I volunteer at the local observatory and on open houses we will look at the moon, visible planets, Andromeda galaxy and different colored stars. These are things that can be seen in a small telescope.

Get outside and practice to make sure you can see these before taking a class.

Check for a local observatory and see about getting a tour. Ours will do tours to schools for a donation.

There is free astronomy software available on the net.
Stellarium - http://www.stellarium.org/

Get it for your students. They will enjoy it.

I don't know about you but as a Linux user, I will contact them and let them know that if it doesn't support Linux then I really don't care about their product. The day I cannot get a product and run it on my Linux machines is the day I will stick to illegal downloads.

This also goes for being able to play the product on a device that isn't connected to the Internet.

Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem

Hum, I work in a very large corporation and we use OSS for many tasks and business operations.

Accounting can be done with GnuCash www.gnucash.org

Business forms through OpenOffice. OpenOffice.org

OOo templates from http://templates.services.openoffice.org/

Depending on the type of business model, you may want to look at mind mapping software and planning software.

I use Linux at home and work.

Some Linux based software has been cross compiled for Windows if you are so inclined.

I have three reasons for not liking CFL's. 1. They don't last in areas that the lights are not on that long. If you use them where you turn the lights on for 5 or 10 minutes, they die very quickly. 2. They don't like being cold. The time it takes to turn on in a cool house (set back thermometer) can seem to be forever. 3. Dimmers. I have yet to see one that works on a dimmer. I have purchased some LED lights (spot) for less than US$5 each on-line. They work as great desk lamps but the beam width is to narrow. They didn't work on dimmers (main reason to purchase them) but that is due to the current regulator within the bulb. I see that there is a new current regulator that works with standard dimmers. I hope to change all my gu10 and pars with LEDS when they are dimmer compatible. I also forgot, CFL's don't come in formats for all the types of bulbs that are out there. LED's will. There is also the option of color choices. I have seen red, blue, green and multicolored ones on-line.

You obviously didn't see the news last night. A Liberal representative was interviewed and stated that this law didn't go far enough in some aspects

The Liberals started the copyright reform push before they got defeated so don't expect support from the Liberals to block this.

Hopefully the bill will die due to an election or take forever in committee.

This may be a political move to appease the pressure from the USA overlords that want to take total control of the media.

I hope all Canadians take time to write to their MP's about how bad this law is. Do watch out for the attempt to drop some of the bad stuff to make the rest of the bad proposals acceptable.