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[2 Feb 2005 | Comments Off | ]

Do you remember the National Film Board’s “Hinterland Who’s Who”? I grew up watching them on CBC–they were time fillers between shows. Even in the 70s they already seemed quite dated, but I must admit, they were probably my first exposure to wildlife awareness.
Do you miss these little vignettes? Well, worry no more! You can see them all at www.hww.ca. There is even a spoofs category!

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[9 Sep 2004 | Comments Off | ]

I stumbled across this website searching for the latitude and longitude coordinates from the Da Vinci Code. It has nothing to do with the Da Vinci Code, but it’s actually pretty neat nonetheless. The idea behind the Degree Confluence Project is to build a photo archive record of all of the positions on Earth which correspond to the crossing of integer latitude and longitude lines (e.g. 44°N 79°W). | People are asked to provide photos of facing the four cardinal directions, and a photo of their …