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BIG KORN BITES Public Backlash Reaches Fever Pitch
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Momentum regarding the poor seasoning of Big Korn Bites has picked up massively this week. Twitter was abuzz yesterday with a unanimous outcry against the once favourite SA corn chip snack. Watch this video for more.
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The Five Most Common Child Accidents That Can Be Avoided
08 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Car accidents and pool drownings are two of the most common accidents occuring amongst todllers and children. These could easily be avoided if parents take the correct steps. Jessica from the Parent24 show on 2oceansvibe Radio interviews child expert XYZ and discussed the five top accidents amongst children, and how parents can easily avoid them. […]
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Friday Done Jack’s Way – Entries Now Open For An Epic Friday In Cape Town And Jozi
02 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Entries are now open for an epic Friday on 6 July in Cape Town and Joburg – that’s right gang, this time we’re spreading the love! We’ve always felt that life was too short for a five-day workweek. Much like the folks at the Jack Daniel Distillery, who celebrate Fridays with an age old tradition […]
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The US Army Has A Laser-Guided Lightning Gun
29 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In more news to terrify you, the US Army has released photographs depicting their new laser-guided lightning gun blowing up a car. They’re calling it the Laser-Induced Plasma Channel (LIPC) because it’s important to make the ability to call down lightning with a laser pointer sound safe.
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China’s First Female Astronaut Does Tai Chi In Space [VIDEO]
29 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Liu Yang, China’s first-ever female astronaut, had a night shift on Shenzhou 9 a couple of days ago – which is apparently sort of dull in space too, because she entertained herself by going through some Tai Chi exercises. In space. And since the spacecraft returned to earth today, we get to see what that looks like.
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And Now There’s A Starship Troopers Remake
28 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sony is in the process of rebooting the subervisve, anti-fascist 1997 film Starship Troopers – also known as the movie with a post-Doogie Howser, pre-Barney Stinson Neil Patrick Harris. The reboot follows the trend of such franchise remakes as RoboCop and Total Recall, where satire and irony get cut out and replaced with 3D and totally slick graphics.
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Bloc Party To Headline Rocking The Daisies
28 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This is pretty awesome news, the British indie rock band will playing on the main stage at Rocking the Daisies on Saturday 06 October. This will come soon after their new album, Four, is released on the 20th of August.
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Google’s I/O Keynote Pimps Nexus, Jelly Bean, & Project Glass [VIDEO]
28 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So hey, we’ve had a pretty cool look at the future thanks to Google’s I/O Keynote yesterday – where they covered the new Nexus 7 tablet, the Nexus Q media orb, and the awesome, skydiving-filled Project Glass demonstration that you’re really, really going to want to watch, after the jump.
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Leap Second Scheduled for June 30, 2012
27 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Attention time geeks: a leap second has been scheduled for June 30, 2012. The month will be one second longer, to re-synchronize Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is based on an atomic clock, and Universal Time (UT) which is based on the earth’s rotation. Basically it’s a cool moment where your clock will legitimately read 23:59:60.
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Map Of World Weed Use – 2012
27 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Economist has surprised everybody by doing something fun, using the United Nations’ World Drug Report 2012 (released yesterday) to generate a map of the world’s heaviest weed users. The Pacific island of Palau wins easily, with nearly a quarter of people aged 15 to 64 having smoked pot in the past year. South Africa does okay, too.
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Trailer For Sundance Hit ‘Robot And Frank’ [VIDEO]
26 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
‘Robot and Frank’ stars Frank Langella as an old man forging an unlikely bond with his Peter Sarsgaard-voiced robot butler, which starts off as an odd-couple comedy and then turns into a heist film, because Langella used to be a jewel thief. It looks pretty great, and they loved it at Sundance. Take a look.
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Nepal Has The World’s Fastest Zipline [VIDEO]
25 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A tour operator in Nepal calling itself ‘ZipFlyer’ claims to run the world’s fastest zip-line, a 1.8km line that drops 600m, attaining speeds of 160 kmph. Honestly I’m not sure what kind of speeds zip-lines are supposed to be clocking so those numbers don’t mean much, but the helmetcamera bits in the video look insane. Have a look.
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European Commission Draws Flack For “Sexy Female Scientist” Video
25 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The European Commission is drawing pretty widespread condemnation for releasing a video — ostensibly aimed at getting girls into science — which pretty much depicts female scientists as sexy models in short skirts who hang around bunsen burners, giggling. Take a look at what lady scientists apparently look like in Europe after the jump.
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Jurassic Park Four Is A Thing That Is Happening
22 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s been more than a decade since the last Jurassic Park sequel, and Spielberg’s royalty checks are starting to run a little dry, so writers have been hired to develop the script for Jurassic Park 4, taking it in a ‘completely different direction.’ So long as that direction still involves cloned dinosaurs and lots of money.
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Facebook To Start Letting You Edit Your Idiotic Comments
22 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You know that thing where you post a comment on Facebook and immediately regret your decision? Well, Facebook sure does. Which is why they’re rolling out a comment-editing functionality over the next few days. Rest easy, people whose grammar falls apart whenever they get excited.
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Coulthard Catches Golf ball In Car Going At 180mph [VIDEO]
22 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In terms of advertising, I would rather watch a race car driver catching little balls in a car going 180 miles an hour, than a dog talking from a bakkie. It’s a little silly, but definitely worth a watch, even if it is just to hear how genuinely excited Coulthard gets when he catches the ball.
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Full Trailer For The New Judge Dredd Movie [VIDEO]
21 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The trailer for Dredd – the gory, R-rated adaptation of the gritty post-apocalyptic comic book 2000AD – has been released. The film was shot over the last two years on set in Cape Town, because apparently Cape Town is the best place to film a post-apocalyptic landscape in. Take a look after the jump.
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Google Out To Save 3,054 Endangered Languages
21 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We sometimes underestimate the importance of language, especially when swimming in the ubiquitous sea of English. Language is bound tightly with identity, and when you imagine a language going the way of the Dodo, it is scary to think what else is lost with it. Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, has launched the Endangered Language project, a website devoted to preserving languages that are close to dying out.
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German Woman Has Lived Without Cash For 16 Years
20 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I always hate the end of the month when the money runs dry. No money equals stress, no fun, and generally less food. Not if you are Heidemarie Schwermer, however, has firmly given “The Man” the finger and has been living at the end of the month for the last 16 years.
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Some More Internet Censorship Legislation Getting Pushed Through The UN
19 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So hey, there’s a proposal getting quietly pushed through a little-known UN agency called the International Telecommunications Union, which represents a huge power grab on the part of the UN with regards to regulating online content. The proposal – a potential threat to an open Internet – is chiefly being pushed for by China and Russia.
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RIM Manufacturing Partner Pulls The Plug On BlackBerry
19 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Celestica, the Toronto-based manufacturer that produces hardware for Research In Motion, have announced that they’ll be stopping production of BlackBerry hardware over the next three months, and charging the company $1 billion for unsold BlackBerry inventory. Between the BlackBerry 10 smartphone getting pushed back to late 2012, and new iPhone rumours, this could sort of be RIP RIM.
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There’s A Karl Marx Credit Card Now
18 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, I guess it was only a matter of time before the word ‘irony’ stopped being able to quite cover it. The German bank Sparkasse Chemnitz have launched a Karl Marx credit card, after the father of Communism won in an online voting poll for new credit card designs. Somewhere a grave is spinning.
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China To Build The World’s Tallest Building In 90 Days
18 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Broad Sustainable Building, a Chinese construction company, is aiming to assemble an 838m-tall building in Changsha, a city in southern China, beating the Burj Khalifa in Dubai by 10 metres. What’s more, they’re looking to build the thing – dubbed SkyCity One – in 90 days because, well, why not.
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Facebook Wants Your Phone Number, “For Your Own Safety”
15 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Within the next few days, every single Facebook user will be met with a request for a verified phone number, which will apparently help users “stay in control” of their accounts. This is partially a response to security breaches at LinkedIn, Last.fm and eHarmony, but it’s also because Facebook wants to know more stuff about you.
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Skype To Introduce Advertising To Distract You During Calls
15 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Skype have just introduced a new ‘feature’ called Conversation Ads, which displays advertisements during audio calls. Which sucks. To nobody’s surprise they’re trying to spin the feature as somehow good for users – apparently the ads “could spark additional topics of conversation that are relevant to Skype users and highlight unique and local brand experiences.”
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South African Doccie, “Dear Mandela” Wins Big At Brooklyn Film Festival
14 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The South African documentary Dear Mandela, directed by Dara Kell and Christopher Nizza, won the Grand Chameleon Award for best film and documentary at the closing night ceremony of the festival.
The documentary continues to impress audiences after it won best South African Documentary at the Durban International Film Festival last year.
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George Bush’s Severed Head Was On Game Of Thrones
14 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So there was this scene towards the end of the first season of Game of Thrones – that popular, high budget, swords/sorcery/nudity show that HBO’s running – where a bunch of heads were lined up on spikes. And director’s commentary from the recently-released Season 1 DVD has revealed that one of the heads belonged to ex-president George Bush.
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Entries Open For First Friday Done Jack’s Way Of 2012 – Eat Like A Food Critic
14 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hear ye, Hear ye! If you didn’t get the the memo, Friday Done Jack’s Way is BACK! To that end, this is the call to entry for Friday Done Jack’s Way, Friday 22 June 2012. Ready? And GO! This one’s a goodie so listen up. With Cape Town firmly in the grip of winter, there […]
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Is There Room For More Wineries In South Africa?
14 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
This week I answer a reader’s question: In a crowded wine market such as SA, is there still space for any new entrants? And if so, how should you approach things to ensure you aren’t destined for the scrapheap of failure?
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Spar Lamb Chops Are Clearly In A Different League
14 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
I think I should urgently declare that this post is NOT paid for and this is purely a kneejerk reaction to the dinner I have just devoured. Whilst The Muse certainly is very skilled at getting chops to the perfect crispiness, the quality of Spar’s chops fell beautifully into her hands. And they were nothing short […]
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