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April 20, 2008 News and Trends

The kosher wine revolution

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:00:01 PDT
In case you haven't heard the news, kosher wines don't suck anymore. Good ones are being made in Israel and in a number of other places, too, notably Bordeaux. For oenophilic Jews, this is truly an answered prayer; keeping the faith no longer requires smiting the palate.

CBC news cutting staff in Calgary - Calgary Herald


CBC news cutting staff in Calgary
Calgary Herald, Canada - Apr 4, 2008
While there were no layoff notices given out on Thursday, 32 Newsworld employees were told their individual jobs are being eliminated, said Don Orchard, ...


CBC Newsworld shuts Calgary operations - Times Colonist


CBC Newsworld shuts Calgary operations
Times Colonist, Canada - Apr 5, 2008
CALGARY -- CBC News is shutting down its Newsworld operations in Calgary, slashing 32 jobs in the process while opening up a slew of new positions for local ...


Booze and Bet - TouchTable RealRoulette is a new trend

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:36:36 PDT
We knew those live tabletop computer interfaces like Microsoft surface and the Linux-based MPX multi-touch table were going to change the way we looked at computers but to be honest even I never imagined that the technology would be adapted for gambling and casino purposes before it hit museums. The TouchTable Roulette takes the know-how of the int

A Viewer Speaks

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:05:29 PDT
WE GET A good group of commenters here in Sticksville. Lately, we've been hearing quite a bit from a young woman from the Prairies, who has an openminded attitude toward Canadian shows, and an engaged and passionate way of defending them. On the subject of all the changes going on at the CBC, I think she's expressed the necessary corrective point of view better than Richard Stursberg, Kirstine Leyfield, or anybody else at the public broadcaster has managed to do. So I'm bumping her comment here

Global Food Fights

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:00:13 PDT
It takes a decent respect for the obvious truth to admit that mankind has no control over the climate. What is occurring, however, is a trend toward global cooling. Alan Caruba thinks that between rising food costs driven by an environmental agenda and real, not imagined climate change, the word famine is going to be heard more often.

Canadian socialist IRONY DU JOUR: CBC calls Zimbabwe’s media “state-run”

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:35:21 PDT
Canadian socialist IRONY DU JOUR: CBC calls Zimbabwe’s media “state-run” This morning, the state-run, state-owned CBC Newsworld state-media employed news anchor, Suhana Meharchand, referred to Zimbabwe’s “state-run news media” and how they are accusing the political opposition of treason. Canada’s state-owned, state-run CBC never refers to itself that way! Now. Countdown to liberals and sundry leftist and downright Marxist CBC apologists emailing me those seething reprimands insisting

Safari users to be blocked from using PayPal

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:00:45 PDT
In the last year or two, I’ve started doing a lot of my monetary transactions via a little site called PayPal. I’m sure that if you’ve used eBay at all, you have yourself a PayPal account. Unfortunately for Mac users, if you use Safari as your primary browser, you’re going to have some issues accessing the site. If you didn’t know, Safari doesn’t include any anti-phishing technologies, unlike FireFox and IE. PayPal frowns very much upon this, and has decided that they will soon begin blockin


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