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Porsche Is Designing A 57 Storey Highrise With Car Elevator
24 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Porsche is designing a $650-million, 57-story highrise to go up in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Which isn’t that big of a deal. What is pretty insane, however, is the fact that the highrise will feature a robotic car elevator that takes condo owners directly to their door while still in the vehicle.
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Say Adios To The Five Cent Coin, Folks
24 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
From April next year, the SA Treasury will cease production of the current five cent coin and will issue a new look 10 cent coin that is more cost effective to produce.
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Microsoft Actually Tries To Lure Amazon And Google Employees With Free Bacon
24 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Microsoft thinks the techies at Amazon and Google will find free bacon hard to resist. And so, they’ve allowed one of their ad agencies, Wexley School for Girls, to set up a food cart outside Amazon.com’s headquarters, before moving to a spot near Google’s offices. There, workers were encouraged to eat free bacon with toppings like spray-on cheese.
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ANC Threatens Secrecy Bill Dissidents
24 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, the ANC decided it would threaten its members who voted with their consciences against the passing of the Protection of State Information Bill in Parliament on Tuesday. Luckily and unluckily, the minutes of proceedings for the vote have to be released into the public domain showing exactly who voted for what.
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Poor Blatter Hurt By Racism Attack
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Poor Sepp Blatter. Things still aren’t going his way. Blatter said yesterday how hurt he felt after being criticised for his comments about racism in football. Visibly perplexed, he said: “I was very much hurt by these comments because it touched me in my conscience.”
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A Review Of The 2011 Blog Awards Finalists
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. There are some big names missing from that pool of finalists. More particularly, the coveted “Best Entertainment and Lifestyle Blog” category is fairly interesting.
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Google Is Killing A Bunch Of Services Today
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As part of it’s “off-season spring cleaning,” Google today announced the end of a handful of services, including Google Buzz, Google Wave, and Google Knol. The thinking behind the initiative is to free up resources for Google+ and other higher-priority projects. While some of the shut-downs make sense, others are a little more unexpected.
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Kristin Wiig Is GQ’s “Bro Of The Year”
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Saturday Night Live fox and Bridesmaids star, Kristen Wiig has taken the honour of “Bro of the Year” in the Stateside Men of the Year edition of GQ. Being GQ, they were unable to give her the award without getting a glossy snap of Kristen in her undies, which she dutifully provided.
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Protection Of Information Bill Takes One Step Closer – Nandos Voices Its Opinion
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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Radvertising: Old Spice Is Still Doing Nicely [VIDEO]
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I feel a little bad for Widen + Kennedy, Old Spice’s advertising agency; everything they’ve done since introducing Isaiah Mustafa as the Old Spice Guy has been subject to comparison, not always fairly. Which is a pity, because they’re killing it here with their new “Smell Better Than Yourself” campaign. Check out the video, after the jump.
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“Reply To All” Email Goes Terribly Wrong For Jozi Car Dealership
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
This is why you always double check if you have clicked “reply”, and not “reply to all”, when sending an email, especially when it concerns your annoyance about something. The email in question has to do with repairs being made to a car at a Johannesburg dealership, and, well, it’s rather self-explanatory. Click through to cringe.
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Debut SA Rolling Stone Magazine Cover Revealed
22 Nov 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The world’s premier music magazine has finally come to our shores! Hugh Masekela graces the cover of the first edition of the South African Rolling Stone magazine – which you will see appearing on shelves from tomorrow. Check out their website here. Follow the link to find out more about the magazine, their vision, the […]
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Bishopscourt Mansion Goes On The Market For R98 Million
22 Nov 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The more aspirational of us often discuss the difference between what “your” R10 million or R20 million or R50 million buys on “either side of the mountain.” These chats usually take place around EuroMillions lottery draw time. More to the point, we compare the size of the property you can get in Clifton, with the options […]
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Cape Town Angel Wows US X-Factor
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’ve been following the US X-Factor, you might be aware that a country group of four stunningly beautiful angels is currently in the top nine of the competition. One of the group’s four members, it turns out, is from Cape Town.
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Rich New Yorkers Buying Pimped-Out Vans To Camouflage Wealth
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There appears to be a growing trend among rich New Yorkers in response to the increased attention being paid to “the 1%”. They’ve taken to buying cargo vans that look plain on the outside, but are opulent on the inside, tricked out with massage chairs wi-fi and widescreen televisions. Some of these guys cost upwards of ZAR 4 million.
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Re-make Mondays: Reboot ‘Em, Danno – Hawaii Five-0
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Long before Law and Order and the hydra-like CSI franchise, there was another brand of American police procedural that was a little lighter in tone, and tended to focus a lot more on the physical assets of the cast than the semantic aspects of a good forty minute whodunnit. Being set in beautful Hawaii didn’t hurt either.
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Pakistan Bans Hundreds Of Phrases Like “Monkey Crotch” And “Love Pistol” From Text Messages
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Pakistan’s telecoms watchdog, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, has decided that mobile phone operators in that country must block all text messages using offensive words. The list contains over 1 600 words and phrases including, “flogging the dolphin”. Some linguistic purists are expected to be delighted by the move that comes into force today, while George Orwell turns in his grave.
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Cape Town Designer’s T-Shirt Pops Up Again In Modern Family
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jaco Haasbroek is a designer from Cape Town. This guy designed a t-shirt so cool that it has now been worn twice on one of the biggest TV shows at the moment. The shirt is called “High 5” and it popped up in an episode of Modern Family last month, and again on last Wednesday’s episode. High-five!
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Not-So-Halaal Meat Case Begins
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Orion Cold Storage, the Cape-based company accused of rebranding meat as Halaal when it couldn’t have been, is in the Western Cape High Court today facing the music. Orion themselves have laid charges of sabotage, but the two workers charged say they have evidence proving their claims, like the video they shot, for instance.
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Japan’s Eco-Friendly Christmas Lights [PICS]
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s the Year of Setsuden in Japan, which Google tells me means “saving electricity'”; this means that the lavish Christmas illuminations that Tokyo usually sets up are a little hard to justify. Minna no Illumi has found a pretty neat solution to the problem, though, with an entirely biodiesel-powered display.
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PayPal Launches Facebook App
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Happy birthday Facebook wall posts just got interesting. It probably won’t be long before one starts scrolling through those birthday wall posts to see who has sent a greeting card with a little bit of a surprise attached. Tech-savvy grannies everywhere will be rejoicing.
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SA Cricket Sponsor Forgets To Buy Web Address
18 Nov 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 5 Comments
It’s nothing short of remarkable that Sunfoil, the cooking oil sponsor of SA Cricket, forgot to buy sunfoil.co.za – right up until the second last test that we played. The domain name was quietly snapped up by local marketing company, Bletchley Park – who are now using it to promote one of their brands – […]
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Constitutional Court Arms Deal Case Withdrawn, Zuma To Pay Costs
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The application to compel a Constitutional Court inquiry into the arms deal was withdrawn today. The application, made by Terry Crawford-Browne, was to force an independent investigation of the arms deal controversy. The call for an independent inquiry was made before the September announcement that Jacob Zuma would appoint a commission of inquiry into the deal.
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“The Situation” Is Sueing Abercrombie For $4 Million
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, the abdominal muscle infatuated Jersey Shore actor, is suing Abercrombie and Fitch for making and selling t-shirts with phrases like “The Fitchuation” on them. He is also still distressed about the fake press release Abercrombie put out asking him not to wear their clothes anymore.
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The Stop Online Piracy Act – What You Need To Know [VIDEO]
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The American Senate has officially begun holding hearings on the the ‘Internet Blacklist Bill,’ also known as the “PROTECT IP Act” or the “Stop Online Piracy Act.” It is potentially the most harmful bit of Internet censorship legislation to date, and you should know what’s going to happen if it passes.
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Poaching Mission Off To China Following Record Bust
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South Africa’s Environmental Affairs Department has said it’s sending a mission to China following a record R18 million rhino horn bust in Hong Kong on Monday. So far, officials have released little information about the massive haul that left Cape Town harbour, but they have said this mission was a positive sign for relations with China.
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Murdoch’s Largest News Portal Makes Magnificent Headline Flub
16 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
News.com.au, the primary news portal of embattled media tycoon and lizard being, Rupert Murdoch, made a magnificent headline flub this morning, seen above. According to history and fact, the last time Queen Victoria met a soldier was some time before her death in 1901, although the war in Afghanistan may well have been the topic […]
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Nonhle Thema Calls Herself “God”
16 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Nonhle Thema lost the plot again last night on Twitter. She tried to have another catfight with Bonang Matheba because Bonang had mentioned Nonhle’s name in an interview. But Nonhle ended up battling herself instead. It could also be because Bonang has more Twitter followers than Nonhle, and that Nonhle was jealous over Bonang’s new True Love cover shot.
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Delhi Police Rebooting Hansie Cronje Match Fixing Case
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
International cricket is desperately trying to save some face after years of ridicule at the hands of numerous match-fixing scandals. And with the recent jail terms handed to the Pakistani cricketers, probably the most scandalous of all match-fixing cases is set to be reopened: the Hansie Cronje archives.
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The Occupy Wall Street Protestors Are Being Violently Swept Out By NYPD [LIVE STREAM]
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At 2am this morning the NYPD started violently clearing out Zuccoti Park, where the peaceful Occupy Wall Street protestors have been camped out. The cops are using pepper spray, they are using LRAD sound weapons, and they are actively preventing any official media from reporting on their violation of OWS members’ constitutional rights. Shit’s gotten real.
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