Brunch: it’s excellent. The combination of bubbly, soft poached eggs and hollandaise sauce is what is commonly referred to as “the holy trinity.” But some of you are doing it wrong, and you need to improve your lives.
Easter is fast approaching. While some of us only see it as a couple of days off from work, Christians will be all talk around the water cooler about the man that allegedly rose from the dead 2,000 years ago. Here are five little known facts about Jesus.
Steve Jobs didn’t like Apple execs giving interviews. Up until recently Apple’s design chief, Jonathan Ive, has only appeared a handful of times in public for his works, much less give an in-depth interview. Please meet the designer that changed the world.
Thanks once again, Russia, for a terrific YouTube video. What you have here is your standard house hold dog, banished from the bed. Throw in an absent owner and a hidden camera, and you have YouTube gold.
What is the exact definition of “Tennessee Whiskey”, anyway? For an alcohol to qualify as Tennessee Whiskey, it must be fermented in the state from mash of 51 percent corn, aged in brand-new charred oak barrels, filtered through maple charcoal and bottled at over 80 proof. That’s how Jack Daniel’s make their whiskey, which is why they’re allowed to call it that. But that could change if lawmakers in Tennessee get their way.
If you’ve put cocaine up your nose recently, there’s roughly an 80% chance that you’ve ingested a cattle deworming medication that will give you “chemical Aids” if ingested in the right quantities. Oh, and hairspray. Kim Gosner is a chemist specialising in the study of narcotics. Vice caught up with him to find out about […]
Yesterday a major scientific discovery was announced which further bolsters the Big Bang Theory of the universe. Scientists found the first evidence for the primordial B-mode polarization of the cosmic microwave background which was detected by a telescope called BICEP2. This is direct evidence of cosmic inflation.
Here’s some footage of flight MH370 Captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah and his co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid being searched by and clearing security before boarding the missing plane. In case you didn’t know by now, an investigation is underway to determine if the pilots intentionally vanished the plane and its passengers.
With a solid summer taking us through to the end of May, and overseas June holidays around the corner, you better stake your claim from this brand new range of kaftans that went online this morning. Flaunt some poolside glamour, girls!
Keep things safe and sound with a Four Channel CCTV kit or Four Channel HDMI CCTV kit. Easy to set up and use, this system has four cameras, complete with mounting brackets and cables and allow footage to be viewed via the internet or a cell phone. The HDMI kit expands things even further by giving security seekers a clearer picture than ever before, thanks to the handy HDMI port. A great solution to security issues at home or in the office, this kit allows you to catch criminals red handed or finally spot which neighbour’s been stealing your newspapers.
Pistorius’s defense was dealt a heavy blow after it was revealed in court that the ‘Blade Runner’ was planning on stocking up enough arms to become Rambo. A month after he shot Reeva Steenkamp he canceled a large gun order he placed in June 2012.
Obama imposes sanctions. New mysterious evidence in Pistorius case. MH370 flew low to avoid radar. Earthquake shakes-up LA. Lena Dunham goes hard at Woody. Scarlett also weighs in. Venice votes for independence from Italy.
Some terribly sad news to come out of the music and fashion industry today. The girlfriend of Rolling Stone’s frontman, Mick Jagger, has killed herself. L’Wren Scott hanged herself this morning in her Manhattan apartment.
Someone just lost their job. This video illustrates exactly why attempting to drive a one million pound yacht beneath a Thames bridge days after the UK recorded its highest rainfalls in over two centuries is a bad idea. Brace yourself for the 1:08 mark. Maybe it’s better to get around in an Uber luxury sedan. Don’t […]
Throughout history, creatively inclined people have had to sometimes rely on a rich benefactor for financial backing, while their ideas are still in the teething phase. “Ideas Island” is project by Fredrik Härén which allows creatives to stay on one of three private islands for free.
Times are tough for Vijay Mallya. It’s almost a year since he shutdown his airline and had his name taken off the Forbes billionaires list. The Indian mogul’s estimated net worth has dwindled from $1.4 billion in 2012, to a mere $750 million in October last year. This bad spell has led Mallya to part ways with his R70 million Clifton pad.
Bitcoin is an incredibly divisive topic. Should you buy, should you sell? Perhaps you should ask Warren Buffett. Here’s his advice.
That’s the question visitors to Cape Town are asking themselves, once it occurs to them that the POLO store in the V&A waterfront is not owned by Ralph Lauren. We discussed this in a post last week, but let’s now consider the damage this does to OTHER shops and brands in the shopping centre.
Last month, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced that the messaging platform company are planning to add voice over IP (VoIP) functionality to their app. A screenshot of what it might look like has been leaked, showing the proposed feature on an iOS smartphone.
Don Draper is a hard-drinking, chain-smoking, smooth-talking ad man with a shadowy past, and he has a way with words. And over the past couple of seasons he has dropped more than a few pearls of wisdom.
Had enough trials and tribulations with the start of a new working week? Take a breather and check out man’s best friend enjoying a dog’s life at a doggie day care.
Navagio is rated as the prettiest beach in all of Greece, ipso facto the world – by a sane person’s logic. Nicknamed ‘Smuggler’s Cove’, the beach has its very own rusty shipwreck, which is rumoured to have once belonged to a smuggler – more logic.
Welcome to yet another lecture on why posting pictures of yourself on social media sites may come back to haunt you. In this week’s lesson we shall be looking at yet another rascally thing Reddit users are up to. The subreddit called Facebook Cleavage, is making quite a stir.
The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 continues after more than a week since its disappearance. Authorities believe that it was intentionally diverted off course and are now considering the possibility that it landed in an unknown country. They have widen their search to cover 11 countries.
The head of Russia’s media – a man basically hand-picked by Vladimir Putin to fulfil the role of unofficial propaganda minister – mentioned somewhat casually during a news show on Sunday night that Russia could “turn turn the U.S. into radioactive dust.” You know, hypothetically speaking.
The ARM-powered CUBESTORMER 3 robot has smashed the Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s cube, recording a time of 3.253 seconds at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham, UK.
The 2014 F1 season brings with it a whole pile of changes from last season. With the F1 cars being the forefront of car manufacturing, technology developed for them eventually finds its way down to the normal automobile consumer’s road car. But let’s hope these nose changes don’t catch on.
The 49th annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards took place at the Baxter Theatre last night. The annual award ceremony celebrates outstanding individuals for theatre excellence in professional productions staged in the Cape Town Metropole and surrounding arreas.
Dutch architects from the company Dus, are busy building canal house in Amsterdam using a giant 3D-printer. No – they haven’t had one too many space cakes. Using a massive 3D-printer made from a converted shipping container, they are trying to change the way we construct homes in the future.
Last week, Oscar Pistorius’s trial featured a lot of to and fro between his defense and the state, especially in regard to what now must be the most famous bathroom door in all existence. The evidence so far has been far from conclusive, and with all the “putting” being done, it is sometimes hard to get your head around some of the arguments.