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Culture
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Naked Ukrainian Protester Group Strikes In Davos [Mildly N5FW]
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Femen is a Ukrainian group of activists that has become popular in Europe for staging small, half-naked protests. Some of their members were arrested over the weekend after trying to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders held in the Swiss resort town of Davos.
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Twitter BlackOut Protest Results In Mass Tweeting
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, look, I know the successive restriction of online liberties is something we should be fighting tooth and nail, but I can’t be the only one who heard about last Saturday’s ‘Twitter Blackout,’ in protest of Twitter’s new censorship policy, and failed to care.
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The Catholic Church Openly Condemns The Obama Administration
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This past weekend, Catholic parishioners across America were read a letter written by the church leadership urging them to stand up against a new ruling by the Obama administration which would require all employers to provide healthcare plans which include contraceptive coverage.
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You’ll Be Able To Buy Facebook Shares Soon
30 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Facebook, the world’s largest social-networking service, could file for its initial public offering as early as Wednesday this week. It’s a move that has been on the cards for some time, but the rumour pot is now starting to boil more consistently.
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Awesome Fundraising Is Awesome
27 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not even 24 hours ago, a user of the popular user-generated news link website, reddit, asked if readers wouldn’t mind helping out with a donation for an orphanage in Kenya. Humans went over and above what was required, by a long way. This is awesome.
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Samsung Posted A Record $4,7 Billion Quarterly Profit
27 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The South Korean firm isn’t going to bat an eyelid at Apple’s massive figures released earlier this week because Samsung already makes mobile processors that power Apple’s iPhone and iPad anyway.
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Vanilla Ice Is A Hipster Now [VIDEO]
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
White rap’s favourite son, Vanilla Ice, has dropped his bass for a ukulele and channelled his inner hipster. He’s moved to Echo Park, Los Angeles – an area notoriously populated by hipsters – to take up indie rock and the wearing of plaid shirts and thick-rimmed reading glasses. But has he?
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Google’s New ‘Emergency Alerts’ Feature
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Google has been saving up a tonne of creepy private information about you lately, which is unfortunate, but the company’s philanthropic arm just launched a new crisis response project to win back our hearts and personal data: emergency alerts on Google Maps.
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Cosatu Is Really Unhappy With That DA Poster, Drops “White Supremacy” Slur
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cosatu has come out guns blazing at that DA Students’ Organisation poster that has raised a few eyebrows this week. Speaking in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday, Zet Luzipo, provincial secretary for Cosatu, and no stranger to speaking his mind, slammed the poster saying: “It entrenches white supremacy that we fought against during the liberation struggle.”
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Facebook Timeline Will Be Compulsory Shortly
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook’s new Timeline feature, that up until now has been an optional switch for its more than 800 million users, will very shortly become compulsory for everyone using the social networking platform. Facebook began the forced switch in some regions yesterday, and will continue to do so in the next few weeks.
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The iPad Outsold Desktop PC’s During The Last Quarter Of 2011
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple announced some massive fourth quarter sales numbers yesterday. For instance, they sold virtually as many iPhones as there are people in South Africa during that period. Apple also doubled both revenue and profit year-on-year too.
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Google Changes Privacy Settings Across Board – Users Can’t Opt Out
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Whoops. Looks like somewhere between Eric Schmidt and Larry Page, Google forgot their ‘don’t be evil’ rule and turned into the creepy uncle of the internet. Well, the other creepy uncle of the internet. It now follows users’ activities across YouTube, Gmail, Google Plus and Google Search, among others. Everybody, clear your history.
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The Real Reason Why MegaUpload Was Shut Down?
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So! The shutdown MegaUpload and charging of founders with piracy ostensibly started with a copyright scuffle between the filesharing site and the Universal Music Group. Except the shut-down was also timed to scupper MegaBox, a venture to sell artist’s work directly to consumers while letting artists keep 90 percent of earnings. Raised eyebrows all around.
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Greece Publishes Tax Dodger List
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Greeks are amongst the most notorious tax dodgers in the world. Currently, Greece has about 60 billion Euros in unpaid taxes outstanding – a figure equivalent to about a quarter of its total economy. Athens decided to release a list on Sunday that published the names of some of the 4 000 known dodgers.
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Die Antwoord Drops Teaser For New Album [VIDEO]
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As if they haven’t scared us enough with the release of their latest album cover and music video for its first single, “Fok julle naaiers”, check out what Die Antwoord is up to next. They’ve just released a very graphic teaser trailer for Ten$ion, which is set to release in February. Check it out after the jump.
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Anonymous Deny Reports Of Plans To Attack Facebook
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Members of “hacktivist” group Anonymous have denied that they’re planning an attack on Facebook, in spite of a video claiming to speak for the group that has declared that the social network will be brought down on January 28th. This would be the second fake Anonymous threat in some months.
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Time-Lapse Of ISS Passing Over Stormy Africa [VIDEO]
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Start your Tuesday the way your forefathers did, with an amazing time-lapse video of the International Space Station passing over a storm-struck African continent with the Milky Way popping in to say hello in the background. Also visible is Comet Lovejoy, two weeks after its near-fatal sunburn. Please, go look. You’ll feel better about being up.
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Heyneke Meyer Will Be The New Bok Coach
23 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The rumours began to do the rounds towards the end of last week, but now a top-level source within the South African Rugby Union has let it slip that Heyneke Meyer will be announced as the new Springbok coach on Friday.
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Anonymous Deletes CBS.com And Takes Down Universal
23 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hacker group, Anonymous, evidently not content with taking down three major corporations and the US Department of Justice’s websites, are continuing their MegaUpload revenge spree, having gained access to CBS.com and deleting every file on the server, while keeping Universal Music inoperative with sustained denial-of-service attacks.
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Zulu King Dubs Gays “Rotten”
23 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Zulu Monarch, King Goodwill Zwelethini took to the podium at yesterday’s 133rd commemoration of the Battle of Isandlwana, and addressed some of the key challenges facing South Africa, including how same sex relationships have no basis in traditional African cultures and are “wrong” and “rotten”.
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Sixteen-Year-Old Circles The World
23 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A teenage girl from the Netherlands sailed into St Maarten harbour on Saturday, ending a year long solo journey around the globe. The Guinness World Records has said it’s not going to back that up though. It no longer recognises records for youngest sailors because it wants to discourage dangerous attempts.
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German Court Rejects Samsung’s 3G Patent Lawsuit Against Apple
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, Samsung, you guys have been losing pretty much everything against Apple in the past couple of weeks. Germany’s Mannheim Regional court reached a decision on one point of the continuing lawsuit between Apple and Samsung, rejecting the claim that Apple have infringed upon Samsung’s German 3G patents.
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News International: We Were Hacking Email Too
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Obviously. The credibility of Rupert Murdoch’s News International has been thrown into further disarray as the media giant finally admitted in the High Court that it had also illegally been accessing emails. This follows the emergence of some 36 hacking settlements yesterday.
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‘Apple In Education’ Launches New Digital Educational Tools
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As part of their ‘reinvention of the textbook,’ Apple yesterday unveiled three new applications for use in the digital educational under their Apple in Education program: iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. The tools are designed to allow for interactive textbooks, digital textbook creation, and open-access educational resources from top universities, respectively.
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Hacker Group Anonymous Takes Down Major Websites
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday the popular file-sharing site, MegaUpload was taken down by the US government. In response, hackers aligned with the global cyber-collective known as Anonymous took down at least six prominent websites, including those of the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group.
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Iraq Wants Saddam’s Ass Back
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A British man has been arrested and questioned by UK police regarding his involvement in the alleged theft of a fragment of a statue of Saddam Hussein from Iraq in 2003, more specifically its ass.
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Moroccan Men Set Themselves Alight In Unemployment Protest
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you know what self-immolation is? It’s the rather rare practice of setting oneself on fire to show how strongly you feel about something. Go figure. In the Middle East and North Africa though, it’s become more commonplace ever since a Tunisian vegetable seller did it to protest police harrassment, evoking an uprising at the end of 2010.
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Costa Cruises Executive Brands Passengers Sensationalist
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A Costa Cruises executive, and a woman with an obviously cold heart, has brandished her colleagues the “true heroes” of the Costa Concordia disaster. She also accused the passengers of “sensationalism” in a letter in which she discussed the tragedy that saw the Costa Concordia cruise ship capsize off the coast of Italy.
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News Corp Involved In Hacking Cover-Up
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A short while ago, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company agreed to pay damages to 36 high-profile victims of tabloid phone-hacking. On top of this, News Corp has acknowledged to victims that executives covered up the scale of the unlawful activity by destroying evidence and lying to investigators.
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George Lucas Retires, Star Wars Fans Everywhere Breathe Sighs Of Relief
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Following criticism over pretty much everything he’s done in the past decades, Star Wars creator/destroyer George Lucas announced his planned retirement in a recent interview with the New York Times – adding, “Why would I make any more when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?”
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