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High School “Prank” FAIL Sees Children Make Out With Parents
19 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I believe the expression, “oh, America!” is very appropriate here. The principal of a US high school has been forced to apologise after a recent pep rally “prank” provoked outrage. This after a video surfaced online of team captains being blindfolded in front of their classmates and told to wait for a kiss from a “special someone”. After literally making out with this special someone, it is then revealed to them that it was in fact their mother or father.
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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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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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Rhino Horn Smuggler Sentenced As Death Toll Rises To 443
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
National Geographic announced yesterday that we have lost a staggering 443 rhinos to poaching this year – a number that seems to climb exorbitantly on a daily basis. It’s with open arms that the country welcomes the sentencing of Hsu Hsien Lung to six years imprisonment for his part in rhino horn smuggling.
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Church Unveils Provocative Christmas Billboard
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A controversial New Zealand church has rolled out a publicity stunt in time for Christmas – with a billboard showing the Virgin Mary holding a positive pregnancy test. Auckland’s St Matthews in the City Church launched its festive advertising campaign to “avoid the sentimental and trite” and “spark thought and conversation”.
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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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Where Not To Drink – Lethal Booze Kills 102 In India
15 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In what is apparently a relatively regular occurrence in India, dozens of people have consumed toxic alcohol, leaving 102 dead and countless others in hospital.
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Infographic: Where Not To Be Gay In Africa
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association has compiled an infographic showing the penalties targeting gays and lesbians in Africa. Parts of the continent are known to discriminate against gays and lesbians, but did you know that more than half the countries on our continent carry at least a prison sentence for the “crime”?
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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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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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Full Gallery Of Nobanda Nolubabalo’s Cocaine Dreadlocks [PICS]
14 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 60 Comments
By now you must have heard of Nobanda Nolubabalo, the 23 year-old South African who was arrested in Bangkok on Monday. She is accused of being a drug mule and was allegedly carrying 1.5kg of cocaine, hidden in her dreadlocks. Photos of customs officers searching her hair have since appeared online. See them after the jump.
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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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Congratulations, You’ve Won £37 Million… NOT!
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The sirens go off, the lights flash, you blink in disbelief as you try to comprehend what has just happened – you’ve won the slots jackpot at a casino! Your mental shopping list is already on its third page when an elegantly dressed gentleman taps you on the shoulder to inform you it was a system glitch.
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Rare 1980’s Steve Jobs Presentation Emerges Online [VIDEO]
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Regis McKenna has very kindly donated rare vintage footage of Steve Jobs giving a presentation in the early 1980’s to the Computer History Museum. It shows Jobs discussing the early history of Apple, and speaking in his usual inspiring manner.
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Chelsea Clinton Is An NBC Reporter Now
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last night Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton, made her debut as a reporter on NBC. Yes, I know it’s weird to think that Bill and Hilary actually have a child, but she’s pretty good.
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Google’s Updated Streetview of Fukushima
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
True to the pledge it made back in July to digitally archive images of the parts of Japan affected by the March earthquake and tsunami, Google has uploaded imagery of post-earthquake Fukushima to Street View. They’ve also set up a ‘Build the Memory’ website which compares before-and-after shots of the affected towns.
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Monkey’s Paintings Fetch Up To R3500 Each [PICS]
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Pockets Warhol is white-capped capuchin monkey. He has been given that name because he uses his tail, hands, feet, and of course, a brush, to daub canvases with his own unique artistic paintings. Pockets has become a money-spinning machine for bosses at at Story Book Farm, a primate sanctuary in Canada, with his paintings selling for as much as R3 500 each. See examples of his work after the jump.
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World Record For Naked Santas Set In San Francisco [VIDEO]
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Santacon is a thing that happens in San Francisco every year; people dress up as Santa Claus and get very drunk. Public nudity is also legal in SF. So it makes sense for this year’s Santacon to have been an attempt at setting a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of naked Santas ever.
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Girl Waves At Bear. Bear Waves Back At Girl [VIDEO]
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This clip, taken last year, is believed to have been filmed at the Olympic Game Farm in Washington. It features a huge Kodiak bear waving back at sightseers and has quickly become a hit on the internet. Viewers are particularly delighted by his cheery demeanour. I love how he gives that, “OH IT’S YOU!” look before waving back.
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British Police To Test Temporary Blinding Laser
12 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Police in Britain will soon be testing a shoulder-mounted laser that is capable of emitting a blinding wall of light from up to 500 metres away. It’s hoped the laser will help repel rioters and other troublemakers in an effort to prevent a repeat of the rioting that took place there earlier this year.
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Insane Footage Of Hollywood Shooting Spree [VIDEO]
12 Dec 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
If someone walks onto Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and starts shooting a gun, he won’t be taken that seriously. And that’s what happened on Friday in Hollywood when people mistook a lone gunman for an actor – thinking that it was surely a film being made. According to Masslive: A broken heart may have fueled […]
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Dutch Architects Apologise For Twin Tower Blast Look-Alike Design
12 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A highly embarrassed Dutch architectural firm has had to apologise for its design of twin skyscrapers in central Seoul, South Korea, because they look pretty much like freeze frames of New York’s late World Trade Center, as both towers exploded. The design for the luxury apartment buildings has enraged families of the victims of the September 11 attacks.
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Earliest Known Human Beds Found Near Durban
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not only are the beds about 77 000 years old, but it appears they were also designed to ward off insects like mosquitoes. The fossilized material has been found at an ancient cliff shelter known as Sibudu, which is near to Durban on our east coast, and continues to fuel the debate that modern man evolved out of Africa.
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Rick Perry’s Campaign Video Is A YouTube Fail [VIDEO]
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Rick Perry, you silly Republican. A few days ago, Rick Perry released a campaign video making his views of gays in the military very clear. The video is now second only to Justin Bieber’s “Baby” as the most disliked video on YouTube, overtaking Rebecca Black’s “Friday.” The full video after the jump.
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Google Introduces Facial Recognition Feature
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The world’s largest search engine is busy rolling out technology that can track your face. Facebook has been doing this for a while, so this sounds like Google playing catch-up, but there is a neat difference: unlike on Facebook, Google+ users get to opt-in to the facial recognition feature, instead of being automatically dragged into it.
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Iran Parades US Drone, Russia And China Want To Inspect It
09 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
US officials previously confirmed that an RQ-170 Sentinel, otherwise known as a drone, did, in fact, crash land somewhere in Iran. They however weren’t keen to confirm that the footage Iran broadcast on state television yesterday was in fact real. In other news, Russia and China want to inspect the US craft.
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Red Cross Debating Whether Or Not Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Laws
08 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
There’s a Red Cross committee presently debating whether or not people playing war video games should be subject to the same humanitarian laws as people involved in real wars with real people and real weapons. So far as I can tell they’re doing this entirely seriously.
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Islamic Cleric Bans Woman From Touching Bananas, Carrots And Cucumbers
08 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
An Islamic cleric has said that women should not be close to bananas or cucumbers, because it can lead to “sexual thoughts.” He has also suggested that should females wish to eat these food items, a third party, preferably a male related to them should cut the items into small pieces for them.
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Blueprints Of Apple’s Proposed New HQ – Inside The Mothership [PICS]
08 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A few months ago Apple announced their plans for their new headquarters in the Silicon Valley, and submitted plans to the Cupertino City Council. The late Steve Jobs claimed the spaceship-like structure would be “the best office building in the world”, and judging by these recently released documents, he wasn’t kidding.
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The Mythbusters Accidentally Shot Someone’s House With A Cannonball [PIC]
08 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The crew of the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters blasted a house in Dublin, California with a cannonball yesterday. I mean, not on purpose; they were trying to fire a homemade cannon at huge containers of water, because a canon’s ability to bust huge containers of water is a myth that needs busting, but they missed.
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