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World
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Forbes Releases List Of Obscenely Wealthy Americans
04 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Forbes have released the latest update of the 400 richest people in America, and it read likes a who’s-who of global masonry. Those money-grubbers have a combined worth of $1,37 trillion. Goodness gracious, that must buy a heap of private geography lessons.
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The Arkansas Wildlife Purge
04 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Arkansas state suffered two major wildlife anomalies this past weekend. Arkansas residents’ first indication that all was not well with their fauna friends was the mass exodus from the sky of more than four thousand Red Wing Blackbirds. The birds didn’t just land on the ground – they plummeted from the sky, stone dead, at night.
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Facebook Valued At $50 Billion
03 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Facebook has been valued at more than $50 billion, which is more than Time Warner. Justin Timberlake probably thinks that’s really cool. The Great Folly Of Zuckerberg cracked the 50 billion mark after raising $500 million in investment from Goldman Sachs, and a Russian company called Digital Sky.
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“We Can Do It” Model Passes Away
30 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The woman who inspired the Rosie The Riveter/”We Can Do It” WWII allied propaganda poster, Geraldine Doyle, has died at 86 years of age. After WWII, the poster became a feminist standard for independent womanhood. And girl mechanics.
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England Celebrate Ashes Win With Sprinkler Dance [VIDEO]
30 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That headline is not misleading in any way. After inventing the game, and then being beaten at it by almost every one of your former colonies, the English regained a small measure of cricketing pride by spanking the Australian cricket team at the MCG. It took all of fifteen minutes to squander their new found dignity.
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What BRIC Means To South Africa
29 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South Africa has received an official invitation to join the BRIC economic development block, comprised of emerging giants Brazil, Russia, India, and China. In short, we’ve just been called over to the bleachers by the cool kids, and offered a cigarette.
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A Dry Niagra Falls
22 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
These photographs were shot in 1969, and were uncovered in some inocuous storage unit just last week. They’re a pretty fascinating documentary of a brief period in 1969 when the United States Army Engineer Corps dammed up the falls slightly upstream. It was the first time in thousands of years that the falls had run dry.
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Some Colour Photos Of Sophiatown Have Popped Up
22 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There’s a pun in there, but if I’d been the one to write it I’d be forced to punch myself in the face, and that’s relatively difficult. Photographer John Mason has released a series of colour photos depicting Sophiatown’s destruction in ’59; they’re worth checking out on your lunch break. Pretty colours, historical relevance…take your pick.
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Julius Malema On The Late Show With David Letterman [VIDEO]
22 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If someone had told you that the creator of the Simpsons, Matt Groening, and late night talk show king, David Letterman had parodied ANCYL[biters] president, Julius Malema, you would not have believed them.
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Japanese Scientists Make Breakthrough In Genetic Science, Hope To Create Mickey Mouse
22 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Walt Disney will be clicking his heels in his grave. Japanese scientists have, by promoting the miscopying of DNA from mice to their progeny, randomly produced a mouse that sings very much like a bird. So what are we aiming for here? Mouse servants? Mouse message couriers? No, not even remotely.
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The Rubberbandits – Horse Outside [VIDEO]
21 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Irish people are generally funny. And I’m allowed to say that, because my mother is Irish. So when someone tells you that you have funny irishmen on your hands, you know that something special is in the offing. Presenting the Rubberbandits, an irish comedic duo from Limerick. And they have a horse outside.
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The Terrible, Terrible Future Is Here: Advertisements That Burn Logos Into Your Eyes
20 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I have feared this for years. What happens if one day you switch off the television, but the McDonalds logo is still burnt into the back of your corneas, and it won’t go away until you buy the Biggest Mac that there ever was? Well, that day is today friends. Sort of. Once in a theatre in Germany.
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Tina Fey Is Sarah Palin? Epic Sunday Tribune Fail
18 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Independent Newspapers has been providing us with little gems of unintentional wordplay for years now. And when they’re not reporting that X politician has been fingered by Y investigative body (how many times could you withstand that kind of interrogation before you cracked?), they’re making pictorial gaffs. Please enjoy this little piece of joy.
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Very, Very Cool Youtube Ad
17 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I know – it’s December, you’ve got this big pseudo-Christian consumerist monolith being forced down every available orifice imploring you to spend more money on This New Shiny Thing, and maybe you’re a little sick of that right now. I understand that. But believe me when I say that this is a freaking awesome advert.
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Time Travel Merchandise
17 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
826LA is an adorable store that probable has a real-world address in area-code 826, LA, but which also has some awesome, dare-I-say quirky goods on display online – ‘from another time.’ Their Dodo Chow, for instance, 1970s coffee cups, or their Viking Odorant. It’s not exactly tinned unicorn meat, but it’s pretty rad!
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Bare-Chested Acrobats Give The Pope A Private Show
16 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, it’s not like they had them explode from a cake and huskily sing ‘Happy Birthday, Mr. Jesus,’ but this comes pretty close. But hey, good thing they don’t allow gay folk to become Popes, right? Otherwise that creepy look on his face would be pretty hard to explain away.
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Cablegate Comix
15 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Increasingly it seems like Assange is proving to be a bigger story than the cables he most recently to be released – HiLoBrow artist, Joe Alterio, tries to put that right with his series of illustrations paired with the more bizarre political activities revealed in the latest batch of Wikileak cables. Expect dirty dancing and ninja assassins.
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Hide Your Kids, Hide Your…Presents? [VIDEO]
15 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well done, Internet. This thing has come more or less full circle – please, enjoy singers from Liberty University in Virginia performing a Chrismas carolified version of the ‘Bed Intruder Song’ that autotuned its way into your hearts so many months ago.
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This Guy Is Just A Better Person Than You Are [VIDEO]
14 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You know that phrase ‘they put their pants on the same way we do?’ Well unless you dress yourself by doing a backflip, this doesn’t apply here. Please watch this stunt reel if you want to be inspired by the heights of badassery humanity can reach, or depressed by how much more badass than you this guy is.
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Who is this Mona?
14 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s not clear how Dan Brown missed this but there’s a bunch of code hidden in Mona Lisa’s eyes. That reveals her true identity. Very clever that, Mr Da Vinci. Get us all hooked on her smile and hide all the good stuff in her eyes. Well played, sir. Can’t wait to see what you’ve got going on around the ears.
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Oh Hey, Just Unicycling Across The Country, No Big Deal
14 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Unicycling has arguably been around since there have been wheels and chairs. That’s just science. Charity has been around for a pretty long time too. So it’s fitting that these two ancient disciplines would come together in the Counter Balance ‘Freedom Revolution Tour,’ which is raising funds to provide disadvantaged school kids with shoes.
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Watch The Minneapolis Metrodrome’s Ceiling Cave In [VIDEO]
13 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
There are few things better than watching minor natural disasters from the comfort of your own home/office/wherever the hell you’re watching this from. Granted, the Metrodrome is about as significant to me as the International Hopscotch Court, but watching the roof cave in from the past week of snow is pretty rad.
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World Map According To Social Networks: Mind The Gap
13 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Artist Vincenzo Cosenza has redrawn the world map based on each nation’s preferred social networking site – ranging from the reasonably well-known Facebook and Orkut to the bizarrely unfamiliar (here) Draugiem – unless you’ve got some friends in Lativa you’ve not told us about.
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Zeitgeist 2010: Google’s Year in Review
10 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Maybe it’s a little early to be getting nostalgic, the Google’s Zeitgeist 2010 has you ‘Re-live top events and moments from 2010 from around the globe through search, images, and video.’ South Africans can go ahead and skip to 2:05, though, because that’s where the important part of 2010 really starts.
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Tommy Lee Demands SeaWorld Stop ‘Interfering’ With Killer Whales Using Cow Parts
10 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
God, some headlines just write themselves. Happy Friday, by the way. PETA member and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has angrily written SeaWorld protesting their apparent use of killer whale Tilikum as a “chief sperm bank,” collecting ‘deposits’ with “a cow’s vagina filled with hot water.” What happened, Tommy Lee? You used to not be crazy.
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Amazon.com: The Face Of Hypocrisy
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We live in a world where business ethics trump their moral counterparts with ease, so perhaps we shouldn’t get too upset about this.
You may well remember that Amazon.com abandoned WikiLeaks after suffering less than subtle diplomatic pressure from the United States.
While disappointing, that kind of move was inevitable, perhaps even understandable. If the negative attention damaged the brand, Amazon has since committed public relations hara kiri. Cue global brandfail for Amazon.com in three, two, one…
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Just Another Day On A Roof In Russia [VIDEO]
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I remember when we were kids my parents used to take us horse back riding and one time I fell and broke my arm. Another time a filly bit my sister’s shoulder. She was never the same after that. I’m so glad my parents found that horse farm outside Kimberley and never had YouTube and never saw what they do with their kids in Russia.
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NMA Explains Assange’s Situation [VIDEO]
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Watch the video – it should bring you up to speed. Oh, animated Taiwanese news clips. You educate, you entertain, you sort of fail to make sense despite sticking to the facts. What can’t you do? Are you free for lunch some time? Coffee, maybe?
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Two Blondes, One Screaming, In A BMW M3 Frozen Edition [VIDEO]
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yes, I know that headline sounds like something you should be thinking about whilst in a dark room with a towel, but it’s actually rather funny. Sabine Schmitz takes CAR magazine’s Juliet McGuire around Zwartkops in a matte-black M3 Frozen Edition.
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The Future Is Creepy: Now With Prosthetic Tentacles!
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On the whole, I am a fan of living in the future; video-phone calls, makin’ sheep immortal, that whole schtick. Except every now and then, slightly disturbing developments crop up, and I’m forced to consider a future where this is much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and zombies. Case in point: you can replace missing arms with robot tentacles.
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