• The best advice I ever got - "assume positive intent."
  The best advice from 25 different successful people. I'm linking to the stand-out one I liked. There are some other gems in there too.

• New Music West Festival - Vancouver, May 14-18.
  

• Treadmill Kittens [funny cat video].
  

• PlayStation Network and Downloadable Games.
  

• Dance, Monkeys, Dance - Slam Poetry with Flash Animation.
  

• Vancouver Farmers Markets.
  

• Things that are younger than John McCain.
  

Play Lux on a map of ancient Africa

Africa 1660 was created by Lupus ferox. It's the Lux Map of the Week.

• Food vs. Nutrition - 40 minute talk from Michael Pollan.
  He's the author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food."

• Bike To Work Week Vancouver, May 26 - June 1.
  

• Avoid The Relativity Trap - How Thinking Globally Can Save You Money.
  

• Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor.
  

The six races Earth, Goa'uld, Tollan, Ancient, Tok'ra and the Asgard battle it out using the gate network to assault enemy planets

Stargate was created by Dave Beer. It's the Lux Map of the Week.

Vidfest is the Vancouver International Digital Festival, happening May 21-24, 2008. It's got a keynote from Chris Anderson of Wired, a day of "creative exchange" conference sessions, a day of "International Partnering Forum" one-on-one meetings, and the PopVox Digital Media Awards.

Lux Delux is in the running for the best casual game award. Please show your support and vote for the entry (you have to register an account for the Vote button to show up).

Launch Party 4 is also happening on the 21st, celebrating the local startup scene. And the Vancouver Game Summit runs concurrently on May 21-22, mostly focused on console business.

Techcouver is being used more as a nickname for Vancouver. Cool beans.

• HP Discovers Potential "God Particle" of Electronics.
  

• Underneath It All [PIC].
  

DC Politics
The fight for Washington DC
You can travel between any subway station to another
You can attack any non-income territory on the map through the airport.
Try not to get lost on the streets of Washington... [read more...]

DC Politics was created by Enokrad. It's the Lux Map of the Week.

• Drugs vs Tree [COMIC].
  

• Simple Manifesto: Break Free from the Tyranny of the Clock.
  

• Free walking tours of Vancouver neighbourhoods - May 3-4.
  

The year is 1861; the assault on Fort Sumter has caused President Lincoln to call for volunteers to put down the southern insurrection. In the wake of this action the Virginia legislator voted to secede from the Union and take up arms against the invading Union army. However, not all Virginians sympathized... [read more...]

West Virginia - Civil War was created by Mark Bauer. It's the Lux Map of the Week.

• Most Shoes are Bad for your Feet.
  

• Heima - Sigur Ròs documusical.
  Highly recommended.

• The Impossible Art Of Li Wei [PICS].
  

• TransLink - Cycling Route Planner.
  TransLink is investigating the development of a web-based cycling route planning tool and wants feedback.

• CANADA: Nation or notion? Debate between Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik.
  

• KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art.
  Exhibit showing at the Vancouver Art Gallery from May 17 to September 7, 2008.

• TOP 10 Shirts To Get Arrested In.
  

• Seth Godin: Getting vs. Taking.
  

• MySQL's Over-looked and Under-worked Slow Query Log.
  

• MetaWeblog API code template in PHP.
  

Star Wars according to a 3 year old comes via Arianek's shared items.
(Gasp! Google reader shared item feeds don't display properly in FireFox!)

During centuries native aborigines of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) have been target of colonists from Europe, US and in the end from Chile.

The island is famous for its giant monolithic human figures (Moai)carved from rocks mostly between 1250 and 1500 CE... [read more...]

Rapa Nui was created by illusionlost. It's the Lux Map of the Week.

• Online Activation DRM is Inevitable and Safe.
  I disagree, but Cliffski makes a number of good points.

• 11 innovation lessons from creators of World of Warcraft.
  

Tektek.org's Dream Avatar is an awesome avatar creation game that has been sweeping the Lux Forums like wildfire. Lots of cool stuff to choose from and output is a PNG on a transparent background. Sweetness.

Their HTML output code is missing some "s in it unfortunately, and won't work in a comment here without being fixed.

Big Cheese's latest attempt at consolidating power was courageously blocked by the United Soy Producers Union. Furious, the coalition of Cheese manufacturers put the lactose contingency into effect. A plan that bears striking similarities to the lysine contingency put forth by John Hammond in the... [read more...]

Wisconsin - Cheese Heads was created by Mark Bauer. It's the Lux Map of the Week.

Koodo Mobile is a new low-cost brand of Telus Mobility. They seem to have some really good deals compared with what I'm paying - and I'm with Telus right now.

No system access fee, no activation fee, no contracts, per-second billing. This looks like a serious play by Telus to lower the costs of wireless service in Canada. Cool!

Now if they only supported the iPhone...

The classic face-off between the Trojans and the Achaens (or Danaans....or Greeks, whatever)
But on a map of diamonds and half-octagons, or rather irregular-shaped hexagons, whatever....)
Just enjoy the map, and be sure to kill reaper. He just said something about your mother... [read more...]

Octagons was created by n00less Cluebie. It's the Lux Map of the Week.