North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has died, CNN reports. And with him dies a great novelty Tumblog.
I think I just heard every venture capital firm fire up their private jets.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead, state TV reports - CNN
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Kim Jong-Il is dead
Rooster kills woman
A domestic rooster killed a 76-year-old woman on her rural property in Australia. The rooster pecked the woman, twice puncturing her skin, and she died. Unfortunately, she had preexisting conditions that caused her to bleed out very quickly. The physicians published the unusual case in the journal Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology. From the abstract: […]
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Visiting the dead on Google Street View
Over at OK Whatever, Jessie Schiewe tells of people who have looked up family addresses on Google Street View and found ghostly images of their dead loved ones in the midst of their everyday lives — mowing the lawn, grabbing the mail, washing the car. From OK Whatever: …For most people, finding dead relatives in […]
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If you think Jeffrey Epstein was murdered because no prison would treat an inmate that negligently...
Ken "Popehat" White (previously) has expanded on his excellent Twitter thread about Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in jail, and just how (shamefully) normal it is for prisoners to die in custody due to indifference, overwork, malfeasance and sadism on the part of prison authorities.
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Learn how to build apps for iOS 13 with the help of this elite training
If you’re just jumping into app development for Apple’s devices, you’ve picked a heady time. The new iOS 13 has a ton of new features: A versatile SwiftUI language, a boosted role for Siri and a more robust Photos app, just to name a few. And if you’re making the transition from iOS 12? Get […]
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Take half off this gravity-defying bonsai tree pot
Most people don’t spare a lot of thought on the potting for their plants. Perhaps something with a color that matches the walls, but that’s as far as it goes. After all, the plants don’t care what they’re wearing. Do they? Actually, they might. As eye-catching as the AIRSAI Floating Bonsai Plant Pot is, its […]
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Real estate investing isn't just for the 1% anymore
With the gains real estate has made over stocks in the past 25 years, it’s easy to see why the rich constantly use it to expand their wealth. What’s slightly less obvious is why only the rich seem to ever break into real estate investment. There are a lot of reasons, but a couple of […]
