...',''))};if(Qr){void(window.open('http://www.dictionary.com/search?q= '+escape(Qr)))}
> - You may get a warning, which you can ignore.
> - Drag the shortcut onto your "Links" toolbar in IE.

Now you can select a word in the currently loaded HTML-document, click the dictionary shortcut and you will go straight to a dictionary site with the selected word as search parameter.
Anyone who knows some JavaScript can use this trick to do really neat things I'd say.

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