Merman314's Useful Links
Merman314's Useful Links
Useful Links: The Reddit question for Useful Sites
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/
Reddit, What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about?
Week of 10-8-21
Publications
Project Gutenberg: a library of over
60,000 free eBooks
Collections
of Project Gutenberg books
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeEBOOKS/comments/brri5r/100_free_ebooks_here_is_a_list_of_books/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeEBOOKS/comments/bcy1ir/200_free_ebooks_about_cooking_food_prep/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeEBOOKS/comments/9tvcyj/here_is_a_list_of_200_free_scifi_ebooks_ive/
Z-Library project. The world's largest
ebook library
https ://
z-lib. org/ (some assembly required)
Librivox: free public domain audiobooks
Open Library: Borrowing Books for free
Libraries Near you
https://www.overdrive.com/libraries
Public Domain Review
https://publicdomainreview.org/
Library Genesis: access to
Scientific Articles, Magazines, etc.
https://libgen.is/scimag/?q=tetrachromacy
https://libgen.is/scimag/?q=memory%2Bchunking
Sci-hub get (almost) any research paper
for free, just copy the link/DOI of the document and it'll show you the pdf
12 foot ladder: News sites access
Word Count Tools has a bunch of
statistics about the text you input into their editor, like reading time and
grade level
Media, “Sports”, Education, and Internet
Internet Archive is a non-profit
library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
Khan Academy: K-12 educational
resources and beyond, free! Math and science and language arts, and more.
Open Culture scours the web for the
best educational media. We find the free courses and audio books you need, the
language lessons & educational videos you want, and plenty of enlightenment
in between.
I Have No TV: curated documentaries
site
DocumentaryStorm
https://www.documentarystorm.com/
https://www.documentarystorm.com/a-class-divided/
My 80s TV: Novelty site that shows
samples of TV content by decade, links to other decades on the right
Just Watch: Find a movie or TV show via
streaming services
The Ocho: ESPN8 Sports
The Ocho
2020-2022
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhMkBEBxQCBeJ7Tm7jCwQaq4CaTTaHwp
The Ocho
2019
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhMkBEBxQCAIJyae_6s6URs96eJtfNCv
The Ocho Jan
2018
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhMkBEBxQCACBtwyvOTqJnDcc1ua3lXF
The Ocho
2017 May
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhMkBEBxQCAGmaYUSwPqy0KiBccNaayD
The Ocho,
2016 Dec
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhMkBEBxQCCW417W4KQpk2yVItNeMYu1
Live cams around the world, live cam
website that has animals, sun sets, and other neat views
https://explore.org/livecams/big-cat-rescue/big-cat-rescue-kitten-cabana
Kitten Academy Live Stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPv9yKC76hE
Pwnisher: Clinton Jonesgraphics YouTube
channel, and graphics challenges best
3D Marble
Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oszl95YWfbs
Hiking/pulling/pushing
and sphere 3D Renders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKBs9l8jS6Q
Walking to
mountain Unique Renders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdCvwmebWN0
Maths
Desmos math tools, and graphing
calculator
https://www.desmos.com/calculator
Wolfram Alpha Maths
Symbolab math
GeoGebra for Teaching and Learning Math
https://www.geogebra.org/?lang=en
Music, Sound, and Sleep
Every Noise: This website contains
every obscure sub-genre of music imaginable. You can find some great music
you’ve never heard of there. (Warning: LOUD!)
Music-Map: Search an artist/band and it
generates a map of similar artists/bands with proximity indicating more fan
base crossover.
https://www.music-map.com/prince
TuneFind: Find all the music by a
movie, TV show, game, or artist
Letterkenny music
https://www.tunefind.com/show/letterkenny
Lost in
Translation
https://www.tunefind.com/movie/lost-in-translation-2003
The Last of
Us: Part II
https://www.tunefind.com/game/the-last-of-us-part-ii-2020
Radio Garden: hear radios live from all
around the world.
http://radio.garden/listen/wcyt-91-1/jjnBYuci
myNoise: Archive of customizable sound
generators with everything from music, nature sounds, sound cancelling,
ambiances, and meditative drones etc.
Bongo Cat
DD, C
Sleepy Time: a website that calculates
when you should fall asleep in order to not wake up groggy since the human body
works in sleep cycles
Weather, Emergencies, Covid
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration National Weather Service
Wind and other weather in
real time
See where lightning strikes in real time
https://www.blitzortung.org/en/live_lightning_maps.php
https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;y=41.0296;x=-85.0122;z=5;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;
Our underwater future: What sea level rise will look like around
the globe
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/12/world/3-degrees-sea-level-rise-climate-central/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/12/sea-level-rise-well-known-american-sites-visualized
Emergency and Disaster Information Service
https://rsoe-edis.org/eventMap
https://rsoe-edis.org/eventList
nCoV2019 live World COVID-19 Stats
Dashboard: World COVID-19 Stats, including Vaccination data; by Avi
Schiffmann
The Pandemic in 60 Seconds - Updated
2021-11-20 - David A. West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFyUtdnAtfI
Guide to Coronavirus variants, 11-29-21
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/health/coronavirus-variants-what-we-know-november/index.html
Nextstrain: Real-time tracking of
pathogen evolution
Genomic
epidemiology of novel coronavirus - Global subsampling
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global
COVID-19 vaccine rates by state
https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-tracker
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations by
country
https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/vaccination-rollout-and-access/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-vaccinations-tracker.html
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
FDA officially authorizes mixing COVID
boosters: What to know
The agency
says those eligible for a booster will be able to get any of the available
brands of coronavirus vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson.
12-4-21
https://www.cnet.com/health/fda-officially-authorizes-mixing-covid-shots-what-to-know/
Covid: 37% of people have symptoms six
months after infection, 9-28-21
How a vaccine works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OuOF-rKSJA
Find COVID-19 Vaccines, it's booster
time! Find Flu Vaccines
Need help
finding a COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S.? Call 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 888-720-7489)
CDC guidance on Community Organizations
& Gatherings
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/fully-vaccinated-guidance.html
US school and/or mass shootings
https://everytownresearch.org/maps/gunfire-on-school-grounds/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/971473/number-k-12-school-shootings-us/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/school-shootings-by-state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2021
Language, Travel, Art, Science and Cooking
DeepL Translator
https://www.deepl.com/translator
Lengusa - free linguistic search engine
How We Tawk: Word Use and Accents
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhMkBEBxQCCQxXDg_m03FqJqsJRzf1m8
Rome 2 Rio: Gives you full directions
from any two places from door to door including trains, busses and ferries.
With options to fly to nearby places and take transit to get to your final
destination.
Atlas Obscura: The definitive guide to
the world’s hidden wonders.
The Deep Sea
Art Auction Game
https://neal.fun/auction-game/
The scale of the universe
NASA Live - Earth From Space (HDVR) ?
ISS LIVE FEED #AstronomyDay2017 SPACE & UNIVERSE (Official)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtU_mdL2vBM
Mission
Status, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
Erowid: Drug facts site
Rat Park: Addiction and Isolation
-Stuart McMillen, MAY 2013
https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comic/rat-park/
This to That: If you need to glue two things of differing materials
together
My Fridge Food: Check off the
ingredients that you have to find recipes you can make.
Hard plastic
Melamine spatula OK for non-stick
https://tinyurl.com/MelamineSpatula
Image Editing, Free Apps, Computers,
Gaming
Lunapic Transparent background
https://www.lunapic.com/editor/?action=transparent
Remove Image Background
FREE ONLINE OCR SERVICE
Printable Calendar
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/create.html
10 minute mail provides a temporary email address for you to cut
and paste into those pesky "insert email" to sign up on sites online.
Check if your email or phone is in a data
breach
Ninite: Free online free PC bulk app
installer
7zip,
OpenOffice, VLC, etc
Belarc Advisor: Detailed PC software
scanner
https://www.belarc.com/products/belarc-advisor
WoWUp: World of Warcraft addons, retail
and classic
RedditSave: Download Reddit videos with
sound audio.
List of most-disliked YouTube videos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_videos
Browser Extension Brings Back Dislike Count
to YouTube Videos
https://www.pcmag.com/news/browser-extension-brings-back-dislike-count-to-youtube-videos
https://returnyoutubedislike.com/install
Bias, Misinformation, Fallacies, and Politics
Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart Version 8.0 for 2021,
by Vanessa Otero
Conspiracy Chart 2021 update, by Abbie
Richards
https://i.imgur.com/0ql7omL.png
Your Auntie on social media: Misinformation
Last Week
Tonight with John Oliver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jtFqWq5iU
Snopes: the internet’s definitive
fact-checking resource.
Formerly
known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, co-founded by David and Barbara
Mikkelson in 1994. And previous to that, under the username "Snopes"
in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban
Lumber Car: Is This Car Loaded with
3000 Lbs. of Building Supplies?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lumber-car/
Logical fallacies
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
https://i.imgur.com/FCXil2t.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/9E5cI98.png
https://imgur.com/gallery/CH8zzZi
https://thebestschools.org/magazine/15-logical-fallacies-know/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
31 logical fallacies in 8 minutes, Jill
Bearup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf03U04rqGQ
Monte Carlo
Methods or Why it's a Bad Idea to Go to
the Casino
https://easylang.online/apps/tutorial_monte_carlo_methods.html
Never argue
with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with
experience.
-Mark Twain
Never play
chess with a pigeon. You can be the best chess player in the world and the
pigeon will still knock over the pieces, shit on the board, then strut away
like they were victorious.
Don't
wrestle with a pig. You'll both get muddy but the pig will enjoy it.
Don’t argue
with idiots. People passing by can’t tell the difference.
Who is more
foolish, an idiot, or one who argues with one?
-not Ben
Kenobi
Better to
remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
-Abraham
Lincoln
What? Me
worry?
-Albert
Einstein
Politics, History, and party shifts
The Daughters
of the Confederacy: How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkFXPblLpU
How the Republican Party went from Lincoln
to Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8VOM8ET1WU
Housing Segregation and Redlining in
America, aka, denying minorities the right to accumulate, and pass on, assets or wealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FBJyqfoLM
Gerrymandering Explained, CGP Grey
Gerrymandering Explained In 45 Seconds
Slay the
Dragon, gerrymandering doc trailer
The Debt Limit Explained, playing
chicken with mutual self-destruction, and the world's economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIbkoop4AYE
Department of Education overhauls Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
For military
service members, time spent on active duty will be credited towards the
program, even if loans were on deferment or forbearance.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/06/politics/public-service-loan-forgiveness-program-overhaul/index.html
Universal, Medicare for all, or Single Payer
Healthcare, Explained
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhMkBEBxQCCKKQm98NKzF9ZCCoRq2T88
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Colbert about
books and religion, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOi2AgNfQCg
Coffee!:
Featuring the
legendary James Hoffman, Internet Shaquille, Tom Scott, and Portlandia
Coffee Land!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRtx33R4XhU
Manifesto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jml7NVYm8cs
Drinking
Coffee Wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIHULVqKAy8
How to Make
Coffee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwGkUUF2aA
What No One
Tells You about Learning To Taste (Coffee)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU1y7hBSgiY
I don't like
coffee. Can James Hoffmann change that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-iNAyu-ejo
The Birth of
Espresso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8uStVXNf0M
Beginners
Guide to Espresso-Based Drinks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93waR1jzoLA
Misc. Links
Track historical Amazon prices for
items
Amazon
copied products and rigged search results to promote its own brands, documents
show
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-india-rigging/
Has your doctor taken payments from pharma,
etc?
https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
Ductless mini split heat pump, single
room and multi-zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyRa_KAf4EI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl2NRQgiaho
The Salt and Pepper Diner
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLhMkBEBxQCCiKtW9kYWPLr7BD7jl-Yi5
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.
-Douglas
Adams
“The History
of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and
recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication, otherwise
known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the
question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the
third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?”
-Douglas
Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
https://viewcomics.me/lost-at-sea/issue-tpb-1/80
Vyper: Convert Your Blog Posts (Rich Text) to Reddit Formatting
https://vyper.io/reddit_converter/
RedditSave: Download Reddit videos with
sound audio.
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