While Twitter prepares to go public, founders Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams and Noah Glass are pulling together to drive their future share price higher, despite suffering multiple messy divorces over the course of the last seven years.

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Our – indeed, the world’s – favourite street artist, Banksy has expanded his repertoire to include video projects. His first work was uploaded to YouTube over the weekend. Titled, ‘Rebel rocket attack’, the video has already clocked up over half a million views. Banksy’s ‘Better Out Than In’ street art project is already in full […]

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Brand new pictures of the ever elusive Bigfoot have been snapped by Pennsylvania hiker, John Stoneman. In the pictures, the mostly solitary Sasquatch can be seen with a companion – that’s right, Bigfoot has found a mate…Bigfeet?

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Say hello to WildCat, the quadrupedal Cheetah robot created by the collective brains at Boston Dynamics. See WildCat run. Imagine WildCat running after you. The robot can reach speeds of close to 26km/hr, which is without a doubt faster than I can run on a Monday morning.

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For five centuries, a painting of a noblewoman by Leonardo da Vinci was “lost” to the world. That was until the priceless piece was unearthed in an Italian family’s Swiss bank vault.

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A monster truck “Extreme Aeroshow” in Chihuahua, Mexico, went horribly awkward this weekend when one of the monster trucks lost control and ploughed into a crowd of spectators. At least eight people died and 80 people were left seriously injured in the accident. Please be warned, the video above is of a massive monster crashing into a crowd of people, its graphic and quite hard to watch.

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Before Madonna was Madonna she was just another blonde girl looking to make it big in New York City. In a recent cover story for the November issue of Haper’s Bazaar, the Queen of Pop opened up about her early days starting out in the Big Apple, and how it was no walk in the park.

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Jake White was announced as the new Director for Rugby at the Sharks Rugby Union in Durban about two hours ago. White begins his tenure immediately.

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Three patrons at Stones in Fourways, Johannesburg, thought they could get away with smoking a sneaky spliff in the toilets. Little did they know Shane Myburgh was on duty that night, and Shane Myburgh doesn’t take kak

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In an affadavit first published by the Beeld newspaper this week, Lieutenant Colonel Christine Anderson stated that she had facilitated the landing of a plane at Waterkloof Air Base transporting wedding guests from India to a Gupta family wedding in the North West province on instructions apparently from Zuma himself. Anderson’s statement makes it clear that Bruce […]

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Well, this is just delightful. An outspoken but thus-far anonymous critic of the e-Tolls system in Johannesburg has erected massive advertising-grade billboards on the side of the N1 and N3, reading “E-tolls. Proudly brought to you by the ANC.”

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These terrific video teasers following the journey of the Bridgestone SA Swimsuit ladies are pointing to one thing – the launch event! That’s coming soon, on the 18th of October, in fact. Speaking of the launch event. DON’T FORGET THE COMPETITION! You only have ONE WEEK left to enter! WIN: A VIP experience for yourself […]

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Welcome to our new favourite YouTube channel: Hard Eddy’s Gaad To Laaf (guide to life). Here’s the description under the first video: “Boet, subscraab to my chennel, or I will drib you in the flippin’ face. Simple. As. That. Subscribe to my Gaad to Laaf and your laaf will be much less kak. Schweet, boytjies and binnets. One taam.”

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“I wasn’t going to write this letter, but today i’ve been dodging phone calls from various industry blogs who wished me to remark upon your having said your career was designed to be similar to mine … So this is what I need to say … And it is said in the spirit of fatherliness and with love.”

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Facebook is partnering with San Francisco development firm St. Anton Partners to build a 394-unit housing complex, most of which will be filled with Facebook employees. The development – called Anton Menlo – will sprawl over 10 acres of land in Menlo Park, California. The 630,000 square-foot Facebook town will be walking and biking distance to […]

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Miley, being the embryo that she is, replied to Sinead’s slightly unhinged but nevertheless relavent open letter by posting a screenshot of tweets posted by O’Connor over two years ago, in which she pleads for medication in order to avoid a mental breakdown. Miley went to compare O’Connor to Amanda Bynes, who recently suffered a public mental unravelling. So, naturally Sinead wrote another open letter to Miley on her Facebook page.

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Footage of the dramatic Washington car chase that left the female driver dead has surfaced. A child was in the car with the woman, but was unharmed. Check out this report. Here’s an eyewitness account: The Secret Service guy was just having a cow. Yelling at her and banging on the car. She ran the barricade down […]

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Silk Road, AKA the “eBay of drugs,” was a hidden internet site on the Tor network where you could buy drugs and hire hitmen, anonymously, with a simple double-click. The site was operating smoothly for years, turning its owner into a millionaire (and a killer) until he slipped up.

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Ladies and gentlemen, it could be one for the record books! The Mail & Guardian reports that the Gupta family is suing the newspaper for R500 million, in what may well be the largest media defamation suit in the history of South Africa. According to the M&G, “The case relates to an article published in the M&G in March […]

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A Lieutenant Colonel in the South African National Defense Force has implicated Jacob Zuma in the Guptagate scandal, through a sworn affidavit. Could this be the one that finally takes down the Teflon President?

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This was roped to the traffic light on the corner of Strand and Adderley in Cape Town this morning. There you go. Just enjoy that. I’d love to know what the story behind that one is. Anyone care to have a go at guessing the scenario behind that headline in the comments section?

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Californian Governer, Jerry Brown passed legislation yesterday that makes the production and publishing of so-called “revenge porn” ilegal in that state. The specific terms of the law describe revenge porn as actions “in which a person electronically distributes or posts on the Internet nude pictures of an ex-romantic partner after a breakup to shame the person in public.”

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Are you a car salesman? Know someone who is? This next story might just change your life… In this segment, Seth finds out about a new niche app that makes selling cars that much easier. It’s called JustCapture.It.

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Three Bolivians are in police custody after their classic plane-to-jungle-drug-drop went awry. How did it go awry? The chaps dropping $1 million in mixed denominations to their colleagues below overshot their mark somewhat, simultaneously losing their cash, and alerting local authorities to the presence of gangsters in the jungle. The cash monies were wrapped in a seal […]

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We knew there was something besides disdain on Rihanna’s face during Miley’s 2013 VMA performance – it was annoyance at a minor threat. Rihanna’s music video for ‘Pour It Up’ features diamond bikini tops, a golden throne, red bikini bottoms covered in dollar bills, and multiple stripper poles. You stay classy, America.

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Alex Ferguson has sat down with American broadcaster Charlie Rose for an hour-long interview in which he dishes on his fraught relationships with David Beckham and Wayne Rooney, and Chelsea’s desire to land him as their manager.

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Here’s some statistical ammunition to arm yourself with ahead of your next meeting request. Talking to coworkers and meetings account for more wasted time at the office than any other factor. Your boss wants you to be productive? Tell him to put those instructions in an email, and leave you the hell alone. Oh, and porn is a listed time waster, as well.

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Not to mention ALL meals, game activities and non-premium brand drinks at a 5-star resort Chobe as well as a sunset cruise on The Zambezi. Still interested? Then we suggest you get involved in this weekends Betflash Multiple, currently offering you 68 – 1 odds on the following: SA to beat The All Blacks  Argentina […]

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A group of tourists cruising off the coast of California this last weekend happened upon something of a rarity in the ocean – a whale carcass. Sighting a whale carcass is unusual because a plethora of marine animals usually make short work of the bodies of deceased sea-dwellers. That principal was excellently demonstrated by multiple great white sharks, who went to task on the body of the whale right in front of the boat.

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I’m pretty sure you saw what we just did there. Sinead O’Connor has taken it upon herself to write an open letter to Miley Cyrus, appealing to the young starlet to refrain from “prosituting” herself to the music business. O’Connor’s letter comes in the wake of comments from Cyrus to Rolling Stone, in which she indicated that O’Connor’s iconic video for ‘Nothing Compares 2U’ was the aesthetic inspiration for Cyrus’ ‘Wrecking Ball’ video.

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