local
MarcosX.com
Website of multi-instrumentalist Marcos X.

Blackberry Wood
A really fun Vancouver-based musical group, in which I have performed as a percussionist- including the shows at Glastonbury during their most recent tour of England.

The Republic of East Vancouver
An independant fortnightly published paper based in East Vancouver.

myspace.com/devon8devon8
My profile on the social networking site, with songs I've recorded.

linguistic
Chinese-English Dictionary
Very useful, especially for identifying characters.

Jeffrey's Japanese<->English Dictionary Server!
Using SKIP codes is useful for kanji lookup.

calendrical
Date Conversion with the Mayan and Toltec (Aztec) names
Less detailed, but easier to figure out. Use to convert dates from the Gregorian to the Mayan/Aztec calendars.

Calendar Converter
Converts to and from the Gregorian, Julian, Hebrew, Islamic, Persian, Mayan, Baha'i, Indian Civil, and French Republican calendars.

Mayan Calendar Tools
(Use the 584283 correlation constant - it aligns with the dates still kept in the Guatemalan highlands.) More complicated than the previous two links for reckoning dates in the Mayan calendrical systems, but the tools give you the option of looking up a series of dates by sorted by Mayan cycle rather than Gregorian date.

The Solar Terms
"A solar term is one of 24 points in traditional East Asian lunisolar calendars... spaced 15 degrees apart along the ecliptic and are used by lunisolar calendars to stay synchronized with the seasons." (Interesting to learn about, and can give one a new perspective on seasons.)

Equinox, Solstice & Cross-Quarter Moments
The Celtic cross-quarter dates (synchronising with every 3rd solar term) are listed here and sorted by time zones.

Phases of the moon, 1950-2060
Moon phases for ninety years.