SA’s Biggest Selling Rock Band, Just Jinjer
Rocking out at the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate

2010 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate a “Raging Success” – Saturday saw the annual L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate horse race take place at Kenilworth Race Course. The favourite Pocket Power took the main race, as the real favourites, Just Jinjer and Goldfish rocked out at the concert at the end of the event! Humans and supermodels alike danced the night away! Photos to come. [lqp]

Goldfish Goes Platinum – Having dominated the concert at the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate the night before, Goldfish went on to play their Sunday night gig at La Med in Cape Town, where Sony SA surprised them with a platinum record, indicating a milestone of sales for their Perceptions of Pacha album. Congrats, boys!

Virgin Active Blocks 2oceansvibe – Twitter was abuzz on Saturday morning as reports came in of their being no access to 2oceansvibe at Virgin Active gyms. They put it down to the “swearing” on the site. Which is interesting, given the fact that News24 (which they do have access to) have been known to use the “C” word. See you in the showers… [boom]

Mr. Delivery Lies – Having eaten a mid-week Butlers Pizza, we took a chance on Sunday night and ordered from Mr. Delivery. After an hour, the driver arrived with the food, claiming that he didn’t bring the Cokes we ordered, because the 7 Eleven didn’t have any. Umm, that’s a lie. Three hours and five phone calls later, the Cokes arrived. Never again.

Gordon Brown Found Strength in Madiba “invictus” Poem – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has described an attempted coup against him as “silliness” and revealed Nelson Mandela’s favourite poem (inspiration behind the recent ’95 World Cup / Madiba movie with the same name) gave him the strength to govern. [sky]

The Fox-Murdoch Feud – Wendi Murdoch encouraged Rupert’s son-in-law to fire a rocket at Fox News boss Roger Ailes—the first salvo in an escalating war between Murdoch’s heirs and the company brass for the future of one of media’s hottest enterprises. Awesome! [dailybeast]

Open Source 3-D Printer Turns Designs Into Objects Added – Wired.com checks out MakerBot’s Cupcake CNC 3-D Printer. Using PLA, ABS, or HDPE plastic, this open source, $950 kit allows the user to fabricate small objects of virtually any shape. There’s a video – extremely cool. [wired]

Virtual Suicide: Erase Your Virtual Life – Many of us spend time at social-networking sites like Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn. If you use those sites, you know how easy it is to happily fritter away hours in the Twitterverse or some other online community. But what happens if you get sick of all those messages on your Facebook wall? If you just can’t stand the chatter anymore? [npr]

James Hunt’s Porsche for sale – F1 champion James Hunt’s ultra-rare and desirable right-hand drive Porsche 911 3-litre Carrera RS could be yours for £365,000. Hunt retained use of the car through to 1976, the year he took the F1 World Championship at the wheel of a McLaren. [telegraph]

Where On Earth Is Tiger Woods? – His rumoured whereabouts range from a series of exotic locations around the globe to the idea that he might still be holed up in his Florida mansion, undergoing lengthy sessions of marriage counselling in the wake of revelations of his serial adultery with numerous women. But only one thing is clear: no one has any idea where he is. [mail&guardian]

Victoria Beckham Blows £1m on Posh Shopping Spree – On her latest visit to Milan – where husband David is currently residing – Victoria Beckham couldn’t resist spending an enormous £1 million in the local stores. [hellomagazine]

Togo Withdraw From African Cup, as Death Toll Increases – Togo have withdrawn from the African Nations Cup in Angola following the machine gun attack on their team bus on Friday, with the death toll now understood to have risen to three. The team bus was attacked by rebels after crossing the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo into the Angolan enclave of Cabinda ahead of the tournament. [espn]

Avatar Global Sales Up To $1.34 Billion – Fox’s “Avatar” avalanche piled boxoffice higher than any other film for a fourth consecutive weekend, with an estimated $48.5 million tally in the latest frame producing a $429 million domestic cume. Doubly deep foreign grosses give James Cameron’s sci-fi epic a $1.34 billion worldwide cume, the second-highest in history after the filmmaker’s “Titanic,” which cruised to $1.84 billion in 1997-98. [hollywoodreporter]

Dusi Duo do Miles for Marrow – Dusi Rat Terry Drummond and recently returned expat Greg Guye are taking on the Dusi this year to assist leukaemia patients. Follow their build-up, and reports from the three days of the race and help them make a difference. Go get ’em, boys! [miles4marrow]

[thanks brett]