Feeling a little fancy today? You should be! If you’re Canadian, we mean …. Because the Bank of Canada has announced the Horrible Recession is over, done, finished, kaput, était finie. But only in Canada, and only for Canadians. Dang. [Canada.com/Globe and Mail]

MAYBE YOU’LL SEE THIS ON TWITTER: So, ha ha, about half the Internet is invisible to Verizon DSL customers today — including at your editor’s office, whoops. Try a proxy server if you can’t see your Favorite Websites. Weirdly enough, Verizon’s wireless broadband domain-name servers seem just fine, so your editor will just work on his teeny tiny mouse-sized HP mini until, uh, tomorrow. “It should resolve in approximately 24 hours,” the cheerful support person in India just told me. Hooray.

IS IT ‘WRITE A LETTER TO WONKETTE DAY’? “Your political views show too much favoritism toward on presidential candidate. If this is truly a gossip column, which it is, you should not be opinionated. — Tanya Suarez” [Wonkette Letters]