• Zero Carbon House
  A UK house with no carbon footprint – not just for its own operation, but for generating electricity to power a car and growing food using a hydroponic system.
  (tags: carbon energy environment green house sustainability architecture building electricity)
• VancouverVotes PS Survey By Q
  A mayoral candidate quiz on public space in Vancouver
  (tags: vancouver election mayor vision npa cope 2008 public_space public civic city municipal quiz)
• Ahead of the curve: States lead on climate change
  From Sea Studios Foundation, a short documentary on how U.S. states are taking action on climate change.
  (tags: climate video green usa politics policy sustainability advocacy)
• Google Mac Developer Playground – Google Code
  More exciting to developers than civilians… but still kinda fun.
  (tags: apple application google software osx mac code free developers)

• The PutPlace Blog » Blog Archive » Cheat Sheet: How To Get 124 GB in Free Online Storage
  A gaggle of free-storage services, compiled by an Irish digital-stuff-management company.
  (tags: storage online free list)

• The War Prayer
  Mark Twain’s classic, set to video… a sobering reminder of the costs of war.
  (tags: video war mark_twain)
• Life Saving Drug Watchdog May Be Scrapped
  The pharmaceutical industry is aching to erase the NDP’s legacy of embracing less expensive generic drugs. Now The Tyee reports the Campbell Liberals are quietly going along with them… and it could cost provincial taxpayers a lot.
  (tags: thetyee drugs health_care british_columbia pharmaceutical liberals)
• TheHug.com…This is a maverick?
  A true nanosite – one page… in fact just one message: elect John McCain, and you’re just re-electing George W.
  (tags: politics usa presidential john_mccain george_w_bush 2008 nanosite)
• techPresident – The Anatomy of a Perfect Email
  Luigi Montanez dissects a Hillary Clinton email message to show what a highly-effective piece really looks like — and how you can create one, too.
  (tags: campaign election email politics tips hillary_clinton usa presidential 2008)
• techPresident – Obama and McCain Surrogates Describe Two Very Different Tech Presidents
  If I wasn’t an Obama supporter before this, I would be now.
  (tags: barack_obama john_mccain technology policy usa politics presidential campaign 2008)
• Buy It Like You Mean It – enabling the concious consumer
  Crowd-sourced ratings of a company’s or product’s socially responsible performance – from human rights to energy efficiency. Launches early next month.
  (tags: social_responsibility csr business crowdsourcing ratings environment sustainability human_rights web2.0)
• Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Technology
  Obama’s technology policy.
  (tags: politics technology barack_obama 2008 platform policy usa presidential)
• Spencer Herbert – Spencer Herbert | Vancouver West End
  Parks Board commissioner Spencer Herbert’s running for the NDP nomination in the provincial riding of Vancouver West End.
  (tags: spencer_herbert bcndp vancouver vancouver_west_end ndp)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Games consoles ‘not green enough’
  Great. Just when we’re getting into the Wii.
  (tags: environment games green recycling sustainability toxics wii greenpeace)
• Webmonkey: the Web Developers Resource
  This makes me very happy: Webmonkey, one of the original sources of help for web developers, is back. That little blue monkey helped me cut my teeth on web design.
  (tags: webdesign tutorials web reference html css programming php javascript)
• Blogaholics » Blog Archive » The one about the Red Room and the glass of water
  Vancouver’s Red Room is actually charging for tap water… $4.25 a glass. Way to put the “ass” back in “audacity”, people. You won’t find me there any time soon.
  (tags: vancouver bars nightclubs entertainment nightlife consumers ripoff)

Once you’ve heard enough Grey’s Anatomy monologues, the moment comes when you realize: nearly all of them start and end with the same sentence.

I can’t be the first one to notice this, right?

I headed over to the Bayswater Tea Company today. They’ve already sold me some delicious Darjeeling and a gaggle of glorious greens, but this was my first time actually sitting down and soaking up the ambiance.

Of which there’s plenty. If you’re doing errands in Kits, a cup of tea at Bayswater is a terrific way to have a peaceful, reflective break. They’re at 2966 West Broadway (at Bayswater), right next to Fresh is Best Salsa & Company… and I’ll have much more about them later. (The headline: best guacamole I’ve ever had.)

Some pics:

• Bright! – a free icon set | Min Tran’s weblog
  A glorious, free set of 3-D icons in vector format.
  (tags: 3d icons free download)

• Firefox 3.0 – release candidate #1 is out!
  For my money, it’s faster and more stable than the current version 2.x release. Check it out!
  (tags: application browser download beta release_candidate opensource mozilla)

• Get Satisfaction tells me I can now reorder iGoogle tabs
  Hey, this thing works! Get Satisfaction lets you crowdsource customer support – in my case, my request for reordering tabs in iGoogle. Lo and behold, someone found the answer and reported on it… and my iGoogle page is now neatly ordered.
  (tags: getsatisfaction google tabs customer support web2.0 crowdsourcing)
• The True Story of a Bogus Blog
  A Coach-sponsored anti-counterfeiting campaign relies on a counterfeit blog. Classic astroturfing… except this time, Coach paid off a public relations class at Hunter College.
  (tags: advertising blog ethics pr coach education hunter_college astroturf)
• Report: Hunter College Probe Slams Coach-Sponsored PR Class
  That Coach counterfeit blog story takes a new turn: an internal review at Hunter College rakes the administration over the coals over serious lapses in ethics and academic freedom.
  (tags: blogging case ethics pr coach astroturf education hunter_college)