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This Week In Unnecessary But Inevitable Reboots: “Leprechaun”
20 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hey, you remember the Leprechaun horror franchise? No? Well don’t worry, somebody at Lionsgate did, and they’re totally rebooting the idea that maybe the tiny green-clad people are in fact vindictive, murderous drunks. Because that’s the sort of fresh injection of ideas that Hollywood needs right after a St. Patrick’s day weekend.
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A Bloody, Bruised Bieber? Not Exactly… [PICS]
20 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well well, what do we have here? Has an enraged fan of “real music” finally flipped their lid and had a go at pop’s young princeling, the Biebster? We should be so lucky. Full story and gallery after the jump!
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The Pirate Bay To Launch Airborne Servers
20 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Popular torrent hosting site, The Pirate Bay has released plans to host their server database in the clouds. Literally in the clouds, I mean; they want to fit flying micro-drones with super-small computers and connect them with long-range radio transmitters, maintaining a network of “Low-Orbit Server Stations.” Which would make police raids a little more tricky.
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Sleepy Grabouw Reels After Violent Race Riot
20 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Black and coloured residents of sleepy Overberg town, Grabouw, were at each others’ throats yesterday as racial tensions exploded over attacks on a local school.
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SA’s Greg Minnaar Smashes Men’s Downhill Final At UCI Mountain Bike World Cup [VIDEO]
19 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
South Africa’s Greg Minnaar snatched victory this weekend in Pietermaritzburg during a thrilling climax to the first leg of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Cross Country and Downhill race. We’ve got the results and footage of his mad skills in action, after the jump!
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BREAKING: Three Dead In Jewish School Shooting In France
19 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A lone gunman has opened fire on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, this morning. Three people, of which two are children, are confirmed dead, with at least another two persons reported wounded. Full details inside.
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Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate
19 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Julian Assange has found a way to run for the Upper House of the Australian Senate, in spite of, you know, being detained under house arrest in Britain. Which makes sense, I guess. Along with Assange’s candidacy, WikiLeaks announced on Twitter that they’ll be running a nominee against the current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
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Amazing Spider-Man Kicks Off It’s Viral Campaign [VIDEO]
19 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Amazing Spider-Man (aka the amazing, if unnecessary, reboot) will be upon us in July, and producers, Marvel, are kicking the viral marketing campaign into high gear from the get go with this news report from “Daily Bugle News” concerning a webbed menace that is plagueing New York city, and no, it’s not one of the Kardashians in town to promote a new relationship bust up, it’s Spider-Man!
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Notes On A Brief Swartland Harvest
16 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
The rough and ready salt-of-the earth winemakers of South Africa have been known to, at times, give me kak for being a soft handed, soutie poofta who spends all his time drinking, and none of it working. And despite the fact that they are not entirely incorrect with this assessment, I readily took Adi Badenhorst (possibly the saltiest and earthiest of the lot) up on an offer to stay on his farm for a few days during the harvest, and help out.
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First Commercial Spaceship To Launch To Space Station April 30
16 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA officials have announced that the first launch of a commercially built space capsule to the International Space Station is scheduled for the end of April. California-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) are the dudes responsible for the capsule in question, the unmanned Dragon spacecraft.
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Obama Drops Glossy New Retrospective Of His First Term In Office [VIDEO]
16 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As Obama prepares to fight off the Republicans to stay in the oval office for another four years, a film-maker has this pretty documentary film as retrospective of the President’s first term. We have the video, and some hot-off-the-press shade that Piers Morgan threw at it, after the jump!
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Trailer For Tim Burton’s ‘Dark Shadows’ Released
16 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So Tim Burton is doing a much-anticipated adaptation of cult TV Show “Dark Shadows”, because of course he is. And it’s starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, because otherwise how would we know it’s a Tim Burton film? Check out the reasonably rad trailer after the jump.
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U.S. Lawmakers Consider Facebook Post Mortem Law
16 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
What happens to your social networking presence after you die? Who does the online you belong to? These are pressing issues being deliberated by at least two U.S. states this week as more and more pressure is being applied to social networking platforms like Facebook to allow the relatives of users that have passed away to directly access their late loved ones’ profiles.
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Cape Town Named SA’s Boozing Capital, Western Cape Booziest Province
15 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Department of Health has released the results of a study completed earlier this year that paints a grim picture of both Cape Town and the Western Cape’s rampant use and abuse of alcohol. Long story short, the study concludes that Cape Town is South Africa’s drunkest city, and the Western Cape its booziest province. Er, yay?
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The Shins’ New LP Free To Stream Online
15 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Shins are putting out their fourth LP, Port of Morrow, next week on the 20th of March, via Columbia Records. Which is neat. Even neater, though, is the fact that you can stream all 10 tracks on iTunes right now. In case free good music is something that you like. Click through for the link!
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Fancy A Whiff Of Eau De Pope? Think Again.
15 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It might not be obvious, given his stature as the head of the Catholic Church, but in Italy Pope Benedict XVI is considered quite the fashionista. He prefers red fedoras and tailored red shoes, apparently gets quite picky about the cut of his robes, and now, according to the Italian press, he even has his own scent.
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NASA Unveils Space Atlas [Amazing PICS]
15 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bad. Ass. NASA has released a new space atlas, detailing over 560 million stars, galaxies and asteroids, many never seen before. The 18 000 awesome images were taken by NASA’s infrared space telescope, the Wide-field Survey Explorer (WISE). Take a look at some of the incredible space-images after the space-jump.
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Chinese Fashion Students Show Off Victoria’s Secret Knock-Offs [PICS]
14 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Fashion students at Chengdu University of Technology in China recently pumped all their creativity and innovation into a theatrical lingerie show displaying various wonderful designs, except…er, wait, scratch creativity and innovation off the list because each and every one was a Vicky’s Secret knock off! FAIL! Full gallery after the jump.
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Courtney Love: “The Muppets Raped Kurt’s Memory!”
14 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Courtney Love, aka “90’s Lindsay Lohan”, has lashed out at the producers of last year’s The Muppets movie for letting the titular stars perform a rendition of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” without her permission, saying that they have “raped Kurt’s memory!” More of Courtney’s crackie craziness, plus the song itself, after the jump!
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Six Russian Grandmothers Hailed As Darlings Of Eurovision 2012 [Video]
14 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s difficult to get one’s head around the enormous popularity of Eurovision. The pan-European singing contest is the most watched non-sporting event in the world. Even more mind-blowing is the act that has beaten 24 other entrants to represent Russia in this year’s competition. It’s a group of six women aged between 43 and 74, dressed in traditional peasant wear, singing a song called “Party for Everybody”.
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The Real U.S.S Enterprise To Be Decommissioned
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If there’s one name that carries a lot of weight in naval circles, it’s the “Big E” or U.S.S Enterprise: the US naval fleet’s oldest nuclear powered aircraft carrier, and also the world’s longest, and 11th-heaviest, maritime vessel. After 51 years of service, the Enterprise is to return to port from the Persian Gulf and be decommissioned next year, but not without some amazing stories to tell.
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Volvo Introduces Pedestrian Airbag [VIDEO]
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well this is new, and sort of neat. For the new V40, Volvo is introducing the world’s first pedestrian airbag system, designed to reduce the severity of pedestrian injuries in a car-pedestrian collision. Alternatively it could double as a sweet new inflatable mattress on the hood of your car.
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Slovakian Batman, Bringing Justice To Dunajska Streda
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is Zoltan Kohari, Slovakia’s very own batman, from the town of Dunajska Streda. He may not have his own Batmobile, but he does have a home-made leather Batsuit. It even has the logo on the chest. His crime fighting skills are a little lacking though, even if he means well.
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Capetonian Director’s Short Film To Star Kevin Spacey
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A Capetonian filmmaker has beaten hundreds of screenwriters and directors in an international short film competition. The prize? Allan Shelley is now on his way to Los Angeles to film his movie, with Oscar winner Kevin Spacey as part of the cast. Then he’ll bring Kevin back here to help him promote the film.
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Die Antwoord Turn Down Lady Gaga [VIDEO]
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 15 Comments
It seems not even the current Queen of Pop can entice South African zefsters Die Antwoord to drop their awesome ‘tude. Here’s their response to her invitation to open for her upcoming world tour, as relayed to MTV Canada! Obviously, the video is gloriously N5FW:
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Ad Agency Turns 13 Homeless Men Into Wi-Fi Hotspots
13 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Advertising agency BBH has come under fire for their turning 13 homeless men walking Wi-Fi hotspots at the recent SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The “Homeless Hotspots” sported shirts saying, “I’m a 4G hotspot,” with an access code for the network.
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KZN Matric Nabs R800 000 Road Tender
12 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A KwaZulu-Natal company, run by an 18-year-old matric pupil, has won a municipal tender for nearly R800 000 to build a gravel road in a southern KZN town, raising eyebrows over the awarding of the contract.
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“Casting Me” Official Trailer – Starring Paul Snodgrass [VIDEO]
12 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
We all love a good movie with a broken-love story, a guy trying to make it big, the struggles of your average Joe’s daily life. But, even better is a film sporting our local talent. Comedian Paul Snodgrass is releasing his masterpiece “Casting Me” this week around the Cape. With a great cast and many […]
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Hipster Culture Reaches Australia: “It Sounds Like Irony” [VIDEO]
12 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bondi Hipsters is a web series featuring Adrian and Dom – two eco-conscious, party animal hipsters from Australia. Yes, Australian hipsters. They also write and perform incredible post-modern, ironic music videos. This is one of them, called “The Life Ironic”. No one else has heard of this yet, so you better check it out first – after the jump!
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Journalists Being ‘Strongly Cautioned’ Against Reporting On TSA Scanning Vulnerabilities
12 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Following a recent viral expose by blogger Jonathan Corbett on the potentially serious weaknesses in the TSA’s airport body scanners, multiple journalists have reported receiving emails from the TSA “strongly cautioning” them against covering the story. Corbett is encouraging media outlets to cover the story anyway.
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