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Command List (ls)

Tip: For a list of particularly interesting Yubnub commands, check out Yubnub Golden Eggs. Also see the Most-Used Commands.
Tip: You can search the descriptions by typing "ls [word or phrase]". For example, to search for all commands about music, type "ls music".

guitarchord
Type a guitar chord like G7 Bsus4 and get a visual and audio playback.
54 uses - Created 2005-06-17 05:58:14 - Last used 2017-05-02 08:44:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.8notes.com/guitar_chord_chart/%s.asp

wip
Wikipedia Go
222 uses - Created 2005-06-17 05:45:36 - Last used 2025-05-06 15:46:57 - Nominate - Description - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

scifi
a website devoted to reviews of science fiction shows.
24 uses - Created 2005-06-17 05:24:50 - Last used 2024-11-18 20:02:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.scifi-world.net

ac
Search Absurdlycool.com freebies. Example: ac t-shirt ac sample
554 uses - Created 2005-06-17 04:10:17 - Last used 2026-04-24 01:32:35 - Nominate - Description - http://absurdlycool.com/search.cgi?test=%s&age=30

subject
Alibris Book Search: Find 50 million new & used books from 8000 rated bookstores with guarantee & cheap shipping. To find a book, just type the subject. Example: subject politics
40 uses - Created 2005-06-17 03:39:58 - Last used 2025-12-23 09:56:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?sourceid=YubNub&wtopic=%s

life

291 uses - Created 2005-06-17 03:12:12 - Last used 2021-10-16 07:32:00 - Nominate - Description - http://rouge8.com

title
Alibris Book Search: Find 50 million new & used books from 8000 rated bookstores with guarantee & cheap shipping. To find a book, just type the title. Example: title harry potter
165 uses - Created 2005-06-17 03:01:56 - Last used 2024-12-25 06:02:55 - Nominate - Description - http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?sourceid=YubNub&wtit=%s

author
Alibris Book Search: Find 50 million new & used books from 8000 rated bookstores with guarantee & cheap shipping. To find books, just type the author name. Example: author douglas adams
197 uses - Created 2005-06-17 02:56:40 - Last used 2024-06-12 14:34:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?sourceid=YubNub&wauth=%s

alibris
Alibris Book Search: Find 50 million new & used books from 8000 rated bookstores with guarantee & cheap shipping. To find a book title, author, or subject, just type the string. Example: alibris harry potter
260 uses - Created 2005-06-17 02:51:34 - Last used 2026-02-01 16:27:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?sourceid=YubNub&wquery=%s

juno
Juno Records. Search the online catalogue for a huge range of dance music vinyl and CDs. To search for an artist, title or label, just enter the name. Example: juno underworld
285 uses - Created 2005-06-17 02:37:22 - Last used 2025-06-18 22:13:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.juno.co.uk/search.php?q=%s&x=12&y=8&precision=any&column=all

apnic
APNIC Whois Database Search. This will search for numerical Internet resources registered in the Asia Pacific region. To find the registration information for an IP address, just type the address. Example: apnic 192.0.2.22
364 uses - Created 2005-06-17 01:51:46 - Last used 2024-09-04 05:07:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl?searchtext=%s

neo
A webste with a bunch of other people waiting to ight against you.
109 uses - Created 2005-06-17 01:24:45 - Last used 2023-10-06 03:42:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.neopets.com

jim
Excellent Cincinnati band opening for Dave Matthews Band on first leg of '05 summer tour.
99 uses - Created 2005-06-17 00:48:32 - Last used 2021-01-05 21:19:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.onlyeverything.com

ala (Golden Egg)
Search the A List Apart archives (XHTML, CSS, Design, etc.)
216 uses - Created 2005-06-17 00:26:39 - Last used 2026-03-24 13:46:32 - Description - http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=%s&sp-a=sp1002d27b&sp-f=ISO-8859-1&sp-p=All&sp-k=All

morgue
Searches the excellant morguefile.com stock photo site.
54 uses - Created 2005-06-17 00:20:30 - Last used 2015-06-15 16:03:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.morguefile.com/archive/index.php?search_log=true&termsBol=any&terms=%s

cms

142 uses - Created 2005-06-16 23:31:52 - Last used 2023-10-27 07:54:46 - Nominate - Description - http://cmstrends.blogspot.com

vl
awesome for everyone...
47 uses - Created 2005-06-16 23:30:32 - Last used 2024-04-01 22:45:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.valhallalegends.com/

bj
Authorative Reference
65 uses - Created 2005-06-16 23:30:06 - Last used 2025-05-05 07:29:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.clintonfoundation.org/

nyts
Search for New York Times Articles
87 uses - Created 2005-06-16 23:04:16 - Last used 2022-10-07 08:05:36 - Nominate - Description - http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%s&date=past30days

jb
Search James Britt site
121 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:59:19 - Last used 2025-10-26 21:42:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_sitesearch=www.jamesbritt.com&q=%s

grd
Use Google to search the ruby-doc.org site
100 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:52:59 - Last used 2025-11-10 10:43:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&as_sitesearch=www.ruby-doc.org&q=%s

Comedy
A sucky band with too much spare time!!
42 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:35:58 - Last used 2024-12-30 23:01:19 - Nominate - Description - http://myspace.com/somekindofband

pp

116 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:28:45 - Last used 2024-07-11 16:50:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.puzzlepirates.com

redune
Searches the official website of William Spaetzel
696 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:27:59 - Last used 2022-12-26 14:41:56 - Nominate - Description - http://redune.com/search/node/%s

lat
Search Los Angeles Times. Syntax: lat <query>
87 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:10:36 - Last used 2023-09-09 06:30:57 - Nominate - Description - http://www.latimes.com/search/dispatcher.front?Query=%s&target=article

docbook
Docbook is a cool xml language for writing articles/books. This search just goes to the page for a docbook element: it'll probably 404 on non-existant ones.
85 uses - Created 2005-06-16 22:05:56 - Last used 2022-01-02 08:51:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/%s.html

freegames
kewl free games
24 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:56:05 - Last used 2011-05-16 02:08:53 - Nominate - Description - http://gamesarcade.net

asin
Go to the detail page of an Amazon Item by using the Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) Example: asin B0007UA6PW
174 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:50:51 - Last used 2026-03-07 16:15:54 - Nominate - Description - http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/%s

sn
Search Snap.com. Syntax: sn <search term>
260 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:49:07 - Last used 2025-09-09 09:20:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.snap.com/search.php?query=%s

snap
Search Snap.com. Syntax: snap <search term>
89 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:46:33 - Last used 2025-11-19 17:12:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.snap.com/search.php?query=%

weird
site with a bunch of whacked out weird websites, pictures, ect...
71 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:44:22 - Last used 2023-01-31 14:06:51 - Nominate - Description - http://www.webwasteland.com

soa

70 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:36:43 - Last used 2021-02-05 11:25:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.soa.org

isbn@
Looks up an ISBN at Amazon.com, works with any other Amazon Standard Item Number (ASIN) also
13 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:36:13 - Last used 2013-12-19 01:43:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/%s

FH
good porn
158 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:25:41 - Last used 2025-01-02 07:06:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.filthyhooker.com

Become
Become Product Research. Research the web for products and services. To find research on digital cameras, just type the product name Example: become nikon coolpix
81 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:23:44 - Last used 2024-08-20 08:37:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.become.com/research?q=%s

bgo
Lookup items on blingo, use this one.
1808 uses - Created 2005-06-16 21:21:58 - Last used 2026-02-06 10:54:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.blingo.com/search?q=%s

nu
Northwestern University Search. Using Google's search engine, restrict search to the northwestern.edu site.
195 uses - Created 2005-06-16 20:54:48 - Last used 2024-07-25 13:45:27 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Anorthwestern.edu

ct
Crooked Timber blog search. Crooked Timber is a group blog with fifteen authors writing about a myriad of topics.
476 uses - Created 2005-06-16 20:48:39 - Last used 2026-04-06 06:37:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.crookedtimber.org/index.php?s=%s

ask
Ask Jeeves
6158 uses - Created 2005-06-16 20:36:01 - Last used 2026-05-06 13:04:35 - Nominate - Description - http://web.ask.com/web?q=%s&qsrc=0&o=0

fart
pass gas
95 uses - Created 2005-06-16 20:01:43 - Last used 2025-08-14 15:40:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.fart.com

faz

140 uses - Created 2005-06-16 19:58:20 - Last used 2024-06-17 07:01:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.faz.net/IN/INtemplates/faznet/default.asp?term=%s&tpl=common%2Fsuche_erg.asp&cboTxtPrt=1&chkRubAll=1&chkRubPolitik=0&chkRubGesellschaft=0&chkRubWirtschaft=0&chkRubFinanzen=0&chkRubSport=0&chkRubFeuilleton=0&chkRubReiseWissenTechnik=0&suchzeitraum=3&txtFromDate=&txtToDate=

sc (Golden Egg)
Shoutcast search engine call. Include what you're searching for after it (for instance: "sc phish").
1376 uses - Created 2005-06-16 19:27:16 - Last used 2026-04-13 10:18:15 - Description - http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?s=%s

command

443 uses - Created 2005-06-16 19:21:11 - Last used 2026-05-03 08:35:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tapsdomain.net

gun

73 uses - Created 2005-06-16 19:19:29 - Last used 2025-12-25 07:17:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tapsdomain.net

goose
GO HERE
20 uses - Created 2005-06-16 19:18:15 - Last used 2020-07-14 21:10:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tapsdomain.net

gankmore
About The Gankmore Company.
10 uses - Created 2005-06-16 19:15:56 - Last used 2011-06-06 22:56:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gankmore.com/aboutgm.html

stanford
Stanford Sucks. Go Bears.
108 uses - Created 2005-06-16 19:05:07 - Last used 2023-08-26 10:37:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gankmore.com/Cal/index.html

ucb
UC Berkeley Home Page.
20 uses - Created 2005-06-16 19:04:06 - Last used 2025-07-11 13:31:36 - Nominate - Description - http://www.berkeley.edu/

berkeley
City of Berkeley Home Page.
56 uses - Created 2005-06-16 19:01:51 - Last used 2019-11-21 22:11:27 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/

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