11. April, 2004 - Happy Easter

You might wonder Why Eat Peeps at Easter? Well, it involves Germans and pagan religion… That explains the ritual of biting the heads off chocolate bunnies, too. [fark!]
Last night I finished writing up Dave’s Accordion City Adventures, my account of my vacation in Toronto. It only took me two weeks to get the vacation account put together (well, one evening to do the work – two weeks to get to it). That’s not bad at all, given how busy I’ve been since returning.
The U.S. Won’t Let Company Test All Its Cattle for Mad Cow, even though Japan requires that all animals to be exported to there are tested, and Creekstone makes most of their money exporting beef to Japan. Even though they’re willing to pay the costs of testing, they’re not allowed to because: Under the Virus Serum Toxin Act of 1913, the department decides where cattle can be tested and for what. [nyt]
A Space Celebration Circles Globe on Monday, April 12th to commemorate Yuri Gagarin’s first space flight in 1961. According to the Yuri’s Night website, there’s a party here in Minneapolis. [wired]
There are some other blogs covering the transit strike more closely than I am: TC Metro; Your Friend, Kid Tiger and the transitlibrarian. Thanks to Jim for pointing them out. [jim]