If you want something more unusual to hang on your wall than a beaded antelope head, which the Insider has spotted at many a trendy local establishment, consider Summers Place Auctions’ latest piece: the auctioneer is about to put a dodo skeleton up for sale, more than 300 years after the Mauritian bird’s extinction. Sailors hunted the dodo into extinction, and it was made famous by Lewis Carroll, who included a dodo in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It looks like the guide price for the skeleton will be between £300,000 and £500,000, though, so perhaps it would be best, after all, to pick up a beaded bokkie skull sold along William Nicol. A Kim by no other names, please In an attempt not to (further) upset North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, China has blocked internet searches for Fatty Kim the Third. It seems many Chinese people have been using the unflattering name when referring to "Supreme Leader". Internet users in China say that searches on several sites for Fatty Kim the Thi...
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