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Check Out This Die Antwoord Parody, It’s Red Hot! [VIDEO]
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As the world anxiously awaits the release of Ten$ion, the next Die Antwoord album, check out this timely reminder, via a homage to the enfants terribles of Afrikaans hardcore, that gingers are people too.
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Somalia Hostages Rescued By Team That Killed Bin Laden
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The American woman and Danish man who were held hostage in Somalia were rescued this week by the same guys who killed Osama Bin Laden. They sure have been busy. *Cue fist pump from Barack Obama.*
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Magix Music Maker MX – Saving You From A Summer Of Bad Music
26 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
It’s summer time in South Africa. There are a few angles of attack that you can employ to defeat the summer heat. The first, is loose fitting clothing. The second, is a chilled beverage. And the third, and most critical component, is music. “BUT,” I hear you say, “we’ve heard LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem so […]
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Posh Gauteng School To Make iPads Mandatory
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
With the news that Apple looks set to revolutionise school learning with its textbook initiative, comes another report that a Johannesburg private school is going to make iPads compulsory this year, at parents’ cost. How long until other schools follow suit?
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Full Gallery Of Pics From Yesterday’s Solar Storm
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There was a lot of media coverage of the biggest solar storm in 6 years yesterday. Doomsayers were claiming the world’s electricity would be knocked out and that we’d all be burned to death by radiation. This all turned out to be a lot of hot air. What did happen though, thanks to the storm, was a spectacular display of the Northern Lights. Full gallery after the jump.
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Ralph Fiennes Reading Erotic Harry Potter Fan Fiction [VIDEO]
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Ralph Fiennes, the actor who plays Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, recently appeared on a US talk show. The host asked him to read an extract from a piece of fan fiction, titled “Harry Squatter and the Sorcerer’s Bone”. Hilarity ensued.
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Video Of Runway Acrobatics At Düsseldorf Airport Goes Viral [VIDEO]
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s some frightening footage that’s spent the month going viral on the interwebs. Pilots will tell you that the most statistically dangerous time during a flight is during take-off or landing, and now you can see why. Watch some goosebump inducing plane landings after the jump.
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Rooibos Researchers Given R2M To Reveal Tea’s Benefits
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Weight loss? Disease prevention? Anti-aging? Cup of tea? A very sizeable chunk of change has just been granted to researchers who are eager to show the world the plethora of health properties attached to South Africa’s favourite tea, our humble rooibos.
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Violist Interrupted By Nokia Ringtone, Brilliantly Incorporates It Into Recital (VIDEO)
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It is weird to think that there are still people in this world who forget to turn their cell phones off during concerts. This happened during a recent performance by Slovakian violist Lukas Kmit, when a concertgoer’s Nokia ringtone suddenly interrupted the show. But the violinist responded by cleverly incorporating it into his performance, and the video has since gone viral. See it after the jump.
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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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No SA Games For Bryce Lawrence In 2012
25 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
One person who won’t be visiting TripAdvisor’s number one world destination this year is controversial Kiwi rugby ref, Bryce Lawrence, who has been left out of any South African matches for this year’s Super 15 fixtures.
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And The Oscar Nominees For 2012 Are…
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
We’ve got the full list of this year’s Oscars nominees hot off the press from the early morning announcement at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences HQ in Hollywood, after the jump!
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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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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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Obama Ordered To Court To Prove US Citizenship – Again
24 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The “birther” movement is back in the news, trying to prove US President Barack Obama is not an American citizen by birth. He’s been ordered to court in Georgia on Thursday to hear yet another charge that he’s not who he says he is.
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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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8-Year Old Aussie Metal Head Goes Viral On Youtube, Number One On iTunes [VIDEO]
23 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is little Juliet. She’s eight years old, and she and her mummy recently posted a video to Youtube where she sings about her pet dog Robert, whom she loves, and her stinky fish tank. All set to thrash metal. Odd doesn’t quite cover it, but who can argue with 12 million hits on YouTube. Take a look.
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Radvertising: Megan Fox Island [VIDEO]
23 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Alright. Yes. Pairing your product with an attractive woman is not exactly an original advertising tactic, and if anything the world could do with a little less of that. But because this happens to be a Brazilian TV ad for a language school, and a funny one, we can put these concerns momentarily aside.
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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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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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People Prefer Armed Guards Over Cops: Report
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new report indicates a worrying trend in security conscious South Africa: people by and large prefer relying on private security companies to keep them safe, which is bad news for our official protectors, the South African Polic Service.
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Horse Rescued After Falling Off 15M Cliff [VIDEO]
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I love the fact that we still live in a world where people care enough to do something like this. A horse recently fell down a 15m rocky cliff in Wales. It survived the fall only to find itself trapped by rough seas. This video details the rescue operation by two lifeboat crews who just happened to pass by as the incident took place.
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Tech Vibe: Ep. 11 – Rolling Stone SA’s Top Technology Predictions For 2012
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This week Rolling Stone’s Tech Editor, Bradley Shaw, gives us his blue sky technology predictions for 2012. Ryan also reviews the DSTV WALKA, and as always, your latest Tech News. Proudly brought to you by:
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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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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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The World’s Most Famous Black And White Images…In Colour [PICS]
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway transforms famous vintage black and white pictures into high resolution colour versions. Examples include scenes from Pearl Harbour, a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, and the “The Burning Monk” used on the Rage Against the Machine album cover. See these, along with famous people such as Albert Einstein and Anne Frank, after the jump.
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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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Sorry SA, Skoonheid Misses Out On Oscar Shot
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Though it did well on the festival circuit, South Africa’s “Skoonheid” has missed out on a nomination for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards. Unfortunate, but what films did make the shortlist, and which is the favourite tipped to win the gong?
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Brazilian Police Equipped With Facial Recognition Glasses For 2014
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is sort of like Robocop! Brazilian police forces are testing out glasses fitted out with cameras linked to a central computer network that stores a database of criminal suspects’ faces, so that they’ll be able to arrest people during the 2014 World Cup without having to ask them their names.
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