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Bookmarks for the last few days:

• Leon Kagarise’s Music Collection : NPR – Fifty years ago, a young recording engineer named Leon Kagarise indulged his passion for country music by dragging his bulky tape recorder to outdoor music festivals in rural Maryland.
• Car Sharing in Toronto – A comparison of AutoShare vs. Zipcar
• Bavia Arts | authentic cultural, spiritual and artistic experiences of Brazilian and African origin. – Bavia Arts is a company committed to improving public access to authentic cultural, spiritual and artistic experiences of Brazilian and African origin.

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• My Close Encounter With Obama in Hawaii – TIME – Pico Iyer about the significance of Barack Obama.
• Subprime Primer – Fascinating Slideshare “primer” about subprime mortgages. Funny, poignant and a little sad.
• Letters to a Young Musician by Ottmar Liebert – Advice from the nouveau flamenco guitarist.

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• How To Change Autoplay Default Setting Or Option In Windows Vista – "When connecting devices, such as USB drives or inserting a CD or DVD into Window Vista, Autoplay will display and prompt you to select a default action or setting." Here's how to change it.
• The Home of Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys – Great sounding singer of 20s-style vocal music.
• School of Etheric Healing | Home – Kathy Roseborough is the most amazing spiritual counselor/reader. Visit her if you can.

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• Fried Rice – Vegetarian Thai Fried Rice Recipe – This classic Thai pineapple fried rice recipe is real vegetarian Thai food.
• Felicity Lawrence: Soya is in 60% of all processed food. But should it carry a health warning? | Life and style | The Guardian – Should soy carry a health warning? Felicity Lawrence investigates
• Once Naked For Nirvana, Now A Teen Spirit : NPR Music – Imagine if millions of people had seen you naked before you were old enough to say "embarrassing."

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• 5 Whys – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – The 5 Whys is a question-asking method used to explore the cause/effect relationships underlying a particular problem.
• Five Easy Ways to Go Organic – Well – Tara Parker-Pope – Health – New York Times Blog – The key is to be strategic in your organic purchases.
• Village Telco – an easy-to-use, scalable, standards-based, wireless, local, do-it-yourself, telephone company toolkit

Today’s bookmarks:

• Measure for Measure – Opinion – New York Times Blog – “The contributors to this blog — all accomplished songwriters — will pull back the curtain on the creative process as they write about their work on a songs in the making.”
• Kale with Garlic and Cranberries Recipe at Epicurious.com – “Garlicky kale, a robust winter green, gains an unexpected twist with dried cranberries’ saucy hits of tartness.”
• homeownership, real estate, mortgage crisis, housing | Salon Life – “How vastly overrated and costly and crazy-making an enterprise home ownership turns out to be.”

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• We’re not listening until you sing in English | | guardian.co.uk Arts – "And that's why we miss out on some of the world's biggest stars. Sophie Heawood reports."
• Deaf Couple wants Deaf Baby – Interesting piece from CNN.
• August And Everything After – Perceptive original review from Rolling Stone.

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• Jokes For Nerds: “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” And Other Pop Songs Expressed With Graphs – Tee hee. These are fabulous 'illustrations' of pop songs.
• MySpace.com – Dwayne Morgan – CA – Neo-soul / House / Jazz – www.myspace.com/dwaynemorgan – An excellent poet… "The Sum of Her Parts" is fantastic.
• Salubrion Enso Clock – This is a very cool looking countdown timer for meditation and yoga use – uses a gentle chime sound. Also works as an alarm clock. Maybe it's a bit too expensive.

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• The Best Vegetarian Restaurants in Toronto – "There are a variety of vegetarian restaurants which have sprouted up in neighbourhoods across Toronto. Here are some of the best."
• The Best Brunch in Toronto – "Brunching in Toronto is a serious weekend pastime and we all have our favourite hidden gems, or line-up-out-the-door destinations that we swear serve the best eggs benny, french toast or home fries in the city."
• The Best Music Store in Toronto – Nice interview with the owner of Sounscapes on College Street. Great store.
• The Best Bookstores in Toronto – BlogTO's list of best independent bookstores in Toronto.

Bookmarks for the last few days:

• Favicon Generator – Neat tool to make little ‘favourite’ icons that appear in the browser’s title bar.
• Food: Cheeseburger in a Can is Both the Best and Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen – “Is it the greatest achievement of mankind thus far, or is it an abomination of foodstuffs that deserves to be hucked back into the gaping maw of whatever food processing plant it was spewed from?”
• Vegetarian restaurants guide and directory of natural health food stores by HappyCow – Great guide to vegetarian and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.