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Morning Cup of Links: Blogging is good for you!
by Miss Cellania - May 28, 2008 - 2:24 AM
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Blogging–It’s Good for You. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery.
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Brutal New York - 1965/95. It’s part of the collection American Pictures by Danish photographer Jacob Holdt.
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Fred Astaire dances to Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal. I hear he could do the Fishstick well, too.
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12 Odd & Unusual Chocolate Flavored Items. I might try the toothpaste, but I’ll skip the sushi.
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Pneumatic tubes carried mail through New York City from 1897 to 1953. Books in at least two libraries are still delivered that way. And once they even sent a cat through the tubes!
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Imagine you are taking a CPR training course and your “dummy” wakes up! This prank was staged for a German TV show.
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Top 10 Ways to Show Teachers Your Appreciation. Even ex-students can do some of these things.
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The Prelinger Archive, a repository of advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films. A truly historical treasure on the internet.

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  1. I never saw this film, which is odd, since my younger sister remembers it. I was terrified of nuclear war when I was a child (from about age 4 on–don’t watch Vietnam before school each morning), and I think my mom, who taught at my school, made sure I was out of the room/school when it was shown, in order to keep me from going completely over the edge.

    Any wonder all these kids who grew up thinking they’d never grow up became the risk-takers (for good and bad) in the 60s? If you’re going to die tomorrow, why not do it today?

    posted by Terror Child on 5-28-2008 at 8:40 am

  2. Thank you for posting that “Brutal New York” link. It’s amazing and terrible to see such raw photographs of New York from such a dark time in urban history.

    posted by jenny on 5-28-2008 at 10:26 am

  3. The Pneumatic Tubes seem like they were on the brink of a delightful Steampunk version of the Internet. Amazing read!

    posted by EMStoveken on 5-28-2008 at 10:47 am

  4. “It is not recommendable though to apply chocolate bandages to our wounds.”

    My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

    posted by ovaryacting on 5-28-2008 at 2:36 pm

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