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"45 Nano Cases are made from reclaimed cassette tapes, gutted, routered and rebuilt to fit your 4th generation iPod nano. Limited edition" —Love the originality RL - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

My buddy Marc just launched his new photography website. Congrats buddy, you're rockin' it! - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"takes a stop along the rugged coast line of the USA's smallest state, Rhode Island.  Jeff Lenosky is anything but small and he is joined by Dylan Korba and Mike Stedley for a natural trials extravaganza." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"It will be the young people of today who will lead the movement, invent the technology, and build the political will that brings an end to the climate crisis. Those great minds are teens and even preteens now." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"Now there is a two-minute silence, formalized by a unanimous motion passed last week by members of the House of Commons asking Canadians at home, at work, in school, on the street, to pause to mark those who died for Canada." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"These individuals may have originally thought they were choosing Vegetarianism for the compassionate or moral reasons, but if analyzed there could be completely egocentric or narcisistic reasons why they were doing it before.  These were probably an unconscious motivations, or if conscious, definitely not ones that anyone would admit out loud:" - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"“If kids are exposed to it all the time, it's going to make them more anxious,” said Dr. Boer, chief psychologist for the York Region District School Board. “Sometimes you've got to tune it out.”" - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"America faces a crisis of obesity and diabetes. New York started summer street closures – 7 miles of Park Ave. “I want to see many yellow checkered bikes” she said that they have been looking at the Montreal bixi system." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

Some much needed optimism that I think will be contagious to Canadian politicians. Thanks again for the brilliant words President Obama. —RL - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"The prize citation describes Suzuki as "one of the most brilliant scientists and communicators about science of his generation," adding he has shown a "lifetime advocacy for the socially responsible use of science."" - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"“Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and it is frustrating to find the chamber at odds with us in this effort,” Ms. Novelli continued." ...Nice work Apple! —RL - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"Eventually, though, he devised a way to do redwoods justice. It involved three cameras, a team of scientists, a robotic dolly, a gyroscope, an 83-photo composite and a lot of patience." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

This really really excites me!!! —RL - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards", no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

""to increase human well-being, the focus should shift away from a quantitative focus on income and consumption, towards more qualitative improvements in the human environment to do with culture, civic, community and family life, long-term learning and those other dimensions that contribute to relatively long and happy lives."" - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"Time for another yearly instalment of the Dreaded update." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

Water has power to give, lets use it!! –RL - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

Wow! –RL - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"The “everybody gets a trophy” mentality basically says that you’re going to get rewarded just for showing up. First of all, that’s not how the real world works..." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

Exactly! - sofarsoShawn

I made a kids science magazine cover, woot woot! –RL - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

""What we found was a change in the brain after playing Tetris," says Dr Richard Haier, a neurologist who led the project. "The thickness of the cerebral cortex actually increased," - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

Hilarious! - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"Bolt pushed himself from start to finish Sunday night, and the result was a stunning time of 9.58 seconds in the men’s 100-meter final at the world track and field championships" - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

Log your carbon friendly km's here! More news about this project soon... - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"Instead, Wilber says, when Eastern meditation teachers tell people to “kill their egos,” it runs the danger the students might “dis-identify” with their more unpleasant personality traits. Meditation for many “becomes a process of transcend and deny … rather than transcend and include,” Wilber writes in his book, Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"Because of course, deep down, you know that you can compost and recycle your eco-friendly butt off for your entire life and still never come close to matching the reduction in carbon footprint you would gift the planet simply by not having that additional child. It's a rather harsh way to look at it, I admit, but there it is. But of course, personal responsibility has its thresholds, right?" - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"The riding in Whitehorse is nothing short of incredible. From fast rolling descents to technical rock faces, wide open alpine to tight forest singletrack there really is a little bit of everything. The only thing that was consistent for each type of trail was that there were spectacular views the whole way." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"At the end of the next federal election, the most likely result will be a Liberal Minority.  To have that newly configured House of Commons make any real progress on issues that really matter, we need elected Green MPs." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"We may need to work a little harder in North America at coming up with some new pearls of spiritual wisdom, as EnlightenNext magazine recently suggested with its rather clever list. Here is the magazine’s list of Top Ten Spiritual Cliches." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet

"There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee." - Ryan Leech from Bookmarklet