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The Marijuana Carbon Footprint
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That is correct, that grass might not be that green after all. A researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has revealed in a report entitled “Energy up in Smoke: The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis Production” that indoor growers account for approximately one percent of total US electricity use.
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Break Copyright Law And YouTube Will Punish You [VIDEO]
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
YouTube is becoming your mother. Starting Thursday, if you upload something that violates copyright law you’ll be forced to watch a video telling you just how naughty you’ve been.
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Fake Army Recruited In American Immigration Scam
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A resident of Temple City, California, is accused of running a fake military recruitment centre, where Chinese would-be-immigrants were made to pay to join a “special forces reserve” unit that would supposedly improve their chances of becoming US citizens. The “unit” is well known in Los Angeles, and was assumed to be genuine.
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Protesting: The Devil Is In The Detail
14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
When you’re protesting for better working conditions, or any working conditions at all, really, it’s important to be specific in your demands. Well done to this gentleman, who appeared in this photograph on the front page of 13 April’s Argus. Be sure to read that sign he is holding.. The photograph related to a story […]
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Buy A “Jou Ma Se Burger” At Castello’s
14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Marketing can be a really beautiful thing. It’s also a touch difficult to remain original within the fast paced environment of radvertising these days. So, when someone gets it right, like launching a “jou ma se burger” for instance, one just has to give it the old customary head-nod and one-corner-of-the-mouth-curling smile it so rightly deserves.
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FearSquare, Because How Dangerous Is Your Location
14 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The use of the FourSquare application has been popular to say the least. You know, you sign yourself in at a particular place in a brave attempt to make others jealous of where you currently are, it shows up in your various newsfeeds and boom, you are instantly cool. Now there’s FearSquare.
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Shrien Dewani Arrested After “Heated Discussion” With Fellow Mental Hospital Patient
12 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Shrien Dewani’s multi-week tenure at Priory Hospital for treatment following a suicide attempt, has come to an end. Dewani has been moved to a “stricter” mental health facility, after he engaged in a “heated discussion” with a female patient.
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Snakes On A Bus
11 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An overly tense Sam Jackson was not present on Saturday when over 600 snakes were discovered in the luggage compartment of a bus, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Nandos Keeps The Punishment Train Rolling
08 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
And this time the target is Richard Mdluli, who has been indicted for murder, along with a slue of other charges. He also happens to be South Africa’s crime intelligence boss. I can see how this is problematic. Please enjoy.
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China Bans Time-Travel Movies
08 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well this is probably just the cherry on the big ol’ authoritarian cake they got going on over there, but hot damn. All the best movies had time travel in them. Never mind the fact that now a generation of Chinese kids won’t spend every waking moment waiting for their future selves to arrive in a DeLorean.
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Another P-Bomb Dropped In Court
05 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems it’s all the rage to voice ones displeasure with how one finds things are going in court these days. Instead of it being an advocate this time, it’s a 71 year old “Brett Kebble-type character” from the Strand near Cape Town facing fraud charges. He had recently celebrated his 71st in Pollsmoor too.
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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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Fake Weed Gets Naval Academy Student Expelled
04 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems this is a common problem that the US Naval Academy faces. Another midshipman was expelled from the force for using or having a banned weed-like substance known as “spice”. No spice. This brings the total number of expulsions to 12.
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French Vegan Couple On Trial Over Baby’s Death
01 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two vegans who fed their 11 month old daughter only on her mother’s breast milk went on trial in northern France on Tuesday. They have been charged with neglect after their baby died as a result of suffering from vitamin deficiencies and could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
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Crime Intelligence Head Faces Criminal Charges Including Murder
31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South Africa’s head honcho of crime intelligence, Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli, has appeared at the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court today facing a number of criminal charges including kidnapping and murder. In the same vein as, say, robbers locking up police, there’s something wrong with this picture, no?
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Former Blue Bull Joseph Ntshongwana Is Alleged Axe Murderer
31 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Joseph Ntshongwana, a former Blue Bulls flanker and Barbarians player, appeared in the Durban Magistrate’s Court today in connection with a series of gruesome axe murders in the city, according to reports.
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Robbers Lock Up Police
29 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Three robbers enter a police station, lock up the officers on duty and steal a whole lot of stuff. There is no punchline. This happened in the early hours of this morning in the Eastern Cape.
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German Doctor’s Juicy Malpractice Lands Him In Jail
28 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m all for advances in alternative medicine but this is a little too alternative. A German doctor has been found guilty of endangering the lives of 25 patients due to his highly eccentric methodologies which included using lemon juice to sterilise his surgical procedures.
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How Not To Be Accused Of Being A Witch
24 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Long, long ago, being accused of witchcraft and getting burnt at the stake was all just part of growing up, and something you’d just have to contend with. But far from being resigned to the past, witchcraft rears it’s ugly head in our modern midst.
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China Tightens Electronic Security By A Whole Bunch Of Notches
23 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If you say the word ‘protest’ too frequently in a cell-phone conversation in Beijing, your call gets cut off. No spice. We have pretty strict phone etiquette policies here at 2ov, granted, but generally we allow calls, once placed, to proceed without Big Brother intervention.
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Removing Gaddafi Not Allowed – David Cameron
22 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Friday we discussed what the no-fly zone over Libya meant and how it would be placed into effect by the international community. “But the UN resolution is limited in its scope. It explicitly does not provide legal authority for action to bring about Gaddafi’s removal from power by military means,” explained UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
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The Libyan No-Fly Zone – What It Means
18 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Aside from the shit literally hitting the fan, let’s break this down and look at what it’s going to mean for the nation that is embroiled in one of the worst struggles against a dictator in history.
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Guy Gets Stabbed For Not Wanting To Play “Vampire” With His Roomate
18 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Like they say, it’s always fun for two males to play “vampire” with each other – until one gets stabbed with a knife for not wanting to play anymore. I have a feeling “playing vampire” might be slang for something else…
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Grade 1 Teacher Allegedly Drops K-Bomb, No Spice
17 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A grade 1 teacher from the Orchards Primary School just outside Centurion in Gauteng has been suspended by the schools governing body after pupils claim she called them k*****s. She now also faces a disciplinary hearing next week. Apparently she also called them “black monkeys”. But, has she been levelled with false accusations?
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Renovations To Gauteng Premier’s House, Millions Squandered
16 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Gauteng’s top brass are being flushed out again for misappropriation of taxpayers’ money. This time it’s totalling a little over R12 million since 2005 on lavish refurbishments and renovations to the official Bryanston residence of the Gauteng Premier.
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Scourge Of Geriatric Drug Peddlars Sweeps Cape
16 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A 52 year old woman was arrested in the middle-class suburb of Kenilworth, Cape Town, for dealing in drugs on Monday. She is not alone in her entrepreneurial endeavors. It seems a growing number of grannies are entering the underworld and deceiving the greater public of their criminal tendencies.
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Dad Finds Daughters On Facebook After Ten Years
15 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Kobus du Plessis gave his daughter a Winnie The Pooh umbrella he bought for her fifth birthday. The thing is, she’s not five, she’s fifteen. The Durban policeman had tracked down his 15-year-old daughter Zandrea and her sister, Leonie, 18 after their mother vanished overseas with them ten years ago. Check this out.
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Float Like A Butterfly Sting Like A Bee – It’s Schabir – Now Rearrested
14 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You may or may not have noticed the Sunday Times front cover yesterday. The headline was gripping and revealing. One usually sees this when tabloids have a secret they’re unable to keep. This time however, tabloids aside, the headline had every right to froth in its very large font. Behold: “Shaik In Mosque Punch-Up”
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Ugandan Press Push It Quite Far With “Bum Driller” Headline
14 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Ugandan Media are famous for their outrageous homophobia. Please enjoy the latest flaming, pucker-lipped homosexual red flag leaked from Africa’s most sexually awkward nation. Incredible, actually-published one-liners after the jump.
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It’s A Pirate’s Life For Me
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Saeed Yare is a dollar multi-millionaire and I am not. The difference between us: I am but a lowly writer and he is a pirate.
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