UCT’s 2010 SAX Appeal Goes On Sale Tomorrow

SAX Appeal Goes On Sale Tomorrow – Make sure you’ve got twenty bucks on your person tomorrow morning because you are going to be besieged by both hot and ugly, naked and fully clothed, UCT students selling the 2010 SAX Appeal magazine at traffic lights across the globe. That’s only half the price of a tik straw and I’m proud to say it features a little article by yours truly! You might need some tik for that.. [saxappeal]

iPhone App Designed For Gays To Find Immediate Action – Technology is bringing men closer together – even to the point of penetration. With the help of the iPhone, mobile application use has grown exponentially from elite tech fashion to an entire culture of app whores. If there’s an app for anything from emergency medical advice to language translation, is it any surprise there’s one to calculate distance to sex? [dailybeast]

District 9 And Invictus Get Combined Six Oscar Nominations – District 9 quietly positioned itself for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing and Best Visual Effects. While Invictus is standing by for Best Actor (Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela) and Best Supporting Actor (Matt Daaaamon as Francois Pienaar) Award. Good luck, you crazy kids! Full list here. [moviefone]

9-Year-Old Chinese Girl Gives Birth To Baby Boy – A nine-year-old Chinese schoolgirl has become one of the world’s youngest mothers after giving birth to a healthy boy. She gave birth to the 6lb boy by Caesarean section. The child comes from the province of Changchun and her family refused to discuss the pregnancy, but confirmed they had reported it to the police. The legal age for sex in the province is 14. Baking! [dailymail]

Where Does Advertising End And PR Begin? – PR firms are beginning to encroach on territory that used to be the domain of advertising firms, a sign of their increasing clout. Now they also dream up and orchestrate live events, web launches, blog exposure and the like. “When you look at advertising versus PR,” says Christopher Graves, the boss of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. “It may be indistinguishable at some point where one ends and the other begins.” [economist]

Tatler’s “Best Dressed” List Features Some Newcomers – She’s not on the celebrity A-list, she’s not a supermodel, actress or aristocrat – and you are more likely to find her munching Krispy Kreme doughnuts than edamame beans. But when it comes to dressing well, it seems there’s not a lot that even the most glamorous women in the world can teach Caroline Sieber – named the best-dressed woman in the world by fashion bible Tatler magazine. [dailymail]

Kiwi Girl Sells Her Virginity – A 19-year-old New Zealand student “sold” her virginity to a stranger for more than 45 000 New Zealand dollars ($31 500) to pay university fees, according to news reports on Wednesday.The student, who called herself “Unigirl” in an advertisement on an auction website, said she received more than 1 200 bids from the 30 000 people who viewed her ad online. Excellent! [news24]

Celebs Get Together For Remake Of We Are The World – The energy was electric Monday night (February 1) at Henson Studios as more than 80 of music’s biggest stars gathered for a charity remake of “We Are the World” in support of Haitian earthquake relief. Among the voices in the 81-member choir were Pink, Kanye West, Nick Jonas, LL Cool J, Celine Dion, Akon, Wyclef, Jeff Bridges, Vince Vaughn (wow!), Barbra Streisand, Good Charlotte, Tony Bennett, Josh Groban, Snoop Dogg, and TONS more. [mtv]

Actor Rip Torn Gets Drunk, Loads Gun, Breaks Into Bank – Torn, 78, was being held on $100,000 bond after state police responded to an alarm at the Litchfield Bank in Salisbury, the Connecticut town where the actor lives, and found him inside the closed bank “with a loaded revolver” and “highly intoxicated,” according to a police report issued on Saturday.He was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief and weapons charges. Awesome! [celebuzz]

Supermodel Doutzen Kroes Gets Them Out – One of our favourites, Doutzen Kroes, was in St. Barths this week where a costume change was captured on camera. Very thankfully. The costume change was very thankfully captured on camera. Thank you, cameraman. [superficial]

The Potential For A 40-MPH Man – The human frame is built to handle running speeds up to 40 miles per hour, scientists say. The only limiting factor is not how much brute force is required to push off the ground as previously thought, but how fast our muscle fibers can contract to ramp up that force. [wired]

Michael Jackson doctor to face manslaughter charge – Michael Jackson’s personal doctor Conrad Gallagher Murray will be charged with involunary manslaughter over the singer’s death, a US official said on Tuesday. In order to prove involuntary manslaughter prosecutors will have to show that Dr Murray was negligent in his care of Jackson. Under California law the charge carries a maximum sentence of four years. [telegraph]

Vaal Dam Floods – The Vaal dam floods have submerged houses, washed people away and left officials praying for no more rain. The M&G Online took a look at the mayhem. [mail&guardian]

[thanks paul]