Conan O’Brien returned to New York last week for the first time since his falling out with the NBC – not only to rub his recent success in his former employers’ collective faces, but also to preside over the first same-sex marriage performed on late-night television. Because I guess that’s worth making a big deal over.
Back in 2008, then super-size Superbad star, Jonah Hill, announced he was shopping a script around Hollywood for an updated film adaptation of 21 Jump Street. The final product is set to drop early next year, featuring an oddly puffy looking Channing Tatum, and an extremely less puffy Jonah Hill
Cosmetic surgery, beauty products and other aesthetic enhancements have made it possible to change just about every aspect of your appearance, for better or worse. Now you can add permanent eye-colour change to your to-do list.
Looks like the only bottles in da club for Lil Weezy will be the ones filled with mineral water. Following his recent conviction for drug possession, the rapper isn’t allowed to consume alcohol or associate with anyone knowingly engaged in narcotics – good luck. Let’s see if he can last longer than (Camps Bay) “twenty minutes my broda”.
This is an absolute must-see! This guy deliberately creates fake profiles of underage girls online. He then enters chat rooms and look for pedophiles and invite them to meet in person. When they show up, he confronts them dressed as Batman. He also films the incident and puts the video up on the internet. Check out his first four “victims” inside.
Seth dodges highly botoxed women in Jaguars, and shows you a short cut from Benmore to Hyde Park, without using Grayston Drive and Sandton Drive. Top secret information is leaked, where he shows you a zone that skips the infamous traffic lights onto William Nicol Drive.
A report released by U.S. intelligence agencies claims that Chinese and Russian hackers, hired by their governments, have been stealing classified data from American government organizations. Assumptions like this have been made before, but this is the first time such a report to Congress has pointed the finger squarely at China and Russia.
Walter Isaacson weaves a full and often revealing tale that brings Steve Jobs to life through interviews with the late Apple visionary and those in his inner circle.* The most anticipated book of the year is available available to buy. And what better Christmas present for all your Mac friends and tech-minded family! The Guardian […]
Last week, a 30 year old man from Preston in the north of England was jailed for life for the brutal murder of his Thai wife, Pornpilai Srisroy. Her only crime: she had the audacity to destroy his extensive collection of Star Wars memorabilia following a fight.
You might have caught the article in yesterday Sunday Times newspaper about Jacob Zuma getting a new jet. In fact he and the deputy president are getting TWO new jets, which come to a total of R1,6 Billion. That’s R800 million per jet! We did some snooping around and managed to get some photographs (and […]
Everybody has bad days. Nothing goes your way. Everyone has the wrong opinion. The lane you’re driving is always the slowest moving. And then there are days when you find yourself in a 34 car pileup. Pictures after the jump.
Kate Middleton Pregnancy Rumours Continue – Kate and Wills were on an official overseas humanitarian trip in Copenhagen to learn about the situation in east Africa and to help with aid efforts. However, when offered the chance to sample some of the peanut paste given to famine victims, Kate politely declined, despite the fact that her […]
Operation Repo is a TV show that follows repo men around. They’re the nice guys with the muscles, bald heads and facial hair that come and take your car when you don’t make your payments. In this particular video, the owner of the car happens to be obsessed with Michael Jackson. Hilarity ensues. Click continue to see the full video.
If you’ve been following the development of the rhino poaching issue in South Africa recently, you will be pleased to know that two Thai nationals, suspected to be central to an international rhino poaching syndicate, were arrested at OR Tambo International this morning.
Commercial space travel is now literally months away, and it appears that a mission to Mars is not too far off either. Six men that have been locked in large steel piped tubes for 520 days emerged from isolation earlier today after a bid to simulate a mission to Mars. This is taking Survivor to the next level.
When Gareth Cliff said on his show that “most 22-year-olds are laying on their backs with their legs open at 22, or else they are drinking” he wasn’t being a hater. This after the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) found him innocent of hate speech, following a complaint by a listener.
Hoo. Santa Cruz surfer Barbara Roettger got way up close and personal with a pod of humpback whales when she unwittingly found herself in the middle of a lunge feeding session; two massive whales popped up right next to the surfer and her kayak friends, seemingly out of nowhere. It’s pretty rad.
Remember a few months back when the local rags were full of news about Hollywood stars, Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington seen out and about in the Mother City filming an upcoming action flick? Well, check out the fruit of those labours after the jump!
Other than the obvious benefits of the various social networks out there; networking, re-connecting and event-planning, amongst other things, recently they have become a serious law-enforcement tool. In the most recent case, New Jersey police used Facebook to track down suspects in a vicious assault case involving a machete wielding madman.
If this six-inch blade truly is the notorious murder weapon of the famed “Jack The Ripper”, than you can expect to see it fetch a pretty penny on auction. The knife was found in a stack of possessions belonging to Sir John Williams, the surgeon thought to be the infamous killer. A surgeon, with a surgeon’s knife? Never!
In this week’s installment of Tech Vibe, Ryan gets his hands on the vaunted iPhone4S, Apple’s latest update to its line of famed smartphones. Ryan O’Connor chats to Gaynor McArthur of DigiCape to find out when the 4S will arrive in South Africa, how much we can expect to pay for it, and whether it […]
The words Halal and whisky are certainly two words we never expected to see in the same sentence. Now add to that “non-alcoholic”, and you’ve got yourself a fine example of the word “juxtaposition” – the placement of at least two things, usually abstract concepts, near each other.
Jamie O’Brien is a well-known Hawaiian pro-surfer. He recently decided to create some awareness surrounding fibropapillomatosis – a herpes-type virus that affects sea turtles. His “campaign” involved posting a picture of himself “riding” one of these turtles underwater. But it turns out he may have instead broken laws against harassing turtles, as well as offended fellow Hawaiians who consider these creatures as ancestral guardian spirits.
Okay, this might seem like it belongs in the same dark vault of impossible philosophical conundrums as “How much wood would a wood chuck chuck” but hear the hot IT nerd out:
Cricket South Africa Finds A New Sponsor: Cooking Oil – Cricket South Africa (CSA) and the Pietermaritzburg-based Willowton Group, manufacturers of Sunfoil Pure Sunflower Cooking Oil, on Thursday announced a sponsorship deal which will see Sunfoil partner as the event sponsor of the two-match test series between South Africa and Australia. From Standard Bank to […]
Just when you thought the stench of death had finally lifted from the Harry Potter series, today it emerges that certain parts of Twitter are getting their eye-liner all smeared up regarding the fictional 30th anniversary of the slaying of teen wizard Harry’s fictional parents. For realsies…
An overwhelming body of scientific evidence has led experts to conclude that fatty and sugary foods have the same addiction potential as drugs. This puts cupcakes in the same boat as cocaine – high in price, low in quantity, and a lot of fun with a stripper.
The act of assisting someone to die is fairly commonplace in South Africa, but people in this country tend to turn a blind eye towards it, says Professor Willem Landman of NGO Dignity SA. Landman was commenting on today’s news that his counterpart, Cape Town-based professor Sean Davison, has been cleared of an attempted murder charge in New Zealand for performing euthanasia on his mother.
Fans of the Twilight Saga will be quivering with excitement at this very moment. Why? Because the latest installment in the Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn Part 1, is about to unleash upon cinemas across the globe. And YOU can get your tickets before anyone else by booking online, now. What’s more, you could be rewarded […]
Former Pakistani cricket captain, Salman Butt, was today sentenced to 30 months in jail after being found guilty of conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments. Mohammad Asif was jailed for one year and Mohammad Amir was sentenced to six months. Cricketing agent, Mazhar Majeed, was jailed for two years and eight months for his part in the fixing scandal.