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buckeverlasting · 6 years

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Wine and Dine Me

Pairing: Bucky Barnes x fem librarian!Reader

Summary: You don’t normally date library patrons, but Bucky has been a very special regular lately. You finally go out on a long-awaited date.

A/N: This is my entry for @stanclub’s writing challenge! My prompt was “Where are your manners?” Prompt is in bold.

Warnings: a little fluff but mostly a great deal of smut; it’s really, truly filthy

Word count: 2.6k

It was a gray day in the beginning of February. James Barnes strode into the library with a blast of cold air. He stopped at the Black History Month wedding cake display by the doorway and picked a biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. off a stand. His eyes flitted over the cover, his brow knitted in concentration. He flipped the book over and scanned the writing on the back. He nodded his head in appreciation. Then he looked up and caught you watching him. A grin creeped across his face, and he approached the reference desk with the book in hand.

Patron James Barnes had been such a regular visitor to your reference desk over the last couple weeks that you had his library card number memorized: 2276141405. God only knows how many times you’ve scanned it to reserve or check out books for the man. Actually, you know how many books he’s checked out. You pulled up his account on your computer by searching the system for his library card number. Since he started visiting your branch, he’s checked out over one hundred books and movies. He’d been coming here for a while, but it was only recently that he started specifically asking to see you on his visits.

“Good morning,” you said. “That’s a good book you have there.”

“Oh, really?” he asked. “I actually want to know more about this man. I was hoping you could help me find more books about him.”

“I can certainly help with that.” You took a seat behind your computer. “Let me check and see what we have on the shelves right now.” You accessed the library’s catalog. You performed a search, typing in commands to limit the search to what was available only at your branch.

“I’m surprised you don’t know of a few off the top of your head,” he said.

“I think it’s a common misconception that all librarians do is read.” You laughed lightly.

“You mean you don’t sit around and read all day with your cats?” he asked.

“Don’t get smart, Mr. Barnes.” You smiled at him.

“You can call me Bucky.” He returned your smile.

“You can call me Y/N, Bucky. It looks like there are ten biographies on the shelf right.” You turned the computer screen to show him the titles. “Do you want me to to take you over to see them?”

“Sure. Please, lead the way.”

You got up and waited for him to circle around your desk so you could walk through the stacks together. When you had passed the 300s (social sciences), Bucky asked, “So what do you do when you’re not reading with your cats?”

You gave him side-eye with a smirk. “I actually don’t have cats. I like to dance, go hiking, and I paint a little. I have to admit, though, I do like reading. I also like going on dates with handsome men who come into the library regularly to research history.”

He stopped in front of the 500s (natural sciences). “Are you asking me out on a date, Y/N?”

You looked up at the ceiling and rocked on the soles of your feet. “I’m just saying what I like to do, since you asked.”

You kept walking along, with Bucky trailing a little behind.

“Hold on,” he said, stopping in front of a display of poetry and plays next to the 800s *(literature). “Are you saying you’d go out with me on a date if I asked you?”

You turned on your heel. “I’ve been waiting weeks for you to ask me out. I’ve had a crush on you since my freshman history class. I know what you’ve been up to on your visits to the library. You’re trying to catch up. I admire that.”

“I guess you also picked up on my stalking you.” He grinned. “What are you doing tonight?”

“Finally, going out with you.” You brushed his arm with your hand.

“Of those things you mentioned liking to do, would kissing strange men in the stacks be one of them?” he asked.

You gave him a little shove. “Are you out of your mind? Do you know how hard it was to get this job? I have benefits and a retirement plan. There’s no way I’m giving that up for anyone, no matter how good he looks right now.”

“I’m a decorated war vet, too.” He shrugged.

“I still have student loans to pay off.” You crossed our arms. “Plus, call me old fashioned, but I’d like to be wined and dined a little first.”

“Fine, fine. Fair enough,” he said. “Just show me where the biographies I’m looking for are.”

“Can you pick me up at eight tonight?” you asked.

“Yes.”

“Then follow me.”

- - -

This was going to be the most important date of your life. James “Bucky” Barnes was going to pick you up in a matter of minutes. You checked your eyes for smudges and your teeth for lipstick. You patted down stray hairs and tested your breath against your palm. You smiled at yourself. You looked great.

The doorbell rang. You looked out the peephole. Bucky stood there with a bouquet of flowers. You opened the door for him.

“I hope this isn’t too old fashioned.” He handed you a bouquet of pink roses.

You breathed in their scent. “These are beautiful. I’ll have to put them in water. Do you want to come in for a second?”

“That’s fine.” He stepped into your home and looked around. “You have a lovely place.”

“Thank you.” You rushed into the kitchen and began opening cabinets looking for your vase.

Bucky appeared in the kitchen. “Need help?”

“No.” You popped up with the vase in hand. “Found it!”

“Do you mind if I just sit for a moment?” “Go right ahead.”

Bucky pulled his arms out of his jacket and draped it over a chair. He took a seat.

“You don’t need to take your coat off. I’m just going to be a second.”

He patted his knee. “Why don’t you sit for a second?”

“Okay.” You left the flowers and vase on the counter, walked over to him, and lowered yourself onto his lap. You could feel how warm he was through both your clothes. You looped an arm around his neck to help balance yourself. He bounced his knee, and you fell into his chest, which was solid as a wall.

“Can I kiss you now?” Bucky asked. His ocean blue eyes were soft. “I’ve waited for so long.”

“It’s only been a couple hours.”

“No,” he said. “It’s taken me a lifetime to find someone like you.”

“Like me?”

“Yes. Someone so smart and beautiful and kind.” He brushed the hair from your eyes and held he side of your face. “Can I kiss you?”

You didn’t bother answering his question. You went for it and captured his mouth in a deep kiss.

You broke the kiss. “How’s that for an answer?”

“I didn’t quite catch what you said.”

You kissed him again, and while your slid your tongue against his, he scooped you up bridal-style, and stood.

It was his turn to break the kiss. “Where’s your bedroom?” He pressed his forehead to yours as you caught your breath.

You pointed down the hall. “Second door on the left.”

You held onto his neck as he carried you into your bedroom. You flipped on the light. He threw you onto the bed. He began unbuttoning his shirt while kicking off his shoes. You pulled your dress over your head and tossed it on the floor. You rolled down your tights until you were in just a bra and panties. Bucky’s eyes lingered on you as he fumbled with the buttons on his pants. You got up to help him, but he pushed you back on the bed, not roughly or in a mean way. Just a gentle little shove to the shoulder, and you tumbled back to the bed.

Now Bucky was naked. You scooted on your butt to the head of the bed. Bucky crawled toward you, his erection bobbing between his legs. You took in a sharp breath when you saw how hard he was already and how large he was.

He slipped his hands down the front of your panties. “Let’s get you really wet for me. Take those panties off.”

You slipped them over your hips and kicked them down your legs and tossed them over the side of the bed. You also unclasped your bra and pitched it after your panties.

“Lay back for me, babe,” Bucky said. “Let me see that pussy.”

You did as you were told, and gently taking your knees, he parted your legs.

“Beautiful,” he murmured.

In an instant, you could feel his warm, wet tongue on your clit. You closed your eyes. He was lapping and moaning, and the combination had you balling the sheets up in your fists. You rolled your hips to press yourself against him harder. He slipped in a cold metal finger, and you gasped.

“Is that okay?” he asked.

“It’s fucking amazing,” you wheezed. “Don’t stop!”

“Where are your manners?” He grinned.

“I’m sorry. Please, continue.”

This time he slipped in two metal fingers, scissoring them as he pumped them in and out of you. You were writhing against his hand. He flicked the bud of your clit with his tongue as he continued to torment you with his fingers, curling one against your G-spot.

You cried out. “Oh god, I’m gonna cum!” The pressure had been mounting, and you felt like you were going to erupt.

“Cum for me, babe.” He began lapping at your folds again, as you felt the white hot heat blazing out of your core. You could feel yourself flooding his mouth as you came hard. He lapped and sucked hungrily.

“Wow, you’re really skilled,” you said, lying flushed and limp on the bed.

“Are you ready for me?” He sat back on his heels, lazily stroking himself.

You bit your lip, reached between your legs, swiped at your wetness, and tasted yourself. “I think I’m very ready.”

“Goddamn, that was hot,” he said.

You reached for his flesh hand and stuck two fingers in your mouth, gently sucking and swirling your tongue around them.

“I’d like to know what else that tongue can do,” he said.

“Why don’t you lie down and find out?” You got up on your knees.

Bucky rested his head on your pillows.

You knelt between his legs, grasped the shaft with both hands, and lowered your head. You licked his length in long, slow swipes before plunging it in your mouth. You sucked and bobbed your head, dragging your tongue around the head. Bucky moaned and placed his hands on either side of your head. He began thrusting up into your mouth as he held your head still. You moaned and the vibrations caused him to grunt. You could taste precum. He released your head, and you sat upright, gasping.

“Do you have a condom?” you said.

Bucky got off the bed and searched his clothes for his wallet. He held up a little square. “Found it.”

“Well, you were pretty sure you were going to get lucky,” you said. “I don’t know what that says about me.”

“Nothing, babe.” He kissed your cheek. “I just like to be prepared. Get on your hands and knees, please.”

Without a word, you obeyed, turning your back to him and bending over, putting yourself fully on display.

He smacked your ass with his flesh hand. “Gorgeous.”

You gasped when you felt him rubbing the tip of his cock along your folds. He teased your clit for a moment before lining himself up and pressing into you. You yelped a little as he stretched you.

“Are you okay, babe?” he asked.

“Yup.” You turned and gave him a thumbs up. “You’re just enormous. That’s all.”

He smiled at you. “You’re fucking tight.” He thrusted and almost knocked you down. He gripped you by the hips and pulled you to him, spearing you on his cock. You fell into the bed, cheek on the sheets, ass in the air. You reached back and spread your ass.

Bucky groaned. “That is a beautiful sight.” He placed a cold, metal thumb on your asshole, and you cried out. He applied a little more pressure, and your eyes rolled back into your head, as he continued to fuck you into the mattress.

“Fuckmefuckmefuckme,” you muttered.

He smacked your ass again and, grabbing you by the hair, he pulled you up off the mattress. He reached around and played with your clit with a metal finger. You were going to lose it soon. You could feel the ball of pressure within you expanding, the heat spreading from your core. You began to shake.

“That’s it,” he said. “Cum for me again, babe. I want to feel you dripping down my balls.”

His words made you shudder, and you let yourself go with a moan you were sure your neighbors probably heard. Once again, you fell face first onto the sheets, and all you could do was shake with the tremors of your orgasm as Bucky continued to fuck you as your wells clenched around his cock.

With a few last thrusts, he reached his own climax, and you could feel his cock pulse inside you as he emptied himself into the condom. When he pulled out and released your hips, you completely collapsed to the bed and shut your eyes.

“Mmm, that was fantastic.” You opened your eyes, sat up, and turning around, saw Bucky holding up the condom, which sagged with his huge load.

“Want to taste?” He gently held your jaw and tipped your head back. You opened your mouth, and he emptied the condom into your mouth. His cum was thick, salty, and still warm. You swallowed quickly and wiped your mouth with the back of your hand.

He stroked your hair. “Good girl.”

You smiled and blinked sleepily. Bucky pulled back the sheets for you, and you slipped under them, nestling your head on the pillow. He got in behind you, pulling you close to him, your back to his chest.

“That was amazing,” he whispered.

“That was fucking amazing.” That was the last thing you remember saying before you drifted off to sleep in Bucky’s arms.

- - -

Morning sun and bird song woke you in the morning. The room came into focus slowly, and you realized you were alone. Bucky’s side of the bed was cold. Perhaps he left a note somewhere, you thought, as you got up and put on your bathrobe. You wandered throughout your house, calling his name. He was really gone.

A knock on your front door. You dashed to the peephole. Bucky was standing on your stoop with a grocery bag in his arms. You let him in.

“Where the heck did you go?” you asked.

He leaned down and kissed our cheek. “I had to pick up a few things. Some fixings for omelettes and some champagne for mimosas.”

“What’s all this for?”

“Well, you said you wanted to be wined and dined a little before you would kiss me, and I guess we never really got a chance to do that. So, I’m going to wine and dine you a little belatedly.”

“That’s really sweet.” You got up on your toes to kiss him on the lips.

“Oh, it’s the least I could do to thank you for the night of my life.” He put the bag down on a chair and pulled you close. “So, what’ll it cost me for a rendezvous in the stacks?”

“Keep on dreaming, pal.” You rested your cheek against his chest. “I’m nothing if not professional.”

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First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)

M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Exalted Essay Collection (Exalted)

Dragon-Blooded Novella #2 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Exigents (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Many-Faced Strangers – Lunars Companion (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Contagion Chronicle: Global Outbreaks (Chronicles of Darkness)

Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad (Scarred Lands)

Vigil Watch (Scarred Lands)

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Redlines

Monsters of the Deep (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Tales of Aquatic Terror (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)

Wraith20 Fiction Anthology (Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition)

Crucible of Legends (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Second Draft

Tales of Good Dogs – Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)

Dragon-Blooded Novella #1 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)

One Foot in the Grave Jumpstart (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e)

Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)

Titanomachy (Scion 2nd Edition)

Trinity Continuum Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum Core)

Terra Firma (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

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M20 The Technocracy Reloaded (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Creatures of the World Bestiary (Scion 2nd Edition)

Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Scion Companion: Mysteries of the World (Scion 2nd Edition)

Legendlore core book (Legendlore)

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

TC: Aeon Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)

Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)

Manuscript Approval

Geist 2e Fiction Anthology (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Creatures of the World Bestiary (Scion 2nd Edition)

Oak, Ash, and Thorn: Changeling: The Lost 2nd Companion (Changeling: The Lost 2nd)

Cults of the Blood Gods (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

W20 Shattered Dreams Gift Cards (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)

W20 Art Book (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)

Post-Approval Development

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

V5 Chicago Screen (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)

Let the Streets Run Red (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)

Editing

Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Lunars: Fangs at the Gate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

TC: Aeon Ready-Made Characters (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Hunter: The Vigil 2e core (Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition)

Chicago Folio/Dossier (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

Post-Editing Development

Memento Mori (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e Companion)

DR:E Threat Guide – Helnau’s Guide to Wasteland Beasties (Dystopia Rising: Evolution)

DR:E Jumpstart (Dystopia Rising: Evolution)

Heroic Land Dwellers (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Pirates of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)

Indexing

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In Art Direction

Contagion Chronicle

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant

Hunter: The Vigil 2e

Ex3 Lunars – Contracted.

They Came from Beneath the Sea! – Contracted. Sketches already coming in.

TCfBtS!: Heroic Land Dwellers – Contracted. LeBlanc doing the splats.

Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed – Thinking I throw a bunch of this at Vince and Trabbold.

Ex3 Monthly Stuff

DR:E Threat Guide – Helnau’s Guide to Wasteland Beasties – Michele is doing the critters.

Deviant (KS) – Contracted.

Trinity RMCs – Getting Riley on these this week.

Cults of the Blood God (KS) – Mark is in to do fulls and cover.

Chicago Folio – Lemme see who I got left post KS art buy for Cults. I am gonna try to get Paul Lee to do the fulls.

Mummy 2 (KS) – Got Matthew’s notes.

In Layout

CoM – Witch Queen of the Shadowed Citadel

Dark Eras 2 – Files with Aileen

Trinity Continuum Aeon: Distant Worlds

VtR Spilled Blood – For Josh.

DR:E Jumpstart

Aeon Aexpansion

Proofing

C20 Cup of Dreams

V5: Chicago – Inputting errata.

Geist 2e – XX’s and then Indexing.

Signs of Sorcery – Inputting errata.

M20 Book of the Fallen

DR: E – Inputting errata.

At Press

Dragon Blooded – Deluxe at Studio2, shipping.

Dragon-Blooded Cloth Map – At Studio2, shipping.

Dragon-Blooded Screen – Shipped to Studio2, shipping.

Trinity Core Screen – At Studio2.

TC Aeon Screen – At Studio2.

Trinity: In Media Res – PoD proofs coming.

Trinity Core – Printing.

Trinity Aeon – Printing.

Shunned By the Moon – PoD proof ordered.

Today’s Reason to Celebrate!

Born on this date in 1921 – Gene Roddenberry, who, love him or leave him, got Star Trek on the air and set the stage for many, many, folks’ first introduction to science fiction – and utopian science fiction at that! Plus, because why not, this is also the birthday of William Marshall in 1924, who appeared on Star Trek as Professor Richard Daystrom, and whose amazing voice graced us as both Blackula and the King of Cartoons! Also, to continue the Star Trek theme: in 1938, Diana Muldaur, who appeared on both the Original Series, and on STtNG as Dr. Pulaski, was born, and last but not the least likely to get it on on an alien planet, William T. Riker’s portrayer, Jonathan Frakes, was born in 1952. (Bill Clinton was also born on this date in 1946, and while we all know he’d give Riker a run for his money, he was never on Star Trek – just a US President.)

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1. Miro

Official site:http://www.miroguide.com/

This is an open-source, non-profit site for getting some software, music, games, and much more for free. To find something specific, just browse through their genre categories to find whatever will fit your needs.

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Official site:https://linuxtracker.org/

Search these user-uploaded torrents to find software for Linux IOS. They have over 409 pages of downloads which you can browse or, if you are looking for something specific, you can search by name.

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Official site:http://bitlove.org/directory

This is a directory of free Podcasters. You can find hundreds of podcasts, viewable by their name in alphabetical order, and download every episode.

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Official site:http://www.vuze.com/content/

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Official site:http://www.legittorrents.info/index.php?search=&page=torrents

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Official site:https://archive.org/details/feature_films

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. They have over 400,000 software downloads available. You can narrow your search by year it was made, languages, and software types.

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Official site:https://ninite.com/

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Official site:https://www.majorgeeks.com/

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Official site:http://www.donationcoder.com/

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Official site:https://www.downloadcrew.com/

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Official site:https://www.filehorse.com/

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Office and Business Tools

Photoshop

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Official site:https://www.filepuma.com/

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Official site:https://filehippo.com/

Get the latest versions of the best software. Downloads are hand-picked by the site’s editors. It’s also all tested for malware, adware, and viruses, so you get only safe downloads. There are no added bundles, installers, or toolbars.

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Official site:https://www.softpedia.com/

This is an encyclopedia for free downloads. They have over 1,000,000 available downloads with hundreds of items added every single day. This includes downloads for Windows, Mac, Android, and Linux.

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Official site:http://www.brothersoft.com/

This site has over 250,000 freeware and shareware downloads. These are available for Windows, Mac, and mobile devices. Every day, they add new software, so check back often.

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Official site:http://www.tucows.com/downloads

Get downloads for Windows, Mac, Linux, and more with this site. They have all sorts of programs available, including photo editors, antivirus, VPN managers, and more.

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Official site:https://www.soft32.com/

All software on Soft32.com has been tested to ensure it’s 100% free of spyware, viruses, and other malware. They have over 150,000 software downloads available to their website’s community.

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Official site:https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Every day this site offers free licensed software you’d have to buy otherwise. This can be a great way to get software that normally costs well over $50 completely free and legally.

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Official site:https://www.giveaway-club.com/

This is another site that does a daily software giveaway. You can also read user reviews of the software before downloading, which is a great way to figure out if you want to take the time to install your free software or not.

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Official site:https://topwaresale.com/product-category/software-giveaway/

This site is normally used to sell software. However, they also have a free deals section! Get professional, high-quality programs completely free.

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Official site:https://giveaway.tickcoupon.com/

Tickcoupon Giveaway is one of the most popular software giveaway websites out there. It’s focused on offering, sharing, and updating new free licensed software. You can also get coupon codes for software that isn’t free so you can save a lot of money.

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Official site:https://giveaway.download.hr/

This site sells software, however, it also has free downloads. Get giveaways for software for Windows, PC, Mac, iOS, Android, and more. You can also get free video games from here.

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Official site:https://sourceforge.net/

This is an open-source and business software platform. They distribute software to 33 million users worldwide. They have over 430,000 programs available for business owners. If you know anything about developing programs, you might also like the free tools they have on the site for developers.

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25. Chromium

Official site:https://www.chromium.org/

According to the site, Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web. This site contains design documents, architecture overviews, testing information, and more to help you learn to build and work with the Chromium source code.

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Official site:https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player. It plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Some features of the program are:

Plays files, discs, webcams, devices, and streams.

Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, iOS, Android, and more.

No spyware, ads, or user tracking.

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27. MPC HC

Official site:https://mpc-hc.org/

MPC-HC is an open source media player that works for the Windows operating system. It supports all common video and audio file formats available for playback. They are 100% spyware free, and there are no advertisements or toolbars included with the program.

Free File Sharing Software

28. DC++

Official site:http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

Direct Connect allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits. It’s completely free of advertisements.

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29. GIMP

Official site:https://www.gimp.org/

Don’t want to pay monthly for Photoshop? Now you don’t have too. GIMP is a free, open-source program similar to Adobe Photoshop. Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, or illustrator, you can do whatever you need to with Gimp.

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30. LibreOffice

Official site:https://www.libreoffice.org/

This is an open-source version of Microsoft Word. You can get several applications that work like the Microsoft Office Suite.

The programs they have offered are:

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Calc- spreadsheet

Impress – presentations

Draw – diagrams

Base – database

Math – formula editor

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31. 7-zip

Official site:https://www.7-zip.org/

7-Zip is free software with open source code.

Features of the program are:

High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression

Packs and unpacks file types of over twenty types

Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats

Self-extracting capability for 7z format

Integration with Windows Shell

Powerful File Manager

Localizations for 87 languages

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32. Tor

Official site:https://www.torproject.org/

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance with the Tor browser. You can browse the internet entirely privately. It prevents someone from watching your connection, so they cant see the websites you visit.

Free Email Software

33. Thunderbird

Official site:https://www.thunderbird.net/

This is software that makes email easier. Its easy to set up and customize and loaded with lots of features. It’s also incredibly safe to use.

Features of the program are:

Personalized Email Addresses

One-Click Address Book

Attachment Reminders

Multiple-channel Chat Rooms

Tabbed Email

Ability to search the Web

Message Archive

And much more!

Free Password Manager Software

34. KeePass

Official site:https://keepass.info/

KeePass is a free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager. It puts all your passwords on one database, which is locked with a master key password. That way, you only need to remember one password to access all of your passwords.

Free PDF Reader/Editor Software

35. Foxit Reader

Official site:https://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf-reader/

This is one of the best softwares for creating, sharing and securing PDFs. It lets you make PDFs in a few ways including uploading scans, converting Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and Excel sheets. You can even combine multiple PDFs into one new file.

Foxit Reader is available for both Windows and Mac.

36. SumatraPDF

Official site:https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

This is actually my favorite PDF reader that I have it installed on my PC, Laptop, Android phone and Surface Pro tablet/laptop.

It is very light so unlike Adobe Acrobat Reader DC it won’t be hogging your computer’s resources resulting in a slower device.

Free Antivirus Software

37. Kaspersky

Official site: https://usa.kaspersky.com/free-antivirus

A great antivirus software that is very easy to use and has a very small impact on the performance of whatever device you install it on. It protects you against all kinds of malware.

Final Thoughts

Now that you are finished checking out these sites, we hope that you find whatever software you are looking for.

Keep in mind that there are a lot of other sites where you can install totally free software from as well as many other companies that giveaway free software. But the purpose of this post was to give you a list of the best free software and sites where you can download more free software.

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Sites to watch movies without registering - You were planning to spend an evening at home enjoying a good time film on TV. You had already made yourself comfortable in your favorite armchair, but when you pressed the ON button on the remote control, you realized that the TV was no longer showing signs of life: a nice cancellation, but you have no intention of ruining your evening; you definitely want to find a way to enjoy a few hours of relaxation, and I'm here to help you do it! If your intent is to watch a movie comfortably at home, even without a TV and without wasting time on registrations or subscriptions, you've come to the right place at the right time! With today's guide, in fact, I will recommend a series of sites to watch movies without registering thanks to which you will be able to access a series of feature films, both Italian and international, belonging to any era and cinematographic genre. 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Founded in 2010 by Delta Pictures, it is a portal that, in a completely free and legal way, offers a large catalog of films, TV series and soap operas to watch from your computer, smartphone and tablet. To watch a movie on PopCorn TV, connect to main page of the service and click on the option Watch streaming located in the top menu. In the new screen displayed, then press on the item Cinema and make sure the option is selected Free, to view only the free and visible titles without an account. Now, if you want to find a movie by genre, click on the item All and choose one of the options available from Action, Comedy, Dramatic e Horror. Find the movie you want to watch and click on its poster, to view its plot, l’year of publication, the cast, the time and the vote awarded by PopCorn TV users. To start watching it, wait for the video advertising to be played and click on the ▶ ︎ button. Paramount Network Among the services that allow you to watch movies without making any registration, there is also Paramount Network, a free digital terrestrial channel dedicated to the world of cinema that also broadcasts in streaming. The website of this broadcaster allows both to access a catalog, albeit limited, of films and TV series and to watch all the channels of the network live. If you think this is a valid solution for watching movies without registering, connect to the Paramount Network main page, click on the option Film located in the main menu and, in the new screen displayed, locate the film of your interest. At this point, click on poster of the film you intend to see, to start playing it. In the newly opened page, you can also read the plot of the film in question, while pressing the icon of two arrows, you can switch to full screen view. If, on the other hand, you want to consult the TV guide of one of the channels in the network, click on the ☰ button, at the top left, select one of the available channels from Paramount Network, Spike e VH1 and select the option TV Guide. In the event that a film that you intend to watch is scheduled, on the day and at the indicated time, access the section Direct of the channel of your interest. To do this, click on the ☰ button, click on the channel in question (Paramount Network, Spike e VH1) and select the option Direct, to watch the live broadcast of the selected TV channel. YouTube Surely you were aware of the movie rental and purchase features available on YouTube, but maybe you didn't know that on the most famous video sharing platform there are numerous titles available for free, legally and without registration request. The credit for this goes to some companies that use the famous Google portal to convey films to which they have regularly acquired the rights. You should know, however, that finding a movie on YouTube is not an easy task as there is no specific section for free feature films. To facilitate your search, here is a series of YouTube channels that offer a rich catalog of films to watch freely and without an account. - Movie On: is a channel of the Italian network YAM112003, which presents various genres (action, horror, comedy) and offers mostly American titles, with dozens of French, Russian and oriental films. There are also films in the original language with the availability of Italian subtitles. - Film&Clips: is the YouTube channel of the Italian cinema distribution house Minerva Pictures. It offers English, German, Spanish and Italian films, with genres ranging from westerns to comedies, with older films, dating back to the sixties, but also more recent titles. Also available films for the youngest and for children. - KoreanFilm: a reference point for lovers of oriental films with hundreds of classic Korean titles available both in the original language and with Italian subtitles. In addition to the channels in question, you can also find independent films and some original productions on YouTube. In particular, I suggest you take a look at the channel YouTube Originals which collects original TV series, documentaries and films produced by YouTube and which can be watched for free and without an account. To find out more, I leave you to my guide dedicated to movies to watch for free on YouTube. Once you have found a movie you want to watch, all you have to do is click on its preview image, to start playback. Please note that YouTube is also available as a device application Android e iPhone/iPad and compatible with numerous other devices, such as Smart TV, Chromecast, Apple TV and video game consoles. Streaming TV channels As a last resort I suggest you take into consideration the sites of television broadcasters that also broadcast on the Web. Although they do not have an on-demand catalog with films to watch without time constraints, there are many TV channels that broadcast movies and allow you to watch them in live streaming, at the time of passage on TV. An example are the television channels owned by the Sky Italia group visible in clear text on digital terrestrial and which also broadcast in streaming, such as Sky TV e TV8. In this regard, my guide on how to watch TV8 may be useful. Another broadcaster that broadcasts on digital terrestrial and streaming is La7. By accessing the section TV Guide, it is possible to view any films in programming to be seen, on the day and time of broadcast, by selecting the option Live. To find out more, I leave you to my tutorial on how to watch TV for free. Other sites to watch movies in streaming How do you say? Did the solutions that I have indicated in the previous lines not completely satisfy your needs? If so, here it is other sites to watch movies in streaming which, in exchange for a quick registration or authentication via social media, give access to a vast catalog of films, which is generally richer than that of services that do not require registration. - VVVVID: is a free service that gives you access to a rich catalog of on-demand content that includes Japanese anime, TV series and numerous films, including some classics of Italian comedy. It is also available as an application for Android (also on alternative stores, for devices without Google services) e iOS/iPadOS. - RaiPlay: is the official RAI portal that allows both to watch live streaming of all the state TV channels and to access a rich catalog of on-demand content which also includes films. The service is completely free but you need to create your own account or authenticate through a Google account, a Facebook account or a Twitter profile. It is also available as a device app Android (also on alternative stores) e iPhone/iPad. To find out more, you can take a look at my guides on how to register on RaiPlay and how to watch RaiPlay. - Netflix: definitely the most popular video streaming service in the world. It allows you to watch some content for free and without an account (to find out more, you can read my tutorial on how to watch Netflix for free) but to have access to the complete catalog, which also offers numerous films of all kinds, you need to activate a subscription to start from 7.99 euros / month. It is also accessible from smartphones and tablets by downloading the app for Android (if you have a device without Play Store, you can download it from an alternative store) e iOS / iPadOS. To learn more about how Netflix works, I leave you to my guide dedicated to the subject. - NOW: is Sky's video on demand service. By activating the Cinema and Entertainment Pass (€ 14.99 / month), it gives you access to a catalog of over 1,000 films, TV series and numerous other entertainment content, as well as direct streaming of Sky channels dedicated to cinema and entertainment, including some sports channels such as Sky Sport 24 and Eurosport. It is also available as an application for Android (also on alternative stores) e iOS / iPadOS. For more info, I leave you to my guide on how NOW works. To learn about other solutions of this kind, both free and paid, you can take a look at my tutorial dedicated to sites to watch movies. Read the full article

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SearchPedia: A List of 250+ Search Engines

An Exhaustive List of All Search Engines from the Dawn of the Internet

Since the dawn of the Internet Era, we have been flooded with an ocean of information. But without a good search engine, this ocean is useless.

Search Engines have gone through a great journey, we saw a lot of them, some came and went, and some stay to this date.

Here is an incomplete, but a big list of search engines. If you find something wrong or missing, then shoot your suggestions in the comments.

We have categorized the search engines according to their use-cases. Enjoy!

All-Purpose Search��Engines

Google: Well, probably you used this for coming to this article. The world’s most popular search engine. Visit: http://www.google.com

Bing Search: Microsoft’s entry into the burgeoning search engine market. Better late than never. Visit: http://www.bing.com

Yahoo! Search: The 2nd largest search engine on the web (as defined by a September 2007 Nielsen NetRatings report. Visit: http://www.yahoo.com

AltaVista: Launched in 1995, built by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Western Research Laboratory. From 1996 powered Yahoo! Search, since 2003 — Yahoo technology powers AltaVista. Visit: http://www.altavista.com

Cuil: Cuil was a search engine website (pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of ex-Googlers and others from Altavista and IBM. Cuil, termed as the ‘Google Killer’ was launched in July 2008 and claimed to be world’s largest search engine, indexing three times as many pages as Google and ten times that of MS. Now defunct. Visit: http://www.cuil.com

Excite: Now an Internet portal was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90’s dotcoms. Visit: http://www.excite.com

Go.com: The Walt Disney Group’s search engine is now also an entire portal. Family-friendly! Visit: http://www.go.com

HotBot: It was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN. Visit: http://www.hotbot.com

AllTheWeb: Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently. Visit: http://www.alltheweb.com

Galaxy: More of a directory than a search engine. Launched in 1994, Galaxy was the first searchable Internet directory. Part of the Einet division at the MCC Research Consortium at the University of Texas, Austin Visit: http://www.galaxy.com

search.aol: Now powered by Google. It is now official. Visit: http://search.aol.com

Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search and MSN Search): Microsoft’s web search engine, designed to compete with Google and Yahoo!. Included as part of the Internet Explorer web browser. Visit: http://www.live.com

Lycos: Initial focus was broadband entertainment content, still a top 5 Internet portal and the 13th largest online property according to Media Metrix. Visit: http://www.lycos.com

GigaBlast: It was developed by an ex-programmer from Infoseek. Gigablast supports nested boolean search logic using parenthesis and infix notation. A unique search engine, it indexes over 10 billion web pages. Visit: http://www.gigablast.com

Alexa Internet: A subsidiary of Amazon known more for providing website traffic information. Search was provided by Google, then Live Search, now in-house applications run their own search. Visit: http://www.alexa.com

Accounting

IFAC.com: For resources and information on IFRS and Accounting.

Bit Torrent

Btjunkie: An advanced BitTorrent search engine. It uses a web crawler (similar to Google) to search for torrent files from other torrent sites and store them in its database. It has over 1,800,000 active torrents. Visit: http://btjunkie.org

Demonoid: A BitTorrent tracker set up by a person known only as Deimos. The website indexed torrents uploaded by its members. Taken offline after legal threats to its Hosting Company by CRIA. Visit: http://www.demonoid.com

FlixFlux: From its website, “The ultimate torrent site for films, combining bittorrent search results with film information, making it easy to find new film releases.” Visit: http://www.flixflulx.com

isoHunt: a comprehensive BitTorrent search engine, P2P file search, and community. Over 930,000 torrents in its database and 16 million peers from indexed torrents. Avg: 40 million searches per month. Visit: http://isohunt.com/

Mininova: Successor to Suprnova.org — a search engine and directory of torrent files. Anonymous uploads, no IP address logging of users, no porn. over 550,000 torrents in the database, over 4 Billion downloads. Visit: http://www.mininova.com

The Pirate Bay (aka “TPB”): Based in Sweden where torrent trackers are not illegal. No content is filtered or removed as long as it is clearly labeled. Visit: http://thepiratebay.org

TorrentSpy: Tracks externally hosted torrent files and provides a forum to comment on them. Integrates Digg-like user-driven content site ShoutWire’s feed into its front page. Visit: http://www.torrentspy.com

Torrentz: Tracks nearly 7 million torrents in a searchable portal. Visit: http://www.torrentz.com

Blog

Amatomu: The South African Blogosphere, sorted. Amatomu searches blogs with a distinct focus on South Africa. Visit: http://www.amatomu.com

Bloglines: It is a web-based news aggregator for reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Sold to Ask.com in 2005. Visit: http://www.bloglines.com/

Blogperfect: Google Powered Blog Search

BlogScope: Search & analysis tool for the blogosphere being developed as part of a research project at the University of Toronto. It currently tracks over 23.5 million blogs with 275.6million posts. Visit: http://www.blogscope.net

IceRocket: An Internet search engine for searching blogs. Visit: http://www.icerocket.com

Sphere: It connects your current articles to contextually relevant content from your archives as well as from Blog Posts, Media Articles, Video, Photos, and Ads from across the Web. Visit: http://www.sphere.com

Technorati: It catalogs over 112 million weblogs. Known as a kind of gauge for blog popularity as epitomized by its byline of “What’s percolating in blogs now”. A supporter and contributor to open source software.

AR/VR

Blippar: A search engine(2011–18) based on AR. Now defunct. Visit: https://www.blippar.com/

SVRF: A search engine for AR/VR content. Visit: https://www.svrf.com

Books

FreeBookSearch.net — Comprehensive book searching portal with more than 30 search engines in its archive, the site searches hundreds of digital libraries and also scours the net for hidden books. Visit: http://www.freebooksearch.net

Google Book Search: The power of Google to find books. Google’s entry will not let you see full text if the copyright is still active in your jurisdiction. Visit: http://books.google.com

Pdf Drive: The Search engine for PDF files(mainly eBooks). Visit: http://pdfdrive.net

Business

Alibaba.com Claims to be the world’s largest database of suppliers. Based in China, it is a marketplace of export and import, offers search, company directory, catalog, trade leads and more. Visit: http://www.alibaba.com

Bankersalmanac.com: It provides intelligent reference data solutions to the banking industry for payments, due diligence, risk assessment and financial research. Visit: http://www.bankersalmanac.com

business.com: contains more than 400,000 listings within about 65,000 categories. Search results are preceded by four types of paid links. Visit: http://www.business.com

Hoovers: A Dun & Bradstreet Company, maintains a database of over 23 million companies. Some information is provided free, other information is available to paid subscribers. Good for company stock information. Visit: http://www.hoovers.com

Kompass: 2.3M companies in 70 countries referenced by 57.000 product & service keywords 860.000 trade names and 4.6M executive names. A guide for worldwide sourcing. Visit: http://www.kompass.com

Lexis Nexis: LexisNexis claims to be the “world’s largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information”. A searchable archive of newspapers, public records & more. Visit: http://www.lexisnexis.com

ThomasNet: Powered by the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (The Big Green Books published since 1898). Catalogs over 650,000 American companies in 67,000 categories. Visit: http://www.thomasnet.com

Email-Search.org: A mini-portal with a number of tools for searching email addresses. Find current, former email addresses, extract them from the web. Visit: http://www.email-search.org

Nicado: Free to register, Search email addresses. The Nicado search engine allows registered users to search the Nicado database using an email address or telephone number. Visit: http://www.nicado.net

TEK: This search engine is an email-based search engine developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The search engine enables users to search the Web using only email. It is intended to be used by people with low internet connectivity. Visit: http://tek.sourceforge.net/

Enterprise

AskMeNow: S3 — Semantic Search Solution for mobile telephones. AskMeNow offers a consumer mobile search utilizing proprietary technology & natural language based interaction. Visit: http://www.askmenow.com

Autonomy: IDOL Server (Intelligent Data Operating Layer), K2 Enterprise (Formerly Verity), Ultraseek Visit: http://www.autonomy.com

Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation. Dieselpoint provides an advanced full-text search with data navigation capability. It gives users highly relevant results not possible with either traditional search engines or SQL databases. Visit: http://www.dieselpoint.com

dtSearch Engine (SDK), dtSearch Web. dtSearch provides simple to use but very powerful tools which create and maintain full-text indexes of documents and data. Terabytes of text can be searched. Visit: http://www.dtsearch.com

Endeca: Endeca’s search and information access solutions help enterprises find, analyze, and understand information. This is the Guided Navigation experience. Visit: http://www.endeca.com

Exalead: exalead one: Enterprise. Exalead — Internet search engine, image search engine, video search engine … WebImagesWikipediaVideoMore » · Advanced search. 8 billion pages indexed to date. Visit: http://www.exalead.com

Expert System Sp. A. (Cogito) is a pioneer in developing semantic technologies to understand and manage unstructured information. Expert System’s semantic approach enables rapid classification of information. Visit: http://www.expertsystem.net

Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera) Visit: http://www.fastsearch.com/

Funnelback: It is an Internet and Enterprise search engine company offering a suite of search solutions, hosted solution for the web and a fully customizable enterprise solution for searching behind the firewall. Visit: http://www.funnelback.com

Google Search Appliance: Make it as easy for employees to find information inside your organization as it is to find information on google.com. Deploy a Google Search Appliance. Visit: http://www.google.com/enterprise/gsa/

Microsoft’s SharePoint Search Services: Microsoft Search Server (MSS) is an enterprise search platform from Microsoft, based on MS Office SharePoint Server. MSS shares its architecture with Windows Search. Visit: http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/default.mspx

Northern Light Search: Search articles from over 800 online news feeds and over 1,000 industry authority blogs. Visit: http://www.northernlight.com/nlsearch.html

Open Text (Hummingbird): Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software solutions supporting +/- 20 million seats across 13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. Visit: http://www.opentext.com/

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a standalone product from Oracle, enables a secure, high quality, easy-to-use search across all enterprise information assets. Visit: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oses/index.html

SAP NetWeaver Search and Classification (TREX) finds information in both structured and unstructured data. TREX provides SAP applications with services for searching and classifying large collections of documents. Visit: http://help.sap.com/search/sap_trex.jsp

TeraText Suite: Most data resides in semi-structured, primarily textual documents, not in structured, organizational repositories. Teratext is designed for text-rich data repositories. Visit: http://www.saic.com/products/software/teratext/

Vivisimo: A Clustering Engine developed by scientists based upon a mathematical algorithm and deep linguistic knowledge to find relationships between search terms and bring them to light. (Web search: Clusty) Visit: http://www.vivisimo.com

ZyIMAGE: Information Access Platform for government and corporates. It does capture, archiving, searching, security, and context-specific content-management. Visit: http://www.zylab.com/

Forum

Omgili (Oh My God, I Love It!): Find out what people are saying. Personal experiences, solutions to problems, ideas, and opinions. Visit: http://www.omgili.com

Games

Cheatsearch.org: Finds Game Cheats from all over the web. Searches all of the most popular cheat sites and forums to find cheats for any game. Visit: http://www.cheatsearch.org

Genie Knows: A division of IT Interactive Services Inc., a Canadian vertical search engine company concentrating on niche markets: health search, video games search, and local business directory search. Visit: http://www.genieknows.com

Wazap: It is a vertical search engine, video game database and social networking site that distributes gaming news, rankings, cheats, downloads, and reviews. Visit: http://www.wazap.com

Human Search

ChaCha Search: It is a search engine that pays human “guides” to answer questions for users. This is a technique known as social searching. Visit: http://www.chacha.com

Eurekster: It is a New Zealand company, with an office located in San Francisco, California, that builds social search engines for use on websites, the search engines are called swickis (search+wicki). Visit: http://www.eurekster.com

Mahalo.com: It is a web directory (or human search engine) — the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from algorithmic search engines by tracking and building hand-crafted results for searches. Visit: http://www.mahalo.com

Rollyo is a Yahoo!-powered search engine which allows users to register accounts and create search engines that only retrieve results from the websites and blogs they want to include in their search results. Visit: http://www.rollyo.com

Trexy: Search trails are the click pathways you create while searching and finding information on 4,000+ search engines. Record and share your “search trails”. Easier searching of the “deep web”. Visit: http://trexy.com/

Wink: Wink People Search: Over 333,304,647 people on social networks and across the Web. Find people using name search, location, school, work, interests, and more. Visit: http://www.wink.com

Decentralized

Quasar: An Open, Decentralized, Anonymous search engine on IPFS. Visit: https://clusterlabs.io/quasar/

YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. Visit: https://yacy.net

Desearch: A search engine for crypto related stuff. Visit: https://desearch.com/

Ipfs-search: Another search engine on IPFS. Visit: https://ipfs-search.com/

Country-Specific

Accoona: A search engine that uses artificial intelligence. In addition to traditional searches, it allows business profile searches and its signature “SuperTarget” feature. Partnered with China Daily, a large Chinese portal.

Alleba: Philippines search engine and highly organized directory of Filipino websites. Visit: http://www.alleba.com

Ansearch: Australia/NZ/UK/US. Ansearch Ltd is involved in various online media activities, including the Ansearch.com.au search engine and the Soush online media network Visit: http://www.ansearch.com.au

Araby: Middle East — Arabic language search engine owned by the Maktoob Group, which owns the world’s largest online Arab community; Maktoob.com. (Arabic only) Visit: http://www.araby.com/

Baidu: China — The Google of China, Baidu is doing what no other Internet company has been able to do: clobbering Google and Yahoo in its home market. Visit: http://www.baidu.com

Daum: Korea — Daum is a popular web portal in South Korea which offers many Internet services including search, a popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping, and news. Visit: http://www.daum.net

Guruji.com: India — an Indian Internet search engine that is focused on providing better search results to Indian consumers, by leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in the Indian context. Visit: http://www.guruji.com

goo: Japan — an Internet search engine and web portal based in Japan, which crawls and indexes primarily Japanese language websites. goo is operated by the Japanese telecom giant NTT. Visit: http://www.goo.ne.jp

Miner.hu: Hungary — a vertical search engine for searching blogs, videos and other Hungarian content on the internet. Miner.hu indexes about 129.000 blogs. Visit: http://www.miner.hu

Najdi.si: Slovenia — a Slovenian search engine and web portal created by Interseek. It’s the most visited website in Slovenia. It uses a technology created by Interseek written entirely in Java Visit: http://www.najdi.si

Naver: Korea — The undisputed number 1 search engine in Korea with over 16 million visitors and 1 billion pageviews per day. Visit: http://www.naver.com

Onet: Poland — Polish language web portal and search. Visit: http://www.onet.pl

Onkosh: Middle East — Arabic language search. Visit: http://www.onkosh.com

Rambler: Russia -offers proprietary web search (Rambler Search), e-mail, rating and directory, media, e-commerce, and other services to the Russian-speaking websurfer. Visit: http://www.rambler.ru

Rediff: India — India’s leading internet portal for news, mail, messenger, entertainment, business, mobile, e-commerce, shopping, auctions, search, sports and more. Visit: http://www.rediff.com

SAPO: Portugal — Portuguese language search based in Portugal and focused on Portugal. Visit: http://www.sapo.pt

Search.ch: Switzerland — a search engine and web portal for Switzerland. Founded in 1995 as a regional search engine, later many other services were added: phonebook, SMS service. Acquired by the Swiss Post. Visit: http://www.search.ch

Sesam: Norway, Sweden — Based in Norway and focused on Norway and Sweden. Visit: http://www.sesam.no

Walla!: Israel — Search the web in Hebrew with an Israel focus. Visit: http://www.walla.co.il/

Yandex: Russia — Yandex (Russian: Я́ндекс) is a Russian search engine and one of the largest Russian Web portals. Yandex was launched in 1997. Visit: http://www.yandex.ru

Jobs

Bixee (India): Comprehensive job search for India. Visit: http://www.bixee.com

Career Builder: The career builder website. Visit: http://www.careerbuilder.com

Craig’s List: is a centralized network of online communities, with free classified ads (with jobs, internships, housing, personals, services, community, gigs, resume, and pets categories) and forums. Visit: http://www.craigslist.com

CV Fox: A search engine that is designed to hunt down and retrieve resumes (CV’s) from all over the Internet. Free to use, has become a popular tool with professional recruiters. Visit: http://www.cvfox.com

Dice.com is the #1 technology job board. For technology experts in areas such as Information Technology (IT), software, high tech, security, biotech, and more. Recently purchased eFinancialCareers.com. Visit: http://www.dice.com

Eluta.ca (Canada) — High-paying jobs in Canada directly from employers’ websites. Seach new full-time jobs at 71000+ employers across Canada. Visit: http://www.eluta.ca

Hot Jobs (Yahoo): Find a job, post your resume, research careers at featured companies, compare salaries and get career advice on Yahoo! HotJobs. Visit: http://www.hotjobs.com

Incruit (Korea): Incruit claims to be the first Korean matchmaking site between job seekers and companies and claims the first Korean Internet résumé database (June 1. 1998). Visit: http://www.incruit.com

Indeed.com: A job ‘meta-search’ that scours job boards, newspapers and multiple sources with one search interface. Visit: http://www.indeed.com

Jobs.pl (Poland): Run by an American/Polish team of MBA’s, Poland’s leading job portal. Partially owned by European Media Group “Orkla Press” from Scandinavia. Visit: http://www.jobs.pl

JobsDB (Asia/Pacific): An Asia/Pacific focused job and recruitment site with databases dedicated to each country in the Asia/Pacific region. Visit: http://www.jobsdb.com

JobPilot (Owned by Monster): A European job site now owned by Monster.com. Focused on European jobs with branches in a number of European countries. Visit: http://www.jobpilot.com

Jobserve: UK based job search focused originally on IT Contracting work, but now covering multiple areas. Resume database, a large number of job postings. Visit: http://www.jobserve.com

Monster.com: The world’s largest resume database and online job search. Visit: http://www.monster.com

Naukri.com (India): An India-focused job search engine. Visit: http://www.naukri.com

Recruit.net: A job search engine that allows you to search jobs worldwide. Visit: http://www.recruit.net

SimplyHired.com: Search over 5 million job listings and thousands of jobs sites to find a job you love. Visit: http://www.simplyhired.com

StepStone (Europe): European online recruitment site based in Scandinavia with operations and subsidiaries throughout Europe. Visit: http://www.stepstone.com

TheLadders.com (USA) Job search for professional jobs in the most comprehensive source of $100K+ jobs on the internet. Visit: http://www.theladders.com

Legal

Canadian Law List: List of Canadian lawyers. Visit: http://www.canadianlawlist.com

Lawyers.com: Another LexisNexis company Visit: http://www.lawyers.com

FindLaw: Search FindLaw’s database of 1,000,000 lawyers to find attorneys in your area. All Topics in FindLaw are geared for the Public, by Subject Area. Visit: http://www.lawyers.findlaw.com

The Lawyers’ List: Search for lawyers all across the United States. Visit: http://www.thelawyerlist.net

LexisNexis: Provider of legal, government, business and high-tech information sources. By subscription only. Visit: http://www.lexis.com

Martindale.com and LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Visit: http://www.martindale.com

QuickLaw: LexisNexis owned portal for searching for lawyers and things legal (Canada) Visit: http://www.lexisnexis.ca/

Maps

Géoportail: French Geographic portal. French language only. Visit: http://www.geoportail.com

Google Maps: Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of the United States as well as other countries. Can also search by keyword such as type of business. Visit: http://www.googlemaps.com

MapQuest (AOL) was founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons & became an independent company in 1994. MapQuest was acquired in 2000 by America Online, Inc. Visit: http://www.mapquest.com

Michelin (Via Michelin): The European map specialists’ webpage includes standard map features with good European coverage. Visit: http://www.viamichelin.com

Windows Live Maps: Enter an address, click enter… be sure to check out “Bird’s Eye View”. You can see a close-up aerial view of nearly any US Address and many foreign ones. Amazing. Visit: http://maps.live.com

Yahoo Maps: Maps, directions, reverse-direction satellite view but no ‘bird’s-eye-view’. Visit: http://maps.yahoo.com

Medical

Bioinformatic Harvester: From the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Bioinformatic Harvester crawls and crosslinks dozens of bioinformatic sites and serves 10’s of thousands of pages daily. Visit: http://harvester.fzk.de/harvester/

Entrez (Pubmed): The life sciences search engine. Visit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery

EB-Eye — EMBL-EBI’s (European Bioinformatics Institute): Open-source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. Very fast access to the EBI’s data resources. Visit: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

GoPubMed: Knowledge-based: GO — GeneOntology — Searching sorted — Social network and folksonomy for sciences. Visit: http://www.gopubmed.com

Healia: The health search engine. From the site, “The high quality and personalized health search engine”. Visit: http://www.healia.com

KMLE (King’s Medical Library Engine): Full American Heritage Stedman’s Medical Dictionary comprehensive resource including tens of thousands of audio pronunciations and abbreviation guides. Visit: http://www.kmle.com

MeSH — Medical Subject Headings (GoPubMed): Knowledge-based. Visit: http://www.meshpubmed.com

SearchMedica: Professional Medical Search Visit: http://www.searchmedica.com

WebMD: A source for health information, a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, and a place to store personal medical information. The leading US Health portal, it scores over 40 million hits per month. Visit: http://www.webmd.com

MetaSearch

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Dogpile: Brings together searches from the top search engines including Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask.com, About, MIVA, LookSmart, and more. Visit: http://www.dogpile.com

Excite: Now an Internet portal was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90’s dotcoms. Visit: http://www.excite.com

HotBot was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN. Visit: http://www.hotbot.com

Info.com: Metasearch bringing together results from the top search engines. Visit: http://www.info.com

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Kayak: Metasearch for travel — search 140 travel sites all at once for the best deals and buy tickets and make reservations direct. Visit: http://www.kayak.com

Krozilo is a virtual web browser, similar to My Yahoo!, iGoogle, Pageflakes, Netvibes, and Microsoft Live. Krozilo uses AJAX and DHTML, so does not require installation. Visit: http://www.krozilo.com

Mamma: “The Mother of All Search Engines” — was one of the web’s first metasearch engines (1996). Now owned by Copernic Inc. of Montreal, Canada, Mamma.com is a tier 2 search engine. Visit: http://www.mamma.com

MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. Visit: http://www.metacrawler.com

MetaLib is a federated search system developed by Ex Libris. MetaLib conducts simultaneous searches in multiple resources such as library catalogs, journal articles, newspapers, and the web. Visit: http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/MetaLibOverview

Mobissimo.com is a travel meta-search website. Like other travel meta-search websites, Mobissimo does not sell directly to the consumer but consolidates travel offerings for a referral fee. Visit: http://www.mobissimo.com

Myriad Search: Ad-free search lets users select results from Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, and Yahoo! Select search depth and place a bias on the search results from the major search engines. Visit: http://www.myriadsearch.com

Sidestep: Searches over 200 travel-related websites for airfares & the best deals on airfare. Find cheap airfares, discount hotels, car rentals and cruise deals to popular travel destinations worldwide. Visit: http://www.sidestep.com

Surfwax offers a variety of tools for finding, saving, and sharing information on the Internet, including Nextaris, the law-article research site LawKT, the SurfWax meta-search and SurfWax Scholar services. Visit: http://www.surfwax.com

Turbo10.com is a metasearch engine which uncovers information in the Invisible Web. Turbo10 can access information from 800 online databases and searches 10 databases simultaneously. Visit: http://www.turbo10.com

WebCrawler was used to build the first publicly-available full-text index of a subset of the Web. WebCrawler® brings users the top search results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live, Ask and other popular search engines. Visit: http://www.webcrawler.com

MultiMedia

YouTube: Owned by Google, the web’s largest media site. This search will search through the videos of YouTube only. Visit: http://www.youtube.com

blinkx: Over 18 million hours of video. Search it all. Blinkx is a multi-media metasearch engine searching the media files of sites such as YouTube, MetaCafe, GoogleVideo, MySpace and more. Visit: http://www.blinkx.com

FreeBookSearch.net: The famous book searching portal also searches for audiobooks. This same search will also find MP3 files. Visit: http://www.blinkx.com

SoundCloud: A famous platform for music; mainly for upcoming artists. Visit: http://soundcloud.com/

FindSounds: Search engine to find any kind of sound file: WAV, MP3, AIFF, AU — search by sample rate and quality… a great place to find those sound effects. Visit: http://www.findsounds.com

Tenor: A great Search Engine for GIFS. Visit: http://tenor.com

Unsplash: A search engine for Free, awesome pics. Visit: https://unsplash.com/

MetaCafe: Search videos hosted by MetaCafe. If you are a producer of videos, you can get paid for videos — the more viewers, the more cash. Visit: http://www.metacafe.com

Musgle: Music Search (mp3, wav, etc.): Based upon a JavaScript that automatically inserts a clever boolean search string into Google to return catalogs of hidden MP3 and Music files. Visit: http://www.musgle.com

PBS provides resources to air its standard programming & also provides its audience with multiple online archives of specific video programs. All video archives can be searched for any spoken word pronounced in them. Visit: http://www.pbs.com

Picsearch: Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 2,000,000,000 pictures. Visit: http://www.picsearch.com

Podscope: “Introducing: the first search engine that can find podcasts according to the words spoken during them!”. Finds audio and video files based on actual content! Visit: http://www.podscope.com

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StrimOO: a Video search engine. Find videos on Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and more with one search. Visit: http://www.singingfish.com

TVEyes: TVEyes makes Radio & TV searchable by keyword, phrase or topic — just as you would use a search engine for text. TVEyes is the first company to deliver real-time TV and Radio search. Visit: http://www.tveyes.com

Veveo / VTap: a video search platform for mobile phones. Vtap is an offering from Veveo and it currently works on Apple iPhones as well as Microsoft Mobile-powered phones. Visit: http://www.veveo.net

Web-Cam-Search.com: Search and hack nearly a million webcams for free on the net. This search uses Boolean scripting to uncover cams — public & supposedly ‘private’. :-) Visit: http://www.web-cam-search.com

News

Google News: News by Google. Search and browse 4,500 news sources updated continuously. Visit: http://www.news.google.com

MagPortal: Find individual articles from many freely accessible magazines by browsing the categories or using the search engine. You can mark articles or find similar articles with several useful tools. Visit: http://www.magportal.com

NewsLookup.com: Search thousands of news sites by the source region and media type. News headlines updated continuously. Visit: http://www.newslookup.com

LexisNexis: Provider of legal, government, business and high-tech information sources. By subscription only. Visit: http://www.nexis.com

Topix is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by topic and geography. It was created by the founders of the Open Directory Project. Knight Ridder, Tribune Company and Gannett own 75% of Topix.net. Visit: http://www.topix.net

Yahoo News: Use Yahoo! News to find breaking news, current events, the latest headlines, news photos, analysis & opinion on top stories, world, business, politics… Visit: http://news.yahoo.com/

OpenSource

DataparkSearch Engine is a full-featured open source web-based search engine released under the GNU General Public License and designed to organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local system. Visit: http://www.dataparksearch.com

Egothor is an Open Source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java. It can be configured as a standalone engine, metasearcher, peer-to-peer HUB, etc. Visit: http://www.egothor.org/

gonzui is a source code search engine for accelerating open source software development — a source code search engine that covers vast quantities of open source codes available on the Internet. Visit: http://gonzui.sourceforge.net/

Grub started back in 2000 with a simple concept of distributing part of the search process pipeline: crawling. Their website claims, “We want to help fix search.” Visit: http://www.grub.org/

ht://Dig is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet. ht://Dig is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or website. Visit: http://www.htdig.org/

iSearch: PHP search engine allows you to build a searchable database for your website. Visitors can search for keywords and a list of any pages that match is returned to them. Visit: http://www.isearch.com

Apache Lucene: It is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. Full-text search & cross-platform. Apache Lucene is an open source project available for free download. Visit: http://lucene.apache.org/

Lemur Toolkit is an open-source toolkit designed to facilitate research in language modeling and information retrieval. Lemur supports a wide range of industrial and research language applications. Visit: http://www.lemurproject.org/

mnoGoSearch: Web search engine software. Visit: http://www.mnogosearch.org/

Namazu is a full-text search engine intended for easy use. Not only does it work as a small or medium scale Web search engine, but also as a personal search. (Namazu means “Catfish” in Japanese.) Visit: http://www.namazu.com

Nutch is an effort to build an open source search engine based on Lucene Java for the search and index component. The fetcher (“robot” or “web crawler”) has been written from scratch solely for this project. Visit: http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/

OpenFTS: OpenSource Full-Text Search is an advanced PostgreSQL-based search engine that provides online indexing of data and relevance ranking for database searching. Visit: http://openfts.sourceforge.net

Sciencenet: For scientific knowledge based on YaCy Technology. Current search engines are based on popularity and/or sponsored links. This makes it difficult for scientists/students/teachers. Sciencenet is the solution. Visit: http://liebel.fzk.de/collaborations/sciencenet-search-engine-based-on-yacy-p2p-technology

Sphinx is a free software search engine designed with indexing database content in mind. It currently supports MySQL and PostgreSQL natively. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2. Visit: http://www.sphinxsearch.com/

SWISH-Enhanced (Simple Web Indexing System for Humans — Enhanced) is a fast, powerful, flexible, free, and easy to use system for indexing collections of Web pages or other text files. Visit: http://swish-e.org/

Terrier is software for the rapid development of Web, intranet and desktop search engines. A modular platform for the rapid development of large-scale Information Retrieval applications. Visit: http://ir.dcs.gla.ac.uk/terrier/

Wikia Search: Jimmy Wales and Wikia aim to create an open source Internet search engine, to which the community can contribute. Visit: http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia

Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the GPL. It’s written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C# and Ruby (so far!) Visit: http://www.xapian.org

YaCy is a scalable personal web crawler and web search engine. One YaCy installation can store more than 10 million documents, but in a community of search peers, YaCy can provide a search index of unlimited size. Visit: http://www.yacy.net

Zettair is a compact and fast text search engine designed and written by the Search Engine Group at RMIT University. It was formerly known as Lucy. Visit: http://www.zettair.com

People

AnyWho.com: Part of AT&T, mostly a telephone directory and reverse phone number directory. Visit: http://www.anywho.com

Ex.plode.us: Explode is an easy way to find friends and those with common interests, no matter what social network or service they use. Visit: http://ex.plode.us

Finding-People.com: Finding-People.com is the best place to start a people search, as they have a huge number of tools all in one place to find whomever you seek. Visit: http://ex.plode.us

InfoSpace: From their webpage, “The yellow pages and white pages directory from InfoSpace is the most convenient way to find people and businesses.” Visit: http://www.infospace.com

LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site used for professional networking. As of March 2008, it had more than 20 million registered users. An easy way to search for business people or professionals. Visit: http://www.linkedin.com

Spock advertises itself as, “The world’s most accurate people search. Sign up to find people you know.” Visit: http://www.spock.com

Wink is a free people search engine that helps you find people at social networks, blogs, and across the Web. Visit: http://www.wink.com

Zabasearch: Honestly free people search. All US postal addresses & telephone numbers revealed free. 3-times more listings than white pages phone directory. Visit: http://www.zabasearch.com

ZoomInfo: Founded in 1999, ZoomInfo is a Web-based service that extracts information about people and companies from millions of published resources. Visit: http://www.zoominfo.com

Question and Answer

Quora: One of the most popular question and answer platform and search engine. Visit: http://www.about.com

StackOverflow. One of the most popular programming QnA site. Visit: https://stackoverflow.com

StackExchange: QnA site for a diverse set of fields. Visit: https://stackexchange.com/

About.com. The majority of their results come from their own site. Used to be miningco.com. Visit: http://www.about.com

Answers.com offers free access to millions of topics from the world’s leading publishers. Visit: http://www.Answers.com

Ask Jeeves was designed to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural language. Ask.com was the first such commercial question-answering search engine for the Web. Visit: http://www.ask.com

AskMeNow: Questions answered from your mobile telephone. From their site, “We thought it would be cool if we could get simple answers from our phone anytime, anywhere — so we built AskMeNow.” Visit: http://www.askmenow.com

AskWiki Beta is a preliminary integration of a semantic search engine that seeks to provide specific answers to questions using information from Wikipedia articles. Visit: http://www.askwiki.com

Brainboost: Now Answers.com. Type in a question in natural language, get an answer. Visit: http://www.brainboost.com

eHow is an online knowledge resource with more than 140000 articles and videos offering step-by-step instructions on “how to do just about everything” Visit: http://www.ehow.com

Lexxe processes natural language queries and delivers results in clusters by topic. Queries can be keywords, phrases or short questions. Visit: http://www.lexxe.com

Lycos iQ is a community-driven “human search” site by Lycos Europe GmbH. Users on iQ can post questions and answers in a similar manner to sites such as Yahoo Answers, Google Answers, and Wondir.com. Visit: http://iq.lycos.co.uk/

Powerset is betting on the wisdom of the crowds with a new online community site called Powerset Labs. The company hopes the site will get people to help build and improve its search engine. Visit: http://www.powerset.com

Windows Live QnA: Ask any question and get answers from people in the know. Try it. Real answers. A little late to a crowded market, but Windows is there now too. Visit: http://qna.live.com/

Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! that allows users to ask questions of other users and answer other users’ questions. Over 60 million users. Visit: http://answers.yahoo.com/

Real Estate

ForSaleByOwner.com: Search homes being sold by their owners without the intermediation of realtors — save on commission. Visit: http://www.forsalebyowner.com

Home.co.uk: Comprehensive Property Search for UK houses for sale, estate agents, house prices and guides on buying and selling property and mortgages advice. Visit: http://www.home.co.uk

Inman News: Real Estate News search. Visit: http://www.inman.com

Properazzi.com is an online real estate search engine. Launched in March of 2007 by Yannick Laclau, it allows users to search and view property listings for Europe. Visit: http://www.properazzi.com

Realtor.com: The official site of the National Association of Realtors. Search listed properties all across America. Visit: http://www.realtor.com

Rightmove: Find property online, search a wide range of property for sale in various areas in the UK, London and Overseas with Rightmove. Visit: http://www.rightmove.co.uk

Trulia: Find property online, agents can list their properties free, a robust real estate portal for homebuyers and sellers. Visit: http://www.trulia.com

Zillow provides free real estate information including homes for sale, comparable homes, historical sales, home valuation tools and more. Visit: http://www.zillow.com

Schools and Colleges

The College Search Engine.com: Searches the websites of colleges and universities worldwide, not just the USA. If it is on a university website somewhere, this search engine will find it. Visit: http://www.thecollegesearchengine.com

Skoolz.org: Search colleges and universities. Use this search to search only the websites of colleges — to find courses, information, professors, curricula, etc. Visit: http://www.skoolz.org

Google University Search allows you to search a specific site — one school at a time. The list of schools is comprehensive. Skoolz searches them all at once, Google University Search allows them to be searched one at a time. Visit: http://www.google.com/options/universities.html

Scientific

Scirus: The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. Over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count. Search journals, scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents, more… Visit: http://www.scirus.com

Shopping

Amazon: The online retail Giant. Visit: https://amazon.com

Google Product Search: (Formerly Froogle) use Google to search for the best deals on products when you are shopping. Visit: http://www.google.com/products

Kelkoo: A Yahoo! company. Also powers Yahoo! Shopping in several countries. Visit: http://www.kelkoo.com

MSN Shopping: Comparison shopping made easy: Offering 33,155,627 products from over 8,000 stores — all in one place — and over 470 pages of shopping advice to help you make the right choices. Visit: http://shopping.msn.com/

MySimon: Price Comparison Shopping Visit: http://www.mysimon.com

Nextag Comparison Shopping. Product directory and search. Shows popular searches — what others are searching for. Visit: http://www.nextag.com

PriceGrabber.com: “Comparison Shopping beyond compare” Comparison shopping and search engine. Visit: http://www.pricegrabber.com

PriceRunner: Price Comparison website and search engine Visit: http://www.pricerunner.com

RetailMeNot: From the people who brought you “BugMeNot”, check here before you buy for discount coupons and promo codes. Why pay retail when you can find coupons at RetailMeNot? Visit: http://www.retailmenot.com

Shopping.com: A shopping directory and search owned by eBay. Visit: http://www.shopping.com

Shopwiki: Shopping directory and search cataloging some 241,416,304 products, and counting… Visit: http://www.shopwiki.com

Shopzilla (Owned by Bizrate) helps shoppers find, compare and buy anything, sold by virtually anyone, anywhere. 20 million unique visitors according to ComScore. BizRate reviews stores and products. Visit: http://www.shopzilla.com

TheFind.com is a discovery shopping search engine as opposed to a comparison search. The search database includes over 150 Million products from over 500,000 online stores. Visit: http://www.thefind.com

Source Code

Google Codesearch: Searches public source code using a variety of parameters. Visit: http://www.google.com/codesearch

JavaScriptSearch.org searches for javascripts, ajax, DHTML and JavaScript snippets from all over the web. The fastest way to find a JavaScript. Useful for web developers and webmasters. Visit: http://www.javascriptsearch.org

JExamples analyzes the source code of Java open source projects such as Ant, Tomcat, and Batik and loads them into a java examples database for easy searching. Enter the name of a Java API Class and click Search. Visit: http://www.jexamples.com

Koders Searces some 766,893,913 lines of open source code. Securely searches private source code. Create and share a custom code index that is easily searched from Visual Studio, Eclipse or any browser. Visit: http://www.koders.com

Krugle Code Search Engine can turn your company’s code and related development assets into a searchable, shareable asset. Visit: http://www.krugle.com

PHP Classes Repository: Find the PHP class you need at PHP Classes. The leading PHP site for coders. Everything PHP! Visit: http://www.phpclasses.org/

Usenet

Google Groups: Formerly Deja News, Google Groups lets you post on usenet forums without using a mail client via their easy-to-use web interface. Visit: http:groups.google.com

Visual Search Engines

Grokker visual Meta Search Engine lets you choose which sites to search and presents the results in multiple views — outline view, map view. Visit: http://www.grokker.com

Kartoo visual Meta Search Engine searches multiple search engines and presents its results in a visual map. Visit: http://www.kartoo.com

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3. Opt Out Prescreen: Stop all credit and insurance offers

Years ago credit offers filled up our mailbox. Then when we paid off all of our debt (and knew we wouldn't be opening credit accounts), we knew we could do without them. Opt Out Prescreen allows you to unsubscribe from credit and insurance offers easily and quickly:

You'll have to opt out every five years, or they'll add your name back to the list. They do offer a lifetime option now, but you have to mail that in.

Remember you'll need to do this for each of you in the home who get mail. Marketers focus primarily on women in the household so even if just the female does it, it will help tremendously.

Step 3: Get rid of paper before you walk in the door.

I keep bins by the garage door -- one for paper recycling (mail without our name or account numbers) and one for shredding (everything else). My goal is to get rid of 90 percent of the mail before I even walk in the door. Most of the time it's 100 percent. ;)

I use these bins from the Container Store:

IKEA has nearly identical ones as well! I remove the lids so I can easily chuck stuff inside.

When I keep up with getting rid of most of our mail before I even walk in the house, the paper clutter is kept to a minimum. What does make it in goes directly into this paper organizer in the mud room:

That one from Target isn't available anymore, but this one is similar (and has drawers!).

All of these tips work to bring you less mail and paper to begin with. You can tailor them to what you want and can alway go back and edit most of them if you change your mind. I can guarantee the paper you'll bring into your home will lessen within two to three months. And that is the first and most important step to getting control of it!

Do you have any tips when it comes to mail? If you have any tips on organizing receipts for tax reasons, I'd love to hear them!

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How to stop unwanted junk mail in three easy steps

This is another aspect of the huge purge I completed years ago. My biggest nemesis when it comes to clutter has always been PAPER. Can I get an amen?

It's the thorn in my side, the pain in my neck, the fly in my ointment:

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But you know what? Over the past couple of years I've mostly conquered it. Almost. Enough that I don't feel like it piles up on the counters anymore.

This is for those of you who want to try to control the paper and lessen what you bring into the house. These tips work and I promise your paper load will lighten if you try them yourself!

Step 2: Unsubscribe from catalogs and junk mail.

You may not have heard of these sites, but they are extremely helpful in lessening the amount of mail you'll get. I'll go into detail about each one below...

1. Catalog Choice: Opt out of catalogs that come in the mail.

You have to create an account and then you can search literally hundreds of catalogs to unsubscribe. It's awesome and within a couple months they will stop coming to your door.

2. DMA Choice/Do Not Mail: Opt out of junk mail in all forms

You can edit your choices at any time! Then you can go and unsubscribe from pretty much anything else at the National Do Not Mail list:

This one gets pretty specific -- chose exactly what you want to get offers on. Can you imagine not getting a million political mailers this fall? That dream may be realized. :)

3. Opt Out Prescreen: Stop all credit and insurance offers

You'll have to opt out every five years, or they'll add your name back to the list. They do offer a lifetime option now, but you have to mail that in.

Remember you'll need to do this for each of you in the home who get mail. Marketers focus primarily on women in the household so even if just the female does it, it will help tremendously.

Step 3: Get rid of paper before you walk in the door.

I use these bins from the Container Store:

IKEA has nearly identical ones as well! I remove the lids so I can easily chuck stuff inside.

That one from Target isn't available anymore, but this one is similar (and has drawers!).

Do you have any tips when it comes to mail? If you have any tips on organizing receipts for tax reasons, I'd love to hear them!

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This week, we continue our trend of unusual Monday Meeting posts. Last week it was because we didn’t have a Monday Meeting, so Rich talked about covers because that’s what you do on Labor Day, I guess? This week we did have a meeting, but Rich isn’t writing the blog.

No, Rich hasn’t decided to start talking about himself in the third person. Instead it is I, “Fast” Eddy Webb, writing the Monday Meeting blog chat up top while Rich and Lisa rush off to handle a family emergency. Further, Matt McElroy is wrapping things up to take a well-deserved break for a week. So I got nominated because the biggest emergency I have right now is that I got a new tattoo on my forearm last week, and it itches like the Dickens. (It’s a Sherlock Holmes-themed tattoo, which is not a surprise to anyone who knows me.)

M20 Book of the Fallen art by Sam Denmark

This seems like a good time to talk about schedules and delays.

One thing we mention a lot around here is that we don’t do release dates for our games. There are a lot of reasons for that, but the big one is that we’re never sure what can cause a project to get delayed. Sometimes, it’s something out of our control, like when we learned this week that the printer had an accident on one of our covers and has to reprint the entire run.

Other times it’s something that impacts one of us, like Rich’s family emergency or finding out that a freelancer has to drop off a project suddenly. And once in a while it’s because we choose to take a bit longer and do something right, like the meeting we had today with the TC:Aberrant team to go over the playtest feedback we got during the Kickstarter.

Obviously, we do our best to take problems into account. It’s why we have really long lead times on our Kickstarters these days, for example — all of my Realms of Pugmire Kickstarters have delivered their main project on or earlier than the anticipated deadlines, but a couple times it got close because of unforeseen problems like me having to move to another country.

Spilled Blood art by Andrea Payne

When I pitch new projects to Rich, I try to estimate how long each phase is going to be, and then add some more time on to account for problems. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t, but we’re always learning. One of the things we’ve learned is that, in addition to our weekly Monday Meetings, it’s good to have quarterly Production meetings as well (which, by sheer coincidence, we’re also having this month).

This is where Rich, Mike, and Matt sit with us in-house developers and we go over every single project. It gives us a chance to think about all the projects as a whole, allowing us to think about which ones need to hustle and which ones we can ease up on for a bit. Ideally, this kind of planning allows us to do things like hold up on greenlighting new books while existing ones are making their way through the process. But it’s not an exact science for us, as you’ll note this week no less than three Scion books have all hit approval simultaneously, leaving poor Rich and Neall to review hundreds of pages of manuscripts. (Sorry guys!)

M20 Book of the Fallen art by Vince Locke

Obviously, we would love to make perfect, beautiful books for all of you as quickly as possible. But we’d rather make good products instead of fast ones where we can, and we’d rather not grind our freelancers down just to meet an arbitrary deadline. So when things happen that are out of our control, we try to help each other out where we can, and put things on the back burner if something more urgent happens.

That’s why I’m writing the blog for Rich today, and why Matt McElroy, our tireless Operations Manager, is taking a well-deserved vacation this week. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll leave you to our usual wonderful updates while I find new ways to ignore the fact that my arm really, really itches. Also:

Many Worlds, One Path!

BLURBS!

Kickstarter!

Starting this week – I’m told on Thursday the 12th at 12noon Eastern US time – is the Kickstarter for the Creature Collection for Scarred Lands 5e! This book was designed with amazing art by our friends at Handiwork Games, and they’ll be running the Kickstarter for us on our brand-new Onyx Path Kickstarter page! Here’s a teaser video:

Scarred Lands Creature Collection

Launching this week on Kickstarter! The Scarred Lands Creature Collection for 5th Edition!

Posted by Handiwork Games on Monday, September 9, 2019

And, of course, our next Kickstarter is:

Keep an eye out in this space as well as on our social media for the Deviant: The Renegades Kickstarter that will be launching later this month!

Onyx Path Media!

This Friday’s Onyx Pathcast features the Terrific Trio regaling us with stories and ideas of going to conventions solo (since all three of them have actually done that recently)! Go to https://onyxpathcast.podbean.com/ or to your favorite podcast venue!

The Onyx Path News had another live broadcast today, where Matthew spoke about Night Horrors: Shunned by the Moon, Canis Minor, the Slarecian Vault, the Storypath Nexus, all our games on Backerkit, V5 Cults of the Blood Gods, and more, right here: https://youtu.be/mehFIKpd3ts

Now’s the time to follow our Twitch channel if you haven’t already done so! Our schedule is jam-packed with games including Vampire, Scarred Lands, TC: Aberrant, Pugmire, Scion, Mage: The Awakening, and Hunter: The Vigil! Visit www.twitch.tv/theonyxpath and give us a follow, and if you have an Amazon Prime membership and haven’t already subscribed to a Twitch channel for free using it, just type Amazon Prime Twitch into Google and please use it on our channel!

Remember, if you miss any content on our Twitch channel, some of it finds its way to our YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/user/theonyxpath Don’t forget though, that some of that content is Twitch exclusive or belongs to the Storytellers running their games, so don’t miss out and remember to follow us!

Red Moon Roleplaying have commenced with uploading their actual play of The Sacrifice, from V5 Chicago by Night, and the first part can be found here: https://youtu.be/omRiK6a_Ans If you’re interested in the ENnie award winning Red Moon Roleplaying‘s other shows, please check them out on www.redmoonroleplaying.com

The Botch Pit are definitely worth checking out if you’re interested in Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2E, with their chronicle “Twice Shy” listenable right here: http://thebotchpit.com/

Occultists Anonymous appears on our Twitch channel with their Mage: The Awakening 2E chronicle, but if you’re after a breakdown of episodes, here’s 41 and 42:

Episode 41: A Troupe and Trip Wyrd the Seer continues the construction of her nascent Labyrinth and uses it to develop the run-down Leaf Theater. The cabal travels to Philadelphia in pursuit of the missing Adamantine Arrow grimoire.https://youtu.be/eH3Kvockqv8

Episode 42: Stake Me Out Tonight The cabal works with the largest cabal in Philadelphia, the Founding Fathers led by Benjamin Franklin, to locate the grimoire within Philly and recon the area!https://youtu.be/2HXN4l_3C1E

Caffeinated Conquests continue their bizarre sojourn into The Sacrifice (unlike any other actual play of the chronicle) over here on their YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/MOZpIOFzjos

Finally, Matthew asked the YouTube channel viewers what kinds of games from Onyx Path they’re most looking forward to, and there have been some interesting answers: https://youtu.be/CumFV-XiWMc

Drop Matthew a message via the contact button on matthewdawkins.com if you have actual plays, reviews, or game overviews you want us to profile on the blog!

Please check any of these out and let us know if you find or produce any actual plays of our games!

Electronic Gaming!

On Amazon and Barnes & Noble!

You can now read our fiction from the comfort and convenience of your Kindle (from Amazon) and Nook (from Barnes & Noble).

Our selection includes these fiction books:

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We’ve added Prince’s Gambit to our Studio2 catalog: https://studio2publishing.com/products/prince-s-gambit-card-game

Now, we’ve added Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition products to Studio2‘s store! See them here: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/all-products/changeling-the-lost

Scarred Lands (Pathfinder) books are also on sale at Studio2, and they have the 5e version, supplements, and dice as well!: https://studio2publishing.com/collections/scarred-lands

Scion 2e books and other products are available now at Studio2: https://studio2publishing.com/blogs/new-releases/scion-second-edition-book-one-origin-now-available-at-your-local-retailer-or-online

Looking for our Deluxe or Prestige Edition books? Try this link! http://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Onyx-Path-Publishing/

And you can order Pugmire, Monarchies of Mau, Cavaliers of Mars, and Changeling: The Lost 2e at the same link! And NOW Scion Origin and Scion Hero are available to order!

As always, you can find most of Onyx Path’s titles at DriveThruRPG.com!

On Sale This Week!

This Wednesday, the compiled Trinity Continuum: Aberrant webcomic You Are Not Alone will be available in PDF and physical book PoD versions on DTRPG!

Conventions!

Save Against Fear: October 12th – 14th GameHoleCon: October 31st – November 3rd PAX Unplugged: December 6th – 8th 2020: Midwinter: January 9th – 12th

And now, the new project status updates!

DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM EDDY WEBB (projects in bold have changed status since last week):

First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)

M20 Victorian Mage (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Exalted Essay Collection (Exalted)

Dragon-Blooded Novella #2 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Exigents (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Many-Faced Strangers – Lunars Companion (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Contagion Chronicle: Global Outbreaks (Chronicles of Darkness)

Player’s Guide to the Contagion Chronicle (Chronicles of Darkness)

Contagion Chronicle Jumpstart (Chronicles of Darkness)

N!ternational Wrestling Entertainment (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Creating in the Realms of Pugmire (Realms of Pugmire)

Redlines

Tales of Aquatic Terror (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Kith and Kin (Changeling: The Lost 2e)

Crucible of Legends (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Lunars Novella (Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Yugman’s Guide to Ghelspad (Scarred Lands)

Vigil Watch (Scarred Lands)

Pirates of Pugmire KS-Added Adventure (Realms of Pugmire)

Second Draft

Tales of Good Dogs – Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)

Dragon-Blooded Novella #1 (Exalted 3rd Edition)

Across the Eight Directions (Exalted 3rd Edition)

One Foot in the Grave Jumpstart (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2e)

Scion: Demigod (Scion 2nd Edition)

Trinity Continuum Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum Core)

Terra Firma (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Monsters of the Deep (They Came From Beneath the Sea!)

Wraith20 Fiction Anthology (Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition)

Development

M20 The Technocracy Reloaded (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)

Creatures of the World Bestiary (Scion 2nd Edition)

Heirs to the Shogunate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

TC: Aeon Jumpstart (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition core rulebook (Mummy: The Curse 2nd Edition)

Masks of the Mythos (Scion 2nd Edition)

TC: Aberrant Reference Screen (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

Titanomachy (Scion 2nd Edition)

Manuscript Approval

Creatures of the World Bestiary (Scion 2nd Edition)

Scion: Dragon (Scion 2nd Edition)

Scion Companion: Mysteries of the World (Scion 2nd Edition)

Legendlore core book (Legendlore)

Post-Approval Development

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant (Trinity Continuum: Aberrant)

V5 Chicago Screen (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)

WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)

Scion LARP Rules (Scion)

Cults of the Blood Gods (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Editing

Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)

Lunars: Fangs at the Gate (Exalted 3rd Edition)

TC: Aeon Ready-Made Characters (Trinity Continuum: Aeon)

Hunter: The Vigil 2e core (Hunter: The Vigil 2nd Edition)

City of the Towered Tombs (Cavaliers of Mars)

Let the Streets Run Red (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

W20 Shattered Dreams Gift Cards (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)

W20 Art Book (Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th)

Geist 2e Fiction Anthology (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Oak, Ash, and Thorn: Changeling: The Lost 2nd Companion (Changeling: The Lost 2nd)

Post-Editing Development

Chicago Folio/Dossier (Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition)

Indexing

Geist 2e (Geist: The Sin-Eaters 2nd Edition)

Dystopia Rising: Evolution core (Dystopia Rising: Evolution)

ART DIRECTION FROM MIKE CHANEY!

In Art Direction

Contagion Chronicle – getting Gaydos, Trabbold, and Vince on this.

Trinity Continuum: Aberrant

Hunter: The Vigil 2e – Sam on the fulls.

Ex3 Lunars – Contracted. Sketches rolling in.

TCfBtS!: Heroic Land Dwellers – LeBlanc on this.

Night Horrors: Nameless and Accursed

Ex3 Monthly Stuff

Deviant (KS) – Art in and approved. Putting together KS graphics.

Trinity RMCs – Contracted.

Cults of the Blood God (KS) – Contracted.

Chicago Folio

Mummy 2 (KS) – Characters being worked on, fulls next.

Memento Mori – Notes out this week to artists.

In Layout

They Came from Beneath the Sea!

Dark Eras 2 – Files with Aileen

Trinity Continuum Aeon: Distant Worlds

VtR Spilled Blood – With Josh.

DR:E Threat Guide – Helnau’s Guide to Wasteland Beasties

Aeon Aexpansion – Need to do cover.

Proofing

C20 Cup of Dreams

Signs of Sorcery – Inputting changes.

M20 Book of the Fallen – With Satyr Phil for proofing.

DR:E Jumpstart – Sending Eschaton for proofing.

CoM – Witch Queen of the Shadowed Citadel – Inputting Rose’s comments.

At Press

Trinity Core Screen – At Studio2.

TC Aeon Screen – At Studio2.

Trinity: In Media Res – PoD proofs coming.

Trinity Core – Printing. PoD proofs ordered.

Trinity Aeon – Printing. PoD proofs ordered.

V5: Chicago – Prepping files for press.

You Are Not Alone (TC: Aberrant Comic) – PDF and PoD physical book versions available this Wed. at DTRPG!

Today’s Reason to Celebrate!

Not today, because today has not been such that I feel celebrating is appropriate, but tomorrow. Tomorrow we start a whole series of palindrome dates! 9/10/19 – 9/19/19! Dunno why, but those dates like that make me grin!

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THE HUNDRED-YEAR LANGUAGE DESIGN AND BAD ECONOMY

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The first part of “The School Shooting” is called “First hour of my last day.”

“I already knew the day would be hell,” the anonymous first-person narrator tells us. The day proceeds like a regular one until an intercom announcement sends the school into lockdown: There’s a shooter in the building. The narrator comforts his sobbing girlfriend, telling her everything will be okay as they hide in their classroom. As the faceless shooter approaches, the narrator attacks him, taking down the shooter and saving lives, but taking a stray bullet in the process:

But as he hit the ground

His gun hit the ground

Im scared the bullet rushes out

Though this story is short — just a scant four pages — it’s representative of what you find when you delve into the hundreds of school shooting stories being written on Wattpad, perhaps the most quietly influential website you’ve never heard of.

On the behemoth self-publishing platform, the most popular stories — typically romance and fanfiction — boast YouTube-level traffic, amassing hundreds of millions of views, or “reads.” Despite a huge audience reach and enjoying the patronage of Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood, Wattpad habitually flies under the mainstream radar; its most notable achievements to date are launching the One Direction fanfic turned best-seller After and galvanizing the Filipino film industry with a string of movie adaptations of Wattpad stories.

Wattpad’s relative obscurity probably has something to do with its main demographic of teens and preteens. But lately, the kids on Wattpad are contributing, in their own way, to a very mainstream national conversation — by churning out stories about school shootings.

The “hot” category of school shooting fiction on Wattpad is a mixed bag. Scroll past a host of stories related to Columbine and its shooters and you find a Voltron fanfic, a Criminal Minds fanfic, and a fic about a school shooting involving the bands Leathermouth and My Chemical Romance. There are romances built around the drama of a school shooting, as well as more traditional horror stories. And then there are other stories. One claims to be an account of a real school shooting threat; many more present terrifying fictional accounts of what a potential school shooting might be like.

There, on a site usually dedicated to painting innocent fantasies about being Harry Styles’s girlfriend, teens and preteens are living through a culture so dominated by guns that fears of their schools going on lockdown and fantasies of martyring themselves to save their friends have seeped into the stories they tell.

The school shooting stories on Wattpad involve characters of all ages. They’re bright and bubbly sixth-graders on their first day of school. They’re seniors in high school prepping for homecoming, college, or prom.

The incidents nearly always start in one of two ways — with the popping sound of gunshots and screams coming from a hallway, or with intercom announcements putting the school on lockdown or into a Code Red: “This is not a drill.” The students nearly always wind up fending for themselves, either because the teachers are absent or because they are quickly dispatched with bullets. Inevitably, students wind up alone, unarmed and unaided.

These stories meticulously catalog potential hiding places. Bathroom stalls are the most popular by far, but there are also crannies in classrooms, storage closets, people-size lockers, kitchens. Then there are the surreptitious escape routes: second-floor windows and little-used cafeteria exits. Fear of being caught out in the open looms large: In one story, three sixth-graders get trapped in an empty classroom with no way out and no protective cover that’s able to hide all three of them. The story ends there, on an incomplete cliffhanger.

The identities of the shooters rarely matter in school shooting fiction; when the shooters are given attention, they tend to comment on the anxieties of school life and the pressure to perform. In one story, a school shooter’s attempt to explain how hard the pressure of his life has been is so compelling that after he dies, the narrator picks up the gun and continues the shooting spree himself.

In another story, a new girl turns out to be an obvious misfit who can’t make friends and takes her revenge on her classmates. Usually, however, the shooters are faceless, rarely given characterizations or even names — they’re classic horror villains, described as crazy, insane, mental, psychos, maniacs, or simply weirdos. As one story notes, “No one knew who it was. Frankly, no one cared.”

The exception to this rule is that of the Columbine fanfic. This is the most popular variant of school shooting fiction on Wattpad, to the extent that it almost functions as a separate genre. Modern teens continue to be fixated with Columbine, but most of the 800 stories associated with Columbine on Wattpad are more properly a form of what-if fanfiction that attempts to love, redeem, or empathize with the Columbine shooters. That sets Columbine fic well apart from most other Wattpad fiction, which is concerned with processing theoretical shootings that haven’t happened yet.

In most of these other fics, the emphasis is almost always on the victims and the survivors — and the horror scenarios they do and don’t survive. The main characters frequently get shot; their friends and siblings frequently end up dead or seriously injured. In one story, the captain of the cheerleading squad survives a school shooting by playing dead beneath the body of her best friend:

People screamed. I screamed. Bullets flew out of guns. Camila slumped on top of me, knocking me in to the ground. I was lying on the ground, Camila on top of me. There was a hole in her head. Her brains were on the wall behind us.

“Imagine,” reads the summary of one story. “Imagine a shooter coming to your school to kill as many people as he can before he turns the gun to himself. Imagine what horrors, what fear would arise among you. Even more frightful, imagine what it would be like for that person to be you.”

“Of course,” reads one story, told from the perspective of two sixth-grade girls. “This is how we die.”

As stories of teenage angst tend to do, these stories rely on an awareness of the fragility of life. They draw on the heady emotion and melodrama of death, tragedy, and terror. In this sense, as child psychologist Ellen Braaten told me, they’re built on longstanding tropes.

Braaten, the associate director for the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds at Massachusetts General Hospital, described the school shooting genre of fiction as being similar to the way a teen might glamorize going through the experience of having cancer, dying young, or living during war — in essence, “making something romantic out of something really scary and awful.”

“When you’re really feeling afraid, one way to gain control is to tell the ghost story yourself”

Braaten speculated that these stories are “about students putting themselves in a situation they feel like they’re in … working through their inevitable worst fears.”

It’s no secret that teens are drawn to gritty, angsty stories fraught with life-or-death scenarios. Entire genres of young adult fiction cater to this tendency, from 13 Reasons Why to The Fault in Our Stars to Ellen Hopkins’s entire best-selling oeuvre, which covers a range of dire teen issues from drugs to suicide.

It’s not really even new that kids are writing this kind of story themselves; lots of kids with access to a pen and a notebook have scribbled angsty existential missives somewhere inside them. The advent of the internet has just made sharing those feelings with other teens easier than ever. On Wattpad, which gained its massive underground success primarily as a mobile reading and publishing app, teens and preteens publish and view each other’s fiction by the millions. On Wattpad, a search for “cancer” generates more than 100,000 results; one of the most popular cancer stories has nearly 30 million views.

What does seem new, though, is that teens are working through their fears and anxieties about life and death using school shootings as the setting. In essence, teens and preteens who have grown up with the real possibility that they could live through (or die in) a school shooting have incorporated this reality into the kind of cathartic angst fiction usually reserved for more typically deleterious fare — a cancer scare, a plane crash, drug use, or suicidal ideation.

“Art is a place where we displace our worst fears and wishes,” Braaten said. “Anytime you’re putting something like this out there, it’s because you want to be heard. I think this is a wonderful outlet for students and teens to sort of work through one of their worst fears.” And Wattpad, she noted, is a place where “they can do it anonymously and quickly.”

What’s perhaps even more telling than the amount of fiction where the school shooting is the focal point of the story is the amount of fiction where it isn’t. Disturbingly, school shootings often form the mundane backdrop of stories with completely different plots. In many stories, the event of a school going on lockdown is just a boring part of a student’s everyday life. In multiple stories, there ultimately is no shooting, and the threat dissipates into a boring, wasted couple of hours for the students.

In several stories, the lockdown is used as an excuse for a romantic meet-cute. One, a fanfic about YouTubers Jake Paul and Erica Costell, uses a school shooting as the backdrop for a budding romance. Written in the wake of the Parkland shooting, it has Jake noting, “Us cuddling during the Code Red was amazing but sad at the same time.”

In these stories, the need to romanticize tragedy becomes very literal, a way of fantasizing about the heightened emotional connection felt at such moments while simultaneously grappling with the potential for loss of life, for instantaneous separation from their beloved.

Criminal psychologist Arthur Lurigio described the catharsis of this kind of fiction as similar to that of a horror film. “It’s scary but it’s not scary — it’s not real. Where you’re a little bit scared, a little bit excited, but the outcome is not going to hurt you.” Lurigio pointed out that these genres of school shooting fic are all about control for the students. “When you’re really feeling afraid, one way to gain control is to tell the ghost story yourself.”

Controlling the narrative seems to be a main point of these stories. “This writing has a sense of empowerment, of being able to control what’s uncontrollable and baffling,” Lurigio said. “Think about the degree of vulnerability these kids are feeling in general, and it’s being expressed now in a way it’s never been expressed before.”

Lurigio told me the school shooting fiction could be seen as a basic form of therapy for students. “In working with patients, we have them diary, writing about their lives and thoughts and scenarios, and using that as a tool in therapy. This may be a way to process school shootings and give kids a false sense of control. They’re the ones who are the masters of what happens and doesn’t happen.”

We can see that need for control in a very direct sense. One story is a first-person account of the 2012 shooting at Perry Hall High School in Baltimore, by a user purporting to be a student who was then in attendance. (The user did not respond to my requests for verification or comment.) “‘Please let everybody be okay’ was the only thought going through my mind,” she wrote. “I couldn’t wrap my mind around the fact that something like this could happen at my school; the school that I had always felt so safe in.”

The difference in tone and focus between this student’s mostly matter-of-fact description of living through the event and the highly fantastical, dramatized versions many of the teen writers are imagining is striking. “I thought about every ‘What If’ question possible,” she writes about her reaction after the event. Eventually, she says, “I stopped asking myself these questions,” because she realized there was no point to asking them after the fact.

In a sense, then, the emergent school shooting genre seems to have come about because students are running through all of these potential “what if” scenarios well before they play out in reality. It’s not only about control; it’s also arguably a means of preparedness.

Looking at these stories from this angle, it’s hard not to find them devastating. One story, “School Shooting,” is written by a user with the word “unicorn” in their handle, from the point of view of a sixth-grader; the author told me that they wrote the story following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, as a way of paying homage to the bravery of the Parkland students.

It’s practically a litany of survival scenarios playing out in high-drama action-adventure form. It shows kids working together as an ensemble to thwart, undermine, and escape the shooter. After their teacher is dispatched, they grab weapons and turn them on their attackers. They run for exits only to find them locked, so they turn to windows instead. On the playground, the narrator spots “a little kid crying”:

She had a bullet shot in her leg.

“Cmon ride on my back.” I said

“I can’t. It hurts.” she said

I decided to carry her. Good thing she was light.

Wattpad skews young. The company claims 90 percent of its users are millennials and Gen Z; a majority are girls and women between the ages of 13 and 24. It’s reasonable to assume that the ages of these characters reflect the ages of their writers. And so we have 11- and 12-year-olds writing about disaster preparedness, noting fire exits, psyching themselves up to leap out of windows, and looking out for kids younger than them — all while envisioning themselves as essentially abandoned by an older generation. Remember, there are hardly ever adults in these stories, not in the moments when it counts.

“It’s as if the statement is: Adult world, you have not taken care of us, you continue to not take care of us,” Lurigio told me. “The kids are the ones who are leading, not adults, and that’s a role change.”

Lurigio explained that it’s important to consider that these stories are expressions of real trauma — not lurid, far-fetched fantasies. “[School shootings] have lasting impact, not only on the victims but on kids who see it on the media over and over again. After 9/11, we had what we described as concentric circles of trauma. They have vicarious victimization. I think seeing this on the news over and over again absolutely is a micro-trauma to the kids who are not part of it.

“So this is akin to 1950s campfire storytelling,” he said. “But this is much more serious, with life-altering consequences.”

One fic, “The Gunman,” chronicles the day of a school shooting by jumping through the points of view of multiple characters. “I would never get married, have kids,” one thinks when encountering the shooter. “I’d never buy my own house, get my own car, or even learn to drive! The husky I dreamed of getting one day would never happen.”

But not all the stories are hopeless. Many of them are about students finding their own power and changing things for the better. Jade, a.k.a. xxjademariexx, is a freshman at a New Jersey high school. Her story, “After the Shooting,” depicts a group of high school students who mount a successful gun control protest in their state after a terrifying attack on their school. “I wrote about this because gun violence is a major thing in this country that no one wants to talk and hear about,” she told me. “It also needs to be talked about more than it is.”

Jade said that few within her community support gun control. “They’re all super conservative and think more guns is the solution for a safer country. I see it in a different light that may have been portrayed by my story.”

For Jade, the important aspect of her story isn’t the school shooting — it’s the aftermath. “There’s always that fear that a shooting will happen,” she said. Writing the story allowed her to express not only that fear but also a political stance she can’t always communicate in real life.

“I want to change everything,” she writes as her story ends. “I want everyone to be safe and not fearful. I want to stop school shootings like Sandy Hook and Stoneman Douglas and all the ones in between and before. I want to stop police from killing people by the color of their skin. I want to stop the suicide rate from going up by guns. I know this country will never be perfect, but I really do want to make America great again. We will be the generation to make America great again.”

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How Lawyers Work: Kyle E. Mitchell, Journeyman Deal Mechanic & Overfed Bookworm

In this week’s edition of How Lawyers Work, we hear from Kyle E. Mitchell. Kyle grew up in the Piney Woods of Texas, beating on drums and fiddling with computers. He studied at UT Austin for way too long, then went west to California to practice law. These days, he advises companies big and small on all manner of intellectual property, commercial, privacy, and security projects related to software, especially open source.

You can follow Kyle on Twitter.

What apps or tools are essential to your daily workflow?

I’m a technology person—and a programmer—and I have been since I was a little boy. Zero apps are essential to my daily workflow, and God forbid—I avoid specialized, glitzy apps in favor of robust, versatile tools whenever I can. I use tools like plain text files, backup and file sharing services, tiny macro-esque computer programs, e-mail mailboxes, that kind of thing. Essentially, I use the sticky notes, index cards, and filing cabinets of the computer world. Plus a few tools of my own design.

There’s a great old cooking show, Serious Eats, with Alton Brown, back before he turned heel. Alton called single-purpose kitchen gadgets “unitaskers”. He railed against them. They cost a lot of money, pile up in the kitchen, eat up space, and usually don’t work very well. They don’t play nice with other tools or techniques. You don’t grow as a cook by relying on them.

There are so many unitaskers in legal technology. Apps for tracking time. Apps for tracking contacts. Apps for project management. Note taking apps. Billing apps. Tenths-of-an-hour watches. Bates stampers. Legal-size paper. That legal keyboard that just came out. Unitaskers glommed together in unwieldy combinations, as “platforms”, like those 30-plus-item, three-quarter-pound Swiss Army knives you sometimes see in novelty stores, and never see in pockets.

I try a few, now and then. None are ever a perfect fit for how I want to work, or how clients want to work with me. None is ever flexible enough to stay with me as I get wiser and change my mind, setting me up for a jarring transition. Rarely do more than two work together reliably, or at all, for any length of time. Rarely are they even worthwhile, on their own merits, after the new-gizmo shine rubs off. Something general and standardized usually nets out better. Letter paper is better than legal paper, even for law.

They can be worth it, if you do one thing, exactly the same way, all the time. My kitchen has a rice cooker, my motorcycle garage a battery charger. In the office, it’s a Fujitsu iX500 sheet-fed scanner. I take a lot of handwritten notes, and I scan all my mail, too. Sometimes hundreds of pages at a time. The scanner does it fast. Someday, I’m sure it will stop playing nice with my router, my phone, my computer, something. But it’s worth the high price for time saved until then.

I do time entries, contacts, task tracking, billing, accounting, record keeping, notes, and as much writing as possible in plain text files. The kind of thing you’d make in Notepad on Windows, or with WordPad on a Mac. They’re easy to put in folders, share, back up, cross-reference, encrypt, and search. It’s easy to copy and paste their text to and from every other program, on any computer, phone, or tablet. They take almost no hard drive space.

My background comes through in the little programs I write to work with those files. To pull out all billing entires for a particular client. To spit out today’s to-do list. To pull down all the files I need for a client project. And so on. The kinds of programs students write in Programming 101.

Those “beginner” projects seem like toys or make-work, until you realize text files are the best organizing principle we’ve ever come up with for doing office work with computers. The most famous computer demo of all time, the “Mother of All Demos”, showed it all off way back in 1968. Then it was a key idea behind UNIX, an operating system started a year later, that lives on in Linux today. Your computer and phone may not run Linux, but nearly all the online services you use—from Google to Dropbox, Facebook to EDGAR—almost certainly do.

Both plain text and simple, versatile tools were part of the UNIX philosophy. I understand we used to have software along those lines in office technology, before my time. Some very famous writers, and more than a few prestigious courts, still hold on to “ancient” word processing software from that crude era, before they took on oodles of pointless features, like ships gaining barnacles. I wasn’t around, but in a way, I’ve gone back to it. I don’t roll my eyes so much about WordPerfect at supreme courts any more. It doesn’t surprise me to see dozens of popular, “distraction-free” writing apps for sale, essentially reprising Notepad or WordStar for each new gadget.

Of course, I can’t ever entirely escape Microsoft Word, since others use and expect it. But it’s the classic example of an app gone wrong. So many features. Frankly, I’ve written software for Word, and I’m still never entirely sure what automatic numbering will do next. It’s like a touch-screen washing machines with WiFi. Educated consumers get lost in all their options. Skilled technicians can’t reliably diagnose or fix them. Teenage ne’er-do-wells from far-flung jurisdictions indiscriminately hijack them, to mine Bitcoin and launch denial-of-service attacks.

My goal for tools like Word, and to a lesser extent Adobe Acrobat, is minimization. My strategy is quarantine. I rent a Windows computer in a data center outside LA. That machine has Word, Acrobat, Google Drive, and Dropbox. I can dial into it from any other computer when I need to be sure I’m using exactly the same unreliable program that opposing has. But that’s less than 10% of my time, even in multi-turn negotiations. Client communication, research, preparation—I can do all the rest my way. When I’m driving the process, say for an entity formation or a sales playbook, I can do it all my way.

That mostly means looking at a web browser and a terminal emulator, the black screen with fixed-width text and a blinking cursor where you may remember typing WIN in the 1990s. The web has all the raw material. There’s literally decades worth of free tools for terminal emulators, dedicated exclusively to working with text. Programs to search. Programs to sort. Programs to edit, print, e-mail, translate, and spell check. Programs to share, copy, back up, and so on. They all take text in, and spit text out, so they’re easy to use together. Today’s to-dos for client X? That’s a search for X in my to-do files, followed by a sort, then some formatting. I type todos Acme and I see it.

I’m always swapping tools and services in and out, to try new things. But to give a sense, a few standouts at the moment:

FastMail for e-mail and calendars. Very reasonably priced, reliable, and compatible. The web interface is far and away better than GMail, and the service works well with phones and other mail programs, too.

rclone for sending files to and from various file sharing services, like Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, and Amazon S3. I have clients that use each one, sometimes more than one.

vim for editing text files. A popular old-school option among programmers.

Feedbin for reading RSS feeds from blogs and news sites.

Pinboard for saving and organizing bookmarks across computers.

Reeder and Pushpin on iPhone let me riffle through my RSS feeds with my thumb, like an email inbox, crossing off or bookmarking posts to Pinboard for reading later.

git, a tool for tracking changes to folders of plain-text files over time, and sharing changes across computers. Standard in software development. Many of my tech-sector clients prefer to use Git for legal documents, too.

unoconv converts files between various Office file formats, such as from .docx to PDF. I can also use this to extract the text of an Word file to plain text.

PDF Expert on iPad for PDF reading and annotation. Studio Neat’s Cosmonaut stylus works great for highlighting.

phaxio.com sends and receives faxes, which is often the best way to get things in to secretaries of state. I have a little program just for sending a PDF to Sacramento.

lob.com sends postcards, letters, and checks by mail.

cron runs other programs on a schedule. I use it to do everything from backing up files to sending e-mail at specific times and pulling down weather forecasts. The foreman for my own private office-robot army.

Vimium, an extension for Chrome and Firefox, lets you navigate webpages and click links with the keyboard.

Junior legal notepads, stuck with binder clips to a clipboard sawn down to exact size. I buy in bulk. Don’t be like me, kids. Stay away from fancy pens.

I’ve also built a few tools of my own for composing, assembling, sharing, and analyzing contracts, under an open source project called Common Form. The Common Form tool kit lets me write out contracts and other structured documents, and pieces of them, as plain text, in a way that lets the computer be more help. Imagine a giant index card catalog, with a card for every provision of every contract you’ve ever written, plus an automated word processing department that keeps everything filed, and does all the technical grunt work of checking combinations of those pieces, and spitting out formatted documents for you.

It’s been a boon to my practice. Especially when I get to take a first draft, I don’t worry about numbering, keeping references correct, checking my defined terms, signature pages, or spitting out multiple documents based on a template. I can focus almost 100% on the substance of what I’m trying to cover, the terms I’m trying to express, and using clear, plain language. It’s a much more tiring, concentrated experience—technical edits used to work as built-in brain-breaks for me—but that’s made me a better drafter.

Thanks to some help from Ansel Halliburton, another coder-lawyer here in the Bay Area, we also have a nice suite of automated annotation programs, which work a bit like opinionated spellcheckers. They point out archaisms, wordy phrases, and usage comments from Ken Adams’ A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting as we type. Behind all that, we’ve done a lot of work pulling together long lists of words or phrases that pose problems of various kinds, stylistically and substantively.

There’s no substitute for fresh-eyes reads in contract drafting. But Ansel and I have learned there’s no substitute for automatic checks, either. The mind just isn’t good at certain kinds of rote work, and shouldn’t be. Smart is spending the limited focus you have were it gets the most done for your clients.

On the hardware side, I can’t overemphasize the need for a quality ergonomic setup. I learned the easy way that RSI, carpal tunnel, and back problems are no joke, by watching other people learn the hard way. I was lucky.

I use a Kinesis Advantage keyboard, accompanying numeric keypad, a Logitech Expert Mouse, and a Herman Miller Embody chair. The combo cost about a thousand dollars, with a used chair from an office liquidator. That’s what I could afford at the time, and it was easily worth it. If you have less to play with, try a Microsoft Natural 4000 keyboard. I’ve owned five or six. I recommend it constantly.

I listen to music while working, and splurged on good closed-ear headphones and a USB digital-to-analog converter. When I’m really bearing down on something, I’ll wear a $10 pair of slim-profile pistol shooting earmuffs. Same isolation, or better. And just as comfortable to wear for long periods. Great on airplanes, too.

For software, I primarily use Google Chrome and a Linux terminal emulator. There are too many small tools to count: Common Form via commonform.org, LibreOffice and unoconv for conversion, and a backup Windows machine with the usuals. For tools, I use an ergonomic keyboard, a document scanner, my smartphone, closed headphones, and a good work chair.

What does your workspace look like?

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I rent a fairly typical professional office in Dunn’s Block, a historic building just south of the perennially “revitalized” part of Old Oakland. Old Oakland was the center of downtown until freeways replaced rail and telegraph as the arteries of the city, and still a hop, skip, and jump from most transit and city hall.

The building’s one of those classic, ground-floor-retail combos with a long, skinny staircase from street level to the second floor, lots of short wooden banisters, and comically high ceilings. (I get the feeling professionals of yore were shorter in statute, and somewhat loftier in ambition.) The main attraction is the sunlight. I’ve an interior office, but a tall window at the front. Sunlight shines down from the roof through the third floor. I’m not totally cut off from the sun cycle.

The office is almost entirely for me. I grabbed a couple guest chairs from a next-door neighbor moving in, along with used furniture from the local used shop and a salvage yard. But I almost always meet clients at their offices, rather than mine. So it’s more of a designated focus place. A tool for better making believe that practice and life respect any kind of boundaries.

I’m definitely of the messy-desk, clean hard drive school of lawyering. I scan almost every bit of paper that I receive and write, but there are still so many print resources available only on dead-tree. At this point, the books rule pretty much every flat surface, and a good chunk of the floor. Their only real competitor is the computer setup and the scanner.

Basically, it’s a disaster. But lots of order from that chaos.

How do you keep track of your calendars and deadlines?

I keep calendars online, with FastMail. CalDAV for sync, especially to the iPhone. Meetings. Phone calls. Conferences. House calls. Continuing legal education. That kind of thing.

All my task management is in a folder full of plain text files, one per client or category. Each item on one line. If there’s a date code, YYYY-MM-DD, that’s a deadline.

I track changes to the whole thing with Git, which means I can travel back in time to any point, and see what I’d marked done, to do, or made changes, and when. The same tool makes it easy to change my lists from any computer.

What is your coffee service setup?

Oakland.

I’ve lost count of how many importers, roasters, distributors, and coffee shops at different degrees of swank I have within walking distance. Blue Bottle’s HQ, Four Barrel’s roasting operation, SLOJOY roasting, Bicycle Coffee’s HQ, Peerless, Caffe 817, Modern. Eat your heart out.

My office has a Russian-style samovar for tea service. I know I’ve got it bad when I hit two pots of concentrated zavarka per day. Usually in winter.

What is one thing that you listen to, read, or watch that everyone should?

Dangerous question. Read people who disagree with you.

What is your favorite local place to network or work solo?

I try never to go anywhere with the express goal of “networking”. Oakland is a vibrant place. Be here and be open, you’ll find people. The Town’s surprises are often way better than anything you might have had in mind.

I work solo, so whenever I work, I work solo. That’s what the office is for, to keep me from holing in too long at home.

What are three things you do without fail every day?

Read. Write. Curse.

Who else would you like to see answer these questions?

Luis Villa

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