dragonista

[illyria-and-her-pet]

My Favorite Video Downloaders (ALL FREE)

Download Managers/Software

The advantage of download managers is that they let you keep all your downloads in one place, download multiple things at once, and most importantly restart, pause, or resume downloads (this is super useful if your internet goes out because the download manager will usually be able to resume the progress from where you left off, while for example if your internet goes out while downloading from your browser it can sometimes mess up the download and make you restart the entire thing from the beginning).

JDownloader 2: THE GOAT

http://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2

This is my favorite video downloader for sure! It lets you choose the quality, frame rate, and format of your video download. It can load entire channels or playlists from YouTube. It combines and extracts ts part files (.ts.001, .ts.002, etc.). Many sites are supported besides YouTube like dailymotion, vimeo, facebook, vk, twitter, ok.ru, etc. You can also paste the m3u8 links to download videos from sites like NBC Sports (video clips and full event replays/streams), NBC Gold, NBC Olympics, Olympic Channel, 1tv, FISU, eurovisionsports, radikal.ru, rutube, vs-mobi, etc. It works for managing downloads from sites like google drive, mediafire, sendspace, mega.nz, etc. too. You can even use a proxy to download geo-blocked videos.

You can find the m3u8 links to copy and paste using any of these browser extensions:

The Stream Detector (Firefox): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hls-stream-detector/

This only grabs links and doesn’t download. I use this to get m3u8 links on Firefox.

HLS Downloader (Chrome/Opera): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hls-downloader/apomkbibleomoihlhhdbeghnfioffbej

HLS Downloader can also download videos as mp4s, but you have to re-encode the video using avidemux for smooth playback, uploading, importing the video for gifing in photoshop, etc. so I prefer to just use it for copying the m3u8 links into JDownloader 2, where the videos download PERFECTLY. I use this to get m3u8 links on Opera and Chrome and I prefer this to Adobe HDS/HLS Video Saver in terms of user interface. The downside to this extension is that it makes videos unplayable on dailymotion and rutube. 

Adobe HDS/HLS Video Saver (Chrome/Opera): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adobe-hds-hls-video-saver/fkbfbopjoockkhmfnchmacgpmkofcfaj/related

Adobe HDS/HLS Video Saver can also download videos as .ts files, but I prefer my files as mp4s so I didn’t use this to download videos, but only to get the m3u8 links to paste into JDownloader 2. I uninstalled this extension when I found HLS Downloader though because I prefer that one and don’t need two m3u8 link grabbers from Opera/Chrome. You have to clear your downloads or refresh your page a lot if you just want a link for a specific video because it captures a lot of m3u8 links and they sometimes stay in the url bar when it’s just videos from browsing and not ones you want to download.

Xtreme Download Manager

http://xdman.sourceforge.net

You use this along with downloading the XDM Browser Monitor extension for whatever browser you use to download videos. Many sites are supported (it doesn’t detect NBC Gold videos tho). The original files will usually be .ts files (and for YouTube MKV), but when downloading it lets you choose MP4 best quality to save/convert as. I use this to download videos from Disney Now and to download and convert 4K YouTube videos to MP4 (all the other downloaders only let you download 4K videos as MKV or WEBM).  

You can also click on file and then “download video” and enter URLs to download and those will actually be MP4 files already and not require conversion with the built in converter that takes a lot more time/cpu power. It doesn’t find downloads or work for as many sites as the XDM Browser Monitor though.

Browser Extensions

Flash Video Downloader

NOTE: DO NOT USE THE VERSION CURRENTLY IN THE FIREFOX ADD-ON STORE (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/flash-videodownloader/) IT IS A KNOCK OFF OF THE ORIGINAL THAT WAS TAKEN OFF THE STORE AND DOES NOT WORK WITH THE FVD DOWNLOADER MODULE

This was my favorite Firefox extension, but Firefox disabled it after the latest update. There’s still a way to get it though! This is very easy to use since it’s a browser extension and can download from nearly every site. This can download from NBC Gold and is the only add-on that can do so. Other sites it works on are NBC Sports (both videos clips and full event replays/streams), Olympic Channel, vimeo, dailymotion, archive.org, niconico, rutube, vs-mobi, youku, 1tv, ok.ru, vk, radikal.ru

Download this folder:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-dcatnY2BHN6Ryt4dwHOTdIMP2LXCovh/view

Download the FVD Downloader Module from here:

http://fvdmedia.com/fvd-welcome-ff/

Go to Firefox add-ons

Click install Add-on From File 

Choose the file [email protected] (835 KB) from the ValidLatest-v16.2.9 folder, which will be in the google drive folder you downloaded. 

You should have the extension downloaded and now just go to options and click off from automatic updates!

Stream Video Downloader

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stream-video-downloader/imkngaibigegepnlckfcbecjoilcjbhf

Basically the Chrome extension equivalent of Firefox’s Flash Video Downloader. It can’t download from YouTube though because of chrome extension store rules. But it works for nearly every other site including NBC Sports videos, Olympic Channel, vimeo, dailymotion, archive.org, niconico, rutube, vs-mobi, youku, 1tv, ok.ru, vk, radikal.ru, etc. It also sometimes works on Disney Now. Sometimes it says network error and sometimes it works. On NBC Gold it’s similar… it sometimes says network error after downloading everything, it sometimes fails in middle and downloads partial file. I feel like NBC Gold videos are too large for this extension to download well in full, so I would just stick with JDownloader 2 or Flash Video Downloader for NBC Gold.  

Video DownloadHelper

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

You can see a lot of the supported sites here: https://www.downloadhelper.net/asites/f/standard/1

I originally didn’t include this in my list because I didn’t like how this caused dropped frame rate or big lags in downloads from NBC Sports, Olympic Channel, youku, 1tv, vk, etc. I’m including it now though because it works for Disney Now (correct frame rate and no lags) and was able to download 720p of one Disney Now episode that XDM kept failing to download. XDM and Video DownloadHelper are the only downloaders that can consistently download from Disney Now. Disney Now is really the only site I use this for downloads (besides all the testing I did for this post lol) since it doesn’t need to convert from .ts to mp4 like XDM and therefore takes a lot less time/CPU power, even if it’s not as high quality as XDM MP4 best quality conversion setting. It also works without video lags or dropped frame rates in rutube and radikal.ru though I would just use JDownloader 2, FVD, or Stream Video Downloader for these since I prefer those downloaders. Don’t use Video DownloadHelper for YouTube or vimeo because any 480p, 1080p, or 60fps videos will need ADP conversion which takes a long time and also leaves an ugly watermark. 

Command Line

YouTube-DL 

Really fast command line downloader. Guide on how to set up and use is here. Supported sites are here: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

This is the only downloader that works really well with bilbili (downloads entire video and in the best quality). Bilbili downloads are .flv files though, so you will have to use avidemux to convert to mp4 if that’s your preferred file format (it is mine). It’s also the best downloader for youku imo. 

It can also download entire YouTube channels and playlists. 

BTW for YouTube videos that are 480p or 1080p when you just enter the URL, it downloads mp4 video and webm audio and combines them into a MKV. I prefer mp4 files and to get mp4 just use this command:

-f bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a] –merge-output-format mp4

Some more command tips:

To choose or check the video download qualities available use –list-formats

To specify where you want your video downloaded use -o and then the file path (ie. C:/Users/user/Downloads/%(title)s.%(ext)s)

Websites (no software or extensions required)

DiStillVideo

distillvideo.com

An easy to use online video downloader! Imo the best online video downloader. It requires no program installation or extension or command line use. It can download from NBC Sports site and gives direct link you can either use to view or save video as. Afaik the only other website downloader that could do that was QDownloader, but that got taken down. :( The description on supported sites says these are all supported: 

Youtube, Twitter, Vimeo, Facebook, Dailymotion, SoundCloud, Instagram, Liveleak, Break, Imgur, TED, CNN, Mashable, 1TV, 9gag and 5000 more websites

9xbuddy

https://9xbuddy.com

A video downloader recommended by @decemberelegy. See supported sites here: https://9xbuddy.com/sites It supports downloads for YouTube, a lot of Russian sites, and a lot of the illegal free TV streaming sites likes yesmovies. 

ddownr

https://ddownr.com

This is a site (no software required) that actually lets you download YouTube playlists (up to 250 videos). Your videos will be put together in a .zip file that you can download and extract to your computer.

Streamable

streamable.com

This lets you paste the link of youtube videos and then it will upload and save it to it’s server! You don’t even have to download anything yourself. But you can download it easily from the site too. You can also upload and host videos from your computer too. And it lets you choose time stamps to upload or download only a clip of a video. There is a 10 minute and 1 GB max limit though per video.

ClipConverter 

clipconverter.cc

This lets you download only clips (you can still download the entire video though) from YouTube, vimeo, facebook, and dailymotion. It also lets you choose video quality and format and sometimes frame rate. The downside is that it doesn’t work for YouTube videos that include copyrighted music. This is really useful for downloading only clips instead of the whole video when you want to make gifs.  

Media Players

KMPlayer 

http://www.kmplayer.com/home

The latest version of KMPlayer is suuuuuuuch an improvement from the older versions and my favorite media player. It no longer has annoying ads in the box. And it can play a lot of media m3u8 links (you can get the links from the extensions I mentioned in my JDownloader 2 description earlier) and it can play sooooo many video formats and subtitle files (.sub and .idx both work on KMPlayer, but not other media players afaik). KMPlayer >>> VLC tbh. Also it has an option to download videos. You can go to file and then download URL. You can download from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, NBC Sports, dailymotion, nicovideo, v-s mobi, etc. Usually if you paste actual URL and it finds a download, it can download it. m3u8 links usually don’t download though with download URL option even though they can be played through play url/youtube. 

Userscripts

Userscripts can be easily downloaded via the browser extension Tampermonkey

Local YouTube Downloader

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/369400-local-youtube-downloader

This shows you the direct audio and video links under YouTube videos. You can click on the links to simply view or click “save video as” and download. That’s all you need to do if you want 360p or 720p streams. For 480p or 1080p quality you have to download the audio and video streams separately and combine them with ffmpeg. I don’t do this since it’s easier to just have them download and combined with JDownloader 2 or YouTube-DL. I love this script mostly for having direct links I can view in new tab instead of on YouTube site or downloading geo-blocked YouTube videos with just browser (instead of computer wide) extension VPN.

VK Media Player

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/38614-vk-media-downloader

This puts a download button on VK videos where you can click and download to your computer or open the link in a new tab and show/view the direct video. I find this really useful since VK’s video playing layout can be annoying with the playlists and slowish loading times.

Torrents

qBittorent

https://www.qbittorrent.org

This is what I use to download torrents and the best torrent download manager imo. It’s open source and has no ads or malware. It’s better than uTorrent which I tried and would always open on start up even when I put not to in my options and would be stuck at 0% when trying to download magnet links. 

Screen Recording

If you’re a windows user, Windows 10 has a built in screen recorder in it’s game center that is very high quality. Here is a guide to how to use it: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/how-to-video-screen-capture-windows-10

[averiel]

a little something i like to call… a character study

[joeyclaire]

bimbofication

[averiel]

stop no i hate this because that was 100% absolutely going to be my original caption

[keybladesoras]

Detective Pikachu dancing!

[giadin-a]

I love you 3000.

[retrogamingblog]

Pokemon Art made by Lydia Jean

[aiweirdness]

Welcome to Word Vector Space

On this blog I’ve posted a lot about neural networks and other machine learning algorithms. Unlike other kinds of computer programs, they don’t rely on step by step instructions from a programmer - instead, they’re given a goal, like a score to maximize or a list of examples to imitate, and they have to figure out for themselves how to actually make this happen. So they discover rules about their data - that names of bands often start with capital letters, or that cats sometimes have white letters above and below their faces.

One kind of machine learning algorithm is a word2vec which tries to figure out how words are used. A word2vec looks at a lot of words in a LOT of text - all of Wikipedia, for example, and gives each word a set of numbers that describes how similarly it’s used compared to other words. This set of numbers - called the word vector - will be similar for closely related words. The big set of all the word vectors is called a word embedding, and they’re useful for things like determining the tone of a sentence or building algorithms that can make sense of sentences. One cool thing about word embeddings is that a vector is like a location - your latitude and longitude are two numbers that give your location on a two-dimensional map of the earth’s surface, and a word’s vector is something like 300 numbers that give its location in a 300-dimensional map of the entire word embedding. Visualizing 300-dimensional space is a bit of a brain-bender, but fortunately there are techniques for reducing things into a 2D or 3D space.

Andrei Kashcha has built a really neat visualization for word embeddings, with a 3D galaxy-like space, and spaceship controls for zooming around through it. Here’s a screenshot from one of the word embeddings. In this one, the word2vec called GloVe built its embedding after looking at Common Crawl, the text of billions of pages from across the internet. Here’s a snapshot of its vector space.

The word2vec picked up everything indiscriminately, so here it turns out we’re looking at clusters of common misspellings. At the upper left is typos with missing spaces: meAnd, knowBut, meOh. At the lower right is a cluster of variants on anybody: nyone, ayone, soomeone. In the lower center, the Internet tries and fails to spell “together” (or misspells it for a particular effect). The less said about the words in that bright globe in the upper center, the better (this are words from the ENTIRE internet, after all).

Here’s a striking formation, this time out in the red-colored regions.

Upon closer inspection, it appears to be a cluster of usernames. In fact, most of the features in the Common Crawl space are clusters of usernames or possibly hashtags, and many of these are right-wing and/or adult in nature. I had been hoping to find clusters of the meanings of common words, but most of these are in an indistinct haze near the center. (Below: a long thin chain of bird names, connecting smoothly to web hosting services) Ironically, what the word2vec bot learned by crawling the internet may be what other bots put there.

But there are other datasets for word2vec algorithms to learn from - Wikipedia produces a much cleaner word embedding, with features that are meaningful to humans, not just networks of bots.

Here’s a lovely feature in the Wikipedia word embedding space: These are Latin names of birds (upper), mollusks (lower right) and other invertebrates (lower left). Gauzy satellite blobs are dinosaurs and taxonomists.

The brightest yellow globs are here are literally the lights of human cities - clusters from Poland, Iran, Nepal, and other places.

And where are the American cities and states? I should have known. They’re these super bright dots over here in the blue areas of Sportsland. Those other blobs are golfers, basketball teams, baseball players, and a beautiful double-lobed formation of male vs female tennis players.

This area might be an artifact of some sort. Otherwise I can’t figure out what the big nodes have in common: ryryryryryry, winair, monechma, jiwamol, thongrung, zety, rungfapaisarn, manxamba. And their related words are weird too. Apparently related to “manxamba”: nephrotoxicity, bellbottoms, pilfers, xenomorph.

I found the Hogwarts houses! They’re at the far edge of the universe in a diffuse outer shell made of all the rarer words. No sign of Ravenclaw, though Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin are hanging out together. Neighbors include “outsized”, “reigns”, and “mammillary”.

Explore this visualization for yourself!

Bonus material this week: It turns out the algorithm GPT-2 read some Gothic novels as it trawled the internet. And its interpretation of them is interesting. “I avoided the ancient diorama in the well, hiding my apprehension.” To read some of its stories (plus optionally bonus material each week) enter your email here.

[freegameplanet]

Blossom is a beautiful experience where you can generate an endless variety of biological procedurally generated musical instruments!

Read More & Play The Full Game, Free (Windows & Mac)

[devinellekurtz]

Which one will you choose?

[devinellekurtz]

How could I forget this choice? Haha

[sespursongles-deactivated201906]

The official government institution for preserving the French language is the Académie française and one of my hobbies is actually reading the updates on their website, it’s always so funny. Just lambasting new English loanwords and trying to shame people into using French terms instead. Some examples of their grumpily anglophobic entries:

“There is absolutely no reason to borrow the word backstage when we already have the perfectly suitable coulisses, although we understand your natural affection for the word stage which the British stole from us in the first place.”

“Why use rooftop instead of toit en terrasse? And if we absolutely must use a foreign word for this concept, let us at least borrow a term from a sunny Mediterranean country. Borrowing ‘rooftop bar’ from a nation famous for its abominable weather is absurd.”

their absolute outrage at any wine vocabulary being borrowed and distorted by wine barbarians (“please only use vintage to refer to porto”)

an entry explains that turning “to feel” into the ridiculous anglo-French verb “feeler” is tragic, “especially since ‘feeler’ is already an English noun that could refer to a snail’s ocular tentacles” and if we French don’t show respect for snail vocabulary who will??

My favourite entry:

“ASAP: This abbreviation, which is far from transparent, seems to accrue most of the vices of a language that conceals its contemptuous and comminatory character under the rags of a spurious modernity”

[baqki]

OK to make a font out of your own writing

go here

http://www.myscriptfont.com/

instead of printing it off just use this blank thing that way you dont have to scan it or anything

so fill that out by pasting it in any art program and whatnot

then save it and upload it to that site

and itll give you an option to download it

so do that and then install it BAM

[dustandhalos]

[kittenmogu]

[pickle-inspect0r]

[ilikedaisiesinthespringtime]

I JUST GOT THIS ON MY TABLET IT’S SO COOL OH MY GOD

[nakadoo]

[jupiter24jay]

[movedtosaucymcfuzzy]

[zeekist]

for some reason it refused to recognize the third page of my letters but they were all pretty unnecessary mathematic things anyway so I’m not too worried. still something to keep in mind though, I hope it doesn’t happen for you!

[januarycomicsmonth]

paintfont.com would be a good place to go to quickly make a custom font for your comic!

[weavingmemories]

[timon-the-tomato-deactivated201]

ehh

It looks just as horrible in real life..even worse with the letter attached…

[frickmyrick-deactivated20170811]

[trveroman]

I’ll try this later.

[roachpatrol]

you can also use alternative alphabets

[authorloremipsum]

[cobalt-draws]

Welp. Guess I know what font I’m gonna be using for comics from now on. B)

[io-ooc]

Welp. Looks like I have to do this now. So I can use this for Tengri’s asks.

[keelime-art]

For some reason there is no apostrophe in my set, but it still looks cool.

[changephase]

NEAT THING ALERT

[kingloptr]

[mahouwl]

The site is now called https://www.calligraphr.com/en/ but it’s basically the same!

[welcometoyouredoom]

Free Black History Library

[awholenutha]

Please keep boosting this, free knowledge is so important people.

[queendread]

Right now, I’m sifting through 50+ applications for a new entry-level position. Here’s some advice from the person who will actually be looking at your CV/resume and cover letter:

‘You must include a cover letter’ does not mean ‘write a single line about why you want this position’. If you can’t be bothered to write at least one actual paragraphs about why you want this job, I can’t be bothered to read your CV.

Don’t bother including a list of your interests if all you can think of is ‘socialising with friends’ and ‘listening to music’. Everyone likes those things. Unless you can explain why the stuff you do enriches you as a person and a candidate (e.g. playing an instrument or a sport shows dedication and discipline) then I honestly don’t care how you spend your time. I won’t be looking at your CV thinking ‘huh, they haven’t included their interests, they must have none’, I’m just looking for what you have included.

Even if you apply online, I can see the filename you used for your CV. Filenames that don’t include YOUR name are annoying. Filenames like ‘CV - media’ tell me that you’ve got several CVs you send off depending on the kind of job advertised and that you probably didn’t tailor it for this position. ‘[Full name] CV’ is best.

USE. A. PDF. All the meta information, including how long you worked on it, when you created it, times, etc, is right there in a Word doc. PDFs are far more professional looking and clean and mean that I can’t make any (unconscious or not) decisions about you based on information about the file.

I don’t care what the duties in your previous unrelated jobs were unless you can tell me why they’re useful to this job. If you worked in a shop, and you’re applying for an office job which involves talking to lots of people, don’t give me a list of stuff you did, write a sentence about how much you enjoyed working in a team to help everyone you interacted with and did your best to make them leave the shop with a smile. I want to know what makes you happy in a job, because I want you to be happy within the job I’m advertising.

Does the application pack say who you’ll be reporting to? Can you find their name on the company website? Address your application to them. It’s super easy and shows that you give enough of a shit to google something. 95% of people don’t do this.

Tell me who you are. Tell me what makes you want to get up in the morning and go to work and feel fulfilled. Tell me what you’re looking for, not just what you think I’m looking for.

I will skim your CV. If you have a bunch of bullet points, make every one of them count. Make the first one the best one. If it’s not interesting to you, it’s probably not interesting to me. I’m overworked and tired. Make my job easy.

“I work well in a team or individually” okay cool, you and everyone else. If the job means you’ll be part of a big team, talk about how much you love teamwork and how collaborating with people is the best way to solve problems. If the job requires lots of independence, talk about how you are great at taking direction and running with it, and how you have the confidence to follow your own ideas and seek out the insight of others when necessary. I am profoundly uninterested in cookie-cutter statements. I want to know how you actually work, not how a teacher once told you you should work.

For an entry-level role, tell me how you’re looking forward to growing and developing and learning as much as you can. I will hire genuine enthusiasm and drive over cherry-picked skills any day. You can teach someone to use Excel, but you can’t teach someone to give a shit. It makes a real difference.

This is my advice for small, independent orgs like charities, etc. We usually don’t go through agencies, and the person reading through the applications is usually the person who will manage you, so it helps if you can give them a real sense of who you are and how you’ll grab hold of that entry level position and give it all you’ve got. This stuff might not apply to big companies with actual HR departments - it’s up to you to figure out the culture and what they’re looking for and mirror it. Do they use buzzwords? Use the same buzzwords! Do they write in a friendly, informal way? Do the same! And remember, 95% of job hunting (beyond who you know and flat-out nepotism, ugh) is luck. If you keep getting rejected, it’s not because you suck. You might just need a different approach, or it might just take the right pair of eyes landing on your CV.

And if you get rejected, it’s worthwhile asking why. You’ve already been rejected, the worst has already happened, there’s really nothing bad that can come out of you asking them for some constructive feedback (politely, informally, “if it isn’t too much trouble”). Pretty much all of us have been hopeless jobseekers at one point or another. We know it’s shitty and hard and soul-crushing. Friendliness goes a long way. Even if it’s just one line like “your cover letter wasn’t inspiring" at least you know where to start.

And seriously, if you have any friends that do any kind of hiring or have any involvement with that side of things, ask them to look at your CV with a big red pen and brutal honesty. I do this all the time, and the most important thing I do is making it so their CV doesn’t read exactly like that of every other person who took the same ‘how-to-get-a-job’ class in school. If your CV has a paragraph that starts with something like ‘I am a highly motivated and punctual individual who–’ then oh my god I AM ALREADY ASLEEP.

[revysprite-deactivated20170502]

Very good post thanks for this.

[copperbadge]

Excellent advice for building and submitting job application documents.

[dispatchrabbi]

This is the first good resume advice post I’ve seen on this site. Much better advice than the “lists of active verbs to use” and “here are resume templates”. Follow this advice.

[liminal-zone]

As a hiring manager, fuuuuck, man. This is fucking good advice. Also I do not give a shit if you won a writing competition in the sixth grade. 

[rescueironman-deactivated201909]

Another tip if you’re trying to apply to one of the big media and entertainment companies: Always, always, always research the company inside out, read their brand values and vision, know who their subsidiaries are (they have many), what they’re known for, their company culture (Glassdoor reviews is a starting point) etc. Know the industry too, keep up to date with what’s happening. Demonstrate in your cover letter why you want to work for us and not our competitor–beyond the cursory “Y'all are great” bit. Then talk about how your skillset will benefit us; if you want to stand out, suggest an area you think we can improve on and how you can help. Be prepared to discuss them in the interview if you get shortlisted. This is important because even if HR skims over this, you can bet your hiring manager will scrutinise over that during the final decision.

Also, don’t do this: If you’re applying for a job at Disney, don’t spend an entire paragraph in your CV raving about how amazing WB (or any of the other competitors) is. If you interned at WB, definitely talk about your learnings but add to that by stating how it’s going to help you be a star employee at Disney. It sounds obvious but evidently some people still do that.

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen paperback classics that were hand-picked by you! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on December 29, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[saracastically]

me: i should draw all my plants ! me, six plants in: oh my god commissions | patreon

[gadgets-cnl]

12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online At No Cost

[wordsnquotes]

“All education is self-education.  Period.“

It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop. We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn.

Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world.  Take a look at any widely acclaimed scholar, entrepreneur or historical figure you can think of.

Formal education or not, you’ll find that he or she is a product of continuous self-education.

If you’re interested in learning something new, this article is for you.  Broken down by subject and/or category, here are several top-notch self-education resources I have bookmarked online over the past few years.

Note that some of the sources overlap between various subjects of education.  Therefore, each has been placed under a specific subject based on the majority focus of the source’s content.

Keep reading

[medically-challenged]

FREE MEDICAL PDFs

Anatomy:

1–> KLM for Gross Anatomy

2–> Snell’s Anatomy

3–> BD Churassia

4–> RJ Last

5–> Grey’s Anatomy

6–> Langman Embryology

7–> KLM for Embryology

8–> BD For General Anatomy

9–> Dissector

10–> Di Fore Histology

11–> Junqueira’s Histology

12–> Netter Atlas of human Aantomy

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LYV9KQ3lxY29FY28

Physiology:

1–> Guyton

2–> Ganong

3–> Sheerwood

4–> Sembulingam

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LdXlCSjdZM214dEE

  Biochemistry:

1–> Harper

2–> Lippincott

3–> Chatterjea

4–> Satyanarayan

5–> Stryer

6–> MRS Biochemistry

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0Ld0o3WnhCR2VEczg

Pathology:

1–> Big Robins

2–> Medium Robins

3–> Pathoma

4–> Goljan

5–> Harsh Mohan Pathology

6–> Atlas of Histopathology

7–> Levinson

8–> MRS microbiology

9–> Microbiology by Jacquelyn G. Black

10–> Color Atlas of Microbiology

11–> Kaplan Pathology

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LYkRYdjFrTm5MR0U

  Pharmacology:

1–> Big Katzung

2–> Mini Katzung

3–> Kaplan Review

4–> Lippincott

5–> Pocket Katzung

6–> Rang and Dale’s Pharmacology

7–> Atlas of Pharmacology

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LMkE1UUVRZGwtTlU

Forensic Medicine:

1–> Simpson’s Forensics

2–> Krishan’s Forensics

3–> Atlas of Autopsy

4–> Atlas of Forensic Medicine

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LQXVwOGoyWnFSV2s

Ophthalmology:

1–> Jogi

2–> Jatoi

3–> Parson’s Textbook of Eye

4–> Kanski

5–> AK Khurana

6–> Atlas of ophthalmology

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LOHc5WVZMdkJjX2M

Otorhinolaryngology:

1–> Dhingra

2–> Logans Turner

3–> Color Atlas of Otorhinolaryngology

4–> Maqbool’s Text Book of ENT

5–> Clinical Methods in ENT by PT Wakode

6–> ENT at a Glance

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LaDY2a0lFNDlfTGc

Community Medicine:

1–> Monica’s Text Book Community Medicine

2–> Mahajan And Gupta Text Book of Community Medicine

3–> Bancroft’s Text Book of Community Medicine

Folder link–> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0Lc1RCMml2NjhFNjA

Internal Medicine:

1–> Churchill’s Pocketbook of DD

2–> MTB Step 2 Ck

3–> Davidson Essentials

4–> Davidson Principals and practice

5–> Harrison’s Internal Medicine

6–> Internal Medicine USMLE Nuggets

7–> Internal Medicine on call bt LANGE 8–> Oxfords Specialties

Folder link–>https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LeEFJNG5TMlc4eWc

Surgery:

1–> Bailey_love short practice of Surgery

2–> Churchill’s pocketbook of Surgery

3–> Deja Review of surgery

4–> Farquharson’s Textbook of Operative General Surgery

5–> Hamilton Bailey’s Physical Signs

6–> Oxford Handbook of Clinical Surgery

7–> Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery

8–> Macleod’s Clinical Examination

9–> Macleod’s Clinical Diagnosis

Folder link–>https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LRFpFSG5hZ1pVWkE

Obstetrics & Gynecology:

1–> Case Discussions in Obstetrics and Gynecology

2–> Deja Review of Obstetrics Gynecology

3–> Obstetrics by Ten Teachers

4–> Gynaecology illustrated

5–> Gynaecology by Ten Teachers

Folder link–>https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LMU1LRjFDa1FrbjA

Pediatrics:

1–> Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics

2–> Nelson Complete

3–> Pediatrics Review

Folder link–>https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3WdpdsqpX0LUkdTQkVuNV92Yzg

I hope this helps everyone, it’s not mine. But has been shared to me and I am sharing this with all of you.

[just-shower-thoughts]

The LGBTQ+ pride flag is made up of straight lines

[abricde]

Straight is relative. When you raise the pride flag proudly, the lines are never straight.