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TODO – host all scripts.

TODO – this whole thing needs to be redone!

Greasemonkey-logo.png

(on Wikipedia)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
https://github.com/greasemonkey/greasemonkey/
https://www.greasespot.net/

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Herrie screenshot

Oldschool music players >

https://github.com/EdSchouten/herrie (still mostly-gone as of 2016-03-31 – archive.org)

I don’t know where I heard of this music player, but I had recently bookmarked it. I took a moment to check it out.

It failed my review.



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X-Men - Days of Future Past (2014) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1877832/
was https://web.archive.org/*/www.x-menmovies.com/

TODO – I’ll add notes when I get around to re-watching this.

  • Properly titled X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • Trailer



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Reading and Writing Chinese - Third Edition

Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >

Highly recommended – Mnemonics, multiple pictures for stroke order and details for each character’s difficulty level give this book a completely different approach from the others I own.

Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.

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Mandarin Chinese English Bilingual Visual Dictionary

Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >

Highly recommended – A stark contrast to the traditional dictionary. Far more visual and friendly. Absolutely not a replacement for an actual dictionary.

Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.

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Oxford Beginner's Chinese Dictionary

Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >

Recommended – This book has value above and beyond being a book of definitions.

Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.

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Langenscheidt Pocket Dictionary Mandarin Chinese

Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >

Highly recommended – Portable, durable and to-the-point.

Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.

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