Some deep-rooted part of my Wisconsin upbringing has me fascinated by this Canadian dish.
Poutine is a French-Canadian concoction comprised of french fries, gravy, and cheese curds.
Wow. That looks horribly fattening and VERY good. Did I mention that Cheese curds are the best food ever?
Even I have to admit this is pretty funny:
Bush’s unpopularity with many Canadians was underscored as thousands marched through the streets of the Canadian capital to protest the visit.
But the two leaders made light of the demonstrations, with Martin remarking jokingly that Bush seemed to draw larger crowds than he does.
“I don’t know if that’s good or bad,” Bush said. “It all depends on who shows up I guess.”
In another quip, Bush expressed appreciation for Canadians who greeted him on the route from the airport waving “with all five fingers.”
That’s far more clever than the guy we saw the past few months.
This NY Times Article really captures the iPod phenomenon. In the article U2’s Bono describes their recent relationship with Apple:
Speaking just after the event, Bono, U2’s lead singer, said the band was not charging Apple a penny to be in the ad. (The band says it had turned down as much as $23 million to use its music in other commercials.) In its three-year life, the iPod has achieved such “iconic value,” Bono said, that U2 gets as much value as Apple does from the commercial, by promoting its music and the new Red and Black U2 edition of the iPod, for which the band gets royalties.
Until the iPod’s myriad competitors figure out that this is what they are competing against, hardware specifications be damned, this is going to remain a one horse race.
One of my favorite toys for OS X, Konfabulator, is a nifty little application that adds configurable widgets to your desktop. Useful widgets might display weather conditions, a calendar, to-do lists, RSS feeds, or application status for things like iTunes. And of course there are any number of widgets that are of dubious use such as the one the floats a submarine across your desktop. And best of all for the other 95% of the world, it is now available for Windows (think Windows 95 Active Desktop if it didn’t crash your system). The Windows version seems to be nearly identical to the OS X version and is compatible with many of the existing widgets. It seems that the ones that are excluded use mac-specific features and would be of no use on Windows anyway.
I would highly recommend that you give it a test drive. Graphically, many of the widgets are really gorgeous supporting alpha blending and anti-aliasing so they work seamlessly with your desktop with glows and shadows.
Developers will the keen to the fact that they are completely built with JavaScript making them easy to create for nearly any web designer—write your own!
Now here is a publication with its heart in the right place even though they clearly don’t get it.
Net Gazette, November 2004, has admirably reported on the recent release of Mozilla’s Firefox 1.0 and have even linked to the Top 10 Reasons to Switch article that boasts among other things, Firefox’s fanatical support for web standards and accessibility.
So what is the problem you might ask? Well, they managed to publish this article on a page made of 100% images. Yes, they laid out the text and cut it into tables and images using Adobe ImageReady. That’s right folks, an online article about a browser rooted in standards and accessibility with absolutely no HTML text on the page.