There are so many ‘private security’ companies around, it’s bound to sink into a haven of rule-bending controversial and violent operations. Vice magazine get stuck in.
Quietly enjoy the Daily Maverick completely ripping to pieces Oscar Pistorius’ claims under oath, about that boating accident he had on ‘the Vaal.’
Everyone knows that nothing goes more viral than a ‘banned’ ad. It did wonders for AXE deodorant, as well as Helen Zille’s ad for the DA. Julius is claiming the same thing happened to his ad!
Bacon. The quintessential food of the gods. The guilty little pleasure that most of us simply cannot live without. Alas, it does so happen that our daily dose of this celebrated food can at times be ruined when not prepared correctly. Nothing spells disaster for the remainder of the already mundane-looking day at the office […]
We ignored this the first time it hit the internet because our eyes were bleeding. But now it has gone completely and utterly viral and we have to let you know about it – out of duty. Apologies.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has got a lot to live up to. For starters, it follows Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man franchise, which only really ran out of web in Spider-Man 3. Second, it’s a sequel following a strong series reboot. Thirdly, the title The Amazing Spider-Man 2 puts a bit of pressure to keep it well, amazing. More to the point, it’s […]
For the purpose of simply putting a smile on your collective dials, we thought we would show you what drunk elephants look like. Recently at the Singita Kruger National Park, a group of young elephants were seen stumbling and collapsing amongst each other in a seemingly drunken stupor. Apparently, when the fermented fruit of the […]
Alicia Silverstone. We all remember her right? From that early 90’s teen-flick…..which one was it again? Well apparently this lass has gone from being ‘Clueless’ to pretty clued-up. About parenting, that is. Silverstone has written a sort of ‘guide to the world of parenting and raising offspring in what is being hailed a rather ‘unconventional’ […]
Moat of us think of the process of recording a world-class in-studio album as being, well, a lengthly process. Right? apparently not if your name is Jack White. In the most stupefying manner, it has come out that this prodigy did in fact write and record an entire album in 4 hours. This is in fact […]
Germany. The land of Eisbeins, beer festivals and legal prostitution. In fact, the lucrative sex industry in Germany is calculated to be worth over $1 Billion per year. And now, a new app created in Germany and for the German market, Peppr, is being marketed as being very much akin to how your average ‘dating’ […]
Besides words like ‘Nkandla’ and ‘Oscar’ and ‘vomiting,’ the most exciting words featured in headlines today are ‘drone’ and ‘GoPro.’ Add ‘fireworks’ to that and you’re laughing. Watch this..
The thing about being a South African is that even during Winter time we still enjoy the outdoor social activity known as the ‘braai’ – or even the Friday night out on the stoep with some good company and a lot of good brandy. Whatever the case may be for your next weekend social gathering, […]
FNB’s handicap-mocking terrorism-fuelled tweet. South Korea ferry death-toll hits 150. Whatsapp hits milestone. Obamas remember Frankie Knuckles. Big Goonies 2 news. Germany’s sex-industry ‘Paradise.’
Oh what people do for a taste of a bit of fame on the interwebs these days. Sigh. Stephen and Alysha McLaughlin, from Canada had a baby. It was a girl. So , as one does, they went online and asked the people of Earths internet-using community to put their heads together and name their bundle […]
When Jani Allen alleged that murder-accused, Oscar Pistorius had taken acting classes before taking the stand in his defence, our interest piqued. When Oscar’s family denied the allegation, we believed them. It’s irrelevant whether Oscar took acting classes, or not. I mean, Brad Pitt never did. It turns out that loads of actors never did.
Laszlo Bock is Google’s senior vice president of people operations, that is to say, he decides who gets hired, and who gets fired. And he’s actively looking for people who didn’t graduate from a fancy university
If you’ve ever worked in a serious research and development department, you’ll know that projects are very, very carefully vetted before you or anyone else is given permission to go ahead. That’s because most R&D department budgets are small. So what happens when you work at a company that has almost unlimited piles of cash?
Remember when people were willing to pay full price for stuff? Remembering when paying full price for an HD television, set of golf clubs, or pair of shades was completely normal? That was before the internet. Ah yes, a joke. But there’s truth in jest. Access to the internet has led to an explosion […]
Gisele Bundchen has teamed up with DJ/producer, Bob Sinclar to crank out a cover of Blondie’s 1979 hit, Heart Of Glass in a new ad campaign for H&M. Conveniently, she models the line over the course of the video.
A 31-year-old man named Michael Egan III has filed a lawsuit, claiming the director of the forthcoming ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ forced him into sex during parties in California and Hawaii when he was 15 to 17 years-old in the late 1990s. It is alleged that Singer and others involved in the Hollywood sex ring gave Egan and other young teens alcohol and drugs, and promised them roles in television shows and movies.
According to this infographic, 40% of our happiness is controlled by our thoughts, actions and behaviour, 50% is genetically determined, and 10% is determined by our circumstances. Bummer if you’re naturally unhappy! Cheer up.
Many would agree that the original Woolworths TV ad featuring Candice Swanepoel wasn’t capitalising on the Victoria’s Secret model’s overall sexiness. They seem to have addressed it this time.. Click play to watch the teaser.
HBO Go is an integrated service from that company that streams HBO content to mobile devices and tablets. The offering itself isn’t innovative or groundbreaking, but the marketing hook is genius. HBO took the liberty of staging a few scenarios where it would be much, much better to watch their programmes outside of the company of your parents.
Russia’s largest social network, VKontakte is now in the hands of Igor Sechin and Alisher Usmanov. Usmanov is a metals tycoon who expanded into tech via his company Mail.ru, and Sechin is the leader of the hardline silovik faction that backs Putin, is CEO of Rosneft, the state-owned oil company, and is believed to be one of the Russian president’s closest advisors.
Dammit, Johnny. Did you learn nothing from Lone Ranger? Riding a wave of what can only be described as unjustified confidence, Depp partnered with virgin director, Wally Pfister to crank out ‘Transcendence’, which is a story about a computer genius who gets transformed in to a megalomaniac computer. Groan.
Well, this looks like a good way to kill yourself accidentally. What you have here is alcohol powder, derived from cane spirits. And somehow, authorities in the United States have approved it for human consumption.
We said this was coming. Facebook is introducing a feature called “Nearby Friends”, which we guarantee will be used more for the sake of avoiding people you know but don’t like, than actually finding people you want to see.
One of the world’s most renowned authors, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, died of pneumonia at the age of 87 this weekend. The man was a Nobel Prize winner, a friend of statesmen, and a pioneer of magical realism in literature. Get up to speed with the man, and his impact, below.
Remember Horse Chestnut? The world lost their collective faces when that guy won South Africa’s Triple Crown in 1999. Winning the Triple Crown is a hell of a big deal, and a horse named Louis The King has two out of three events in the bag. Guess what? The last of the three legs is happening in four days.
A group of Loch Ness Monster enthusiasts say they’ve sighted the legendary Scottish beast via satellite images on Apple Maps, which is the same app that has a large portion of the internet dedicated to recording the many hilarious instances of its failure.