OpenOffice.org lets you take slideshows (in the ISO-standard ODF format, or from Microsoft's PowerPoint format) and export them to Flash. This feature has been there since version 2.0, I believe (about 2 years old or so).

http://www.openoffice.org

I've seen chickens in several backyards in Queens, NYC. And some escaped the local halal slaughterhouse, and have established a feral chicken colony in a nearby cemetery.

Metblogs covers it here:

http://nyc.metblogs.com/archives/2007/10/creatures_in_th_1.phtml