In 2009, film maker Alex Gibney set out to make a film documenting Lance Armstrong’s comeback year in cycling. For the whole year, Armstrong lied to Gibney’s face. In ‘The Armstrong Lie’, Lance finally sets the record straight. “A cancer survivor overcoming the disease comes back and wins. Yeah, they liked that.”

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If you still don’t have a handle on the US government shut down, you’ve reached the point of potential embarrassment at the hands of your peers. It’s not necessarily your fault (it’s your fault), we’re all busy people. Get back in the game, and get up to speed, right now.

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Well, this is probably the most depressing thing you’ll read today. The social chair of Phi Kappa Tau at Georgia Tech sent an email to his chapter, with the subject line “Luring your Rapebait”. The email is a how-to for coercing sex out of women at frat parties, and includes the stern command, “NO RAPING”. Why are we not surprised that these guys need this instruction? Here’s the email

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The seizure of the hidden Silk Road website and arrest of the founder and head administrator, Ross Ulbricht may have precipitated the arrest of users of the site in Sweden, Britain, and the USA.

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To kick start Hashtag Season 3 of The Anne Hirsch Show, Anne and her crew embarked on a roadtrip to Darling for the annual Rocking the Daisies festival. Says Anne, “We made so many new #besties and basically had THE BEST TIME IN THE WORLD EVER and we didn’t even have to twerk.” Our favourite parts were the Norwegian speaking “Xhosa”, and Anne brushing her teeth with someone else’s tooth brush.

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What if telekinesis was real? How would you react? A hidden camera promotion engineered and executed by Sony could be one of the best viral film trailers of all time. The stunt captured the reactions of unsuspecting customers at a New York City coffee shop as they witnessed a “telekinetic event.” “Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise” […]

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Veteran BBC cameraman, Doug Allen confirmed in a recent convocation speech at a UK university that scenes in BBC wildlife documentaries are regularly filmed in artificial sets to guarantee the quality of the shots.

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Banksy has broken his silence with a rare and “confidential” interview with the Village Voice. He’s been living in New York now and made the streets home to his exhibit, entitled “Better Out Than In”.

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For years people have been arguing over what the essential remedy is for a big night out; whether it’s a strong cup of coffee, a breakfast of champions, herbal tea, hair of the dog or the classic trio of Butlers, Coke and Playstation. Turns out, fizzy pop drinks are the way to go. A team of Chinese scientists have done tests on 57 different drinks and Sprite has come out the winner of the reliever of the alcohol induced illness.

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Golf hasn’t seen its fair share of streakers, but this Sunday at the Presidents Cup, the 18th fairway may have become home to one of the most famous streakers in history.

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The Japanese town of Taiji became synonymous with brutal dolphin slaying after the Oscar-winning, tear-jerking, doccie, ‘The Cove,’ was released. Sadly, regardless of the international recognition and fame the documentary received, dolphin hunting at the cove still takes place annually between September and April, and its about to get a whole lot darker.

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By now you know that I’ll be breaking opposition necks and cashing charity cheques at the 2013 #Run2Stop Challenge. Just because you can’t join me on the road, doesn’t mean you want be joining me in the winner’s circle in Brazil. Ready to join me in Brazil?* Here is how it works:

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In 2010, South African band, THIEVE released their track ‘Way To Go’. A video posted to YouTube compares the THIEVE track to a recently-released Will.I.Am track, featuring Justin Bieber. The description reads: “The two songs have the same melody and lyrics, except the one was made before the other.”

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Welcome to episode 7 of the Tumba Ping Pong Show, in which a blond woman catches flying knives with ping pong bats, and has a pineapple perched on top of her head cut in half by a third flying knife. And, oh yes, she catches a ping pong ball with her mouth. Just enjoy that. […]

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Former Head of Interpol and National Police Commissioner, Jackie Selebi was released from prison on medical parole in 2012 for suffering “a medical condition which is terminal, chronic, progressive and has deteriorated or reached an irreversible state.” His lawyers and doctors cited his failing kidneys as a key indicator that Selebi was on his death bed. Selebi has responded to widespread outrage following his being spotted at a mall over the weekend.

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Last week we brought you Shane Myburgh’s assault on three patrons of Stones, a bar in Fourways, Johannesburg. In a serendipitous turn of fate, we discovered Hard Eddy on the same day. Catch up before you watch his terrific advice monologue to Shane, buggah.

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Red Bull, being the excellent sports media company that they are have produced a 21,000-photo Instagram stop motion film of cliff diving in Wales. As one does.

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Yesterday afternoon, Belgian firemen protested against national budget cuts for the fire department in Brussels. Firemen from all the country gathered in front of Prime Minister’s office with fire trucks and blocked traffic in Brussels’ ring road, burning tyres (yissie!) in the streets and sprayed water and foam towards police guarding the protest. At some point police officers stood knee-deep in foam on the street.

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Because North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jung Un, thinks what his country really needs right now is not more food or electricity, but a multimillion dollar ski-resort, construction has begun on the Masik Pass ski resort.

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Robots’ natural enemies are stairs. Climbing up and down stairs is something we as humans have pretty much mastered, but robots are finding it a touch more difficult. These M-Blocks, created by the brainiacs at MIT, would have no problem with stairs though. These modular robots can jump though the air, catch onto each other, spin and roll around to form new shapes, all with no external moving parts.

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Fox News has just unveiled its ridiculous new newsroom – it’s clear they’re big fans of Minority Report. Their new studio comes complete with giant 55-inch touchscreen tablets (or BATs – Big Area Touchscreens), an 11,5 meter video wall full of tweets and journalists furiously touching, flicking and swiping through apps with potential news stories.

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GOOD Worldwide Inc – an integrated media, thought leadership and community action platform – is offering five innovators in health the opportunity to make a worldwide impact with the Pioneers of Health quotecorner online pharmacy Challenge. The Challenge will offer exchange and collaboration to innovators who are spearheading groundbreaking health initiatives. Working with GOOD and […]

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So the alleged founder of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, appeared in court today. If you still don’t know what Silk Road is, here’s everything you need to know. When the FBI shut his site down, they also seized all of its assets – a whole lot of Bitcoins – Bitcoins, which used to belong to the site’s users.

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Earlier this month we featured Tyson, an English Bulldog from Johannesburg who was kicking significant portions of ass on the internet via his Bulldogs Be Fancy Tumblog. Tyson’s star has continued its rise, with the costume-keen hound appearing in an ever-burgeoning raft of local ads. Here’s his latest appearance, for an Mnet campaign.

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Alfonso Cuarón’s highly anticipated film, ‘Gravity’ will made landfall in the US last week, and it looks fairly stunning. The movie follows the events of a simple routine mission on the International Space Station (ISS) gone wrong. Inspired by The Kessler Syndrome, a theory that predicts a giant domino effect could occur if space debris in low orbit started colliding, we follow Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) as they battle to get back home to Earth.

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Samsung have dropped two very clever ads for their recently-released Galaxy Gear smartwatch. While the watch itself has disappointed pundits with its limited battery life, and the fact that it can only work in conjunction with the Galaxy Note, Samsung may have regained some ground in the field of public perception with these two great TV spots for the product.

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Miley Cyrus pulled off a memorable hosting of Saturday Night Live this last weekend, which included multiple self-depricating one-liners, and a brilliant parody of her track ‘We Won’t Stop’, reshot and retitled to mock the US government shutdown. Check out ‘We Did Stop’. Here’s Miley performing live after her skits: And here’s the American media talking about being […]

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44-year-old Mike Spencer Bown may well be the world’s most-travelled man. Earlier this week he completed a 23-year quest to visit every country in the world, which he began when he was 21. Bown was keen from the get-go to spend slightly longer than the average traveler in each country that he visited, in order to get a better handle on the people who live there.

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Power FM owner, Given Mkhari says he plans to lay charges of extortion and trespassing against a a 25-year-old media studies student and Vodacom service centre employee who has accused him 0f raping her. The unnamed woman laid the charge of sexual assault against the PowerFM co-founder eight months after the alleged incident. Mkhari says he is the victim of a targeted campaign of harassment.

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You’ll have no doubt by now picked up on the rumour that Muslim, in particular Tunisian women are flocking en masse to the war front in Syria to provide for the heterosexual needs of the Syrian rebels on the ground. The phenomenon of jihad al-Nikkah (more like Jihad al-Nookie, amiright?) has been wholly accepted and widely reported by Western Press. There’s just one problem: It isn’t true.

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