Cool Stuff You Didn't Know You Needed to Know...
Or the page of useful, useless, oh, and unusual things...
I'm always coming across links of things I find interesting or helpful, so I'm sharing them here for others who want - or need - to know these things, too.
Fiction markets and more... More to come...
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Fiction:
* Flash fiction - No Pay:
* Flashes in the Dark - flash fiction, horror, under 1k, no pay * Shotgun Honey - flash fiction, noir/mystery, to 700 wds. No pay * Short Story Saturday - Haunt Jaunts * Mystery, etc, sites: * Dark Markets - * Horror Tree * Killer Characters blog * Locus Mag (F, H, Sci Fi) - * Mystery Tribune * Sleuthsayers blog * Writers who Kill Paying: * List of open Anthologies - Literarium.net * Black Cat Mystery Mag./Wildside Press * Flash Bang Mysteries - flash to 750 wds. * Mystery Weekly - email, online and on Amazon * Reviews: *Cozy Mystery Bk Reviews - * Cozy Mystery Review Crew - * Escape with Dollycas - * Fundinmental.com (Sherry Fundin) * Mystery Book Blogs List - * The Book's the Thing Cozies Book stuff: * Synopsis writing guide - Beth Anderson (best I've found) * Easy synopsis writing - 1 page * Author book purchase site * Kindle Kids Book Creator, make illustrated books, program * Make one link for all Amazon book sites * Writing articles - Holly Lisle * Etymology Online * Discounted, free books: Readfree.ly * Indies Unlimited Book Promo Sites (free & discounted books) Photos, Etc.: * Because I forget - Post to Instagram from PC:
In Chrome, go to Instagram.com and sign in. Right click on page, select Inspect . Click small tablet-phone icon on right in the top-left corner of the Inspector window. Refresh. Click + icon at bottom to create post. Close and refresh to return to regular view. * Online LunaPic - Photo rotator - free (so pix stay vertical when uploaded online or to FB) (Other cool effects too!) * Free animated gifs * Free online photo editor - PicMonkey * Animated pumpkin gifs * Free zombie wallpapers * Convert audio to MP3 free * Convert PDF to word (full docs, free) * Canon XT Rebel camera guide * Domain - IP look-up - Whois.net * 10 Best Domain Registrars "Apocalyptic" Science - World Events:
* May: Covid 19 -over 1 mill. cases, over 80,000 deaths, US. More out of work than Great Depression. 'Murder' Hornets from Japan found in Wash. State. * New virus in Southwestern US killing wild rabbits. * April 25, '20 - Home for a month. Shelter at home extends to end of May. Protests in states to re-open. Some states in South reopen some businesses. Over 51,000 dead. Over 900,000 cases in US. * April: Giant locust swarms in Africa. In millions. * Mar. 11, '20 - WHO declares cornavirus COVID 19 a pandemic. Cases spreading worldwide. * Jan. 2020: Series of earthquakes in Puerto Rico. Devastating fires in Australia kill billions of animals; koalas near extinction. * 1/21: Contagious coronavirus spreads from China. First case arrives in Wash. State. * Oct. '19: Flooding in Venice, Italy. Worst in 50 years. * Wildfires in Australia; hundreds of koalas killed. * Herd of elephants die in Zimbabwe from drought. * Sept '19: * Crickets swarm central Texas. * Greenland and Arctic melting at record rates. * Spread of EEE (equine encephalitic disease.) First person dies in Wisc.; several deaths in Mich. * 1 in 4 - nearly 3 billion -birds have disappeared in past 50 years/Cornell Univ. study. * Aug '19: (8/21) - (More shocks.) Montana hailstorm kills and maims 11k+ waterfowl and wetlands birds/Wash. Post. * Brazil's Amazon rain forest burning at record rate. * Brazil - millions of bees dead. *Greenland's glacier gone; water under surface warming. * Record whale deaths on US east coast. July '19: * Herd of 200 reindeer starve in Norway. * Ebola spreads to 2nd city in Africa; (But ebola cure vaccine works - Aug.) * Greenland, biggest ice melt ever. Extreme heat waves in Europe, 107 in Paris - hottest month in recorded history. * Grasshopper invasion in Las Vegas, NV; Increased pilot whale die-off. June '19: * Puffin die-off near S. America; Mar '19: * Scientists grow brain in dish * Measles epidemics hit states. * Mt. Everest glaciers melting uncovering bodies. * "Bomb cyclone" - Midwest and east coast. Massive floods, Nebraska, Midwest. Feb. '19: "Polar vortex" - hit -21 in Wisc. -50 wind chills. |
History:
* NYPL Digital Library - sheet music, 1890-1909
* Free historical costume patterns - Mymondermet.com * Flickr: Library of Congress vintage photos * Unusual 1850 Victorian "Blood Book" Scrapbook scanned * Vintage Christmas and other photos * Vintage Christmas photos, villages, catalog pages * Weird stuff at Ridiculously Interesting.com * WWI photo series * WLS radio top hits by year * Catholic "incorrupt" saints - mummified bodies... (from the 1800s even) Dogs & Pets:* Good to know: Acupuncture pressure spot to combat bloat (if it works?) * CPR for dogs
Miscellaneous: * Currency converter * My Belgian genealogy pages Science - World Events:
11/27/18: * Insect apocalypse - insects dying * Hundreds of sea turtles die after coming ashore; hundreds being cared for in Mass. due to cold. * NASA lands InSight explorer on Mars. 11/26: * * Hundreds of pilot whales beached and die in NZ. * Gene-editing of one unborn twin in China. * Rain ends deadly Camp Fire in CA; thousands of homes destroyed; Town of Paradise destroyed. * Mysterious polio-like disease spreads to 30 states. One adult affected in Wisc. * Thousands of Swedish residents have embedded micro-chips for banking transactions. * 8/18: Indonesia earthquake; CA wildfires; Red Tide, toxic algae kills fish, dolphins, hundreds of sea turtles in FL. 5/22: * Latest Ebola outbreak, million-pop. city; first time virus vaccination use * Nipah virus outbreak India, fruit bats to humans (previous outbreak Malaysia to pigsm 1999 * New Guinea Flatworms found in Florida; eat earthworms * Giant predatory (Asian Flathead) worms invaded France , just noticed * Amazon – Orlando testing real-time facial recognition * Hawaiian volcanic eruption; 3 wks. continues - 100' lava spouts; 6.9 earthquake 5/7/18 * Nearly 200 wild horses dead in SW drought. 5/7/18 * 1st time sighting of neutron star collision, 10/17 * Antarctic Adelie penguin chicks die - only 2 survivors in colony, 10/14 * Hole size of Maine opens in Antarctic ice, largest since 1970s, 10/11 * Total solar eclipse, 9/21 * Devastation of Puerto Rico & Caribbean, Hurricane Maria, 9/20 * Five category 5 hurricanes (Irma, Maria) 9/17 * Giant sunspot releases large solar flares, largest in decade, 9/7 * FDA approves first gene-altering treatment for leukemia, (but $475,000), 8/30; approves 2nd treatment, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, 10/19 * Sixth mass extinction underway 7/17 Swedish co. implants workers with microchips 4/17 * Discovery of 7 new planets 2/17 * Over 650 pilot whales beached in New Zealand 2/11/17 * Large-scale tornado outbreaks increasing 1/17 * Crack in Antarctic ice shelf growing 1/17 * Accelerated glacier melting Antarctica 10/16 |