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Morning Cup of Links: The Dirtiest Hotels
by Miss Cellania - January 30, 2009 - 4:05 AM
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“A most decided humbug.” George Hull raked in the money exhibiting the Cardiff Giant. His followup, the Ape-Man from Colorado, didn’t go over quite as well.
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Think you can write a blog post for Neatorama? Anyone can, with the new Upcoming Queue feature, and if it’s neat enough, it will be published!
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Pittsburgh vs. Arizona Super Bowl Food-Off. Which location has the best game day snack foods in their restaurants? Vote for your favorites!
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Make your own Valentine message hearts. These are bigger, taste better, and say cooler things than the little candy hearts you know.
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20 Baffling Foreign Movie Posters. Artists know they don’t have to actually see a movie to create a poster that has nothing to do with the film advertised.
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The Top Ten Dirtiest Hotels. Reading the details made my skin crawl. And itch.
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I suffered three days without internet access, but I was lucky, since over a million homes are still without any power at all after Tuesday’s ice storm. Kentucky and Arkansas have the dubious honor of being president Obama’s first declared disaster areas.
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A Surprisingly Long List of People Who’ve Attempted Suicide. There is always hope, as these many celebrities proved after they tried to end it all.

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Comments (4)

  1. It’s a world of extremes! In Melbourne Australia, we are suffering power outages as the temperature reached above 40C (104F) for the third day in a row, today it was 45C (113F) but at least today blackouts at my place were only a couple of minutes long

    posted by neuromesh on 1-30-2009 at 7:16 am

  2. I’ve seen the Cardiff Giant in Cooperstown. It’s sitting in an outdoor glass case on a random stretch of lawn at the historical village, with a tiny sign. The only reason I recognized it was because I had heard about it the year before.

    posted by gibson8or on 1-30-2009 at 9:30 am

  3. I’m in NW Arkansas and it is pretty bad. 100,000 people are without power, they have shelters open, and Sears advertised on TV that they’re going to be open today to sell generators and chainsaws. We have power, but that’s because we’re on the same line as a nursing home. The local news station lost power on Wednesday, but they got it back up quickly.

    University of Arkansas has no power, including some of their dorms. Schools have been closed all week. Even highways haven’t been cleared all the way. We tried going out yesterday, but our car got stuck trying to go up a hill because they haven’t gotten to plowing it. A large limb fell on our car, and it took almost three hours to get all the ice off of it. A neighbor of ours has to work, but that’s because he’s a police officer, who have been on duty trying to get people out of the homes that have no power.

    In NE Arkansas, we have some family who have live wires in their driveway. All the lines to their house have been cut. One of their cars were smashed by a limb. There’s a huge tree that landed on their roof which, thankfully, hadn’t caused it to cave in yet. They’re staying with their son because he has a generator and propane heater. They’ve been told that it may take a month for them to get power restored.

    Needless to say, it may take weeks for them to dig out the state. It really does need the federal money. This is apparently the worst ice storm the state has ever had.

    posted by NicoNico on 1-30-2009 at 11:15 am

  4. Geez- can;t celebrities get one thing done right? Shame they couldn’t.

    posted by Hurricane on 1-30-2009 at 2:06 pm

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