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Still want to promote your Etsy Site?

If you still want to sell on Etsy, you need to promote your wares. Here are 52 resources you may find handy. 1000markets.com/ 100craftlinks.com/ 43things.com/ - Make your items some of your own 43 favorite things. artzee.net/ blogger.com/ - Get a blog and crow about your cool stuff. bluecanvas.com/ byhand.me/ www.cafepress.com - Make some funky design and have them print it on stuff. cracker.com.au craftcult.com craftgawker.com craftjuice.com/ craftopolis.com craftsitedirectory.com/index.html craftstylish.com/ craftylinks.com/ craftytips.com/ craigslist.ca/ creativemiscellany.info/ - A great example of an arts nexus. creativity-portal.com/ daisycraft.com/ designstolove.com/ deviantart.com - Less cool than it used to be. dmoz.org/add.html - Add it to the directory. ecom.yahoo.com/dir/submit/intro/ - Add it to this other directory. electroniccottage.com esellerads.com facebook.com/ - Make your own page in Facebook. flickr.com/ - Photograph your stuff as you go. freecraftfair.co

Educators Haven't Learned Anything

Our daughter is in a split 4/5 class. There are two 4/5 splits in her school. My confidence is shaken in a school where they haven't grasped that 1/2 + 1/2 = 1. They really can take all of the Grade 4s from the two classes and put them in one Grade 4 class? Then, do the same with the Grade 5s? I honestly don't know why this is: I sit in the cheap seats and don't participate in the PAC (Parents Advisory Council). My daughter has had some earnest teachers who seemed to really try to give her the best education possible. In years past, I've come to know a lot of teachers outside of their teaching roles. My friend came from a family of teachers. My wife worked with a bunch of people who's spouses and their friends were teachers. Of these two samplings, what a bunch of bitter ambivalent people I've never seen elsewhere. It was like going to a Nirvana suicide pact clad in tweed. I think the teachers' hands are tied are tied by the curriculum, cutbacks and the heli

Whacky Manifesto

Last month, I posited in a discussion on logic that anyone who places rational thought as the cornerstone of their decision making, should off themselves because life is ultimately futile. I don't subscribe to that approach, but that seems to be how the logic train would run. Before is a reproduction of what Whack job James Lee (Burnaby resident) says of the world's problems and his take on the solution. The Discovery Channel MUST broadcast to the world their commitment to save the planet and to do the following IMMEDIATELY: 1. The Discovery Channel and it's affiliate channels MUST have daily television programs at prime time slots based on Daniel Quinn's "My Ishmael" pages 207-212 where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other's inventive ideas. Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions con