Morning Coffee

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January 6, 2010

morning coffee new sized right Going shopping for bananas in Spain? Thanks to an error by drug smugglers, you might end up with a whole lotta cocaine.

Ice more your thing? Check out these photos from the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.

Speaking of cold: a super sweet high-tech whaling protest boat gets cut in half and sunk by a Japanese security vessel off the coast of Antarctica.

It’s not all bad news though, “Troops Protect Chimps from Volcano Lava” (which sorta brings us back to bananas… ok, not really).

BSKY

Isaac Fitzgerald

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeneyâ€™s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed Newsâ€™ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses Twitter.