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Morning Cup of Links: Unfriend
by Miss Cellania - November 18, 2009 - 4:12 AM
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Oxford Word of the Year 2009 is Unfriend. With friends like these, who needs unfriends?
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Not all mom and pop businesses are worth saving, but those who serve their community the old-fashioned way have a place. This look at Busy Bee Hardware in Detroit shows just why. (via Metafilter)
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Can you name the most commonly used words in the English language? In this quiz, you’ll have twelve minutes to name the 100 words most used. (via J-Walk Blog)
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Seventeen Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat. Who knew president Lincoln was such a cat lover?
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Subways provide a great laboratory for psychology experiments. Here are some things we’ve learned over the years from strangers crowded together in a moving tube.
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Gary Brolsma, the star of the hit video Numa Numa, conducts the MSU marching band. You can probably guess what song.
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The remote Mustang caves of Nepal are yielding treasures and artworks that lead explorers to think it may be the legendary Shangri-La.
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Before They Came to America: Giants of Hong Kong Cinema. You know the names, but you probably don’t know their history.

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Comments (9)

  1. 66 of a 100 on the commonly used words test.

    posted by P. Esh on 11-18-2009 at 6:22 am

  2. I also got 66!

    posted by sjms on 11-18-2009 at 9:32 am

  3. I’m glad Numa Numa guy is embracing his fame. He’s the most famous marching band conductor ever.

    posted by Tracie on 11-18-2009 at 10:00 am

  4. I got 68! I feel dumb for missing some of those…

    posted by Lauren on 11-18-2009 at 11:56 am

  5. I got 68 but I feel dumb for missing some of those…

    posted by Lauren on 11-18-2009 at 11:57 am

  6. The Numa Numa video was awesome! Glad to see he’s got a good sense of humor about himself. :)

    posted by Krie on 11-18-2009 at 12:25 pm

  7. i keep hoping the word “frenger” will make it’s way into popular usage. it’s a combination of friend and stranger and simply means a bit of an in between, or could also mean a friend whom you find out, that you don’t know very well at all. it may not have been coined by the danish band “mew” but that’s certainly where i saw it first.

    posted by john m on 11-18-2009 at 12:47 pm

  8. I got a 69 on the quiz. I missed “of” and “as” in the top 20. According to the link after the test, that’s 80th percentile.

    posted by Zach on 11-18-2009 at 1:06 pm

  9. I love the Numa Numa guy! So glad to see this video!!!

    posted by Sara's Whimsy on 11-18-2009 at 1:29 pm

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