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Morning Cup of Links: Ducklings Rescued
by Miss Cellania - July 17, 2008 - 2:41 AM
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A review of The Dark Knight says it lives up to the hype. We’ll see for ourselves this weekend.
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Ten Great Moments in Internet History. If it weren’t for the Cold War, I might not be typing this now.
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Human-Cat Psychology: Do Cats Improve Our Mood and Become Attached to Us? Sure, and they catch mice, too.
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Office work came to a stop when it was time for ten baby ducklings to leave the nest. Bank employees had to lend a hand to get them all safely to the water -and take pictures, too!
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One man plays eight flute parts and sounds like his own orchestra. He probably conducted, too.
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Two guys playing around with Google Moon find more than they were supposed to see. I would tell you how it ends, but then I’d have to kill you.
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Remember the touching story of a horribly wounded US marine and the bride who stood by him? A year later, things have not worked out at all.
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Socialism seems to be taking over over the kid’s aisle. Here are 7 toys and t-shirts showing the lighter side of The Red Menace.

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Comments (8)

  1. Oh my god, what did you do? I used to get the links in my Google Reader feed, now I have to click through! HATE.

    posted by Amanda on 7-17-2008 at 5:40 am

  2. That Google Moon video was funny, but sadly there are still people out there who think that the moon landing didn’t really happen.

    posted by beth on 7-17-2008 at 9:08 am

  3. I got to see a preview showing, and yse, Dark Knight is awesome. It feels about 8 hours long, but it holds your attention the whole time. :)

    posted by Another Beth on 7-17-2008 at 9:45 am

  4. I went to google moon, and the Apollo 11 site, and looked at the “flag” picture.

    It really is “split” >:-O honestly!!

    Fortunately, zooming “all the way out” still leaves me “on the moon” so THAT part isn’t true.

    posted by howie on 7-17-2008 at 12:58 pm

  5. When they first started Google Moon, if you zoomed all the way in, the images changed to pictures of cheese. But it looks like that doesn’t work anymore.

    posted by Andy on 7-17-2008 at 2:52 pm

  6. I sent a link to the story of the ducklings to my sister, just ’cause I thoguht she’d appereciate it.

    She did, very much. And, she also happens to be the host of NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered, so as it turns out, Joel the Duckling Rescuer is going to be on NPR this weekend! Sometime between 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM on Saturday or Sunday, I dont’ know which.

    posted by Will on 7-17-2008 at 3:36 pm

  7. The greatest internet moments site was surely a joke. Nevermind that it looks like a web page from 20+ years ago, it also contains bizarre grammatic constructions: “Most of those reading, are probably already thinking. INCORRECT!”
    and then: “there was no cameras present”
    and “there was only around 300 computers”
    or: “the internet would not have ever became what it is today.”
    “created a simply concept”
    “Search engines predated the web. Enough said.” -Um, OK.
    “Thus gave birth to websites” -Oh, the power of thus!
    “medias” -a pluralized plural
    “many other various forms” -now that’s variety
    “it rapidly grew into people were looking for apartments” -eh?
    “Completely dominated the classified industry and even taking it away in some cases from local newspapers.”
    -sounds like something Completely would do.
    “However, at the end of the day it is a never ending world that could barely be defined, just by looking at its map one may reflect on its vast nature.”

    The ‘submit’ button for the comment field at this site says ‘search’ instead.
    And it cites Wikipedia.

    posted by BassMan on 7-18-2008 at 1:52 pm

  8. What have you done to your RSS feed? it’s full of HTML garbage now with no workable links or images. Sucks beyond belief!

    posted by Pete on 7-20-2008 at 12:16 am

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