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George Jones, known as “the greatest voice in country music,” died today at a Nashville Hospital. He was 81 years old.

Rihanna, Sting, Ziggy Marley, and Bruno Mars pay tribute to Bob Marley
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RIP Andre Cassagnes, your toy made my childhood complete

RIP Mayor [made via]

“My friend’s husband was assigned to transport the remains of Neil Armstrong back to Washington DC aboard Air Force 1.” [via]

Marty, the cat that inspired Nyan Cat, passed away last night. R.I.P. on behalf of the Daily Dot team. You will be missed.

Apple founder Steve Jobs died a year ago today.

I’ll never forget catching the breaking news on Twitter and working with our editor-in-chief Owen Thomas to get out an obituary while the rest of the Daily Dot team rallied to cover the flood of tangential stories.

One of my favorite pieces following his death was of Jonathan Mak, a graphic designer who designed a beautiful black and white Apple logo featuring a silhouette of Jobs’ face.

“This event shocked me. I’ve always looked out for these sort of powerful events. I’ve done similar minimalistic designs after the tsunami struck Japan and Sept. 11,” Mak said. “Those are similar in the sense that I was trying to transform these events into simple graphics and just hope people appreciate them. The simplicity seems to give it a somber quality. I was just sad that Steve was resigning, and I wanted to show how integral he was. He was an inseparable part. It was like Apple was missing a piece now that he’s gone.”

Mak’s illustration ended up collecting more than 1,900 comments on Tumblr.

In remembrance of Jobs, I remixed Mak’s logo into the following gif.

- Fern