Spoiler alert: it seems so.
If eaten in one meal, 30 to 90 grams of polar bear liver is enough to kill a human being, or to make even sled dogs very ill.
Good to know.
“There would have been a day when we would have been the Greece of today,” recalled then-prime minister Jean Chretien, a Liberal who ended up chopping cherished social programs in one of the most dramatic fiscal turnarounds ever.
“I knew we were in a bind and we had to do something,” Chretien, 77, told Reuters in a rare interview.
I’ll never forget Chretien and his awesome accent from my days in Canada.
Is Coldfusion next?
With Adobe axing Mobile Flash, one wonders what will happen to other Adobe products. People have been predicting the end of Coldfusion for years. A new version is due soon. But I’m betting against ColdFusion as a going concern for Adobe.
By the way, I’m not a Coldfusion hater by any means. I used to develop with Coldfusion religiously and miss a lot of what it offered. My headspace is much more Rails+Javascript these days (see, for example dkmvs (aka dick moves), but I’ll always have a soft spot for ColdFusion and its lovely tags and components.
The copy on this web page (for a toaster) is simultaneously terrible and hilarious. For example:
It features an intelligent motor that automatically lowers your raw toast (also known as bread) into the slots and then raises it again when it’s done.
The architects wanted the windows to open. Jobs said no. He “had never liked the idea of people being able to open things. ‘That would just allow people to screw things up.’
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Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker Sounds like a dick. |
Awesome extension of the ebook. Reminds me of another project, for images. A cool, Melbourne startup as well.
