The Most-Used Commands
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lfmtr
Last.fm tracks search. Example: lfmtr bourgeois
67 uses
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Created 2008-05-21 10:49:17
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2011-07-30 22:02:19
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http://www.last.fm/music/?m=tracks&q=%s
sirius
Search Sirus radio for a channel Ex. sirius Howard Stern Sirius cbc www.swagbuck.com/refer/dudley
67 uses
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Created 2009-11-13 16:02:01
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2023-02-22 17:03:21
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http://search.sirius.com/search?q=%s&ud=1&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&client=default_frontend&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&site=default_collection
ubug
Display information on a numbered Ubuntu bug Example: ubug 1
67 uses
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Created 2007-03-13 09:06:15
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2012-09-03 10:01:30
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https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/%s
shoes
Buy shoes Online Shoe Stores - Cheap shoes for Mens & Womens Dress Shoes, Kids Shoes, Basketball & Golf Shoes, Skate shoes
67 uses
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Created 2007-03-14 06:08:05
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2022-02-18 04:28:54
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http://www.1866shoes.com/
gop
67 uses
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Created 2008-11-10 09:33:17
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2025-01-18 00:52:11
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http://www.miniclip.com/games/governor-of-poker/en/
caf
Contact a Family - For Families With Disabled Children A UK charity providing support, advice and information for families with disabled children, no matter what their condition or disability. To find out more information on a specific condition, just type its name. Example: caf Asperger Syndrome
67 uses
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Created 2008-11-17 13:45:15
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2024-04-01 08:33:25
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http://www.google.com/search?as_sitesearch=www.cafamily.org.uk&num=50&safe=active&q=%s
gt:
Automatically detect the language of a page and translate it to English using Google translate.
67 uses
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Created 2009-01-14 15:10:32
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2023-11-07 21:55:16
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https://translate.google.com/translate?prev=&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=%s
4sc
Searches 4scrape for all entries (normal wallpapers, anime wallpapers, and high-res images) with the parameter specified.
67 uses
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Created 2009-02-15 01:40:54
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2011-07-30 02:21:35
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http://suigintou.desudesudesu.org/4scrape/search?ws=1&ret=i&q=%s&b=
tull
Tulane University Library Catalog Search by Title ---------- Old implementation: http://voyager.tcs.tulane.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&SL=none&Search_Arg=%s&SL=None&Search_Code=TALL&CNT=50
67 uses
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Created 2009-02-25 23:39:28
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2014-07-02 15:19:55
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http://voyager.tcs.tulane.edu/vwebv/search?searchArg=%s&searchCode=GKEY^*&searchType=0&recCount=100
kohana
Search the Kohana documentation. http://docs.kohanaphp.com/
67 uses
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Created 2009-03-04 04:25:40
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2022-01-04 18:48:43
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http://docs.kohanaphp.com/doku.php?do=search&id=%s
ddl
search on sceneddl.net - asymmetric
67 uses
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Created 2009-05-05 14:54:06
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2026-02-15 02:58:37
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http://sceneddl.net/?s=%s
hdti
Go to Hi Definition Torrents Index. http://hd-torrents.org/
67 uses
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Created 2009-05-20 07:53:14
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2010-07-23 13:10:39
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http://hd-torrents.org
rx2
search rxlist.com
67 uses
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Created 2007-05-02 08:42:17
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2010-04-12 20:28:10
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http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/srchcont_rxlist.asp?src=%s&x=0&y=0
jfen
All-purpose command for JournalFen. "jfen" takes you directly to JournalFen's main page, "jfen <username>" takes you to that user's journal, and "jfen <username>/friends" takes you to that user's friends page. /info and /calendar will also work to access the user's profile and calendar (obviously).
67 uses
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Created 2007-08-13 06:02:51
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2008-06-11 19:34:24
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http://www.journalfen.net{ifThen -value1 %s -value2 -test NOTEQUAL -then /users/%s}[no url encoding]
kaiserscott
67 uses
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Created 2007-08-23 01:15:25
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2013-01-21 16:40:53
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https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/securedtoc.do?theme=yourhealthrecord_members
askme
Search Ask Metafilter forum. http://ask.metafilter.com
67 uses
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Created 2008-07-15 05:17:30
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2012-07-01 21:36:01
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http://www.google.com/custom?q=%s&sa=%C2%BB&sitesearch=ask.metafilter.com
bmtv
BitMeTV
67 uses
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Created 2008-08-21 00:08:39
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2013-01-16 21:32:17
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http://www.bitmetv.org/browse.php?search=%s&cat=0
urbandic
Urban Dictionary search
67 uses
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Created 2008-09-12 18:14:51
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2024-03-07 06:06:11
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
iwp
Wikipedia search optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch using iPodia. Includes language options, Jump, Find, and Save. Alias for iwiki
67 uses
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Created 2007-11-01 15:37:20
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2019-07-03 08:08:44
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http://keishi.net/ipodia/ipodia.php?q=%s&l=en
SSRN
Search the Social Science Research Network
67 uses
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Created 2008-01-09 21:40:06
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2019-12-15 02:15:19
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayAbstractSearch.cfm
imdb_title
imdb.com movie title search. Takes you directly to the movie page, rather than the search results page. For the search results page use the "imdb" command. bakert+yubnub@gmail.com
67 uses
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Created 2006-02-13 10:05:11
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2011-08-13 09:35:33
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imdb_by_tn {imdb_tn %s}
stc
Stock Consultant review of a given stock
67 uses
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Created 2006-02-25 01:46:45
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2022-12-14 11:43:08
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http://www.stockconsultant.com/consultnow/basicplus.cgi?ID=sample&symbol=%s&8388#ttop
bme
This command lets you search the bmezine.com search engine (searches all photos and experiences at bmezine.com). i.e. entering "bme septum" will bring back a bunch of photos and stories of septum piercings, and other things related to the keyword "septum".
67 uses
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Created 2006-02-28 23:56:21
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2024-08-21 04:36:14
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http://www.molokosynthemesc.com/search/srch2004.exe?search=%s&lim=0&ioff=0&eoff=0&inurl=
cadcomic
Ctrl+Alt+Del - Tragically l337 Shortcut to the Latest Comic page.
67 uses
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Created 2006-03-17 13:10:14
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2010-08-23 14:49:53
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http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php
zr
Search Zooomr for photos with a specified tag. Example: zr dogs ========== Old implementation: http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/tags/%s
67 uses
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Created 2006-03-22 14:33:49
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2021-04-24 13:15:51
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http://www.zooomr.com/search/photos/?q=%s
yoono
Yoono Search. Yoono is a "social search engine," where it finds similar sites given a URL based on users knowledge and popularity. You can also find "experts" in various interests. Try searching with a normal search engine first, then copying the URL of a search result you like to Yoono to find similar sites. By Tonya Y. Examples: yoono google.com yoono http://www.google.com/
67 uses
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Created 2006-04-20 02:17:38
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2016-08-26 20:58:56
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http://www.yoono.com/search.jsp?url=%s
musix
67 uses
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Created 2005-07-20 22:27:33
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2018-12-06 05:25:07
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http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=music_911
debs
Search+Debian+packages.
67 uses
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Created 2005-07-30 20:27:02
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2010-09-28 17:57:09
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http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=%s&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all
itathes
Search Virgilio italian Thesaurus
67 uses
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Created 2005-09-04 12:48:39
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2008-06-06 08:28:22
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http://parole.virgilio.it/parole/sinonimi_e_contrari/index.asp?ricerca=true&cerca=%s&Trova.x=0&Trova.y=0
rollyo
rollyo.com (Roll your own search engine) access to search within the selected websites.
67 uses
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Created 2005-10-01 09:22:02
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2010-11-01 13:41:23
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http://rollyo.com/search.html?q=${search}&sid=${number}&x=0&y=0
pickle
To find podcasts via www.podcastpickle.com (the best podcast directory) by cast name
67 uses
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Created 2005-10-10 07:43:57
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2018-05-28 13:21:03
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http://www.podcastpickle.com/actions/search.php?searchStr=%s&searchType=cast&=Search
ites
Italian > Spanish (sapere.it)
67 uses
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Created 2005-10-20 18:37:55
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2020-05-19 07:32:08
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http://www.sapere.it/gr/DictionarySearchServlet?DS_action=ForeignSearch&DS_userInput=%s&x=0&y=0&DS_resType=13
Avi
67 uses
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Created 2005-10-30 13:31:52
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2018-04-21 07:22:25
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http://www.ynet.co.il
blSub
Alias for Blub: http://yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=blub blSub - Bloglines Subscribe. Subscribe to the given blog using the Bloglines RSS reader. Auto-discovers the feed, if any. Example: blSub http://jonaquino.blogspot.com
67 uses
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Created 2006-01-19 14:49:05
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2009-08-02 11:44:16
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http://www.bloglines.com/sub/%s[no url encoding]
nb
Noah Bloom's web sitee.
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-20 14:25:25
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2022-11-25 04:57:05
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http://www.noahbloom.com/
w3css
Validates the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) for any given URI via the W3C CSS Validation Service.
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-21 02:32:10
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2021-10-23 10:25:06
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http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=%s&usermedium=all
openssl
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-21 03:40:27
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2020-03-30 14:10:44
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http://www.openssl.org/crypto
animeka
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-21 09:31:13
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2012-05-18 16:20:23
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http://animeka.com/search/index.html?req=%s&go_search=1&cat=search&zone_series=1&zone_episodes=1&zone_studios=1&zone_pers=1&zone_seriesf=1&zone_rlz=1&zone_team=1&type_search=all
boogie
Search the iBoogie meta-clustering search engine
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-21 21:33:18
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2024-11-14 15:11:26
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http://www.iboogie.com/searchtree.asp?name_query=%s&name_tab=0&name_do_search=1
sina
show news of http://www.sina.com.cn
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-22 11:08:41
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2017-11-01 21:18:15
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http://news.sina.com.cn
qwerty
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-22 21:08:52
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2025-05-19 00:57:42
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http://www.tazzoo.com?%s
vienna
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-24 14:00:03
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2025-03-14 13:28:33
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http://viennateng.com
piss
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-25 07:24:13
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2017-11-09 05:45:28
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http://
clip
fun games
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-28 02:15:00
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2025-09-02 19:04:44
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http://www.miniclip.com
webmaster
Launches a helpful reference site for webmasters.
67 uses
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Created 2005-06-29 08:54:53
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2021-05-31 03:23:34
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http://www.brainbliss.com
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PIMPIN
67 uses
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Created 2005-07-12 04:44:07
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2024-08-03 11:18:58
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http://img342.imageshack.us/img342/3424/dankaljosh3ca.gif
coin
Flip a single Georgia quarter. Another command by Tommy, who didn't bother to make a normal description/manpage for this because it was a bit simplistic :)
67 uses
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Created 2005-07-19 21:57:13
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2023-05-08 10:06:01
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http://www.random.org/coins/?num=1&cur=60-usd.0025c-ga
roen
Shortcut to Romanian-English dictionary.
67 uses
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Created 2006-10-10 12:37:36
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2014-12-27 02:41:14
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http://dictionare.com/phpdic/roen40.php?field0=%s
xgos
67 uses
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Created 2006-11-03 17:10:55
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2008-03-29 11:22:50
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http://www.stickam.com/profile/xgobobeanx
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