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.
Only the coolest of hipsters will be aware of THE THUNDERBIRDS. People like Passion from The Dirty Skirts – he will know most of these names. And if you aren’t aware of these guys, then please ask anyone over 45 who spent time in Cape Town in the 70s and 80s. Your parents probably made […]
Apple announced some massive fourth quarter sales numbers yesterday. For instance, they sold virtually as many iPhones as there are people in South Africa during that period. Apple also doubled both revenue and profit year-on-year too.
It is weird to think that there are still people in this world who forget to turn their cell phones off during concerts. This happened during a recent performance by Slovakian violist Lukas Kmit, when a concertgoer’s Nokia ringtone suddenly interrupted the show. But the violinist responded by cleverly incorporating it into his performance, and the video has since gone viral. See it after the jump.
Whoops. Looks like somewhere between Eric Schmidt and Larry Page, Google forgot their ‘don’t be evil’ rule and turned into the creepy uncle of the internet. Well, the other creepy uncle of the internet. It now follows users’ activities across YouTube, Gmail, Google Plus and Google Search, among others. Everybody, clear your history.
One person who won’t be visiting TripAdvisor’s number one world destination this year is controversial Kiwi rugby ref, Bryce Lawrence, who has been left out of any South African matches for this year’s Super 15 fixtures.
Queen Mary 2 Docks In Cape Town [Pics] – Jocelyn Hui tweeted this picture of the Queen Mary 2 on sea. The Table Mountain oversees the arrival of the ship in the Mother City. (@1littlenoodle). [news24] Malema Appeal Ends – The ANC’s appeal committee concluded Youth League president Julius Malema’s disciplinary appeal hearing yesterday and […]
We’ve got the full list of this year’s Oscars nominees hot off the press from the early morning announcement at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences HQ in Hollywood, after the jump!
So! The shutdown MegaUpload and charging of founders with piracy ostensibly started with a copyright scuffle between the filesharing site and the Universal Music Group. Except the shut-down was also timed to scupper MegaBox, a venture to sell artist’s work directly to consumers while letting artists keep 90 percent of earnings. Raised eyebrows all around.
Cluttered with memes, celeb scandals and regrettable pics on social networks it’s easy to get caught up in the daily flood of online activity, missing all those “important” posts. Thankfully, all of 2011’s most important online events have been captured in one amazing artwork.
Wow it’s been a long time since the lottery was at R1 billion. But here we are, with tomorrow’s Powerball lottery sitting at $120 million. That’s “a lot of tin,” as they say in Johannesburg, and I’m sure we’ve all dreamt of the various things we would do with the money. Buying the yacht and […]
Tertiary education is turning into a very dangerous pursuit indeed. Following on the heels of the incident at the University of Johannesburg not too long ago, similar chaos is currently underway at the Vaal University of Technology. Students have been queuing since Monday to get registered for classes, but have been faced with heavy, and some would say aggressive, security.
Greeks are amongst the most notorious tax dodgers in the world. Currently, Greece has about 60 billion Euros in unpaid taxes outstanding – a figure equivalent to about a quarter of its total economy. Athens decided to release a list on Sunday that published the names of some of the 4 000 known dodgers.
As if they haven’t scared us enough with the release of their latest album cover and music video for its first single, “Fok julle naaiers”, check out what Die Antwoord is up to next. They’ve just released a very graphic teaser trailer for Ten$ion, which is set to release in February. Check it out after the jump.
Members of “hacktivist” group Anonymous have denied that they’re planning an attack on Facebook, in spite of a video claiming to speak for the group that has declared that the social network will be brought down on January 28th. This would be the second fake Anonymous threat in some months.
The “birther” movement is back in the news, trying to prove US President Barack Obama is not an American citizen by birth. He’s been ordered to court in Georgia on Thursday to hear yet another charge that he’s not who he says he is.
Bryanston school kids and their parents may still be recovering from the drama on show this morning outside Bryanston Parallel Medium Primary. The school was the scene of a police shoot-out at around 07h20.
COMPETITION CLOSED – SEE BELOW TO BUY TICKETS WINNER IS NOLUTHANDO – well done! I’ve just drawn a diagram to explain something to you. You will see there is a circle with the words “Inner Circle” written inside it. That is a lot like a circle of trust. It’s where you want to be. But […]
A rather sexy poster, featuring a naked interracial couple sparked debates across social platforms yesterday. Created by the DA Student Organisation, it shows a white man embracing a black woman with the tagline: “DASO: In our future you wouldn’t look twice.”
International surfing superstar, Jordy Smith, sexy swimsuit model Roxy Louw, 5FM’s iconic DJ Fresh, masterblaster cricketing all-rounder Jacques Kallis, tennis supremo Mats Wilander and a growing list of celebrities all swear by it, and it’s currently set to take South Africa and the world by storm leading a new wave of nutraceuticals into the health […]
Start your Tuesday the way your forefathers did, with an amazing time-lapse video of the International Space Station passing over a storm-struck African continent with the Milky Way popping in to say hello in the background. Also visible is Comet Lovejoy, two weeks after its near-fatal sunburn. Please, go look. You’ll feel better about being up.
Anonymous Threatens To Take Down Facebook On January 28 – Anonymous is planning to target Facebook in an attack Jan. 28 — at least that’s what a video uploaded to YouTube Monday is claiming in the name of the hacker network. “An online war has begun between Anonymous, the people and the government of the United […]
This is little Juliet. She’s eight years old, and she and her mummy recently posted a video to Youtube where she sings about her pet dog Robert, whom she loves, and her stinky fish tank. All set to thrash metal. Odd doesn’t quite cover it, but who can argue with 12 million hits on YouTube. Take a look.
Alright. Yes. Pairing your product with an attractive woman is not exactly an original advertising tactic, and if anything the world could do with a little less of that. But because this happens to be a Brazilian TV ad for a language school, and a funny one, we can put these concerns momentarily aside.
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Last week a massive anti-doping lab was unveiled by the Olympic organisers, and has been hailed as the most high-tech in the history of the games.
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The rumours began to do the rounds towards the end of last week, but now a top-level source within the South African Rugby Union has let it slip that Heyneke Meyer will be announced as the new Springbok coach on Friday.
I got the latest Rolling Stone magazine on my iPad 2 (get yours here) this weekend (using the Zinio app) and thoroughly enjoyed the David Bowie article, entitled, “How Ziggy Stardust Fell To Earth.” In particular, the stuff about his first marriage to Angel Barnett was quite an eye opener. Try this out for size: […]