Maple Leaf CEO Michael McCain.Photo by Tara Walton, Canadian Press.
Once again, for those of you who haven’t been paying attention to the news: Maple Leaf Foods, a Canadian company, has issued a massive recall of all meat products produced at its Bartor Road plant in Toronto. They’ve published a list of the 200 or so [...]
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The Latest Maple Leaf Product Recall List
August 25, 2008 – 11:20 am
Need Help with the Maple Leaf Product Recall List [Updated]
August 25, 2008 – 10:53 am
Update: Laurie Sefton HTML-ized the list, which you can see in this entry. Thanks, Laurie!
Does anyone want to help me turn the Maple Leaf product recall list into an HTML table? Maple Leaf have published it in PDF form, which is great for print, but not all that hot for the web. I’ll take page [...]
“A Free Thinker is Satan’s Slave”
August 24, 2008 – 1:26 pm
I think I’ll just post this one without comment:
Photo courtesy of UFailPix.Click the photo to see the original.
A Full List of Recalled Maple Leaf Meat Products [Updated]
August 21, 2008 – 4:56 pm
Update
Since Sunday August 24th, Maple Leaf Foods has updated the list of recalled food to include everything produced at the Bartor Road plant here in Toronto. Click here to see the updated list.
You can also download the list in PDF format.
What are Your Favorite Software Synths, Samplers and Sound Modules?
August 20, 2008 – 4:09 pm
[This was also posted on Global Nerdy.]
My toy: M-Audio Axiom 25 USB MIDI keyboard
For my 40th birthday, the Ginger Ninja got me something I’d had my eye on for some time: a USB MIDI keyboard, specifically an M-Audio Axiom 25, a nice little unit with a lot of features. Prior to my picking up the [...]
Watch for Bikes
August 20, 2008 – 12:16 pm
Whoever placed that sign there is either missing the point or has a nasty streak:
Image courtesy of Photobucket.Click the photo to see the original.
Toronto Film Festival ‘08: Schedule and New Location
August 20, 2008 – 11:24 am
The Toronto International Film Festival 2008, which takes place here in Accordion City and runs from September 4th through 13th, has released their full schedule of films. Over its 10 days, they will show 312 films on 36 screens throughout the city; the films will hail from 64 countries (this is fewer films than last [...]
Georgia on My Mind
August 19, 2008 – 11:25 am
Map from the New York Times.
It’s not to late to get a better understanding of the conflict between Russia and Georgia. If you read only one article to get that understanding, I strongly recommend the New York Times article Taunting the Bear.
If you decide to read only two articles about the Russia/Georgia conflict, perhaps the [...]
The Way Computers Were in the Seventies
August 18, 2008 – 3:50 pm
Inspired by my earlier post titled The Way Movies Were in the Seventies, I present to you this image showing the way computers were in the seventies:
Illustrations courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Illegal Wrestling Move of the Day
August 18, 2008 – 10:46 am
Until I saw this picture, I thought I had completely banished the wrestling term “oil check” [text only, but might not be safe for work] from my mind:
“You think you’ve got me? I can break this hold wi — Mooooooon Riverrrrrrr…“Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
