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Morning Cup of Links: How to Lose $20 Billion
by Miss Cellania - January 22, 2009 - 3:36 AM
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How to Lose $20 Billion of Value in 2 Trading Days. The story of Bank of America and its disastrous deal with Merrill Lynch.
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Mashing Up Literature, the game of taking two well-known books and combining them. Check the comments for more silly ideas.
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This song of reconciliation after a tough presidential election is pleasant, if schmaltzy. What is really impressive is the audio and video manipulation.
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Keeping your used car can save you big bucks in the long run. The author of this post figures he saved $25,000 by driving his ’95 Prism instead of trading it for a new car. (via Lifehacker)
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Top 10 Star Wars Sports Crossovers. Don’t miss the video of the Storm Trooper playing the national anthem! (via Metafilter)
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She isn’t as well-known as Jane Goodall or Dian Fossey, but Birute Mary Galdikas has devoted her life to the orangutans of Indonesia. She’s worried about how palm oil plantations are destroying their territory.
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What’s the difference between running amok and going berserk? And where did those phrases come from, anyway?

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Comments (5)

  1. Wow that’s quite a new way to spell morning. Mmornign. I think I’ll use it sometime. :O)

    posted by Tricia on 1-22-2009 at 4:36 am

  2. Looks like someone had a few too many cups of coffee…

    posted by Vickey on 1-22-2009 at 6:13 am

  3. My kids, who were about 10 and 7 at the time, discovered that majestic movie soundtracks (especially LOTR) are great fun to play alongside of mundane TV shows with the sound muted–shipping containers being unloaded, for instance. Really heightens the drama of the offloading.

    posted by Little Mashers on 1-22-2009 at 9:06 am

  4. There’s a reason they enacted laws back in the ’30s to regulate financial institutions.
    But deregulation and free markets will never let us down!
    Will they never learn? Probably not.

    posted by BassMan on 1-22-2009 at 9:35 am

  5. So, if you keep your existing car and don’t buy a new car you will save money? What a concept, that guy must be a genius.

    posted by Ryan Sarmast on 1-22-2009 at 11:08 am

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