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GQ’s Victoria’s Secret Cover + Gallery
17 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
By now you would have noticed, looking at the magazine covers to the left of the page, that the February issue of GQ (UK Edition), features none other than the Victoria’s Secret supermodels. More to the point, it includes our very own Candice Swanepoel! We did the right thing and got you the pics from […]
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Silvio Likes His Girls Not-Barely-Legal
17 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man about town and real man’s man, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is in trouble again. But luckily this time it’s only because he (allegedly) slept with a 17-year-old.
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JORDY SMITH INTERVIEW : He Wants Kelly Slater – He “Wants Him Bad”
14 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Alright, so that title may be pushing it, especially considering that the world #2 hasn’t claimed his first ASP World Tour title yet (clue: he will, this year), but with pro surf photographer Ant Fox, Seth and Bruce Good in attendance, it was a pretty darn fine interview.
Follow the link to get the full interview.
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Economic Heat – Jardine Chef Gets Out Of The Kitchen
14 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The phrase goes, “If you can’t handle the heat, get the hell out of the kitchen”. In economic terms, the past two years have been pretty chilly, which has in turn left more than a few businesses owners feeling a little hot under the collar. Controversial Cape Town restaurant, Jardine, is the latest to fall foul of the global recession, and the head chef has made for greener pastures.
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As If Getting Fat Wasn’t Enough To Make You Feel Guilty
14 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Now your chocolate hoovering habit is propping up the revenues of would-be dictators, more specifically, the regime of the Ivory Coast’s political limpet, Laurent Gbagbo. Feel bad. Feel very bad. And fat. Evil and fat.
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Fight Club, The Musical – Preview [VIDEO]
13 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Alright so we’ve got our hands on a preview for the Fight Club Musical. You know they’re making a Fight Club musical, right? Jared Leto’s comment on the whole affair is, “It smells like disaster, but it could be genius.” We’re undecided at this point.
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Forbes Releases List Of Obscenely Wealthy Americans
04 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Forbes have released the latest update of the 400 richest people in America, and it read likes a who’s-who of global masonry. Those money-grubbers have a combined worth of $1,37 trillion. Goodness gracious, that must buy a heap of private geography lessons.
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Bierpens Piggy Bank [VIDEO]
04 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Randon Beasly holds the world record for stuffing change into a near- perfect bierpens. Randon is an unassuming fellow who generally shies away from the limelight but when it comes to coins and his gut he likes to rip his shirt off and bask that pens in all the limelight he can find. Watch him flaunt his God given talents.
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Facebook Valued At $50 Billion
03 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook has been valued at more than $50 billion, which is more than Time Warner. Justin Timberlake probably thinks that’s really cool. The Great Folly Of Zuckerberg cracked the 50 billion mark after raising $500 million in investment from Goldman Sachs, and a Russian company called Digital Sky.
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Strong Rand Makes US iTunes A Bit Of A No-Brainer
03 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
I’m not sure if you caught the live financial indicators on the right-hand side of the page, but the Rand is absolutely KILLING it against the US Dollar. At the current rate, I’m renting movies from the US iTunes store at R26 a shot – and some of them haven’t even hit the circuit here in SA. Let me show you how.
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Step Up Your Twitter Etiquette, Dawg [VIDEO]
31 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Better put this one on your New Year’s resolution list: Don’t follow Ricky Romance, make sure he’s not following you and if you see them recommend you follow him – delete your twitter account. Watch him hand out twitter tips and a death threat to Chris Brown after some particularly nasty exchanges in 140 characters or less.
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This Month’s House & Leisure Magazine – Get It!
29 Dec 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Did you manage to catch this month’s House & Leisure magazine? It’s their 200th issue and I must say, it’s an absolute cracker! Were you aware that they were voted the best home and decor mag in South Africa? True story.
Speaking of stories, check out the one circled on the cover – follow link to enlarge.
Buy it now – at all good news agents..
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What BRIC Means To South Africa
29 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South Africa has received an official invitation to join the BRIC economic development block, comprised of emerging giants Brazil, Russia, India, and China. In short, we’ve just been called over to the bleachers by the cool kids, and offered a cigarette.
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What’s This Google?
24 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Google’s logo mutations are mostly spot on. For Easter they gooi some bunnies. When there’s pumpkins and draculas you know it’s Halloween. Bobsleds, Winter Olympics. It’s not always pretty but most times it makes sense so what in the name of everything holy, clear and sacred do our friends over at Google mean by this one?
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Medscheme Overcharges Because It Makes Sense, Not Money
23 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This according to Andre Meyer their big chief executive. The Big Chief came under fire last week because his company is increasing their rates by 6.9 percent instead of the recommended 3.6 percent. But you and I profit. “After all, by law medical schemes are not for profit entities,” he said in a statement. You scheme?
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Cosatu Strikes Against Walmart – Pre-Emptively
22 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
SA’s union-in-chief has threatened strike action against the US retail giant before a single Walmart brick has been laid. That’s the way we do it here, Yanks. You don’t come to our country with your big ass shops and just put them up everywhere. We have rules. And Cosatu.
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Julius Malema On The Late Show With David Letterman [VIDEO]
22 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If someone had told you that the creator of the Simpsons, Matt Groening, and late night talk show king, David Letterman had parodied ANCYL[biters] president, Julius Malema, you would not have believed them.
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Checkers? Nataniel? “Turducken”? Really?
20 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Checkers have made well-known South African socialite, fashion designer and aspiring chef (that’s kok in Afrikaans, I’ll have you know), Nataniel their go-to guy for meat-product advertisment. As you can see, they like to push it pretty hard.
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The Terrible, Terrible Future Is Here: Advertisements That Burn Logos Into Your Eyes
20 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I have feared this for years. What happens if one day you switch off the television, but the McDonalds logo is still burnt into the back of your corneas, and it won’t go away until you buy the Biggest Mac that there ever was? Well, that day is today friends. Sort of. Once in a theatre in Germany.
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Tina Fey Is Sarah Palin? Epic Sunday Tribune Fail
18 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Independent Newspapers has been providing us with little gems of unintentional wordplay for years now. And when they’re not reporting that X politician has been fingered by Y investigative body (how many times could you withstand that kind of interrogation before you cracked?), they’re making pictorial gaffs. Please enjoy this little piece of joy.
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Very, Very Cool Youtube Ad
17 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I know – it’s December, you’ve got this big pseudo-Christian consumerist monolith being forced down every available orifice imploring you to spend more money on This New Shiny Thing, and maybe you’re a little sick of that right now. I understand that. But believe me when I say that this is a freaking awesome advert.
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Ha. Awesome Wikileaks Advertising In Pakistan.
16 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Pakistan’s relations with the U.S. were talked up pretty heavily in the latest Cablegate leaks; further, false leaks with heavy anti-Indian sentiment were spread around the country by major national newspapers. So it’s nice to see the Pakistani advertisers make the most of an awkward situation.
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Oh Hey, Just Unicycling Across The Country, No Big Deal
14 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Unicycling has arguably been around since there have been wheels and chairs. That’s just science. Charity has been around for a pretty long time too. So it’s fitting that these two ancient disciplines would come together in the Counter Balance ‘Freedom Revolution Tour,’ which is raising funds to provide disadvantaged school kids with shoes.
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80s Sun City Commercial [VIDEO]
14 Dec 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
We pulled out some vinyl in the 2oceansvibe Radio studio the other day and found ourselves playing We Will Rock You by Queen. My Friday co-host, Bruce, reminded me of the old classic Sun City TV commercial, which used the same song. My Twitter friends helped find the video. Check it out – epic!
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Public Service Announcement From Seth: Money
09 Dec 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Every now and then I drop one of these public service announcements, because I love you and you should know about them. Love is an action, not an emotion, okay?
Think about that. I’m acting out my love for you.
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Amazon.com: The Face Of Hypocrisy
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We live in a world where business ethics trump their moral counterparts with ease, so perhaps we shouldn’t get too upset about this.
You may well remember that Amazon.com abandoned WikiLeaks after suffering less than subtle diplomatic pressure from the United States.
While disappointing, that kind of move was inevitable, perhaps even understandable. If the negative attention damaged the brand, Amazon has since committed public relations hara kiri. Cue global brandfail for Amazon.com in three, two, one…
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News24, Is This Entirely Necessary?
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The face of news is changing on a daily basis. It really has to. For as long as people have communicated, the basic premise of news has been one person asking another, “Tell me something new and interesting.” One person’s “new and interesting” may not be another’s news. News24 is very aware of this fact.
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Proverbial Wallets from John Kestner on Vimeo.
Robot Wallets
07 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Paying things with cards is weird for me. I mean obviously the convenience of having a plastic card that gets me stuff is great – I got to take advantage of the Threadless sale, for instance – but without that tangible sense of loss at having to fork over a wad of cash, there is the risk of going overboard is substantial. Folks at MIT have some ideas about that.
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Michael Jackson Posthumously Foils Media Pirates With Vuvuzelas [VIDEO]
07 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
No, I am not pushing it with that headline. This is for real. Chamona! Game Software developers, Ubi Soft, have introduced a novel (and thoroughly heart-warming) anti-piracy measure into the Nintendo DS version of Michael Jackson: The Experience – vuvuzelas. That’s right. Copy this game at your own aural risk.
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Brandhouse Drive Dry Advertisement – Mildly Spicy [VIDEO]
06 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This is hardly breaking news, but our inboxes have been haunted by it in the last few days, so we thought we’d fill in those of you who haven’t seen it already. Brandhouse is this festive season’s latest corporate entity to launch an anti drink-driving television and print campaign. Let’s just say “prison” and “enforced spooning”.
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