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CA Real Estate Agent Says Zodiac Serial Killer Was Her Father

cipher signature of the serial killer known as Zodiac
The identify of a  serial killer in California in the late 1960s, known as Zodiac, from a symbol attached to letters he sent to the San Francisco Chronicle, has remained unknown for over 40 years.  Until yesterday, when a real estate agent from Corona, CA, Deborah Perez, [...]

BreakingNews: Instant Hyperlocal News Via Twitter

One of my projects, TheClozing,  aims to deliver real estate news in a new way.  Our plans include incorporating social media news.  And I think I know who to call.

Pat Kitano and Kevin Boer’s Domus Consulting Group unveiled their BreakingNews Twitter project to deliver instant “hyperlocal news”.
The idea is to:
broadcast what is happening in each [...]

Seattle’s PI Newspaper Will Close if Not Sold in 60 Days; Craig Newmark Denies Responsibility

Bird owners will have one less source of cage liners if the Seattle Post- Intelligencer is not sold within 60 days.
The Seattle P-I’s parent company, The Hearst Corp., said Friday it has put the 146 year old paper on the block and will stop publishing the newspaper unless some sucker one buys it in 60 [...]

Free Speech in Florida? Student Tasered at Kerry Q&A

Video here. Censorship up close and personal. Kerry’s response.

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There Goes The Neighborhood: Sink Hole Swallows Guatemala Homes

National Geographic reported the news that a 30 story sinkhole gobbled a dozen homes in a poor section of Guatemala City. The cause is unknown but likely due to an underground sewer pipe rupture combined with heavy rains. A new expression was coined on the spot: “You don’t know your ass from a Guatemalan [...]

JFK Assassin’s Window Fetches $3 Million

The alleged window used by Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate John F. Kennedy has been sold for $3 million. The Texas Schoolbook Depository is privately owned and the family sold the window on e-bay. Sometimes, even a window can be unzillowable because of its provenance.
Source: BBC News.

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Don’t Eat The Yellow, Orange Or Pink Snow

Orange snow in Siberia

Watch out where the huskies go, and don’t you eat that yellow snow. (lyrics, Frank Zappa)
On January 31st, orange snow fell is several remote areas of Western Siberia. Officials said the unusual orange color was caused by the presence of mud and sand common in the Kazakh steppe but posed [...]




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