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beatboxing flute

I saw this on The Hour and was very impressed.  These are my two favourite clips: Super Mario Bros. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfrKqFp0Zg Inspector Gadget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0 I think anybody who appreciates music (and grew up in the 90s ;) can appreciate his efforts.  After a little Googling, I found the guy's ( Greg Pattillo) myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/pattillostyle

Alleviating the pitfalls of the GDP

A new index, called the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) , is in development to try and measure Canada's overall well-being in terms of more holistic indicators (see PDF below), and supplement the raw spending and investment Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures. I've always had a problem with the cold, hard, context-less facts the GDP presents and am glad a more well-rounded approach is being explored in measuring real societal progress. The Toronto Star is running an excellent series of articles on the War on Poverty and documents this recent development in the article below: "A richer way of measuring wealth" http://www.thestar.com/News /article/183223 CIW Indicators http://www3.thestar.com/static /PDF/070219_wellbeing.pdf

doritos "bollywood" commercial

this is hilarious (in my humble opinion, anyway)! i just watched it for the first time yesterday... if you like the first one, watch the other two: sizzlin' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ2_gWlWiaw exotic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJJiWsNtoCg bold http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hijyGUnaL9w

Pan's Labyrinth: GO WATCH IT!

I definitely recommend it... http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pans_labyrinth/ http://www.panslabyrinth.com/ If you watched the movie and missed something in the plot check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan's_Labyrinth (spoiler alert!) Click here for show times for Toronto. Note: It's a Spanish film with subtitles