Geothermal Heating and Cooling

Geothermal: The Holy Grail of Heating and Cooling
Described as "the lowest hanging fruit" of carbon emission reduction, this article explains the concepts behind geothermal energy.

Best Kids Camp!!!

Camp Artaban

I'm a little late putting up today's post because I've spent the weekend on Gambier Island at Camp Artaban. I've spent the 4 best summers of my life working there, and a few of us were up there this weekend doing some maintenance work around the camp.

Camp Artaban is an Anglican camp, but is open to people of all religions and beliefs. The activities include: climbing, swimming, wharf-jumping, drama, sports, hiking, canoeing, rowing, sailing, crafts, windsurfing, archery and dancing. Artaban has an absolutely gorgeous, natural setting in the temperate rainforest of the Pacific Northwest. During the summer, Camp provides a variety of high-energy, fun and meaningful camp sessions for children and families.

It's one of my favourite places in the entire world.

Travel Guide for Hipsters

LET'S GO GIRL!

Forget about the tourist traps; if you want to know the locals' favourite places, this is the place to go. The hipster, feminist magazine Bust has this great user-generated travel site LET'S GO GIRL!

It won't tell you which city to visit, but if you're going to a new city (or maybe even your home), this site is an EXCELLENT way to find out the best restaurants, coolest boutiques, the trendiest neighbourhoods and the most exciting places to visit.

Don't trust me? Try checking out your hometown first! Here's Vancouver.

By the way, it's not just helpful for girls. On the internet, no one can tell if you're a dude!

Top ___ Mac programs!!

Cool Mac Apps

It used to be easy to find all the Mac shareware in one place, but the old places aren't reliable any more. People reading and writing blogs love to create their own Top 10 lists, especially for Mac software. Instead of listing only 10 or 25 shareware titles, Cool Mac Apps they seem to be trying to go all the way out the long tail.

Let me know if you know of any comprehensive, searchable sources for Mac freeware/shareware, and not necessarily run by Apple.

Web 2.0 does Designer T-shirts

Threadless

Threadless brings cutting edge t-shirt design, coolhunting, and exclusive designs to the masses.

Web 2.0 is about "social networking"; it's about users interaction and contributing content to websites. Threadless has 3 different ways for users to interact with their website.

1. Design and submit a small gif file of the coolest t-shirt that noone else in the world has never seen before.

2. Rank other people's design submissions. Of course, if you submitted a design, you could encourage your friends to vote for your own design. Only the best designs actually get printed on t-shirts. Winning designers get $2,000.

3. Of course, you can always shop for one of these cool designer shirts as well.