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 * Note to self: Last 2013 GMM cities updated are from this date on basic city-list revision history: Feb 24, 2013.

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 * Notes. Feel free to comment or ask questions on my talk page. See User talk:Timeshifter. I put my user pages in the public domain. Copy/edit/transfer any or all parts anywhere.


 * Welcome to the Village, and the Weirding Way. The videos are better at the source pages sometimes (higher video resolution, larger video sizes, full-screen options, better audio, less video stuttering). Click the Youtube and other links. Playing with the presets in your audio settings while listening to a tune can be fun, too.

See also:
 * youtube.com/user/poptophop
 * last.fm/user/sproutheart - Play sproutheart's radio. See loved tracks.

Baked, not fried. I am a volunteer sysop-admin at the Cannabis Wiki. Just another guy with a PC. Have PC, will travel.

See:
 * Special:ListUsers
 * Category:Admins

Some more useful Facebook groups:
 * Besides the many GMM facebook groups check out these:
 * Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).
 * Marijuana is Safer.
 * Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER).

Features of an ideal wiki farm
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See: Site problems, and features of an ideal wiki farm.

Music videos
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Music videos are added to the last user page that has been created. That is the one with the highest number. Click the Youtube links to see larger versions and more info.


 * ''See also Category:Music videos.
 * Add music videos to your user pages or subpages.
 * Find lyrics at the Lyric Wiki.

Software recommendations
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Some free software, tools, and sites that I use and recommend:
 * Irfanview. Free, popular, easy-to-use image viewer and editor. Install free plugin pack too.
 * Winamp. Web radio, audio player.
 * GOM Media Player. A top 5 player at Cnet. Wikipedia page.
 * VLC Media Player. A top 5 player at Cnet. More info: PCWorld. Wikipedia page.
 * Firefox browser. It has a built-in spellchecker.
 * Google Toolbar. Search the whole web, or a single web site (the one currently being viewed in the browser tab).
 * 7-Zip. Free zip program that works with many formats including RAR files. Combine RAR files.
 * Ashampoo Burning Studio Free. Free, popular, CD-DVD-Blu-ray burner.
 * Daemon Tools Lite. Freeware for making simple disc image files, and emulating virtual CD/DVD drives. Info.
 * KompoZer. WYSIWYG web page editor. Use the latest beta version. Don't install the English language pack. It comes with the program.
 * SyncBack. Incremental backup or syncing of data partitions or folders to other hard drives (internal, external, network, etc.).
 * Macrium Reflect Free Edition. Quickly create a disk image backup (compressed to only a few gigabytes) of an O.S. partition or an entire hard drive. Do it soon after a clean install of the operating system (O.S.). Reinstall the backup in a few minutes after erasing and wiping a buggy O.S. partition or drive. This saves hours compared to a clean install of the O.S.. Tutorials: 1. 2.
 * Partition Wizard Home Edition. Free tool for creating, resizing, or wiping hard drive partitions. Create a data partition. Make an active O.S. partition smaller or larger. Use with Macrium Reflect to create more versatile O.S. backups.
 * Windows startup programs. What are they? Are they required? How can I disable them? A long list of startup items. Download the free "full-list zip" file.
 * ZoneAlarm Free Firewall. Controls both inbound and outbound traffic. Or use Windows Firewall. Use with above list of startup items to take back control of your computer.
 * Block IntelliTXT inline popup ads. Bing, etc.. Enter relevant domains and subdomains into the hosts file. See explanation and URLs to add. Copy from this plain-text list starting with # [Vibrant Media] until the next pound # symbol.
 * Wordpress.com - Popular, free blog hosting with minimal ads. It is not just a blog. It allows pages, too, with blogs as a sub-page.
 * Blogger.com - Google's popular, free blog hosting. See Features. Enable the new editor in settings to get a larger, adjustable edit window.
 * ChartGo.com - create charts and graphs online for free. Can paste in lists of chart data without special formatting. See also:
 * Commons:Chart and graph resources. See section about free online charting sites.
 * Web Photo Gallery Creation and Automation Tools. Many freeware tools listed too.
 * Wisgary.com - Wordcount calculator. Paste in text online. Counts words, lines, characters.
 * Email Extractor. Good for extracting all the email addresses from detailed city lists.
 * Remove Duplicate Lines. Good for removing duplicate email addresses, etc..
 * NoteTab Light. Freeware text editor useful for alphabetizing city lists, counting the cities, and removing bracketed info.
 * Microsoft Security Essentials. Free anti-malware tool for computer viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojan horses. Highly rated. Real-time protection or on-demand scans.
 * Keep Display On. For watching videos. Prevents the display from going into screensaver mode. Click on, click off.

Firefox options, addons, search, home pages
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The search bar at the top right of the Firefox browser opens the result list in the same tab by default. Use ctrl-click to open in a new tab. You can add more search engines. See here. You can do searches without having to go to the search home page first.

The URL address bar at the top can also be used for searches. Google is the default search engine used. For more info go here. Go to the section "Changing the Internet Keyword service" to change the search engine used.

Plain Firefox home page with search
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If Google is loading slow, or if annoying, click-away popups cover needed parts of the page, or if you find the doodles annoying or slow-loading, try other pages as your home page in your browser. It seems that the various Google home pages (Search, News, etc.) have gone to hell at times, especially since Marissa Mayer left Google in July 2012. Wikipedia: "She also oversaw the layout of Google's famous, unadorned search homepage."

Other options:
 * Firefox's default home page with Google search.
 * bing.com/?rb=0 - Bing without background image. It is a Bing home page without any images at all. It is URL based and not cookie based. So it does not matter if you regularly delete all cookies.
 * StartPage.com - anonymous Google searches. To keep the settings cookie see here.


 * Bookmark BBC News, Yahoo News, etc. if the Google News home page also has popups that are too annoying.

Recommended Firefox search addons
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Firefox addons:
 * Find Button. Adds a button to open and close the FindBar. Can drag button to other locations.
 * Add to Search Bar. Add more search engines easily to the search bar. Right click the search form on any website and from the popup context menu click "Add to Search Bar".
 * Context Search. Very popular. Select any text, right click, and search from your installed search engines (same as the ones at the top right of browser). You choose from a submenu. Search opens in a new tab by default.
 * Search Site. Replaces the site search function of the old Google Toolbar that Google no longer provides for Firefox. Select text and right click to do a site search from the popup context menu ("search site for selection"). It uses the search engine currently at the top of the search bar. Use ctrl-click to open in a new tab. Or enter search terms in the search bar at the top right of the browser. Click the green button to do site searches. Result list opens in the same tab by default. Use ctrl-click to open in a new tab.
 * QuickWiki. Quick lookup in Wiktionary and Wikipedia. Select word or phrase and right click. Context menu gives choice to open up a quick definition popup from Wiktionary, or a quick popup of the intro from a Wikipedia article. Other options are to open up the Wiktionary or Wikipedia articles in a new tab.
 * Searchbar Autosizer. Increases search bar width once you start typing into it, or pasting into it. Adjustable widths in addon options. Search bar width shrinks when done to whatever size you set in options.

Do not use the following. The addon is currently buggy. See reviews for updates, if any:
 * Site Search. Replaces the site search function of Google Toolbar. Select text and right click to search from context menu. Search can be set to open in a new tab. There is also an optional toolbar to enter search terms in.

More Firefox addons
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 * Firefox addons:


 * Video DownloadHelper. Add-on for Firefox.
 * Flashblock . On-off Flash button for Firefox.
 * SortPlaces. Firefox addon for quick, one-click, alphabetization of all bookmarks at once in all folders and subfolders. Can still be found here. Click the latest version to install it. You can also download the .xpi file to safeguard it. Click "addons" from the Firefox tools menu. Then click the gear wheel to get its dropdown menu. Then click "install add-on from file". Browse to the .xpi file on your PC. Install.
 * Autoclose Bookmark & History Folders . Firefox addon to close all other bookmark folders when one opens a folder.
 * Last Tab Close Button. Shows the "Close" button (the X) on the last tab in Firefox.
 * Delete Bookmark Icons. . Firefox addon to delete all bookmark icons (favicons), or just one. Click "Show all bookmarks" from the Bookmarks menu. Then "Delete all site icons" from the "Organize" menu. It works almost instantly. Uninstall addon after using it. To prevent new favicons see here.
 * Disable detach and tear off tab. Disable this: Clicking a tab once and then moving your mouse in a downward motion causes a new window to open.
 * Fluschipranie. Facebook album saver.
 * Translate This! Google translation in new tab. Right-click selected text to translate it. Right-click a link anywhere on a page to translate the linked page.

Firefox cookie options
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It is good to set cookie options to block all third-party cookies from ever being set. Those are the most invasive cookies, and many of them track users across multiple sites. It is also good to delete nearly all cookies after closing all Firefox windows. To delete all cookies except selected ones after closing Firefox see this Firefox help page:
 * Enable and disable cookies that websites use to track your preferences.

Firefox also deletes Flash cookies when it deletes all your cookies on closing Firefox.

You can selectively delete cookies with one click with this Firefox addon:
 * Selective cookie delete. For example; if you have closed your Google Mail tabs, and you want to be able to do Google searches anonymously, or to view Youtube videos anonymously, then set up "Selective cookie delete" to delete all Google cookies from its one-click button on the browser. The reason to do this is that Google is technically able to cross-reference cookies across its information-rich product line to make dossiers on individuals. Google owns Youtube, DoubleClick, AdMob, etc..

Video and sound quality
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See: Category:Videos

You can play more than one video at the same time. Mash it up. Move the timing sliders around. Vary the volume levels. :)

You may need to click the arrow twice in the middle of any video window to start that video. Or go to the source page for the video. The video is usually larger there. Sometimes there are higher definition options (360, 480, 720), and the higher resolution versions usually produce better sound quality too.

Start the video, and click the "HQ" button right away at the bottom of the video for higher quality video, and especially sound. The words are clearer, too. Drag the cursor back some, or reload the source page if problems with the HQ button.

Bigger headphones help too. The extra bass volume and dynamic range. Oftentimes, bigger headphones produce a louder sound from the same input level. Part of the reason may be that less sound escapes from full-cup headphones that completely surround the ear.

Your PC sound card, or integrated audio chip, usually has additional volume and equalization controls that can increase the volume. Plugging your headphones into the jack on most amplified speakers that come with most PCs nowadays can increase the sound volume too. Versus the sound volume from plugging headphones directly into the PC. Plugging an equalizer between the PC and the headphones can help too. Of course, plugging the PC sound output into a tuner-amp gives the most options.

Getting a set of small, inexpensive (under $10 to $20) amplified speakers is cheaper, and they produce a lot less heat than most tuner-amps. Get 2 sets of amplified speakers. Plug the headphones into one as an inexpensive, low-wattage, low-heat amplifier. Use the other set of amplified speakers when room sound is needed. Put your PC sound output through a cheap audio switcher (less than $10). Switch between room sound and headphone sound.

In rotation. Some video fun
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Morpheus: "It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." Neo: "What truth?" Morpheus: "That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you can not smell or taste or touch. A prison - for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends. You wake up in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember! All I am offering is the truth. Nothing more." -- From the 1999 movie, The Matrix.

Chillin'
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Some favorite movies, documentaries, TV
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 * Alien Visitor (1995), aka Epsilon. History.
 * American Weed (2012 TV series). Feb. 22 to April 20 on the National Geographic Channel. About Colorado medical cannabis shops. Media article. Watch online.
 * The Big Lebowski (1998). Memorable quotes.
 * Blade Runner (1982).
 * Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
 * Buck (2011).
 * Buena Vista Social Club (1999). Full movie on Youtube here.
 * Charlie Jade (2005 TV series). Watch online (use the Megavideo links).
 * The Chronicles of Riddick (2004).
 * Constantine (2005).
 * The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008).
 * Déjà Vu (2006).
 * Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001).
 * Dune (1984).
 * Dune (2000).
 * Elizabeth (1998).
 * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). Starts off slow. Worth the wait.
 * The Fountain (2006).
 * The Game (1997).
 * George Harrison: Living In The Material World (2011). Free online here.
 * The Ghost Writer (2010).
 * A Good Year (2006).
 * Hackers (1995).
 * Humboldt County (2008).
 * The Hunted (2003).
 * I Am Bruce Lee (2011)..
 * I Am Number Four (2011).
 * Immortal (2004). Full movie on Youtube here. In multi-part form here, and here (louder sound).
 * Inception (2010). Available online.
 * Ip Man (2008). Hulu link.
 * Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007).
 * K-PAX (2001).
 * Kaboom (2010).
 * The Last of the Mohicans (1992).
 * The Last Samurai (2003).
 * Léon: The Professional (1994).
 * Limelight (2011).
 * Lost (2004-10 TV series). Available online.
 * Lost in Translation (2003).
 * Mandela (1996). Great music. More info, and here (with trailer).
 * The Matrix (1999).
 * Meet Joe Black (1998).
 * The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009).
 * Michael (1996).
 * Nikita (1990), or La Femme Nikita (1991). In French. Free with English subtitles here.
 * Only When I Dance (2009).
 * Paris The Luminous Years: Towards The Making Of The Modern. (2010). Article and full video. See trailer here.
 * Business: A Black Comedy'' (2010).
 * Point of No Return (1993).
 * Un prophète (The Prophet) (2009). French movie, available with English subtitles.
 * The Proposition (2005).
 * Push (2009).
 * Repo Man (1984).
 * Returner (2002).
 * Ronin (1998).
 * Rubicon (2010 TV series). Available online.
 * The Santana Story Angels And Demons (2011). Available online.
 * Screamers (1995).
 * Slipstream (1989). Youtube link.
 * The Social Network (2010).
 * Solaris (2002).
 * Soul Kitchen (2009). There is a version with English subtitles. A club scene clip.
 * South of the Border (2009). Documentary by Oliver Stone.
 * Stigmata (1999).
 * Surrogates (2009).
 * Thunderheart (1992).
 * The Tillman Story (2010).
 * The Time Machine (2002).
 * Timeline (2003).
 * Tron (1982).
 * Tron: Legacy (2010).
 * True Blood (TV series, 2008 to present). Available online.
 * Twilight (2008).
 * Ultraviolet (2006). Free on Crackle.com here.
 * Vanilla Sky (2001). I like the last half of the movie.
 * Witchblade (2000 film) and TV series.

Categories
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