Now there’s a heading I like to see! And those of you who have entered Saturday’s 1 Billion Rand lottery (buy tickets online) might want to get inspiration for their yacht – should they win the lottery. ‘Cos let’s face it – we’re in it til we win it! How’z that staircase there in the […]
All the surviving members of Monty Python are set to reunite for the first time in over a decade to provide voice talents for a film to be directed by fellow Python alumnus, Terry Gilliam.
People get pretty mixed up with Woodstock – with Victoria Road and Sir Lowry Road and all the rest. There’s the bit where the Biscuit Mill is and then there’s another bit where The Armoury is and Ogilvy and La Bottega bar. The suburb will always remain Woodstock but it is clear it needs to […]
In case you missed it earlier this week, an email exchange between a blogger, his girlfriend, and the owner of Beluga restaurant in Green Point, was leaked online. Shaun Oakes, founder and editor of the infamous shaunoakes.com blog juggernaut, went for dinner at Beluga the other night with is girlfriend. The waiter was a bit […]
Over the past few years social media has transformed the proliferation of information, particularly mainstream news. It’s now almost more likely that you’ll first learn about breaking news on your Facebook feed or Twitter account than from a legitimate news source. That’s all about to change.
It’s good to see that the law is at least making the news when it comes to South Africa’s current problem with rhino poaching. Another arrest has been made, this time a 58 year old farmer in Limpopo, who was busted with rhino horn and illegal firearms on the farm that he manages.
The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life of Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom – Since the shutdown of Megaupload, stories have erupted about the life and exploits of the company’s founder, a self-styled “Dr. Evil” of file sharing. Kim Dotcom’s opulent digs, high-end cars, fondness for models and other Bond-villain-esque behaviors have been splashed across websites and have […]
White rap’s favourite son, Vanilla Ice, has dropped his bass for a ukulele and channelled his inner hipster. He’s moved to Echo Park, Los Angeles – an area notoriously populated by hipsters – to take up indie rock and the wearing of plaid shirts and thick-rimmed reading glasses. But has he?
Google has been saving up a tonne of creepy private information about you lately, which is unfortunate, but the company’s philanthropic arm just launched a new crisis response project to win back our hearts and personal data: emergency alerts on Google Maps.
As the world anxiously awaits the release of Ten$ion, the next Die Antwoord album, check out this timely reminder, via a homage to the enfants terribles of Afrikaans hardcore, that gingers are people too.
Angry Birds is quite possibly the most successful phone game in recent history. It’s available for just about every kind of smart phone, tablet, and even browsers such as Google Chrome. Soon you’ll be able to fling wingless birds right from your favourite social network – Angry Birds is coming to Facebook.
The American woman and Danish man who were held hostage in Somalia were rescued this week by the same guys who killed Osama Bin Laden. They sure have been busy. *Cue fist pump from Barack Obama.*
The few of you out there who didn’t get a ticket to last night’s BILLION RAND LOTTERY, have been given a second chance. Personally, I don’t like to live on the edge like that. It can only be assumed that people don’t buy tickets because they think the lottery is going to rollover. Either that, […]
Cosatu has come out guns blazing at that DA Students’ Organisation poster that has raised a few eyebrows this week. Speaking in KwaZulu-Natal yesterday, Zet Luzipo, provincial secretary for Cosatu, and no stranger to speaking his mind, slammed the poster saying: “It entrenches white supremacy that we fought against during the liberation struggle.”
It’s summer time in South Africa. There are a few angles of attack that you can employ to defeat the summer heat. The first, is loose fitting clothing. The second, is a chilled beverage. And the third, and most critical component, is music. “BUT,” I hear you say, “we’ve heard LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem so […]
“My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating.” Well-know American comedienne, Joan Rivers, has just undergone her 734th plastic surgery operation at the age of 78. This time she went for a to “tune-up” on her neck, and allowed a TV crew to film the process.
Everyone knows the greatest holidays are the ones where “we bumped into this local guy, who knew about all the secret spots and gave us bits and pieces of information and facts that no-one else knew.” Nobody wants to go to every single tourist hotspot and, if they do, they want to tick the right […]
With the news that Apple looks set to revolutionise school learning with its textbook initiative, comes another report that a Johannesburg private school is going to make iPads compulsory this year, at parents’ cost. How long until other schools follow suit?
Since the advent of digital media and file-sharing on the internet there have been concerns over digital piracy, however there’s a new development on the horizon which is going to affect a lot more than just the entertainment industry. Soon it may be possible to ‘download’ just about anything.
Capitec Expanding With New Branches And Credit Card – Capitec is working on a pilot study in a bid to introduce a credit card next year and will spend close to R200m on branch expansion over the next three years, the bank said yesterday. In anticipation of growth from a diverse range of clients, by 2015 […]
It is summer, and here in the Cape the long evenings nudge one in the direction of that most South African past time: the braai. Growing up, however, it was always beer around the braai and wine (white, nondescript, loaded with ice) in the kitchen. There was, of course, the exception in my French uncle for whom a glass of red wine is never far away. But beer was the norm. Beer dominates the braai. Is it some form of magnetic alliteration? Is beer that much better designed for smoke and charred meat? Do we still hold some outmoded idea that wine is for girls and beer is for boys? Or, possibly, is there some emasculation going on when a can is taken from the chief steak flipper and an elegant riedel glass subbed in?
You may have heard recently that former Model C schools – with English as the medium of instruction – may be scrapping African languages. Naturally, Nandos had something to say about this malarky. The headline reads: “Respect your (mother) tongue” While the body copy reads: “Give it a taste of our delicious Peri-Peri, flame-grilled chicken.” […]
Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo.
The ability to record footage in high definition (HD) has literally changed the way we look at digital media. And when used to bring out the best of nature’s inherent beauty, the results are simply jaw-dropping.
There was a lot of media coverage of the biggest solar storm in 6 years yesterday. Doomsayers were claiming the world’s electricity would be knocked out and that we’d all be burned to death by radiation. This all turned out to be a lot of hot air. What did happen though, thanks to the storm, was a spectacular display of the Northern Lights. Full gallery after the jump.
Facebook’s new Timeline feature, that up until now has been an optional switch for its more than 800 million users, will very shortly become compulsory for everyone using the social networking platform. Facebook began the forced switch in some regions yesterday, and will continue to do so in the next few weeks.
Skin… everyone’s got one, except that guy dangling from the tree in Predator. The word has developed a stigma and a deviant curiosity in Hollywood: Mysterious Skin, Skinwalkers, ‘skin flicks’ – and it would be rash to think The Skin I Live In, a film that nabbed a spot in Quentin Tarantino’s Top Ten Films of 2011, could cure that little niggling […]
Ralph Fiennes, the actor who plays Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, recently appeared on a US talk show. The host asked him to read an extract from a piece of fan fiction, titled “Harry Squatter and the Sorcerer’s Bone”. Hilarity ensued.
This is both embarrassing and a little worrying. It’s been a while since the province of Limpopo was declared bankrupt and placed under national administration, but now there isn’t even food in the hospitals. Which, when you’re dealing with very sick people, is probably not a good thing.
Here’s some frightening footage that’s spent the month going viral on the interwebs. Pilots will tell you that the most statistically dangerous time during a flight is during take-off or landing, and now you can see why. Watch some goosebump inducing plane landings after the jump.
Weight loss? Disease prevention? Anti-aging? Cup of tea? A very sizeable chunk of change has just been granted to researchers who are eager to show the world the plethora of health properties attached to South Africa’s favourite tea, our humble rooibos.