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Overview of New Features in Firefox 3 - 4 minute video.

• A GM?s First Impressions of D&D 4th Edition: Looks Like Fun.
  

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How the Web Was Won.
Interviews with the people who made it happen. Long and nerdly awesome.

• Exercise Your Brain.
  

• AOL Postmaster Contact Info.
  

• entheos - summer solstice conference and festival.
  June 20-22 in Robert's Creek, BC.

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How to Survive A Disaster.

• GiveMeaning - Free Online Fundraising Tools for Charities.
  

• Kiva - Loans that change lives.
  Awesome micro-credit lending organization.

• Global Agents for Change.
  Biking from Vancouver to Mexico to raise money for micro-credit loans.

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Consciously Creating New Habits Fosters Creativity.
"You cannot have innovation unless you are willing and able to move through the unknown and go from curiosity to wonder."

• Golden Ears Provincial Park.
  Awesome campgrounds not far from Vancouver.

• Spencer Herbert - Vancouver West End.
  Candidate for the BC NDP nomination in the new West End riding.

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Surreal paintings of Jacek Yerka [awesome].

• My experiment with smart drugs.
  

• Join the online Translink advisory panel.
  

• Magnetic North Theatre Festival - June 4-14 in Vancouver.
  

• Chart comparing food consumption in different countries [image].
  

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The best advice I ever got - "assume positive intent."
The best advice from 25 different successful people. I'm linking to the stand-out one I liked. There are some other gems in there too.

• New Music West Festival - Vancouver, May 14-18.
  

• Treadmill Kittens [funny cat video].
  

• PlayStation Network and Downloadable Games.
  

• Dance, Monkeys, Dance - Slam Poetry with Flash Animation.
  

• Vancouver Farmers Markets.
  

• Things that are younger than John McCain.
  

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Food vs. Nutrition - 40 minute talk from Michael Pollan.
He's the author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food."

• Bike To Work Week Vancouver, May 26 - June 1.
  

• Avoid The Relativity Trap - How Thinking Globally Can Save You Money.
  

• Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor.
  

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HP Discovers Potential "God Particle" of Electronics.

• Underneath It All [PIC].
  

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Drugs vs Tree [COMIC].

• Simple Manifesto: Break Free from the Tyranny of the Clock.
  

• Free walking tours of Vancouver neighbourhoods - May 3-4.
  

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Most Shoes are Bad for your Feet.

• Heima - Sigur Ròs documusical.
  Highly recommended.

• The Impossible Art Of Li Wei [PICS].
  

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TransLink - Cycling Route Planner.
TransLink is investigating the development of a web-based cycling route planning tool and wants feedback.

• CANADA: Nation or notion? Debate between Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik.
  

• KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art.
  Exhibit showing at the Vancouver Art Gallery from May 17 to September 7, 2008.

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TOP 10 Shirts To Get Arrested In.

• Seth Godin: Getting vs. Taking.
  

• MySQL's Over-looked and Under-worked Slow Query Log.
  

• MetaWeblog API code template in PHP.
  

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Online Activation DRM is Inevitable and Safe.
I disagree, but Cliffski makes a number of good points.

• 11 innovation lessons from creators of World of Warcraft.
  

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Can you name the Elements of the Periodic Table?
I got 31 - could have done way better back in high school.

• Piracy and PC Gaming.
  Fantastic essay on the subject.

• More data usually beats better algorithms.
  

• Aaron Nazrul - Folk / Latin / Soul Band.
  

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Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival.

• Invoke Media - Interactive Agency.
  

• DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science.
  

• thegreenpages.ca - Canadian Green Pages.
  

• happyfrog.ca - BC's Green Directory and Sustainability Community
  "Live green, have fun!"

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Google Sky - Maps of Outer Space.

• Pemberton Music Festival - July 25-27, 2008.
  Coldplay, The Tragically Hip, Interpol, Tom Petty, Metric... $$$

• The ShowGears - Vancouver Reggae Band.
  

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The vitamin D miracle: Is it for real?

• Google is starting to measure page load time in rankings.
  They announced it for AdWords. Makes sense to eventually use it for natural PageRank as well.

• Calibrating an Apple laptop's battery for best performance.
  My MacBook Pro has some battery issues. Hopefully this will help.

• ICO plugin for Photoshop.
  Allows creation of favicon.ico images in Photoshop.

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Flickriver - A new way to view Flickr photos and more...

• Flickriver: my most interesting photos.
  

• Keep It Surreal - Vancouver Photo Guide.
  Cool blog. I've subscribed.

• National Wildlife Magazine Photo Contest Winners.
  

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Feeling tired? Exercise a little.

• Balloon Tank [PIC]
  

• U2 3D: Live-Action 3D Concert Movie, Featuring U2.
  Now playing at the Vancouver IMAX.

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20 Simple Ways to Get Happy.

• garfield minus garfield - funny comics.
  

• arctic - alternative acoustic music - free mp3s
  

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TransitCamp Bay Area - February 23-24, 2008, Palo Alto, California.

• List of publicly-accessible transit data feeds.
  

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Photos of Dustin Sacks

• Dustin Sacks bookmarks on del.icio.us
  

• Dustin Sacks on the BarCamp Wiki
  

• Dustin Sacks Profile on Flickr
  

• Dustin Sacks on LinkedIn
  

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Freedom = Success (And not the other way around)

• Vancouver Public Space Network - Upcoming Events.
  

• Vancouver Institute Free Public Lectures - Spring 2008.
  William Gibson and David Suzuki are both coming up.

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Groovera.com - 3 Awesome Free Web Radio Stations.

• Investigating the Placebo Effect and Mind-Body Connection.
  

• Is there a place for LSD in medicine today?
  

• The Hofbrauhaus Catastrophe - funny [PIC].
  

• Lumetro - Energy Efficient Lighting for Businesses.
  

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Spirit of Baraka - Celebrating nonverbal films.

• Flags [PICS].
  

• 10 Steps to Manifest your Dreams into Reality.
  

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Best Songs of 2007 from StG.
Grab that ZIP file while it's hot.

• EyeScapes - amazing [PICS]
  

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Interview with Michael J. Fox: What I've Learned.

• Vancouver crowned break-in capital of North America.
  

• Imaginary Foundation - Awesome Art and Shirt Designs.
  

• Oddica - Funky Shirt Designs.
  

• Nature's Best Photography 2007 Award Winners.
  

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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.

• Rejected 2010 Olympic Mascots [comic].
  

• The 5 Myths of Positive Mental Attitude.
  

• Funky Forest - Interactive art installation [pics and video].
  

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The Story of Stuff [20 min video].

• Christmas Wasn't Always Like This: It Used to Be Much Worse.
  

• Maha Devi Design - Sustainable garments made in Canada.
  

• Handmade Furry Fairy and Elf Hats.
  

• Hope in Shadows - Vancouver DTES Photo Exhibition.
  

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divine reflections :: visionary portraiture for visionary people

• Ciclovia - Amazing livable streets program from Bogotá, Colombia
  

• Great Northern Way Campus - New Downtown Vancouver University
  

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