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POPSFebruary 14: St. Valentine's Day 2009 What do you know about SAINT Valentine's Day? Red, roses, love, chocolate.... That's about it! It's another one of those events that passes sort of subliminally in and out of our consciousness? Here today... gone tomorrow. But there is, of course, a basis for the day. It didn't just start up by itself. Check it out here!
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POPS2009: International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) To help coordinate this huge global programme and to provide an important resource for the participating countries, the IAU has established a central Secretariat and an IYA2009 website (www.astronomy2009.org) as the principal IYA2009 resource for public, professionals and media alike.
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POPSLuna Moth - actias luna One of my favorites from Jim des Rivieres' collection of moth images. This is a Male Actias Luna. Collected at Crosby, Ontario on June 7, 2004.
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POPSMoths: Images by Jim des Rivieres These are just two of hundreds. This is an absolutely incredible collection of hundreds of beautiful colour images of different moth species, captured by a unique scanning process by collector/artist, Jim des Rivieres here in the Ottawa Valley in Canada. /e
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POPSFun at Work: The Levity Effect I "wordled" the words from a "Chapter-a-Day" summary of the Gostick/Christopher book, "The Levity Effect", just to see how it would look. Looks great! Fascinating toy that Wordle.net application.
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POPSOktoberfest: The 14 BIG tents At Oktoberfest, they call them "tents". But each "tent" holds about 10,000 people. If you've never experienced it, Oktoberfest is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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POPSCommunity Garden Slide Show This is an 8 minute success story slide show featuring a downtown, urban community garden project in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks to Pauline Gabriel, Regina.FullCircles.org, for bringing the project to our attention. /e
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POPSFuture Zoo Architectural proposal for the future Zoo de Vincennes... /e
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POPSChange to strange I've been previewing this book on the Chapter a Day, Business Club. Seems like a fun, workable way to build a team, whether a team of employees or a non-profit NGO.
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POPS"Stuff" happens A cute 1 minute video which uses an ice buildup metaphor to capture the sense of how "stuff" fills up and eventually overwhelms our living spaces. There are now over 5000 self-help groups of folks in 88 countries dedicated to helping us get rid of that "stuff" in planet-friendly ways. Find them here - finder.overcycle.org /es
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POPSClustrMaps: Great tool for visualizing website visitors I just stumbled on this tool a few days ago. I've set it up to track visitors to fullcircles.org. Although we set up fullcircles.org primarily to target and serve Canada, we can visually see that ,in just a couple of days, we've had visitors from the US and Europe. /e