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The Award-Winning Invisible Cycling Helmet [VIDEO]
06 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Swedish designers have made a cycling helmet that isn’t totally obnoxious, which is pretty great. It won an award. Understand that no matter how nice this helmet is, it still isn’t okay to wear this guy indoors, because that’s rude. Still, it just won the Index:Award, the largest monetary prize for design in the world.
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Today’s Google Doodle Is The Greatest Doodle That Ever There Was [VIDEO]
05 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Do you know what day today is? Google knows what day today is – which is why their latest animated doodle pays tribute to the legendary Freddie Mercury, who would have turned 65 today, had he not made an early exit. Click through to take a look. Please insert your favourite Queen song title here.
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Is This September 11th’s Most Controversial Photograph?
05 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This coming Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the attacks by al-Qaeda on the United States of America, and New York especially. Many iconic images depicting the terror of that day sit steadfast in all of our minds, but what is wrong with a photographer portraying a different kind of moment on that day?
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This Long Island Art Dealer Stole Banksy Art From Palestine
05 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I know, I know; can you really steal art from somebody as dangerous and transgressive as Banksy? Two of his pieces, put together during his 2007 project on the West Bank, Bethlehem Santa’s Ghetto, have popped up in a show called Banksy: Original Street Works, at the Keszler Gallery. In the Hamptons.
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Tony Blair Is Godfather Of One Of Rupert Murdoch’s Daughters
05 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wendi Deng, better known as Mrs Murdoch, and pie face defender, has revealed in an interview with Vogue magazine that the ex British prime minister, Tony Blair, is the godfather of one of the Murdoch’s daughters. She went as far as to describe Tony as one of her husband’s closest friends.
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Finally Someone Is REALLY Doing Something About TripAdvisor’s Lies
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Previously known as the breakthrough company for holiday reviews, TripAdvisor has come under attack for false reviews quite a bit recently, and been sued quite a bit too. Now the British advertising watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority, has launched a formal investigation into the hugely popular travel review website because the company is probably in breach of the advertising code.
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They Have A Porsche Baby Stroller Now [GALLERY]
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sleek, compact design, leather seats, carbon fiber chassis. This is what a baby needs in a stroller today, right? This is the future? Swedish designer Dawid Dawod thinks so, having collaborated with Porsche Design to put together the P’4911 for parents with their fiscal priorities in order.
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Got A Secret To Share? Now There’s An App For That [VIDEO]
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I love Postsecret. I’ll just put that right there. It’s an ongoing community art project that started in the States in 2005. Now, after almost seven years of receiving the secrets, Postsecret are releasing their very own app for iPhone.
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Dutch Gameshow Offers Asylum Seekers Money… To Go Back To Their Own Countries
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new game show in the Netherlands features contestants who are currently seeking asylum in the country. The format is that of a quiz show, and the prize is a not-too-shabby R40 000. The only problem is the winning contestant has to move back to his or her own country to go spend it. Nice one, Netherlands.
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How To Market Bulletproof Glass Like A Boss [VIDEO]
02 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The president and CEO of Texas Armoring Corporation wanted to put potential customers’ minds at ease about the efficiacy of his company’s bullet-resistant glass. So, like any other sane person, he got one of his employees to shoot at him with an AK-47 while he stood behind the glass.
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Mussolini ‘Had An Affair With Italy’s Last Queen’
01 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
News emerged yesterday that Benito Mussolini, the great Italian dictator that was partly responsible for fascism, actually did have an affair with Marie-José, who happened to be the last Queen of Italy. Previously, Mussolini’s mistress, Claretta Petacci, claimed this wasn’t so. Mussolini’s youngest son however seems to know something that she didn’t.
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Twitter To Show Ads From Companies You Don’t Follow
01 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
You’re not all on Twitter. I get that; I know people who don’t drink alcohol, either, and I don’t judge them for that. To all you cool social media cats, though, this is troubling: Twitter is readying a new ad product that will serve up ads to users from company accounts they don’t already follow.
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China’s Dog Population On The Increase As Nation’s Taste Changes
01 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In other meat-related news today, animal lovers may be pleased to know that China seems to be losing its taste for dog meat. Stats show that more people than ever before now keep dogs as domestic pets in China. While dog meat is certainly still on the menu there, the way dogs are viewed generally is undergoing a major shift across the country.
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We’re Six Months From Vat-Grown Meat, Apparently
01 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers in Gothenburg, Sweden, met this week to launch a new “meat without slaughter” initiative – with plans on being able to release bio-sausages in the next six months. Bio-sausages made from exotic animal cells, too, because vat-grown tiger meat isn’t any less ethical than vat-grown bacon.
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Hundreds Of Greek Orthodox Mourners Served Biscuits Sprinkled With Cocaine
31 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 15 Comments
In what must have seemed like a scene straight from a movie, hundreds of Orthodox Greek mourners were mistakenly served kourabiedes, a traditional Greek biscuit, at a funeral reception. Shortly after tasting the biscuits, the guests started acting incredibly strangely and the funeral bureau officers called the police.
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Florida Funeral Home Offers ‘Liquefaction’ Services
31 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Florida funeral home has unveiled an ‘alakaline hydrolysis’ unit, which dissolves dead bodies in heated alkaline water. Which is, apparently, something you might want to do; the process is being billed as a far greener alternative than cremation, producing far less greenhouse gas and requiring far less energy.
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The Secret To Successful Dating Is Loving Yourself, Apparently
31 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Still trying to find your perfect match? Look no further than your own face! Find Your FaceMate is an online dating agency that pairs couples up by matching their facial characteristics to someone with the same (or near-enough) looks.
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Ancient Egyptians Also Used Hair Gel
31 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 25 Comments
The ancient Egyptians have always been known to be ahead of their time, and one of the most advanced of the early modern civilisations. Scientists have now revealed that they think that the Egyptians used a type of hair gel because, well, appearance was also important back then.
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Hello, Future: Wacom’s New ‘Inkling’ Is An Ink Pen, And A Computer Pen
31 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s pretty neat – the new pen by Wacom draws like a regular pen, but has a pressure-sensitive receiver that records your actual drawings for digital import and computer manipulation. So when you doodle obscene images, they show up directly onto your screen. Welcome to the future.
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Foo Fighters Made A Fake Gay Porn Video To Promote Upcoming Tour [VIDEO]
30 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Foo Fighters don’t actually have to promote anything to get people to shell out cash for their upcoming North America tour, but because they had a fat wad of cash to spend on advertising and some guy in marketing wouldn’t stop saying the word ‘viral,’ they’ve put this video together for you. Take a look.
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Chinese Tycoon Offers To Buy 0.3% Of Iceland
30 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Huang Nubo, the sixteenth richest person in China, has offered $100 million to buy 300 square kilometres of Icelandic wilderness. He calls himself a “poet and adventurer,” so it would make sense that he’d want to buy the property to develop a golf course and tourist destination.
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Attack Of The Brain Eating Amoeba [PIC]
30 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
No, not Season 4 of Jersey Shore, this is some truly traumatic Tuesday Science! Last weekend, a 16-year old girl in Florida died due to a rare species of amoeba infecting her brain cavity and eating her brain!
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Gaddafi Nanny Horribly Disfigured After Boiling Water Abuse [GRAPHIC VIDEO]
30 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A nanny, who worked for one of Muammar Gaddafi’s sons, has been found abandoned in a room at one of the family’s luxury seaside villas in western Tripoli. She is covered in weeping scabs after boiling water was poured over her head by one of Gaddafi’s daughter-in-laws. Why? The nanny refused to beat the woman’s daughter.
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Doctor Secures Property With HIV-Infected Needles
29 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’ll just leave this here: A female doctor from Brazil has reacted to the frequent robberies Sobardinho property by studding the walls around her property with HIV-infected needles to keep burglars away. We know this because she’s kindly put up a hand-written sign,saying “HIV positive blood. Do not trespass.”
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Russia Is Building An Underwater Tunnel To Alaska
29 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Recession reschmesssion. Russia has unveiled an ambitious (read: $65 billion) plan to build the world’s longest tunnel under the Bering Strait – as part of a railway corridor linking North America to Europe, via Siberia. Because ships and planes just weren’t cutting it. Also, this sucker’s going to be entirely fueled by green energy, apparently.
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Lockerbie Bomber Is Almost Dead
29 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, it seems as if the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi is comatose, near death and will probably take the secrets of the attack on Pan Am Flight 103 with him soon. CNN found al-Megrahi in his palatial Tripoli villa on Sunday, surviving on oxygen and an intravenous drip, under the care of his family.
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1 000 Surfboard Graveyard installed in Australia
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chris Anderson, graphic design student, is installing 1 000 broken surfboards in the sands of a Sydney beach to inform people of the unsustainable practices in surfboard manufacturing. I’m not sure how breaking a thousand surfboards helps this problem, but the installation looks pretty cool.
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China Not Gaga for Gaga, Bans Song Downloads
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Chinese government, in a not-unusual display of authoritarian petulance, has banned the download of over a hundred music titles from popular online music sites in China.
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Real Life Snatch Documentary: Gypsy’s Battle For Family Pride [VIDEO]
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A ground-breaking new documentary called Knuckle shows one mans 12-year mission to infiltrate some of the most closely guarded communities in Britain: pikeys. Director Ian Palmer spent over a decade filming James Quinn McDonagh, nicknamed King of the Gypsies, and his family, even living with them, while documenting three feuding gypsy families for a new film.
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Syrian Cartoonist Has Hands Broken As Warning To Anti-Assad Activists
26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You should know about this. Ali Ferzat, an immensely popular Syrian cartoonist and outspoken critic of President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on the opposition, has been beaten, burned, and had both of his hands broken by masked gunmen, as a warning to cease his anti-Assad activism.
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