Curious George: I Want Turquoise Highlights! Bestest cheapest place in Vancouver to give my dark brown hair light greeny-turquoise highlight? Or advice from the do-it-yourselfer?

Curious George: Google Why can't I access www.google.com or gmail? Why? Oh why? I'm on my university's wireless network and I've never had a problem before.

Curious George I'm running a day camp all this week. It's french immersion, and is centered around doing activities and arts and crafts which educate and inform the participants about a local endangered species. Hopefully in the end, we'll create a great big hand painted sign to be installed near this animal's habitat. One of the kids is blind, and has limited motor function. I'm bad enough around kids as it is...how can I make this a fun camp for him, without insulting his intelligence or making him feel left out? (He's roughly 13 or so.)

Clone Wars The year is 2007, and North America has been wiped out in an unfortunate attempt to boost cellular reception. The rest of the world must repopulate the now desolate land mass using clones created with the DNA from the publicly chosen Top 10 Citizens lists of America and Canada. Then, the world will pit the two bunches against each other in a glorious mud pit battle extraordinaire!

Buttons and Soles Does anyone in Vancouver City have a favorite cheap and good seamtress/tailor/whatever to repair some buttons and tears? Also, anyone have a favorite shoe repaire place, to patch a holey sole?

Hooters Air. I'm just...I had no idea. Wow.

Curious George: Firefox + IMBd = poo. Everytime I go on IMBd using Firefox it freezes. Is it just me? *sniff*

Gizoogle: Finally, a translator that is useful in the real world! [Possibly NSFW: obscene language]

Curious George: Wisdom Teeth On the 22nd of December, I will have the delightful experience of getting my wisdom teeth removed. Is there any way I could be eating Christmas dinner by the 25th? How can I make healing fast and smooth?

They bought my name for the movies! Steve Zissou's alter ego might be a deep water explorer, but most of the time, you can find the real guy in Queens. [via] more inside

What exactly are people getting in this auction? I rarely use Ebay myself, but it seems to me that a bunch of people tonight are paying big bucks for a whole lotta nothing, if I'm reading this right! Forgive me if this is a very dumb post. more inside

Independant World Television I was at this conference and one of the speakers was Paul Jay, of CBC's Counter Spin. He very passionately spoke about this: the idea of a world independant media, not owned by a corporation and completely dependant on donations. Apparently it should get off the ground by 2006. Good idea? Complete flop? Will you get behind it?

Fray.com, an oldie, but a goodie, is Derek Powazek's (of San Francisco Stories fame) magazine/community/movement dedicated to sharing true stories by people for people. Where do you go when you're looking for a good free read on the net? more inside

Curious, George: Food, glorious food! I'm sitting in my (slightly gross) dorm room, trying to think of food I can easily make with my electric kettle, the slightly risky microwave in the lounge, or my bare hands. I've got a tiny fridge, but as grocery shopping occurs rarely, long lasting foodstuffs are a plus. What are your favorite bizarre/easy/comforting snack foods from those first "Oh my god, mom's not here to cook me dinner" days/months/years? Extra points if it's vaguely healthy!

Things you hear in passing can definitely pique your curiosity. We hear the most interesting things in the most everyday places--maybe on the tube or out in the city. Have you overheard anything that stirred your imagination lately? Have you caught an eavesdropper in the act? Maybe you're looking to do some serious listening in of your own...