Language warning: John Howard is a DJ! Some people are just clever

celebveggies:

Celerena Williams

Pretty catchy track!

copo-de-nieve:

MERRY CHRISTMAS - SYDNEY - AUSTRALIA by Stephan Roletto on Flickr.

The following is my first “predictions for next year” blog post written as an industry analyst. If you’re expecting to read yet another ramble about cloud, mobile, social, location and every other current buzzword, let me save you the time and tell you to move on now. While each of those topics is important, they are things that vendors and executives discuss, not what’s on the minds of most employees. Below I present five of the things I think will have an impact in 2012 (and are areas I’m writing reports on). Enjoy and please let me know what you think. 

bitshare:

Yesterday, it was announced by the North Korean government that the Supreme Leader (dictator) Kim Jong-il had died from a heart attack while riding a train to an area outside Pyongyang, North Korea.

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Chicken bacon leek pie! Went down a treat. 

A social media guy’s Santa letter. 

idroolinmysleep:

The biggest stories of 2011, according to BBC News’s readers. It’s a little Brit-centric, of course, but still shows the worldwide stories with the most impact. I wonder how much of a spike Kim Jong-il’s death would eventually make.