Saturday Round-Up: 17 worthwhile links from the past week

 1. 
This week's jobs:
[
 Part-Time Piercer
](http://bit.ly/hTrG0o)
,
[
 Scientific Editor
](http://bit.ly/gSiZrw)
,
[
 Pedestrian Handset Testing
](http://ottawa.en.craigslist.ca/etc/2083758414.html)
,
[
 Visual Art Grant Writer
](http://www.ottawastart.com/story/12456.php)

 2. 
Just what Elgin Street needs:
[
 A Dollar Store
](http://ottawa.openfile.ca/ottawa/file/2010/12/dollar-store-way-elgin-street)

 3. 
Ottawa's
[
 beautiful
](http://singingmoon.blogspot.com/2010/11/commute.html)
Rideau Canal.

 4. 
A
[
 new perspective
](http://www.robink.ca/blog/chinatown-arch-3/)
of the Chinatown Arch.

 5. 
Where to
[
 cut your own Christmas tree
](http://goo.gl/fb/t3j2J)

 6. 
[
 The winner of Apartment613's fall fiction contest
](http://www.apt613.ca/2010/12/03/fall-fiction-contest-grand-prize-winner-2)

 7. 
Nice
[
 sunset on Monday
](http://yfrog.com/9fkgo0j)
.

 8. 
[
 Google bike directions go live for Ottawa
](http://theincidentalcyclist.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-bike-directions-go-live.html)

 9. 
[
 Looking for an elf?
](http://bit.ly/dKPA1w)

 10. 
[
 Behind the scenes photos
](http://bit.ly/eKHLiU)
with the NAC Orchestra.

 11. 
A history of
[
 Albert at Kent
](http://urbsite.blogspot.com/2010/12/then-albert-at-kent.html)

 12. 
A history of
[
 one-room schoolhouses
](http://goo.gl/fb/zgBTO)
in the Ottawa area

 13. 
Gift ideas:
[
 wine
](http://goo.gl/fb/pPYy1)
.

 14. 
[
 Nice Christmas lights
](http://underexposure.ca/?showimage=1151)
,
[
 nice Christmas wreaths
](http://www.jvlphoto.com/pixelpost/index.php?showimage=883)

 15. 
[
 Grassmobile in a snowstorm
](http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeygottawa/5213039518/)

 16. 
Why it was
[
 really hard to get Canadian info after the big earthquake
](http://bit.ly/hYEkiR)
last June.

 17. 
[
 Ottawa's online communities go offline too.
](http://ltottawa.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/ottawa-online-communities/)