Claude Stanley Choules, the last surviving World War I combat veteran, passed away today, aged 110, in a Perth nursing home. Choules joined the Royal Navy at the age of 15, starting a military career that spanned 41 years, across both world wars. He is survived by his three children.
You may or may not be aware of television programmes like Trawlermen or Deadliest Catch. Times can be more than just physically and emotionally tough aboard these fishing vessels, they can go ages without catching anything substantial too. Now the EU is planning to offer the fishermen an alternative income stream. And hopefully curb pollution obviously.
Meet Jacob Sharpe. He’s an MIT Engineering graduate, and professional circus performer. Also, he likes rap music, squash courts, and minimal couture. We’re not entirely sure where the pink shorts come in. They are quite small, but then, we do have a proud tradition in South Africa of athletes wearing kortbroek (here’s to you, Naas), so maybe we can get behind that.
While the world morbidly waits for the release of pictures of a dead Osama bin Laden, new photos have emerged taken inside and outside the bin Laden compound – following the Navy SEAL raid. The pictures show dead bin Laden soldiers on the ground, as well as a radical top secret US helicopter. Click link […]
The nice thing about Pixar is that all of its movies make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Charity helps people AND makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. With this in mind, Lee Unkrich, Pixar director, is letting you enjoy the indulgence of both, by auctioning off Pixar stuff for Japan aid.
Even the Bedouin people of the Sahara must surely know by now that Osama bin Laden has bitten the dust. So you’d think a sentence like “Osama bin Laden is Dead” wouldn’t pose too great a challenge for the press. But what countless newspapers, TV stations, radio stations and websites didn’t count on is how easily that simple sentence can become “Obama bin Laden is Dead.”
Yay, future. If you’ve had a digital camera stolen, you can upload a photo taken with the missing camera to StolenCameraFinder.com and it’ll use the serial number embedded in the image to search for matching photos online – meaning you can find the douche who took your stuff.
A photo purporting to depict a very dead Osama bin Laden has been proved as a fake. Although it must be noted that only the photo is a fake and the man himself is very much a corpse, somewhere at the bottom of the ocean.
Man, Budweiser really wants you to drink their beer. I’m not going to, but I appreciate the effort they’re putting into the European re-branding initiative – like with this 7-meter Astroturf pool table, with built in fridge, that they put together for playing ‘poolball’ on. Take a look! It’s pretty rad.
Self-cannabalism is not for the faint-hearted. And there are only eight recorded instances of it in the world. Most recently, a man from New Zealand cut off his little finger and ate it. It’s interesting to note that he’s a vegetarian.
Kuwaiti newspaper. Al-Anbaa, has published what it claims to be Osama Bin Laden’s last will and testament. The will, dated December 14 2001, bequeaths no assets, but is filled to the brim with advice for bin Laden’s wives, children, Islamic scholars, and fellow jihadists.
Chinese factories making iPads and iPhones are forcing staff to sign pledges not to commit suicide. If your first reaction to this story’s headline is one of confusion, then join the club. I mean, why would someone who builds iPads for a living be anything but ecstatic, right? But do yourself a favour and read through the rest of this piece before switching careers.
Hugo Keith, a lawyer representing South African authorities at Shrien Dewani’s extradition hearing today alleged that Dewani needed a way out of his marriage to his wife, Anni, which wouldn’t result in him being disowned by his family.
Hemingway drank cocktails. I’m just saying that now so that any concerns about masculinity and ‘girly drinks’ are shelved from the get-go. Multimedia artist Marcos Lutyens has set up an installation that projects arsty scans from EEG headsets worn by people drinking Absolut vodka, and if boozey brain-waves isn’t art then I don’t know what is.
Despite a ban on traveling to the European Union for the last decade, Robert Mugabe once again found himself there this weekend. He attended the beatification of the late pope John Paul II. The experience clearly touched that (only to be confirmed by autopsy one day) heart of his and he said it was “fabulous, absolutely heavenly.” Fabulous? What straight man uses that word?
In what’s been the most radical political shift in about a century, Canadians yesterday voted the Conservative Party into a 100-seat majority – meaning first time in history, the New Democratic Party will form the Official Opposition. Former Prime Minister Harper’s government was forced into an election after a no-confidence vote in parliament.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Saif Gaddafi, is reported to have been killed yesterday. According to the BBC, “A Nato air strike in Tripoli has killed the son of Col Muammar Gaddafi, a Libyan government spokesman has said.” Follow the link for more.
A new iPhone game that’s been developed by a company from Boston, and that allows users to drive a truck full of immigrants through the desert while trying to prevent them from getting thrown out of the vehicle, has understandably been rejected by Apple Inc. The bigoted game can still be downloaded for PC’s and Mac’s though.
But seriously! Lagerfield had a candy sculpture of Baptiste Giabiconi comissioned to promote Magnum ice cream. It’s wearing white briefs, and is placed inside of a room made of chocolate. There are so many comments to make about this that I am just going to report the facts and let you guys run with it, okay?
Although botox has the miraculous ability of wiping away years of emotional expression on your face, it may have the unintended effect of actually wiping away your own ability to read the expression on the faces of others.
It’s understandable that one of the world’s busiest airports has been even busier during the course of the last week. London was expecting an influx of around 600 000 tourists alone and it’s now emerged that 10 members of a visiting male Himalayan choir have used the opportunity and “absconded”. Cue an interesting episode of UK Border Force.
And you thought it was just Apple and Google! Gosh. TomTom has admitted that its satellite navigation devices can track users and report to third parties about how fast they’re going – like the police, for instance. Your TomTom is a speed camera now.Yay future.
Our intrepid reporter from the Outback of the Northern Territory, Bruce Manley, decided to pop on to the Flying Kangaroo and hop over to London to see exactly what is taking crocs off the front page of the NT News.
Okay, I have tried to stay out of it. I vowed that I would not get caught up in all the insanity surrounding this wedding. But come on! Some American woman has literally quit her job to fly to England, a miserable and wet country, to be amongst the throng of slags and chavs on Kate’s big day.
German actress Antje Traue has been cast as ‘Faora,’ villainous accomplice to the no-less-ridiculous-sounding Zod in the Zack Snyder-directed Superman reboot. Since we’re now assured at least one slow-motion high-definition Traue scene, the reboot might be worth looking at, Snyder notwithstanding.
UK condom maker Durex is soon going to release a condom, dubbed by most, the “Viagra Condom”. According to the Wall Street Journal, biotech company, Futura Medical, has created a method of incorporating an erection-sustaining gel into condoms.
South African author Lauren Beukes’ novel Zoo City has won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award, awarded to the best science fiction novel of the year published in the UK. This is a sort of huge deal – past winners of the award include Kuzuo Ishiguro, Iain M Banks, and China Mieville.
SpaceX – the guys who last year became the first to launch a private spaceship into orbit and bring it home – are planning on sending humans to Mars within 10 to 20 years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview with CEO Elon Musk. These guys have an X in their name, so we should take them seriously.
Photographer Frank Marshall has been shooting Botswana’s metal scene for his upcoming “Visions of Renegades” show in Johannesburg. Meet some of his subjects, Dead Demon Rider and Maximum – two of the fiercest (and most fashionable) Botswana men around – and see them strut their stuff inside.