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FOXNews.com - Japanese Expert: North Korean Leader... →
Is Kim Jong Il for real? The question has baffled foreign intelligence agencies for years, but a veteran Japanese expert on North Korea says the “dear leader” is actually dead — and his role is played by a double.
The expert says Kim died of diabetes in 2003 and world leaders, including Vladimir Putin of Russia and Hu Jintao of China, have been negotiating with an imposter.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-6-28) →
Wilco (11)
The Murder City Devils (8)
U-God (4)
Beirut (4)
Queen (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Subway Art 25th Anniversary Special Edition →
There is no arguing the pivotal roles Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant played in the documentation of New York City hip hop and graffiti from the late 70s through the 1980s, and that their images have been just as crucial to these movements’ recent resurgence in popularity. Many of Cooper’s and Chalfant’s now iconic photos were collected in the 1984 publication Subway Art, limited to an initial...
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Meet North Korea’s New Top Cop →
There’s a new sheriff in Pyongyang: South Korea’s Dong-a Ilbo reports that Kim Jong-un, the son of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, has been named the head of the country’s secret police.
Kim Jong-il is in failing health, and the Dear Leader has reportedly set up Kim Jong-un, his third son, as successor. Bloomberg, quoting a senior South Korean official, suggests that a handover of power may be...
Hunt for Life on Saturnian Moon Heats Up →
The plumes of gas and ice shooting from the south pole of the Saturnian moon Enceladus contain sodium salts, which is the best evidence so far that the satellite harbors a liquid water ocean.
NASA’s Cassini probe observed the salts in Saturn’s outermost ring, which is believed to be composed of material ejected from Enceladus. That news, published Wednesday in Nature, is sure to excite...
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The RIAA's Still Watching, Fining Heavily →
According to a recent article by Electronic House, each song amounted up to a hefty $80,000 each. Yeah, that new Lady Gaga single? Damages done by that song amount up to about four of those 103-inch plasma screens we were looking at the other day. Or about the combined annual income of the average married couple in the U.S.
The mother of four quoted: “There’s no way they’re ever going to...
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WatchI posted this a while back, but it really does need to be reposted. You’ll LOVE me for it:
I found this the other day and finally figured out that this is from a Tortoise video. This is by far one of the best videos I’ve seen done by a band in quite a while. If you are from the band or the record label that represents them and would like me to remove the video from this website,...
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“Kodachrome is dead.”
– RIP Kodachrome | Raw File | Wired.com
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WatchI took this video a few weeks back, as I was steadily working on a Portrait Show that I am participating in. The show will be in July at the local thrift shop Bows & Arrows. I’ll post more pics and/or videos when I can.
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Michael Jackson Dead?
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Farrah Fawcett: Death of an Angel →
After a three-year fight with cancer, actress Farrah Fawcett died today at age 62. No one is likely to argue that Charlie’s Angels, the TV series for which she’s best known, was a masterpiece of video storytelling or a landmark for actresses (“There were three little girls…”). But Fawcett herself, as a star during her brief run on the show and as a world-famous sex...
Megan Fox's Shunned Flower Child Found! →
June 24, 1993: Concert Goes Live on Net
June 24,... →
June 24: It’s the anniversary of two internet milestones: The geek band Severe Tire Damage performs the first live net concert on this date in 1993, and exactly seven years later Bill Clinton delivers the president’s weekend “radio address” by web for the first time.
1993: The internet was moving from military to mainstream, and from academic to pandemic. TheWorld Wide Webwas already up and...
“On my blog, I reprint letters from newspaper advice columns with my own comical...”
– Mr. Know-It-All on Dear Abby’s Copyright, H-1B Visa Resentment, and College Fund Nosedives
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Banished Employee, Others Speak Out Against... →
Riam Dean, the Abercrombie & Fitch employee who was sent to the stockroombecause her prosthetic arm violated the store’s “Look Policy,” is suing for £20,000. Her mom and a fellow ex-Abercrombie employee e-mailed us about Abercrombie’s discrimination.