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Folding and Unfolding: Train Runs Through Bangkok Market

Great vid courtesy of Design Observer.

Smart Spending with Vegan Essentials

So J and I have pulled back the reins on our spending after a few months of losing some control with food costs. This has led to some creative Christmas gift maneuvering (which I am excited to tell you about after everyone gets their gifts!). Financial organization and management, or the taboo word [...]

Photography Love: Icebergs and Newfoundland Fog

When I went on my trip to Newfoundland in the summer, I saw my first iceberg - or at least, the one most up-close and personal. (And because I’m anal, I need to point out that I am not okay with the blue lines that show up around these linked images in internet explorer. [...]

Prisoner of Winter - Within and Without

An important announcement from Canadian media - a heralding, a warning, a portent -
The weather phenomenon La Nina will bring Canada the coldest winter in nearly 15 years, Environment Canada warned Friday.
Environment Canada’s temperature forecast shows the majority of the country will experience a “temperature anomaly” of below-normal temperatures through the months of December, [...]

Another Chaotic, Media-filled Found Post - Chickens!

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Putting things in perspective - Alex Wooley’s Office Job/Battery Hens
“A response to the similarities between many office working conditions
and battery farmed hens.”
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I’ve just started listening to a new podcast, the Dawn and Drew Show. This podcast embodies for me those moments you experience with good friends, possibly slightly inebriated, in the middle of [...]