| Canadian Mind Products Icons Legend | ||
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| Icon | Appearance | Meaning |
| Navigation Icons | ||
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find | find/search |
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red moose | contacting Canadian Mind Products née Consolidated Moose Pasture |
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home | Go to the mindprod.com home page. |
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left arrow | Go to the previous page. |
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up arrow | Go one higher up in the hierarchy, closer to the home page. |
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right arrow | Go to the next page, one higher up in the hierarchy, closer to the home page. |
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right arrow | Go to the next page in a set of closely related pages. At the bottom left of the page when available. |
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Google +1 | Click this to tell Google you think this page is particularly useful. Rank it higher in the Google search engine. |
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Google search logo | Search the entire web with Google for the topic of the current page. |
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magnifying glass with + | Zoom, change magnification. |
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down arrow | Jump to the bottom of the page |
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up arrow | Jump to the top of the page |
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chasing arrows | Links to related material. |
| Bullets | ||
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green triangle | Bullet for a list of items in ascending order. |
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red triangle | Bullet for a list of items in descending order. |
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rainbow ball | gay |
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red ball | list of instructions |
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green ball with + | an advantage |
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red ball with - | a disadvantage |
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small leaf | a tip |
| Glossary Index Embellishments | ||
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A | Link to documentation about an AWT (Advanced Windowing Toolkit) component. |
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tire swing | Link to documentation about a Swing component. |
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elephant | A very large web page. It will take some time to load. |
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pencil | a major essay. |
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coffee bean | Java needed to view this page. |
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listing | Link to a colourised program source code listing that is so big it needs Java to display it. |
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grey butterfly | Link to documentation about a Collection class. |
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strawberry | Recommended. |
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onion | Something that stinks. |
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small chasing arrows |
In an index, indicates an empty cross-referencing entry that points to the real entry. Also indicates the main redirect link to the main body of the discussion. These should be fairly rare since I use now use a more efficient cross referencing mechanism. |
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Euro | CurrCon Java Applet used to display prices in international currencies on this page. |
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Up-turned turtle | This company has gone out of business or this technology is no longer available. |
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brontosaurus | Warns you this technology is obsolete, but is still available if you look hard. |
| Types of Hyperlink | ||
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green arrow |
Link to something on the same page. |
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shl | link to a secure https page. |
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rose | Advertisement or affiliate. A company that pays me a commission if you buy something (or sometimes just click through) to their site. The Google ads also pay for click throughs. Google ads, Amazon and Out in particularly pay the ISP (Internet Service Provider) bills. Without them I could not afford the expensive hobby of hosting this website. |
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shopping cart | Link to buy something online. |
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computer monitor | link to something in the bgloss buyers’ glossary |
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rainbow butterfly | link to something in the ggloss gay and black glossary |
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coffee bean | link to something in the jgloss Java glossary |
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watering can | link to a student project |
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blogger B | link to a blog. |
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green triangle | link to where you can run an Applet. |
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ear of corn | link to where you can run a hybrid Applet/application. |
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jumping/flying coffee bean |
link to a where you can launch a Java Web Start app |
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green maple leaf | link to an essay about Canada on this website |
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Canadian flag | link to a Canadian website |
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map of USA | link to an essay about politics, mostly US politics |
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listing | link to browse a source listing |
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wrench | link to browse a detailed manual |
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green connectivity star |
link to ASP (Association of Shareware Professionals) PAD (Portable Application Description) XML (extensible Markup Language) program description |
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FastStone red and green triangle logo |
link to a screenshot prepared with FastStone capture. |
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orange Greek sigma |
Link to a text summary precis of a program. In math, the sigma symbol means add up a list of things, effectively compacting their information into one number. |
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tortoise | Link to a to a Subversion source code repository usually using Tortoise Subversion client. |
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compression clamp | link to download a zip archive file. |
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chasing arrows | Links to related material. |
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microscope | Link to get more detail about a product. |
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cyan Wiki arrow |
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)link to something outside the mindprod.com website, e.g. .travel, numeric IP… |
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Wiki flower | HTTPlink to the Wikipedia website. |
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brown Wiki arrow |
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)link to something outside the mindprod.com website. |
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Acrobat logo | Link to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) document outside the mindprod.com website. |
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blue Wiki arrow |
Link to a .com commercial website |
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hive | Link to a .org website |
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Parthenon | Link to a .gov government website |
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mortar board | Link to a .edu educational institution |
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tank | Link to a .mil (military) website |
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blue world grid |
Link to a .int (international) website |
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family tree | Link to a .name website. |
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brown world grid |
Link to a .net website |
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green conference table |
Link to a .biz business website |
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blue circle with i |
Link to a .info website |
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television with vertical hold problems |
Link to a .tv website, rarely Tuvalu, usually just means something associated with television |
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four squares | Link to a .ws website, rarely Western Samoa, usually just means website |
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yellow star | view newsgroup via Google Groups. |
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orange star | view newsgroup via a conventional newsreader. |
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pencil | Link to a major essay. |
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apple | Link to Apple website |
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dwarf gourami | Link to JavaNet. Red and blue South east Asian fresh water fish. |
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blue house | Link to Google Code |
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Amazon A | Link to Amazon.com website |
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feather | Link to Apache |
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Oracle O | Link to Oracle website |
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sledge hammer | Link to Sourceforge.net |
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W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) | Link to W3C website |
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lady bug | Link to a bug report, usually at Sun. |
| Buttons | ||
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help button | Button to get help if something does not work. |
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more info button | Button to get a description of what a product does. |
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yellow plus button | Button to get more information. |
| Adjudicating Icons | ||
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strawberry | Something I love or recommend. |
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raspberry | Bronx cheer. Warning of a fault or gotcha. |
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green plus | advantage |
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red minus | disadvantage |
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onion | Very bad product to be avoided. The term onion came originally from Jerry Pournelle. |
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orchid | Very good product. Highly recommended. The term orchid came originally from Jerry Pournelle. |
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snail | slow |
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rat | Something dishonest or crooked. |
| Note Bene | ||
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red push pin | something important |
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curve ahead | a gotcha. Something that behaves quite differently than you would expect. |
| sprout, new leaf | Something new. | |
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fresh green leaf | a coding tip. |
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red triangle road caution sign | caution |
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nutshell | Concise summary. |
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flame | something controversial. Strong opinions. |
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Sun | Something from Sun Microsystems, the creators of Java. |
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light bulb | Idea how to improve something. |
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broken link | A link I know to be broken for which I have no replacement. If you know of one, please let me know. |
| State Indicators | ||
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green check mark | Means yes, correct or true. Used in comparison charts. |
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red X | Means no, incorrect or false. Used in comparison charts. |
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amber ? | Means unknown, information not available. Used in comparison charts. |
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blue ! | Means mandatory, information you must provide. |
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bell | Means optional, (bells and whistles). |
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dollar sign | Something you need to pay for. |
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PayPal | Vendor who accepts paypal. |
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blue dolphin | Something free you don’t have to pay for. |
| Demographics | ||
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snowflake | website URL (Uniform Resource Locator) |
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mailbox | postal mailing address |
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phone | telephone number, phone list |
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fax | fax number |
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ID card | vCard |
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certificate | public Java code-signing certificate |
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lock | public PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption keys |
| Section Icons | ||
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coffee cup | Java glossary |
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computer | Computer Buyers’ Glossary |
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rainbow butterfly | gay glossary |
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Sun | Learning more. Links to Sun website documentation and tutorials. |
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books | descriptions of books and where you can buy them. |
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under the hood | how something works inside. |
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blue down arrow | Downloads information. |
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ring binder | journal |
| Attributions | ||
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quote | introduces a quotation. There is no corresponding close quote icon. |
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bible | something in the bible |
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atheist A | quotation by an atheist |
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evolution stages | quotation by an evolutionist |
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Jesus fish | quotation by an ardent Christian |
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fig leaf | quotation by a Christian fundamentalist whacko |
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Star of David | quotation by a Zionist on matters concerning Israel. It is not used for people who are merely Jewish. |
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bat | quotation by a batty person — some who usually expresses batty, absurd, paranoid or blood thirsty ideas, i.e. someone whose ideas I do not endorse even though I quote them. |
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blue Democrat donkey | Means Democrat. Used in tables. |
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red Republican elephant | Means Republican. Used in tables. |
| Commissioned Icons | ||
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JDK (Java Development Kit) | Java Development Kit |
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JRE (Java Runtime Environment) | Java Runtime Environment |
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blue whale | animal rights |
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tire swing | Swing GUI (Graphic User Interface) components |
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woodpecker | If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. |
| Video Links Legend | |
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| streaming or downloadable | |
| Click corresponding icon to download player. | |
| Apple QuickTime |
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| BitTorrent |
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| DailyMotion |
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| DivX |
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| DVD |
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| Flash animations |
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| HTML5 |
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| Microsoft Media Player |
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| Microsoft Power Point |
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| mpg |
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| mp3 |
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| mp4 |
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| Real Player |
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| Shockwave |
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| VHS tape |  |
| Vimeo online video |
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| YouTube |
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| unknown |
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| lyrics |  |
| transcript |
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| Audio Links Legend | |
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| streaming or downloadable | |
| Click corresponding icon to download player. | |
| Real Audio |  |
| Flash |  |
| compressed mp3 |  |
| super compressed mp4 |  |
| Microsoft Media Player |  |
| MIDI music files |  |
| uncompressed au |  |
| Microsoft uncompressed wav |  |
| unknown |  |
| lyrics | |
| transcript |  |
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