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Man Gets 20 Years In Jail For Insulting Thai Queen
24 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Thai man has received a sentence of 20 years in prison for committing computer crime and lese majeste – insulting the monarch – which is a big no-no in Thailand. In fact, insulting a Thai king or queen is dealt with more severely in that country than just about anywhere in the world.
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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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New Study Confirms That Hollywood Is Still Pretty Much Sexist
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This shouldn’t be surprising to anybody, but it’s probably good to be reminded. A study by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism that surveyed the top 100-grossing movies of 2009, and found that only 32,8% of the 4 342 speaking characters were female. Let us remember that 2009 was the year that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen came out.
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Nude Hiking Banned On Swiss Alps, Still Okay In Germany
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hiking nude across the Swiss Alps became that much harder this week as a Swiss court upheld a court decision against a Swiss man fined for hiking in the nude past a family area. Not to fear though, other countries in Europe offer nude hikers and “nakation” (a real word!) enthusiasts a warmer welcome.
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How To Shoot Yourself In The Foot; A Practical Guide By Qantas
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not happy with their recent spate of public embarrassments, Qantas poured some more petrol on the PR fire to really get things going when they launched their recent Twitter campaign.
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Live Streaming Contact Lenses: Coming Soon
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
More and more of the technology that we see in the movies is becoming an everyday reality. The contact lens embedded with a tiny LED that can light up when a wireless signal is sent to it is one of these realities. Soon you’ll be able to stream your social media feeds and bring up other holographic images cybernetically.
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MP Throws Tear Gas At Speaker In Parliament
23 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It seems we aren’t the only ones who had some action in parliament yesterday. South Korea’s ruling party has ratified a controversial free trade deal with the United States. But just before they did that an opposition MP set off and threw a teargas device at the speaker, briefly clearing the chamber.
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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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Science: Neutrinos Probably Didn’t Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In September, the science world was left in shock when workers at the world’s largest physics lab announced they had recorded subatomic particles travelling faster than the speed of light. Now, measurements by an opposing team of physicists suggest neutrinos cannot have travelled faster than the speed of light.
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Spain’s New Presidency Poses Threat To Gay Marriage
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The landslide victory of the opposition conservative Popular Party in Spain is widely viewed as a threat to same-sex marriage in that country. But the gays won’t go down without a fight. Or without a make-out session, for that matter. Watch as a live Al Jazeera news report on the election gets photobombed by two guys furiously sucking face.
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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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News Reader Gives Obama The Middle Finger [VIDEO]
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Those sneaky Russians! News anchor Tatiana Limanova gave Barack Obama the middle finger during a recent TV bulletin. After mentioning that her president is soon to be taking over the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leadership responsibilities (that were previously held by Obama), she flashes a zap nonchalantly, before continuing her bulletin.
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Sylvester Stallone To Produce Rocky Musical
22 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sylvester Stallone is teaming up with Ukranian heavyweight boxers, Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, to produce a stage musical based on Rocky. Is it worth making a joke about this? I mean my feeling is that the ridiculousness of the situation sort of speaks for itself, but let me know if you need more.
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Over A Million Zimbabweans Risk Starving
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
More than one million people in Zimbabwe are going to need food aid between now and March next year, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). And sadly, the UN agency says it’s going to be short of funding to the tune of around $42 million – money which was intended to provide food to hungry Zim households in the first quarter of 2012.
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Prince Philip Calls Wind Farms A “Fairy Tale”
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
He also called them “absolutely useless”, and he might have a point too. The Duke of Edinburgh, at age 90, rightfully points out that wind farms are heavily reliant on subsidies, and that those who claim they’re one of the most cost-effective forms of renewable energy believed in “fairy tales”.
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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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The USA Is On “The Brink Of Armed Police Drones”
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A county north of Houston has set the trend in American drone policing by taking delivery of a set of squat, remote-controlled helicopters called ShadowHawks. These can be weaponized to fire Tasers or beanbags at people – although the manufacturer, Van Guard Industries, claims that they’re strong enough to carry a shotgun. Which is comforting.
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Meet The Metal Microlattice That’s Only Slightly Heavier Than Air, But Not Much
21 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Scientists at UC Irvine (a university in California) have unveiled what is currently the world’s lightest man-made substance, an “ultralight metallic microlattice,” that is 100 times lighter than styrofoam, and 1 000 times less dense than water.
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Pizza Still A Vegetable According To US Congress
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Never underestimate the power of well-organised and well-funded lobby group, especially when it comes to federal regulations in the United States, as opponents to the obesity crisis in American schools were unable to convince Congress that frozen pizza is not a vegetable.
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Drunk Idiot Viciously Attacked By Zoo Monkeys [Graphic Video]
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Joao Leite dos Santos is one loco ese! On Sunday he visited a Brazilian zoo in Sao Paulo, got drunk, and decided to take a swim in the monkey enclosure. As you’ll see from this video, he ended up being attacked and badly injured. According to experts, the only reason why he survived was because the monkeys were afraid of the water.
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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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Man Claims Obama Is The Antichrist, Tries To Kill Him
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Last week Friday a man in a black sedan drove up to the White House and opened fire on the President’s residence in an attempt to kill him.
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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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Egyptian Activist Posts Nude Photos To Protest Repression, Everybody Flips Out
18 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
20-year-old Egyptian activist Aliaa Mahdy has caused uproar by posting nude self-portraiture on her blog, to protest “a society of violence, racism, sexism, sexual harassment and hypocrisy,” which isn’t the usual motivation for uploading naked pics, but whatever. Worried about losing the moderate vote, liberal politicians are making a point of criticizing Mahdy’s apparent impropriety.
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84-Year-Old Woman Pepper Sprayed At Occupy Seattle
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I don’t know that there are such things as iconic photographs anymore, what with the proliferation of media and all, but if there are, this is one – of Seattle activist Dorli Rainey, 84, reacting to being hit with pepper spray by cops during an Occupy Seattle protest on Tuesday, November 15, 2011.
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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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New Dubai 23-Seater Superbus Travels At 250km/h [PICS]
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A brand-new, fully electric superbus has been purchased to make traveling between Dubai and Abu-Dhabi more enjoyable. It is designed to be capable of driving 250 km/hr whilst carrying 23 passengers! I believe the term “amazeballs” is appropriate here. Pics and a video of this delicious monstrosity after the jump.
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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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Herman Cain, Unable To Articulate [VIDEO]
17 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
With the 2012 US Presidential Elections just under a year away, potential candidates are pushing hard to garner support in the hope of securing votes. None more so than Herman Cain, who shows in this video exactly how unprepared he is for the role.
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