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Whale Breaches Onto Yacht In Cape Town – Two members of the Cape Town Sailing Academy had a narrow escape recently, as a Southern Right Whale breached directly onto their yacht (*cough* port side, if I’m not mistaken) – almost completely destroying the vessel. The images tell the story of the damage caused. The whale appeared to be unharmed and nobody on board was hurt. Follow the link to see what happened next. [travelblog]

Apple Absolutely Murdering It – Selling 3.27 Million iPads In June Quarter – Apple totally crushed it last quarter as expected, and even Apple’s guidance is impressive. Shares are up 3.5% after hours. iPad, Mac, and iPod shipments were all stronger than expected: Apple shipped 3.27 million iPads, 3.47 million Macs, and 9.4 million iPods during the June quarter. And the iPhone isn’t doing badly either.. [businessinsider]

Springboks To Be Fuelled By Castle? – The Springboks may well play with Castle Lager emblazoned on their jerseys again from next year. Sasol announced on Tuesday that they will not be renewing their R150m jersey sponsorship of the national rugby team. While there has been no official word on a possible new sponsor, Sport24 understands that SABMiller, of which Castle Lager is one of their most famous brands, are keen to get involved again. [koos]

Lindsay Lohan Goes To Jail – Lindsay Lohan began serving her 90-day jail sentence Tuesday morning. Cameras followed her SUV en route to the courthouse for a short hearing. She was then escorted to Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif, where she arrived to a media frenzy. t is expected that LiLo will serve approximately 1/3 of her 90-day sentence and will have her own room to separate her from the rest of the women. [modernmom]

Tshabalala’s Boots Join “Historical Monument” – The boots that Bafana Bafana’s Siphiwe Tshabalala used to score the first goal of the Soccer World Cup, during a match against Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg, will become part of an “historical monument” and will be on display at SAFA’s headquarters. If you want, my mom can get them bronzed for you? But then they need to stay at my place – next to my bronzed sandals.. [mail&guardian]

Digital Books Outsell Hardcover Books – Amazon.com, one of the United States’ largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books.In that time, Amazon said, it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no Kindle edition. Welcome to the future, my love. [nytimes]

BP Caught Photoshopping Images – BP’s public image problems took a turn for the weirder on Monday, with a blog exposing a poorly doctored photo of the company’s crisis command center in Houston that had been posted to the official crisis response website. The company has now come clean, claiming that the photographer who snapped the image was responsible for inserting three extra video screens into a bank of monitors. It still remains unclear why the alterations were even made in the first place. [aolnews]

Mel Gibson threatened To Kill Oksana, Then His Child, Then Himself – Mel Gibson threatened to kill his own baby daughter, Oksana Grigorieva, her son, and even himself, during the brutal brawl that is being investigated by police, according to statements Oksana has given authorities. Mel apparently punched Oksana twice in the head, and choked her with his forearm while she was holding the baby. Not ideal. Still no word from Danny Glover. [radar]

The $40,000 Ferrari Book – UK ultra-luxury publisher Kraken Opus, known for using real blood in some of their outlandish tomes, plans to charge $40,000 for a forthcoming book on Ferrari. The epic volume, which will be limited to just 399 copies, is signed by all living Ferrari champion racing drivers. The text is accompanied by hundreds of rare and previously unpublished archival images, including unseen pictures of Enzo Ferrari’s villa. [luxist]

How Did The Same Dress Get On The Covers of W, Elle & Vogue? Getting yourself on three glossy magazine covers in the same month is quite some feat. But that’s exactly what has happened this month. Only the success hasn’t been won by a publicity-hungry Hollywood star, but a dress. An appliqued Miu Miu dress, to be precise, costing between £1,515 and £3,210. It simultaneously stars on the August covers of British Vogue, UK Elle and the US super-glossy, W. [guardian]

17 Year Old Swaps Cellphone For Porsche – You know here in Cape Town we have the Cape Ads or Gumtree? Ja well in the States they use “Craigslist” classfied ads online. So hows this – Starting with an old cell phone a friend gave him, 17-year-old Steven Ortiz of Glendora, CA, used Craigslist to trade up 14 times over two years and eventually end up with a Porsche Boxster. No spice. Here’s how he did it. [jalopnik]

Women Are At Their Most Beautiful At 31 – Women in their late 20s and early 30s are considered more attractive than fresh-faced eighteen and nineteen year olds, researchers found. The findings, from a survey of the opinions of over 2,000 men and women, found that beauty was as much rooted in personality as appearance. Beauty was defined as being confident by 70 per cent of respondents, having good looks by 67 per cent and being stylish by 47 per cent. [telegraph]

Thursday’s SuperEna Jackpot Finally Hits R1 Billion – It’s there, gang – the Italian lottery is sporting a 1 Billion Rand jackpot (EUR 101,000,000). Don’t forget that you can get your ticket safely and securely online right now and stand a chance of winning that ridiculous sum of money. Have you given it any thought, by the way? You know – what would you do with the money if you won? [2oceansvibelottos]

Just When You Thought You’d Seen It All – Gayniggers From Outer Space is a 1992 short film which tells the story of a group of intergalactic homosexual black men from the planet “Anus” who discover the presence of female creatures on planet Earth. Using guns which shoot deadly rays, they proceed to eliminate females one by one from Earth, which ensures them the ecstatic gratitude of the previously oppressed male population. [wikipedia]

[thanks nico, pete]