In the past few months North Korea has embraced social media, first creating a YouTube channel, and in August a Twitter account with the name @uriminzok, which roughly means ‘our people’ in Korean. North Korea has since been busy and has already racked up 457 tweets for its 10,334 followers. Pyongyang is however being very selective over who it chooses to follow. As of today it has followed only 13 other accounts. Who are these 13 accounts that North Korea has deemed worthy of following? You might be surprised by the answer.

via reviewmylife.

How Oct. 4 - Oct. 15, 1582 came to be simply declared out of existence by Pope Gregory XIII:

The commission sent its report to the pope Sept. 14, 1580. He issued a papal bull on Feb. 24, 1582, declaring that the new calendar would go into force in October (when there were few holy days), and that 10 days would be skipped. The day after Oct. 4 would be called not Oct. 5, but Oct. 15.

via wired.com.

Imagine doing something like that today...

We're looking out from Heritage house (which HCC built) in the AIC Kijabe Hospital campus. I've been to Kijabe several times, and this is one of my favorite views. In the distance is the Great Rift Valley.