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The rise and fall of an American beer. How Budweiser gobbled up the competition, up until they were gobbled up by InBev.
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If you could guess what plant scientists are using to try for a cancer vaccine, you’d probably guess anything but …tobacco.
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Cakes Wrecks. An entire blog dedicated to those occasions when professional cake decorating goes horribly wrong.
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The temples of Angkor Wat are crumbling under the feet of a million tourists each year. Since Cambodia depends on tourism, the country is trying to develop alternative destinations.
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A guy uses firecrackers to play a practical joke on his wife. She’ll never touch a gun again.
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Olympic torches through the years. Each Olympiad has its own torch, with its own story.
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Misheard Lyrics: Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter”. As many times as I’ve seen this, I still laugh.
Miss C, I love your column, but you need more coffee. Mornign Cup of Links? You been drinking the Bud? ;)
posted by beth on 7-24-2008 at 8:52 am
Just wanted to point out a typo in the title, it’s “Morning Cup of Links”, not “Mornign Cup of Links”.
posted by Nick on 7-24-2008 at 12:27 pm
Whoops! Sorry about that.
I’ll take it as a sign that you choose to malign my typo, however benign.
Fixed. It probably won’t be the last time.
posted by Miss Cellania on 7-24-2008 at 3:24 pm