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Being the Green person that I am, I was thrilled to read the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green Blog, “We love 5min.com for Simple DIY Solutions”-yes, we do!- because yes, it’s true, the more you do by yourself, the less energy you’ll waste.
In times where saving money is also important, you should remember that by going [...]

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Having Judy Garland as an all time favorite, quoting Will and Grace at least once a day and being a member of a book-club, I think I’ve earned my space at any Gay Pride Parade.
Commemorating the Stonewall Riots, many Pride Parades take place in the month of June, so in the last weeks, we’ve seen [...]

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In a world where being mean to girls has become a national sport, it’s always nice to close your eyes and think about the only guy that will never betray you. The one that will always support you, no matter what, and that will think only the best of you: your dad.
Coming from a family [...]

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For weeks now we’ve been working at full capacity to bring you the latest version of 5min’s Smart Player – the third major release of our flagship distributable player – now sleeker, noticeably lighter, faster and above all – more customizable than ever before, making it the ideal white-label player solution for your site.
During this [...]

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Being the obsessive type, a large portion of my teen years was dedicated to cataloging, organizing, arranging and re-arranging my vast music collection. These were the days of CDs, and my walls were like a jewel-case museum. What?! Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power sitting shamelessly next to Gang of Four’s Songs of the [...]

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Although I’ve heard people say that “Global Warming is a myth”, I know I can’t really trust popular knowledge on this one, as I was also told that “bacon isn’t meat“. So yes, I can grow bacon in my backyard and the climate change that the world is experiencing now, isn’t real.
That makes us realize [...]

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If you’re not Canadian you’re probably not in the habit of celebrating Queen Victoria’s birthday. I have to admit that my first Victoria Day revolved mostly around making plans for the long weekend; not much thought was given to her highness.  Just about everything in Canada is named after Victoria and so it only made [...]

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Being a city mouse, the great outdoors has never been my natural habitat. Sure, I love hiking and camping,  adore snowy mountains and dream of  isolated islands but at the end of the day I’m one of those individuals who need some concrete and cars around them to feel at home.  Gardening seemed to be [...]

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For a while now, we have been enjoying an ongoing partnership with wikiHow, the web’s largest text how-to manual that you, the users, can edit and contribute to. As a part of our collaboration with wikiHow, the wikiHow community can now embed videos from the vast 5min library of how-to and instructional videos, in any [...]

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From Patti Smith to Martha Stewart, there are thousands of   women that I admire. It has been a while since we aren’t  kept in doll houses, and  women have shown that they’re out there and that they have a voice of their own. It doesn’t matter what skills you have, but how you use [...]

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