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Morning Cup of Links: Trucking the Alps
by Miss Cellania - February 18, 2009 - 3:27 AM
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Traditional media is in trouble, if not dying out already. How will we get our news in the future?
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The guys from Top Gear find out it’s not so easy to drive an eighteen-wheeler, especially in the Alps! Don’t give up your day jobs, fellas. (via Dark Roasted Blend)
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Put some random people in a group, give them a task and soon enough a leader will emerge. Learn how to recognize, or be, that leader.
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Presidential Cocktails: History of the White House Wet Bar. Even the president who supported Prohibition had his private stock!
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5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won’t). Some honest-to-goodness great advice from Cracked.
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71 pictures of odd things seen in subways (some NSFW). Aren’t camera phones the greatest thing ever invented? (via Gorilla Mask)
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Bonus nonsense: Two musical puns that will make you groan and giggle.
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Honeybees: Masters of Utility. These strangest of insects are builders, soldiers, and manufacturers, and our agriculture depends on them.

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Comments (10)

  1. NSFW @ the subway pictures… some nudity

    posted by DYMongoose on 2-18-2009 at 11:24 am

  2. Top Gear= best show ever

    posted by Mandragora on 2-18-2009 at 12:32 pm

  3. I wish I had read DYMongoose’s comment before clicking on the subway link. I was blocked from viewing the site at work. The message that popped up? ADULT CONTENT. Great. Now corporate probably thinks I was trying to view porn at work.

    Oh, and I’m blocked from Cracked because work thinks it’s TASTELESS. Geez.

    posted by K on 2-18-2009 at 12:43 pm

  4. The guys from Top Gear find out it’s not so easy to drive an eighteen-wheeler, especially in the Alps! Don’t give up your day jobs, fellas.

    Um, I do believe that is their day job.

    posted by Sparky on 2-18-2009 at 1:18 pm

  5. I love Top Gear! Those guys are hilarious. My favorite episode is the one where they build a convertible mini-van. They get it stuck in a car wash and the car wash catches on fire. Quality entertainment!

    posted by crocostimpy on 2-18-2009 at 1:28 pm

  6. Re: Traditional media is in trouble, if not dying out already. How will we get our news in the future?

    If traditional media could be relied upon to deliver the news objectively, they probably wouldn’t be dying out in the first place.

    Have you noticed that it’s now more expensive to buy 1 copy of the Sunday edition of the New York Times ($4 in NY, $5 elsewhere) than it is to buy 1 copy of New York Times stock (closed at $3.77 yesterday)?

    posted by gmsc on 2-18-2009 at 1:56 pm

  7. Sorry about that, K. I added that just now.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 2-18-2009 at 2:07 pm

  8. Re: Traditional media is in trouble, if not dying out already. How will we get our news in the future?

    I don’t know about you, but I’m already finding it harder to find the news I’m interested in now. Seems to me that news is devolving from actual reporting to just another form of entertainment.

    My local newspaper has been slashed down to fluff and advertisments. CNN has cut their entire science reporting corp (kudos to Chris Higgins BTW for regularly posting great science stuff… keep it up!).

    I’m also getting sick of hearing whatever the stupid story of the moment is spun over-and-over again (I could care less about a lady with too many kids of whatever moronic thing some celebrity has done…)

    So I find myself turning to the internet to find out what’s actually happening in the world. I keep hearing visual and print media complaining about losing viewers/readers to the Internet… my argument is they’re not losing them, they’re giving them away. The first news agency that figures this out and starts to report again might see more people return.

    Ahh… Thanks. I feel better now. [/rant]

    posted by Jason! on 2-18-2009 at 4:13 pm

  9. Marmosets are weird looking.

    posted by Sara on 2-18-2009 at 4:50 pm

  10. Love top gear, I love the episode when they go to America and get chased by rednecks in Alabama

    posted by doedina on 2-18-2009 at 10:30 pm

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