Miss Cellania
Morning Cup of Links: Crunchy Frog
by Miss Cellania - July 30, 2009 - 3:57 AM
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Jake Bronstein set the world record for longest whisper chain, passing a message through 59 people. The successful message was a marriage proposal to his girlfriend!
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A 1954 version of Ghost Busters, starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, and Fred MacMurray. A masterful mashup of 17 movies and TV shows.
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Make your own “Crunchy Frog” confection, made famous in the classic Monty Python sketch using Gummi frogs, Pop Rocks, and chocolate. “If we took the bones out it wouldn’t be crunchy would it?”
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10 Incidents of Cannibalism. As repulsive as the practice is, there’s a world of difference between eating corpses to survive and killing people to eat.
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Marvin Heemeyer spent a year and a half modifying a bulldozer into an “armored vehicle of vengeance”. In 2004, he rampaged through the town of Granby, Colorado, smashing vehicles and buildings, including the homes of those he felt had plotted against him.
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Upright Animals Looking Weird Doing Stuff. Cute, yes, but a bit unnerving, like maybe they are plotting against us.
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10 Ways to Vent Your Job Frustration Online. With so many people out of work, you might feel guilty about complaining, so these activities might help you work off steam.

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Comments (9)

  1. Damninteresting (bulldozer) seems to have encountered more problems. I hope someone can make the lives of the adhawkers damn interesting.

    posted by Tom on 7-30-2009 at 9:47 am

  2. Oh no. I hope the problem is temporary.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 7-30-2009 at 9:52 am

  3. Bah, I really wanted to see the Bulldozer story.

    posted by Reese on 7-30-2009 at 11:03 am

  4. Bah, I really wanted to see the bulldozer story too :(

    posted by Reese on 7-30-2009 at 11:03 am

  5. After some research, i found a youtube link to the killdozer.

    it’s a ten minute video of news footage of this man grinding through town.

    posted by Steven on 7-30-2009 at 12:25 pm

  6. Here’s a link to a story covering this on MSNBC:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5139598/

    posted by tpal on 7-30-2009 at 12:26 pm

  7. DI has been hacked before. Maybe they’ve run into trouble again.

    Actually, they’ve just started posting new stories after taking time off to put a book together. I’ve wasted many ah hour (ok, day) over there. It’s all pretty damn interesting.

    posted by crocostimpy on 7-30-2009 at 1:25 pm

  8. HAHAHAHA!! i happened to look at this reCaptcha for some odd reason…jurisdic- bulldoze

    that is all.

    posted by Steven on 7-30-2009 at 1:27 pm

  9. There is a book called Among the Cannibals where the author seeks out cannibalistic cultures and tries to understand it. It’s a pretty decent read.

    posted by lisa on 7-30-2009 at 2:10 pm

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