Mon. 07/19 - It Brings Good Things Back to Life

Coca-Cola brings your dead taste buds back to life with a new Coke Zero formulation that probably definitely certainly won’t produce a New Coke outrage, Olympic athletes can perform team gymnastics on the beds provided in Japan, and how to watch Jeff Bezos fly into space with all his money. All that and duck-tape fashion.

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Coca-Cola Is Changing the Flavor of a Soda. Again. (New York Times) The Story of One of the Most Memorable Marketing Blunders Ever (Coca-Cola Company) Don Keough Speech Classic Coke Poochie (Simpsons Wiki) Goodbye, Poochie (YouTube) New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered (Mother Jones) Was the ‘New Coke’ Fiasco Just a Clever Marketing Ploy? (Snopes) ‘Old Coke’ Booster Can’t Taste the Difference (AP) The Real Coke, the Real Story by Thomas Oliver (Penguin Random House) Anti-sex beds tweet by Rhys McClenaghan (Twitter) “Thanks for debunking the myth” from the official Olympics account (Twitter) ‘Anti-Sex’ Beds in the Olympic Village? A Social Media Theory Is Soon Debunked (New York Times) Why some athletes at the Tokyo Olympics won’t be vaccinated (Axios) SpaceX’s 22nd Cargo Resupply Mission Underway as Dragon Journeys to Station (NASA) As Artemis Moves Forward, NASA Picks SpaceX to Land Next Americans on Moon (NASA) Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic crew go to the edge of space and back (Los Angeles Times) How to Watch Jeff Bezos Go to Space (Wired) 2021 Stuck At Prom Entry Gallery (Duck Brand duct tape) Glenn on Twitter (Twitter)

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