Flash Comics #13 - “The Creeps” (1941)

i could live a hundred years and i’ll never write comic dialogue this good

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

There’s also Ecosia which is an eco-friendly, climate-conscious browser dedicated to planting and replenishing trees.

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

⁂

Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

There’s also Ecosia which is an eco-friendly, climate-conscious browser dedicated to planting and replenishing trees.

Perfect Days (2023) dir. Wim Wenders

BETTER MAN (2024) dir. Michael Gracey

you know what this means chat

the quiz:

I was wondering what happened to this post but it turns out the fucking trekkies (affectionate) got to it

Matt McCreary

When you're so good at parkour that you're bad at it.

close enough, welcome back, Charlie Chaplin

Working at an aquarium will have you saying things like “this is my favorite scallop because he’s sassy”

Could we please see the sassy scallop? 👀

Yeah this is him (he made a child cry once by shooting water in their face)

The story of British Airways Flight 009.

Holy cow I absolutely adore British humor!

He did go on twitter to deny that he's a Nazi

Anyway regardless of whether you believe he's being honest here, it doesn't actually matter right? We already know he's a trump supporting far right bigot

Neither of those tweets actually... deny he's a Nazi. They mock people saying he is, which implies it without... actually outright saying he is not.

I think we disagree about definitions here. I'd say that "denying an accusation" means saying something to indicate that the accusation is false, whereas you don't consider it a denial unless the statement is direct and literal

Regardless, the original tweet was about how Musk supposedly didn't made a public statement to convey that he isn't a nazi, which he did