Core77

This isn't strictly design-related, but it's interesting nonetheless.

I've got a buddy who writes for the newswires, where it's all about getting breaking news out first. So when they get a whiff that something might happen--say you hear a rumor that a certain CEO has contracted a fatal illness--they'll often pre-write the news of it and put it on ice. When the event comes to pass, they plug in the numbers and post it.

Well, apparently Steve Jobs' obituary (17 pages long, for chrissakes) was written by the staff over at Bloomberg, and Wednesday someone accidentally hit the "Publish" button. The mistake was swiftly retracted, but not before Gawker cut-and-pasted and reposted the whole thing.

For the record Jobs, thank God, is absolutely fine.