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Girl Lost in 2004 Tsunami Re-Appears Seven Years Later
23 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
How’s this for a nice feel-good story to get your holiday started off right? Remember the Tsunami on the 26th of December, in 2004? Almost to the day, a girl swept away by the water seven years ago has re-appeared.
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Ridley Scott Finally Unveils ‘Alien Prequel’, Prometheus
23 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After years of rumour and conflicting stories, film veteran Ridley Scott has finally released the first look at the upcoming ‘prequel’ to his sprawling Alien franchise, Prometheus. Or is it a prequel? Whatever, we’ve got the trailer after the jump.
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Taxidermist Behind Bars For Importing Exotic Animal Parts [PICS]
22 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Miami taxidermist, Enrique Gomez De Molina, is facing five years of jail time and a quarter million US$ in fines for importing body parts of rare and exotic animals to build a series of bizarre hybrid taxidermy sculptures.
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Navy Kiss Seals “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Repeal [ICONIC PIC]
22 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two female sailors yesterday became the first to share the traditional “first kiss” on the pier following the repeal of the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. And because people are clever about these things, they took a couple of photographs modeled after that post-WW2 first kiss photo. It’s very cool.
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What Is Santa’s Carbon Footprint?
22 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While the polar ice cap melts away under Santa’s jolly black boots, let’s take a look at this cool infographic that illustrates the deep deep carbon footprint those hefty heels leave.
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Die Antwoord Reveals New Album Cover [GRAPHIC IMAGE]
21 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Die Antwoord will drop their second album on 7 February. Called “TEN$ION”, the LP will be released on their own label, ZEF REKORDZ. The cover has been revealed and features an angel-winged, demonic-faced Yolandi Vi$$er eating what appears to be a human heart. See this graphic image after the jump.
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Voice Synthesizer Resurrects Dead Singers’ Voices
21 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Score one for creepy technology. Vocaloid, a voice-synthesis brand owned by Yamaha, has come up with a process by which to “resurrect” any singer’s voice for use in synthesized songs, without requiring the vocalist to build up a painstaking voice library first – so they could be doing that Kurt Cobain/Michael Jackson duet album pretty soon.
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The First Trailer For The Hobbit [VIDEO]
21 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It’s been a really long time since the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and Peter Jackson and the rest of Middle Earth have all been back in New Zealand to film The Hobbit, the story before the Lord of the Rings. Full trailer after the jump.
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The Rise And Rise Of The Jedi Church
21 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A recent national census in the Czech Republic turned up some interesting news that might be of interest to the Empire – there appears to be a small population of traitorous Jedi living in the country – approximately 15 000 of them.
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Zeitgeist 2011: Google’s Year In Review
21 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s that time when all the companies that collect your data start parceling it out to tell you what the year’s really been like – we’ve already had offerings from Facebook and Twitter. What makes Google’s version – Zeitgeist – a little different is that they offer pretty particular data about South African search trends.
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RIM Now Worth Less Than Apple’s App Store Alone
20 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s no secret that Blackberry’s stock has been falling. The company that once dominated the world of business smartphones has been heavily hit by the likes of Apple and Android, causing it to market itself to the masses with cheaper handsets. This move has done little to help the company’s falling stock, with the entire company now valued at less than Apple’s App Store alone.
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IBM Releases Predictions For Technology In 2017 [VIDEO]
20 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
IBM have released their annual predictions for the future of technology, via the IBM “5 in 5” project, which looks at five innovations which they figure will transform modern life within the next five years; these include mind-reading computers, human-generated electricity, and biometric scanning replacing passwords.
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Warners Drop A Tasty ‘Dark Knight Rises’ Trailer Just In Time For Christmas [VIDEO]
20 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One film garnering a lot of heat prior to its 2012 release is Christopher Nolan’s upcoming Batman three-quel, The Dark Knight Rises, which follows on from his massively successful Bat-reboots, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. We’ve got the hot new trailer after the jump.
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The Ferrari/BMW Quad Bike – Quite Mean
20 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This is the Wazuma Lazareth – the world’s most expensive quad bike. It combines the engine from a Ferrari with BMW handlebars and the gearbox from a BMW M3. For a mere £170 000, you can have one too!
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Smurf Town In Spain Votes To Stay Blue
20 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A small city in southern Spain, Juzcar, was used as the film location for the The Smurfs film, and painted blue to fit the theme. Once shooting had wrapped up, Sony Pictures offered to repaint the place – except residents voted yesterday to keep the place Smurf-coloured.
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Six Things You Didn’t Know About Kim Jong-Il
19 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
As the saying goes in Pyongyang, one good Kim deserves another. So, as Dear Leader’s dearest son prepares to assume the mantle of power, let’s look back at some of Kim Jong-Il’s greatest hits.
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How To Slam Dunk Like A Boss – While Talking On The Phone [VIDEO]
16 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In Americaland, there’s the great tradition of half-time fan competitions at sporting events. In this epic BOSS video, a basketball fan shows the mascot how it’s done by doing a front somersault and slam-dunking the ball, all while talking to his girlfriend on the phone. Like a boss.
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Man Attacks Holiday Shoppers With Lightsabre
16 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Don’t you just hate it when you’re casually doing your shopping, getting some gifts for your little cousin, and then having to go into the hot mess that is Toys R Us at Christmas time? Parents are already fighting over what ever the “cool toy” for 2011 is, then you have to deal with some fool that’s guarding the stash with a lightsaber.
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Who is TIME Magazine’s Person Of The Year?
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
TIME Magazine have announced their prestigious Person of the Year, and this year there might not be enough seats in the awards venue, given the scale of their award. So, who took the title?
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J-Lo Is Selling All Of Marc Anthony’s Stuff
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a bid to get rid of all of the possible visual triggers of her ex-husband Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez has gone on a spree to eliminate all items from her life that may remind her of him.
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Science: Loud Music Makes You Drink More
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
It’s always nice when researchers employing a loosely scientific method produce results you were more or less expecting. Folks at the University of Portsmouth have determined that loud music makes people want to drink alcohol in greater quantities and at a much faster rate because the music makes it taste sweeter. Science!
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Man Used In Lingerie Campaign To Prove Bra Gives “Two Cups Extra”
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
HEMA, a Dutch department store has cast a man in its new lingerie campaign. They claim that their latest push-up bra will give females “two extra cups”. And they seem to be telling the truth, as pictures reveal his “no-cup” chest appears to have been augmented up to a B-cup.
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Sacha Baron Cohen Releases New Borat-Like Dictator Movie [TRAILER]
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sacha Baron Cohen, the man that brought us Borat, Ali G, and Brüno, has just released the trailer for his latest offering – “The Dictator.”
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The U.S. Congress Has Authorized The Pentagon To Wage War Online
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, it’s nice to see that the House and Senate can agree on something. Although in this case they’ve agreed to a provision snuck into the U.S. military’s 2012 funding bill that grants the military power to conduct “offensive” strikes online — including clandestine attacks. And won’t that be fun for everybody.
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It’s Official: President Approves Extra Public Holiday
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The 27th day of December 2011 is a public holiday throughout the Republic in terms of section 2A of the Public Holidays Act, declares Presidency in response to Union petition.
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How North Korea Stole Christmas
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, not really. But North Korea has issued a stern threat to their southern neighbours, warning of “unexpected consequences” if South Korea initiates “psychological warfare” by lighting up any Christmas trees near the north/south border. As opposed to, you know, the actual warfare initiated by the north when they shelled one of the southern islands.
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Classic Old School Music Acts Heading For SA In 2012
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week, Justin Bieber almost ruined the collective festive cheer of the entire world by announcing he was working on a dubstep album, but thankfully it’s still the season for giving, and a handful of awesome classic rock outfits have announced their plans to tour SA in 2012, effectively cancelling out the horror aftershocks of the Lesbieber’s awful, awful news.
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New Public Holiday Under Debate
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Here’s some excellent news for everyone counting their annual leave days for the Christmas break. President Zuma may declare Tuesday 27 December a public holiday this year.
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There’s A Banksy Art-Stealing Competition Going On
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Melbourne-based Art Series Hotel chain is holding an art-stealing competition, starting this Thursday. For the next month, a signed print of Banksy’s “No Ball Games,” worth ZAR 125 500, will be hidden in different locations throughout the chain’s hotels. If people can find and steal it without getting caught, they get to keep it.
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Voyager 1 Is About To Leave Our Solar System
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Space probe Voyager 1 is about to do what no man made object has done in our history. It is about to burst through the outer reaches of our Solar System, almost 11 billion miles from the Sun.
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