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Australia’s New South Wales Police Get New Burqa Removal Powers
05 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, police in Australia’s New South Wales state were handed more authority to remove burqas and other face coverings to identify potential criminal suspects. The move follows the recent case of a Muslim woman who was acquitted after a judge ruled her Islamic veil made a positive identification of her impossible.
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India Incentivises Sterilisation With A Free Car And TVs
05 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Would you trade the ability to produce children in exchange for the cheapest car in the world? In an attempt to curb high birth rates in India, a “competition” has just been launched: any male or female undergoing sterilisation procedures will stand the chance to win a Tata Nano. They are hoping to attract 30 000 entries – problem is there is only one car.
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On-Looker Causes Massive Crash At The Tour De France
05 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The 2011 Tour De France didn’t start very well for a number of competitors on Saturday, after an over-eager spectator leaned in too close, causing a massive pile-up that brought down dozens of competitors.
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Lover Tries To Smuggle Prisoner Out Of Jail In A Suitcase
05 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Police in Chetumal, Mexico, have said they have caught a woman who was trying to smuggle her common-law husband out of a prison in a suitcase, following a conjugal visit. Judging by the photograph that has been released to accompany the incident, the prisoner hadn’t even put his clothes back on after the romp.
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Open Letter To BlackBerry Bosses: Senior RIM Exec Tells All, As Company Crumbles Around Him
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A fair portion of the smartphone market in this country belongs to BlackBerry, because unlike the rest of the world, we still pay rather exorbitant data fees to the carrier firms that run the market. And free messaging is like, so cool. Not internationally though, where BlackBerry maker, RIM, is in a serious make-or-break space.
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Philippino Mayor Punches Out Sheriff [VIDEO]
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A female mayor from Davao City in the Philippines has punched a court sheriff, in front of numerous TV cameras, because the sheriff insisted on demolishing 200 shacks despite her request for a two-hour delay. She’s since been told by her husband to take leave for five days while the Department of Interior and Local Government investigates.
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Massive Treasure, Worth R74 Billion, Found In Hindu Temple
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in India – dedicated to the god Vishnu – was built in 1566. Secret vaults have now been found, containing more than R74 billion in offerings to the temple! All these shiny coins, jewelry, and even a six meter-long gold necklace have been secretly hoarded in underground vaults. This is like the Indian version of Gringotts in Harry Potter!
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No Turbans Allowed – Brisbane Pub’s Faux Pas
04 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A Sikh man enters a pub. The owner says, “Take off your hat”. “It’s a turban,” the patron replies. “No headwear, mate,” says the proprietor, tapping his little sign. That’s kind of what happened on Sunday at a Brisbane hotel.
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Thought For The Weekend – Britons Love Radio – When Last Did YOU Listen To Radio At Home?
01 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Isn’t that surprising? A study of British recreational culture has been published, and it transpires that British people love nothing more than to listen to the wireless. Much more so than they enjoy reading, surfing the net, or even watching television. That kind of thing is almost unfavorable in South Africa. Because the general quality […]
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Mother-In-Law’s Bitchy Email – An Internet Hit
01 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
A bitchy mother-in-law’s email to her soon-to-be daughter-in-law has become a web hit after the mail spread like wildfire on the web on Thursday.
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Amazing, Lifelike Dental Practice: Japanese Robot Opens Wide [VIDEO]
01 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The girl pictured is actually a robot named Showa Hanako 2. She was originally developed as a tool for dentists looking to practice new procedures, but is now able to recognise voice commands, turn her head and open her mouth real wide! Before your mind ends up in the gutter, see the video as to why she’s designed like that.
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Pythons Reunite For Animated Version Of Graham Chapman’s Autobiography
01 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I have always loved Monty Python. I grew up on Monty Python. I wouldn’t be who I am today without the Pythons. And now they’re all back together again, sort of, to make a film based on the memoirs of the late, great Graham Chapman.
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Woman Finds Out She’s Both Pregnant And About To Give Birth, At The Same Time
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I kid you not. Sarah Ireland not only didn’t know that she was pregnant, but she was also two weeks late for labour. During her pregnancy she actually lost weight and claims she never had morning sickness. How did she discover she’s about to become a mum? It all started when she jumped on a trampoline…
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Designer Turns Building Into Giant 80’s Video-Game Screen
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A projection mapping by the Czech designer Pavel Novák turns the façade of a university building into a mash-up of 80’s video games – running the gamut from Pac-Man to Space Invaders. It’s called 8-bit Invader. The initial screening was for the 5th anniversary of Tomas Bata University’s department of visual arts in Zlín, Czech Republic.
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Johan’s Ark Prepares To Set Sail
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dutchman Johan Huibers decided, after a dream where everything flooded, that he too should build an ark, and now it’s just about ready to set sail.
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Malaysia Airlines Sticks By ‘No Babies In First Class’ Policy
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
There is nothing worse than a wailing infant. It has to rank up there with one of the most irritating sounds known to humans. And when you’re paying a cool R70 000 for a return ticket to travel in a first class suite aboard an Airbus A380, you certainly don’t need to hear a baby crying.
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Kim Jong Il’s Son Had Six Plastic Surgery Operations
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Kim Jong Eun is the son of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il. He is destined to rule this nuclear-armed rogue nation one day, but it is said that his dad is rather obsessed with the whole “eternal president” concept. So much so, that he’s sent his son for six plastic surgery procedures to look more like him and his father. See if you can spot the resemblances – I’d suggest starting with the double chins.
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French Journalists, Held By Taliban Since December 2009, Freed
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After 547 days of being held as hostages in Afghanistan, two French journalists,Hervé Ghesquière and Stéphane Taponier, have been released and are due back in France today. The two were kidnapped on the 30th of December 2009 along with their Afghan translator, fixer and driver in the mountainous Kapisa province northeast of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
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Woman Found Dead In Restaurant Ventilation Duct
30 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The internet is just the right place to find really disturbing stuff, and I try my very best to steer clear of it. But, when I saw this nightmare story appear in my RSS feed, I had to write about it. Here’s what the feed said: “AUSTIN, Texas — The body of a missing woman has been found inside a restaurant ventilation duct.”
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Not The Best Way To Demolish A Building
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This video illustrates what happens when you try to demolish a building with a pneumatic hammer instead of getting an expert demolition team to do it.
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Chilling Twitter Updates Speak Of Taliban Hotel Attack
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“Taliban: ‘On each floor of the hotel, our fighters have broken down the door to each room, taking out guests and killing them.'” This was one of the traumatic tweets circulating on Twitter last night, as Taliban militants stormed the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, killing 21 people.
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Greenpeace Ad: The Death Star Is A Volkswagen [VIDEO]
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
You guys remember that VW commercial that ran during the Superbowl with a tiny Darth Vader? Well, Greenpeace does. And they’ve made a spoof follow-up in an effort to call attention to the automaker’s environmental record. Liberal media sentiments aside, it’s cute – click through for a tiny Vader and a Message About The Environment.
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Princess Diana Alive Again On Newsweek Cover
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Princess Diana has risen from the dead, on the front cover of Newsweek in a picture that shows her walking in town with her new daughter-in-law, Kate. Creepy much?
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Did Shakespeare Smoke Weed?
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Personally, I took Shakespeare as more of an opium den kind of a guy, but I’ve been wrong before and I’ll be the first to admit that. Anyway, a South African anthropologist from Wits University has set in motion a request to open the graves of William Shakespeare and his family to determine, among other things, what killed them.
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Sao Paolo Judge Approves Brazil’s First Gay Marriage
29 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After New York, every subsequent gay marriage approval is going to seem less exciting, but this is still a thing. Judge Fernando Henrique Pinto ruled that two men could convert their civil union into a full marriage, a right that’s been lobbeyed for since the Supreme Court recognized same-sex civil unions in May, but stopped short of approving marriage.
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