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Interesting Links

First, submitted by our northern most New Jersey reader, these are wonderfully photo-shopped pictures fusing modern day Leningrad, with World War II era Leningrad or possibly Stalingrad. Scan down there are lots of them, some more subtle than others. (If somebody who reads Cyrillic could definitively identify the locale from reading either the text or the accompanying comments, that would be great.)

This next one, Cake-wrecks, is a blog we were informed about by a local Durham foodie. It is filled with hilarious and insightful pictures of professional cakes that maybe could have gone a different way... for better or worse. Her dry, caustic commentary on the cakes makes the site laugh-out-loud funny.

Finally, as far as the interesting links go, we have told you about Some Guy's Blog before, as he puts it, "if it were a book, you would read it on the toilet." This post caught our eye, fantastic old school, cartoon, beer commercials. You'll love them.

Links of interest

Have you heard Will Ferrell is doing George Bush II as a one man show on Broadway? It is called "You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush." This Ferrell's first foray onto stage. He recounted to the New York Times that his most memorable Broadway experience was attending shows with his father, the Righteous Brother's keyboardist. He will be doing a seventy-five minute show with no intermission. It runs through the middle of March. Read the whole story here.

Dan Hurley, heard of him? Maybe not, but he is doing good things with gifts he was given...read more here in the New York Post. His father, Bob Sr., and brother, Bobby Hurley were more well known, both in the wider world and the little corner of college and high school basketball they inhabited.

This is a fascinating policy piece on trains. It was written by a member of the New America Foundation a think tank that President Obama favors. We can only hope that he or somebody on his team read this piece before the stimulus bill was passed. We have hardly read a more articulate making of the case for investment in trains in America. Certainly, it appears quite evident that train infrastructure investment should be favored over interstate highways.

Finally a bemusing or disturbing story depending on your perspective submitted by a well-read Durhamanian. Wow, this is the textiest, texaholic ever! According to the New York Post, thirteen year-old Reina Hardesty racked 14,528 text messages in a month or nearly 470 per day. The cell phone bill statement her father got ran to more than 440 pages. Go figure she is from Southern California. At least she has unlimited texting, as do several of her closest pals.

This is the link to old Interesting Links posts. (You have to scroll below this one first, after clicking through the link.)

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