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Be sure to throw out all Maple Leaf products as a precaution against Listeria.
Via my Brother, who lives in Ottawa.
If you really need a proper list see A Full List of Recalled Maple Leaf Meat Products [Updated] from Joey.
In a lazyweb “fools seldom differ” moment, my post The Real Reason for Increased productivity behind Scripting Languages (commenting on a XKCD comic) has been riffed on by Bart of “Moves on Rails” : The new programmers excuse for slacking of:
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(no, I’m not doings a “Zed”, now please excuse us while we hide from the ruby/rails/rspec mobs…. 
“Ask not what your fortune cookie can do for you but what do can do for your fortune cookie.”
via the fantagraphics blog (with this additional punch line) see this thread for more Dennis the Mennis.
The long running SlashDot.org (first post was in 97, and might have been the first community driven news sites) has long had the site subtitle : “News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters”.
Being “Slashdotted” meant being linked too in a story, followed by wave of web page hits, usually followed by the target server crashing under the load. The unintended DOS attack was a right of passage, particularly in the first Dot-Com boom.
This year /. (short hand for SlashDot) redesigned using CSS and moving away from a table heavy design. Browsing the major sub sections, I noticed that some of them have their own sub titles :
Hardware : The Nuts and Volts of News for Nerds
IT : It is what IT is
Linux : Don’t Fear the Penguins
Politics : Politics for Nerds. Your Votes Matters
See any others? I’ll update as needed. Slash On.
( Alastair Reynolds most excellent “Century Rain” novel has a factions called Threshers and Slashers. Threshers live on the Threshold and Slashers are ultra - bleeding edge - high tech . The other SlashDot culture reference is Charles Stross Accelerando and his Lobsters chapter.)
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