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cemerson / archive.org-scanned-book-downloader-bookmarklet.md
Last active January 24, 2026 00:10
Archive.org Scanned Book Downloader Bookmarklet

Archive.org Scanned Book Downloader Bookmarklet

A simple "1-click" javascript approach to downloading a scanned book from archive.org to read at your leisure on the device of your choosing w/out having to manually screenshot every pages of the book by hand. In short it's a glorified "Save Image As..." approach but consolidated down to "1 click". BTW there may be a much better option than this out there - I just built this as an autistic project to see if it would work.

Demo Video

Archive.org SBDL Demo

Obligatory Legal/Disclaimer:

By using this script you agree to delete all book files/images after your 1 hour or 14 days is up! I don't support using this script for any other use cases. After all, none of us have ever kept a library book past it's return date, right?

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scientificprotocols / protocol.md
Last active November 1, 2018 04:52
Purification of specific cell populations from Drosophila tissues by magnetic bead sorting, for use in gene expression profiling 
Authors: Xuejiao Wang , Michelle Starz-Gaiano , Tina Bridges & Denise Montell

Introduction

We developed a strategy to purify a small cell population from the Drosophila ovary for the purpose of gene expression profiling (used in Wang et al, 2006b). The Drosophila ovary is comprised of ovarioles, which are strings of egg chambers at successively later stages of development. Within each egg chamber, there are 16 large germ line cells encompassed by about 650 somatic epithelial follicle cells. Of this set of epithelial cells, some cells will take on specialized fates, such as the border cells. The border cells are a cluster of 6-8 cells that detach from the epithelium and actively migrate, as part of their normal development. Once they reach their target, a second population of follicle cells, centripetal cells, initiate migration.

We were interested in the gene expression profiles that distinguish the migratory border and centripetal cells from the non-motile somatic cells and the germ line cells t

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ivandrofly / Unicode table
Created May 4, 2014 02:20
Unicode table - List of most common Unicode characters *
Unicode table - List of most common Unicode characters *
* This summary list contains about 2000 characters for most common ocidental/latin languages and most printable symbols but not chinese, japanese, arab, archaic and some unprintable.
Contains character codes in HEX (hexadecimal), decimal number, name/description and corresponding printable symbol.
What is Unicode?
Unicode is a standard created to define letters of all languages ​​and characters such as punctuation and technical symbols. Today, UNICODE (UTF-8) is the most used character set encoding (used by almost 70% of websites, in 2013). The second most used character set is ISO-8859-1 (about 20% of websites), but this old encoding format is being replaced by Unicode.
How to identify the Unicode number for a character?
Type or paste a character:
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bewest / open_epic.markdown
Last active July 22, 2021 14:57
discussing open.epic