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World
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Why It’s Difficult Having Your Enemy Number One Called Osama And Your President Called Obama [VIDEO]
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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.”
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‘StolenCameraFinder’: Finding Stolen Cameras With Embedded Serial Codes
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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World’s Media Publishes Fake Bin Laden Picture
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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.
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Wednesday Radvertising: ‘Poolball’ [VIDEO]
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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New Zealander Cuts Off And Eats His Finger
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Bin Laden’s Will Urges His Children Not To Engage In Jihad – Full Transcript
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Workers In Chinese iPad Factories Not Allowed To Commit Suicide
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
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.
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Witness Alleges Dewani Wanted A Convenient Way Out Of Marriage To Anni
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
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.
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Manchester Art Installation Shows Your Brain’s Reaction To Cocktails
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Mugabe Attends Beatification Of Pope John Paul II Despite Travel Ban, Calls It “Fabulous”
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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?
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Canada Elects Unprecedented Neoconservative Government
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Gaddafi’s Son Killed
01 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
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.
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Apple Rejects New iPhone Game, “Smuggle Truck: Operation Immigration”
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Karl Lagerfield Has A Chocolate Sculpture Of His Boyfriend
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
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?
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Botox Could Make You Stupid At Reading Facial Expressions
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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First Glimpse Of Catherine Middleton’s Royal Wedding Dress
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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Entire Himalayan Male Voice Choir Vanishes At Heathrow
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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.
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Hey Guys, TomTom Is Sharing Your Data Too
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Royal Wedding Special Report
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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American Fanatic Quits Her Job To Attend The Royal Wedding
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Antje Traue Cast As Villain In Superman Reboot
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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The Viagra Condom
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Lauren Beukes Wins Arthur C. Clarke Award
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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SpaceX Plans To Put Humans On Mars In the Next 10 to 20 Years
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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.
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Heavy Metal Is Pretty Big In Botswana [VIDEO]
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Thailand Authorities Freak Out A Little Over Topless Worshippers
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A couple of videos of young women dancing without shirts at a traditional Thai festival have gone viral – and despite the fact that this festival is one honouring Thai goddesses that are often depicted dancing without shirts, authorities have condemned the act, fining the dancers and threatening the photographer with jail time.
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The Vagipenis. Take A look!
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
When Cleo Australia decided to name their 50 most eligible bachelors, they thought that it would be a good idea to have a man standing next to two hot women, with his bulging tackle only contained by a pair of gold pants. The only problem is that what was created was a “vagipenis”.
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SA Pilot, Charlie Strachan, Is Invited To Kate and William’s Wedding
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So the royal guest list has been announced and I am pleased to report that South African born pilot, Charlie Strachan, has been invited. Charlie, who works for Kenya-based Tropic Air, befriended the prince two years ago, when William went for a hike in Kenya.
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Has The “God Particle” Been Detected?
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world’s largest atom smasher may have detected something called the Higgs boson. Also known as the “God particle”, it has long eluded physicists who believe it could explain why objects have mass. It was apparently crucial to forming the cosmos after the Big Bang took place.
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World’s Smelliest Flower Opens For The First Time In 75 Years
25 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Botanists around the world must be giggling excitedly at this truly once-in-a-lifetime event. The Titan Arum plant, also known as the Corpse Flower, has unfurled its leaves and is in full bloom for the first time in 75 years. Its smell is described as “a pungent odour of rotting flesh.” Lovely. More pics inside.
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