I have mentioned my penchant for poutine before on this blog, and in emails, only to be met with a “Whaa….?
It’s a Canadian dish, this article takes a whimiscal look at something you love or hate in The Poutine-She’s Delicious.

Babel-Fish
Babel-Fish Canadian-American translation. LoL.
The Toque

Another Blogging Article
This time the Washington Post takes a look at blogs, again with the slant of blogs versus big media. A few interesting facts….Blogger/Blogspot now has a million users, and Lycos is getting into the blog business.

The last few days Haloscon comments and the blogger archive bug have been disappearing and re-appearing at will. Be patient with bloggers that use these platforms and tools, ok?

Betrayal
John Campea is really hurting. I can identify. There isn’t much you can do when friend decides not to forgive, or casts you aside like yesterdays news. And it takes a stong toll, especially when you do all you can to restore a broken friendship. John’s latest entry is at 5:01 am.

At any rate, I wrote this person an email explaining the problem, why I felt totally betrayed and how much I hurt. I told them I had no idea if they even cared. I told them that if they had any desire at all to try to fix this, or to work though this to call me last night. I told them I loved them and really wanted us to deal with this. So, I know this person read my message, and all day I kept my cell phone by my side waiting for, and begging it to ring. Every time it rang I would jump out of my chair… but it was never them. As the hour got later, my heart got heavier.

Pops Peter Pan
I admit it. I watched it too. And I was creeped out. If this Smoking Gun link is the actual court document from 1993…….

Man against Machine
The deciding chess match between human champion Garry Kasparov and computer champion Deep Junior ended in an agreed-upon draw, meaning that the series ended tied at three games apiece.
Link via No Room for Grey

Gwynne Dyer
Flit attended a Dyer speech at U of T yesterday. He caught this exchange in the Q & A at the end.

Raving anti-Semite: (rambling diatribe about Jews controlling the world, etc., etc.)
Dyer: Please… stop.
Raving anti-Semite: Don’t shoot the messenger! Don’t shoot the messenger!
Dyer: I don’t want you to die. I just want you to stop talking.

Osama = Saddam
A poll of 1200 Americans commissioned by the Knight-Ridder newspaper group asked one question.

“To the best of your knowledge, how many of the September 11 hijackers were Iraqi citizens?”

17% knew the correct answer: that none of the hijackers were Iraqi.

44% of Americans in the survey believe that most or some of the hijackers were Iraqi.

6% believed that one of the hijackers was a citizen of that most notorious node in the axis of evil.

That leaves 33% who did not know enough to offer an answer.

The first casuality of war is truth.
Link via boing-boing

Update:connexions has a more detailed look at the poll and the numbers.

Quote:

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.