Blogroll - 12/06/07

| Published: December 06, 2007

This week Blogroll does a bit of shopping, getting some advice on what to get lawyers for Christmas, guessing when Park Royal is going to go nuts with shoppers, and taking a peek inside what some people will do to get a simple job at the new Apple store in Pacific Centre. We also pass along a shameless plug for a contest promoting green business and just have to share a pretty darned cute story about a dad who asked his wee daughter to keep the secret of the Vanoc mascots.

(Shameless) Green Business Review contest announcement
by uncleweed
Frogblog
“At the risk of shameless self-promotion, .. I thought some of you would enjoy this contest we've brewed up a happyfrog - BC's green biz and org directory - where you review listed businesses for a chance to win some bucks for shopping/service/vacation…”

Vancouver’s Apple store confirmed for Pacific Centre
by Jeffery Simpson
Metroblogging Vancouver
“I might be making the most foolish mistake of all time by telling the readers about this, because you know the more people who apply the less chance I have, but my damn journalistic integrity compels me to point out that there are jobs posted for the store right now on the Canadian Apple site [ac]. Meanwhile the Unofficial Apple Weblog [tuaw] is still reporting this as a rumour, but since they're actively hiring I'd say it's confirmed.”

2007 Holiday Gift Guide for Lawyers
by Reid Trautz
Reid My blog
Editor’s note: Ok, so it’s not a BC blog, but we thought BC lawyers would still find it useful …
“My Holiday Gift Guide for Lawyers is back for the third consecutive year, with an expanded array of noteworthy recommendations for the lawyers in your life. Not a tie, gavel, or kitschy brass scales on this list, just gifts that any self-respecting, hard-working, red-blooded American lawyer wouldn’t love to have–if they had the time to find it themselves and tell you about it!”

How Vanoc kept the mascots secret
by Passionate Pin Collector
Olympic Pin Collecting

“Sitting at his computer in his home office, Mandalay watched three images flash on to the screen, and at that point it became clear that Roberge was going to have to tell his daughter The Big Secret.

"I told her we were working on a show for the Olympics and that we had to keep it a secret, and we even had to keep it a secret from Mom. She thought that was pretty cool," Roberge said Wednesday. “

Report from Vancouver
by Rick Spence
Canadian Entrepreneur

“One discouraging note: the Christmas shopping season got off to a slow start. Park Royal, West Vancouver's largest mall, was a ghost town Monday night. It was the first day of extended Christmas hours (most stores close at 7 pm the rest of the year), and no one seemed in a shopping mood. There were more soccer

players practising outside in the rain at the park next door than there were shoppers in the stores - despite some great bargains, and a snowstorm two days earlier that should have triggered the new-skiwear instinct.”

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