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Mzoli’s Launches Gugulethu’s First Wine Festival
07 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If you’ve ever made your way to Mzoli’s in Gug’s, or even just to the Mzoli’s Butchery to pick up your whopping large lamb chops, you’ll be aware that this has the potential to be one hell of a vibe. Instead of washing down a tasting with a boring biscuit, we’ll probably be snacking on a piece of wors.
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Virgin America Spices Up Opening Ceremony With Spaceships
07 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, Virgin America held an opening ceremony for their new Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport; press were ushered onto a waiting aircraft, and told to keep an eye out for Virgin-Galactic-related-things after takeoff. After about 20 minutes they were asked to look out of their windows, because White Knight 2 and Spaceship 2 were doing fly-byes.
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Skateboard Tour Of Post-Earthquake Christchurch [VIDEO]
07 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A group of skaters armed with handheld cameras take a run through Christchurch in the aftermath of the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in February. As earthquake-stricken citizens go, they seem pretty optimistic! And the video is very cool-looking too. Take a look.
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Facebook Launches “Journalists On Facebook”
06 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a much anticipated move, the social media giant has finally unveiled its next step in advancing the power of journalism through social networking. It’s described as a central resource tool for journalists and the public to share, interact and find sources on the site. Try and stop us now Julius, Jimmy, Floyd and the other haters out there.
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Some People REALLY Love Eckō Apparel
06 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wow! Okay. Last week we told you about the ‘Get An Eckō Tattoo, Get A 20% Discount For Life’ they’re peddling, with a couple of metaphorical raised eyebrows. So they sent us a couple of photos of fans that had gotten themselves branded with their logo – bluff called. Amazing.
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What KE$HA Sounds Like Without Autotune: Classy
06 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
During my little spare time, I love nothing more than to cruise the inner bowls of the net for lovely lovely trash. And every now and and then I find a gem. And I would like to share this one with you good people. It’s what my favourite white-trash singer, KE$SHA, sounds like without the addition of Auto-tune.
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Virgin Oceanic: Richard Branson Is Getting Into The Submarine Business
06 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And business is good. See how I avoided the Beatles reference in the title? Sir Richard Branson, known for doing fancy things with money and vehicles, launched Virgin Oceanic, which aims to explore “the last frontiers of our own Blue Planet: the very bottom of our seas.”
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Tuesday Radvertising: Hot Wheels Loop
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As part of an advertising campaign for toy car line Hot Wheels, a facade loop was installed alongside a highway in Bogotá, Colombia, mimicking the loop tracks that you’re always a little crushed to discover woulnd’t work in real life. It looks pretty rad. Nice job, Hot Wheels. Nice job, Colombia.
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Sadness, RE-35 Will Not Turn Your 35mm Film Camera Into A Digital Camera
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I was amazed to see, on Gizmodo, that a company has brought out a USB cartridge that actually allows you to take digital photos with your old 35mm film camera. But all my hopes were dashed when I read that it was all just a terribly cruel April Fools joke.
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BP To Resume Drilling In The Gulf of Mexico
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hoo. BP’s planning on restarting deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico on 10 wells this summer; U.S. regulators seem to be giving it the go-ahead in exchange for tougher safety rules. In unrelated news, President Obama promised last week to cut U.S. oil imports by 33%
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Homegrown Foam Technology Combats Cash Heists
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South African scientists are responsible for an ingenious method for fighting ATM bombing and cash-in-transit heists. It involves polyurethane foam, which hardens in a minute. Used with the ‘Pudu’ – a polyurethane foam dispensing unit – this hardening ability also makes it much harder for robbers to get away with our cash. Clever, hey?
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Lamborghini Releases Aventador Concept Designs
04 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Lamborghini has introduced designs for the Aventador LP-700, successor to the Murcielago; it is a sexy car from a sexy company, so it is more or less fitting that the designs are pretty sexy-looking too. It’s named for a bull from a 1993 bull-fight, which makes this ethically iffy, but hey. Look for sexy images after the cut.
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Jack Parow Releases “Byellville”
04 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Yo yo yo, Captain Jack Parow has just released his newest video called “Byellville”. The video, directed by Duvand Durand and Thomas Ferreira, portrays the world of “Belville Cultue”, as seen through the lens of the somewhat strange musician.
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There Are No Good Puns About LCD Soundsystem Retiring
04 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
But they did, playing their last show at Madison Square Garden last Saturday, stretching the last hurrah out over a 230-minute show. Which is pretty long, as these go. They played all of their songs, and I mean all of them – from the Billboard Top 10 ‘This Is Happening’ to song titles I had to google.
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Watch The Full-Length The Hangover: Part II Trailer
01 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Well hello there, movie trailer. You’re looking pretty fine. What’s that? You’re a trailer for The Hangover: Part II? Well I guess that’s pretty — and you’re the first full length trailer? Oh, you’re a tease. That’s what you are. I guess that pretty much takes care of the rest of my Friday.
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First Clip Of The New Winnie The Pooh Movie
01 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I grew up with Gummy Bears, Smurfs and Disney’s Winnie The Pooh as my favourite daytime TV shows. And now, more than three decades after the last theatrical release, we will see a full-length, hand-drawn, Pooh movie. And I, for one, cannot wait.
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Katy Perry’s Video For “E.T.” Featuring Kanye Has Landed
01 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s Friday and I like to share on Fridays. So in that spirit, Here’s Katy Perry’s new video for “E.T.” from her album “Teenage Dream”. Enjoy.
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Nature, You Are Horrific: Spiders Take Over Trees In Wake Of Pakistan Floods
31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Human displacement aside, the floods in Pakistan have caused massive changes in the local ecology. With more than a fifith of Pakistan submerged, millions of spiders have escaped the rising waterline by moving into trees – quickly covering riverside treelines in cocoons of spiderweb. It’s creepy-looking.
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ANC Youth League Website Hacked
31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The ANC Youth League’s website was hacked yesterday. A message was posted saying that the great one himself, Julius Malema, had decided to quit as president of the organisation due to his own incompetence, lack of integrity and a lot of other stuff we know all too well.
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Ron Jeremy Has His Own Rum Brand And I’m Not Sure How To Feel About That
30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ron Jeremy markets a rum brand called Ron Jeremy. If you know who Ron Jeremy is, accept that you’re sort of curious and click through to know more; if you don’t, please believe me when I say it’s better to be ignorant about this kind of thing.
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Cape Advocate Swears At Judge – Full Transcript And Translation Here
30 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Yesterday a little blue bird forwarded us a juicy document. That document is the full transcript of proceedings in a criminal case currently being argued in the Cape Town High Court. The transcript details an altercation between Judge Lee Bozalek and Advocate Nehemiah Ballem. And by “altercation” I mean a verbal smackdown. Enjoy this portion of the exchange.
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12 Year Old Expands Einstein’s Relativity, Thinks He Can Prove It Wrong [VIDEO]
29 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170. According to some, this is reportedly higher than Albert Einstein’s was, although Einstein himself never took the test. Jake is now so far advanced in his Indiana University studies that professors are lining him up for a paid PHD research role. He also finished high school at eight years old.
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German Ad Campaign: ‘Sex Is No Accident.’
29 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
MTV Germany, which is a thing I didn’t know existed until just now, is trying to spread the word to the masses: there is no such thing as accidental sex, please wear condoms. To emphasize the point, they’ve put together a series of comics in which people accidentally have sex and don’t wear condoms.
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Watch ‘The Bang-Bang Club’ Trailer
28 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This looks to be pretty rad – a look at the the lives of four photojournalists working in South African townships between 1990 and 1994, based on the book of the same name written by two of the original group. Unfortunate accents aside, the cast and crew are looking pretty rad. Checkit.
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Zef Side One Of The Best On The Internet
28 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Die Antwoord’s “Zef Side” has been chosen by the Guggenheim Foundation, the people who decide who’s who in contemporary art, as one of the top 25 videos on the internet in the last two years.
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Norwegian Scuba Divers Ambush Google Street View Van
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Borre Erstad and Paul Age Olsen from Bergen in Norway waited patiently for the search engine’s car after receiving a tip off that the drivers were in the area. This is the sort of stunt that you can only dream of pulling off, but, these guys actually did it. Awesome ambushing footage after the jump.
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The Borat Mankini Argus Cyclist: The Plot Thickens
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
The mankini-clad cyclist who sent South Africa’s cycling community into a heady froth over his BMX and lumo green couture has been identified. But there is so much more to this story than the superficial…
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Keep Plumbing
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
Who knew that Johnny Walker was also a plumbing business? Check what I spotted driving along Buitengracht yesterday morning. Don’t you love the slogan, “keep it running.” Pure class I tell you. Not sure how the actual Johnny Walker would feel about this though?
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‘Tennis Girl’ Reveals Herself 35 Years Later
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hey, you guys know that photo, right? The one with the tennis-playing girl lifting up the back of her skirt in a way that’s sort of sexy but also obliviously enough for people to call it art, rather than sexy-tennis-photography? It’s by Martin Elliot, who died recently, so the model’s decided to let us know who she is.
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Prevue Your Unborn Baby As It Grows
25 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s a totally non-creepy idea, that’s just won an Australian design award. It’s called “Prevue” and it straps over the pregnant ladies tummy and then mummy and daddy and all and sundry can see the Phoetus as it grows.
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