I have nothing to add here but you’ve got to check out these macabre woodblock newspaper prints this ost from Pink Tentacle. I especially love that these were a prominent form of mass entertainment.
For a brief period in the mid-1870s, artistic woodblock prints known as “newspaper nishiki-e” were a popular form of mass entertainment in [...]

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Looks like the Somali pirates uncovered much more than they bargained for when they nabbed that Ukrainian ship a few weeks ago.
From The Economist:
THE publication of the manifest of a Ukrainian ship recently captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia is embarrassing Kenya’s government. It apparently shows that MV Faina’s cargo of 33 [...]

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I accidentally came upon this item, about Grammy-winning producer Mark Ronson, who produces Amy Winehouse, attending the opening of a new Korean BBQ restaurant in Hollywood called Shin. Actually, I have no idea who Ronson is, but was doing searches on Korean food.
Naturally, the opening spewed forth a number of who’s who gossip items [...]

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You may or may not have heard that president Lee Myung-bak has authorized a 240,000 won credit to tax paying workers making between 24 and 36 million won (the credit is slightly different for those making more or less). The idea behind the credit is to offset the cost of the oil prices that skyrocketed [...]

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