New Year’s Linker – 01/01/09
by graeme
Canada
- A Sewage-ocalypse threatens TO.
- Meet the luckiest snowboarder in the world.
- The True North remains totally awesome at hockey.
World
- Controversial international relations thinker Samuel Huntington has died.
- Meet Lemon the Duck- a disabled waterfowl that teaches kids about disabilities.
- Russia cuts off gas to Ukraine. Again.
- A rash of Baby Jesus thefts have hit the USA. Also, a rash has hit Baby Jesus.
- The Green Zone belongs to Iraq again.
- Cuba celebrates 50 years of the revolution…for some reason.
- Sarah Palin’s brood of troglodyte frogspawn has expanded.
Media
- The Consumerist breaks up with Gawker, gets together with Consumer Report.
Pop Culture
- Loren Coleman predicts 2009 will be the “Year of the Creature” at the movies.