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Spa In Trouble For Offering Happy Endings
21 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A spa in America has been caught out offering much more than just back massages and pedicures. But that is not the scariest part – one of the masseuses arrested is 70! Check out her mugshot after the jump.
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Map Middle-East Protests With Google Maps and Twitter
21 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s sort of hard to be on the internet right now without hearing about protests from whichever North African/Middle Eastern country is falling under the ‘freedom’ bandwagon, but this Google Maps/Twitter mashup contextualizes the online protest movement nicely – and in real time.
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Japanese Space Agency Wants To Send Sexy Robot Into Space. For ‘Comfort.’
18 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ha! Yes. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is looking at plans to send a humanoid robot to the International Space Station. Except by humanoid I mean it will look attempt to look sexy but end up being insanely creepy. Also, it’s going to post photos and text to Twitter.
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Accidental Drunk Tweet Turns Into Red Cross Blood Drive
18 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ha. Last night, someone in control of the Red Cross Twitter feed accidentally posted “Ryan found two more 4 bottle packs of Dogfish Head’s Midas Touch beer…when we drink we do it right #gettngslizzerd. ” Then the internet found out & made a meme of it, resulting in a flood of Red Cross blood donations.
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Toronto Cop Apologises For Saying Women Should Avoid Dressing Like Sluts If They Don’t Want To Get Assualted
18 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A cop in America has been asked to apologise for suggesting women rather don’t dress like “sluts” if they didn’t want to be sexually assaulted. According to his boss, they have no idea where get gets this from as “officers are taught that nothing a woman does contributes to a sexual assault.”
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Citizens Of Bahrain Say “No Deal!”
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Monday we ran a story about Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the king of Bahrain, granting each family in his kingdom 20k in a brilliant attempt at reverse psychology. But apparently the people of Bahrain are bigger Tracy Chapman fans than he thought, as they are now also “talkin’ ’bout a revolution.”
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Detroit Will Have A Statue Of RoboCop
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I love the internet. So we told you last week about Detroit’s Mayor, Dave Bing, shooting down the RoboCop statue proposal, and the KickStarter initiative that was trying to build the thing anyway. Well, they’ve raised the necessary $50,000 in a little under a week, so you know. Your move, Bing.
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Ousted Madagascar President Stars In Genius Flight Centre Advertisment
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a masterclass for all students of subliminal advertising, ex-president (and convicted criminal) of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana (say it quickly) announced his imminent return from exile in South Africa to Madagascar.
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Bieber Fever May Be Deadly
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Poor , Ezperanza Spalding- I don’t know who she is either, but apparently she’s won “Best New Artist” at Sunday’s Grammys, despite Justin Bieber being the overwhelming favourite. This has sparked outrage amongst Bieber’s fans or “Beliebers” as they are known, and they have called for her head.
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Banksy’s Gone Hollywood.
17 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
By which I mean, Banksy has been hitting various billboards and street-corners in Los Angeles with culture-bending graffiti. As ever. I mean it’s a little weird that the anti-establishment dude has been promoting his Oscar nomination, but on the up-side, we get some pretty cool art out of it.
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Want Free Condoms? There’s An App For That
16 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, I know, me and everybody’s grandma used ‘there’s an app for that’ as the headline, but that’s because me and everybody’s grandma have an awesome sense of humour. New York’s Health Department released a smartphone app for finding free condom distribution points via GPS on Monday.
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Belgians Not Big On Market Research
16 Feb 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
It’s quite full-on, this one – and it certainly doesn’t need any explanation. I mean, you GET the humour, right? It would have been one thing if the label was on a 6-pack of eggs. Because a male chicken is a cock, and it would kind of make sense that the eggs are ‘cock’s fresh.’ […]
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Jamming With The Large Hadron Collider
16 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you think about it, music is simply data ordered in a specific way by a clever human and then executed by either man or machine. So why not take some existing data from a very clever machine and see if it makes music? Well that’s what the very very clever people at CERN have done.
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Thai Airline Now Employing Ladyboys
16 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A new Thai airline, P.C. Air (appropriate that), is set to become the first airline in the world to employ openly transsexual flight attendants. Thailand is known for its tolerance of transvestites and transsexuals, known locally as ‘katoeys’ or ‘ladyboys’. But, up till now, the only jobs available to them have been in the beauty and ‘entertainment’ industries.
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World’s Longest Kiss Now Belongs To Thailand
16 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new record for the longest kiss in history has been set by a married Thai couple, Ekkachai and Laksana Tiranarat, who were one of 14 couples to take part in a “kissathon” in Pattaya, Thailand.
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Pre-school Teacher Sprays Asian Kids With Air Freshener Because They Smell Like Curry And Onions
15 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
What is even more shocking is the fact that this teacher has more than 20 years worth of experience. And if you are wondering why the headline reads “curry” and “Asian kids” instead of “rice” and “Asian kids”, remember Pakistan and Bangladesh is also in Asia.
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30-Meter Homemade Cocaine-Smuggling Submarine Discovered In Colombia
15 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
What did you get for Valentine’s? The Colombian Navy got a submarine built by drug smugglers in the Timbiqui shipyard. Well I mean the seized it. It wasn’t a gift. Authorities say the sub was meant to transport about 7,000kg of cocaine into Mexico. So there were some pretty disappointed Mexican Valentines, I guess.
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Facebook Used To Hire Hitman
15 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’ve been charged with rape, it’s best that you don’t post on your Facebook profile that you need a hitman, ASAP, to help sort out the victim of your alleged crime. It’s especially a bad idea if that person can see your Facebook page.
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Stop Everything – The Coca-Cola Recipe Has Been Leaked [Updated]
15 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
But not by Julian Assange. This American Life reports that the recipe was published as a photograph on page 28 of the Atlantic Journal-Constitution newspaper in 1979 as part of an inconspicuous historical piece on the Coca-Cola company, but the small size of the newspaper, the poor placement of the article and a complete lack of the World Wide Web meant that the historical leak went unnoticed. You can see it after the jump.
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South Africa Did Okay In The WHO’s Booze Championships
15 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s that time of year again kids – that’s right, the WHO has released their saucy ‘Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health 2011’ – which means we get to find out if SA’s still a rock-out party country, or if we’ve gotten all lame and started taking our liver problems seriously.
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Fatal First Kiss
15 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This story is a couple of days old, but I really feel it’s worth telling.
In April 2009 a girl called Jemma Benjamin collapsed and died mere moments after kissing her new boyfriend, Daniel Ross. Follow link for more.
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“They Never Even Offered Me One [Joint]” – Chilean Miner
14 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Weed, porn and political activism are just a few of the rumblings materialising from the infamous Chilean mining accident. Information sharing was tightly controlled by Chilean authorities for the duration of the saga, but New York Times journalist Jonathan Franklin was one of the privileged few considered to be on a need to know basis. He’s written a book on the matter.
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Rooney’s Bicycle Kick Is The Greatest Of His Career [VIDEO]
14 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
If, for some reason you haven’t seen Wayne Rooney’s breathtaking goal against Manchester City from Saturday, here it is again, in all it’s magnificence and glory.
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The End Of Cinema Is Nigh As Justin Bieber Film Rakes In $30.3 Million
14 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That headline just about says it all. Justin Bieber’s 3D documentary, ‘Never Say Never’, took $30.3 million in its opening weekend at the US box office. Apparently 60% of its audience were women under the age of 18. Surprising, that.
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King of Bahrain Hands Each Family In His Country R20K As “Thank You”
14 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I’m pretty sure Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa, the king of Bahrain, isn’t the only politician around the world whose anus must be clenching heavily after the whole Egypt thing. But he is the first one so far who has really gone out of his way to double check that all his peasants are still happily working the fields instead of marching towards his mansion.
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It’s Smarter Than The Average Bear
14 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hoo ha. I try and avoid playing the ‘hey look something funny happened on the internet’ game with you guys too often, but it’s Monday and this bear unlocked some dude’s car door and “drank 4 beers, ate a bottle of mallox, and crapped all over the place.” That’s special.
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Lady Gaga Arrives At The Grammys In An Egg
14 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Even for the insanity that is the Gaga fashion choice, arriving for the 2011 Grammy Awards in a giant shiny egg is still pretty weird. Lady Gaga was an hour early for her arrival on the red carpet, encased in a giant egg and was carried by four half-naked men.
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Madiba Throwing A 21st Bash
11 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Today is 21 years since Nelson Mandela walked from Victor Verster prison a free man. To mark the occasion, he is throwing a massive party this evening. BYOB.
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So Beer Marshmallows Are A Thing Now.
11 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well this seems like a good way to end the week/start the weekend. Beer-batter marshmallows. I don’t know how I feel about these things, taste-wise, but in terms of taking something awesome and then coating it in something else that’s awesome, beer marshmallows get my stamp of approval.
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Detroit Does Need A Statue Of Robocop
11 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Since the 7th of February, when some random guy posted a comment on Dave Bing, the mayor of Detroit’s Twitter feed suggesting a statue of Robocop be erected in that city, the internet has been ablaze with ideas on how to achieve the feat.
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