Prince Charles’ Car Attacked [image:source] Prince Charles’ Car Attacked During Protest – A car containing Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall has been attacked amid violence after MPs voted to raise university tuition fees in England. A window was cracked and their car hit by paint, but the couple were unharmed. In angry scenes, […]

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Every now and then I drop one of these public service announcements, because I love you and you should know about them. Love is an action, not an emotion, okay?

Think about that. I’m acting out my love for you.

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We live in a world where business ethics trump their moral counterparts with ease, so perhaps we shouldn’t get too upset about this.

You may well remember that Amazon.com abandoned WikiLeaks after suffering less than subtle diplomatic pressure from the United States.

While disappointing, that kind of move was inevitable, perhaps even understandable. If the negative attention damaged the brand, Amazon has since committed public relations hara kiri. Cue global brandfail for Amazon.com in three, two, one…

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I remember when we were kids my parents used to take us horse back riding and one time I fell and broke my arm. Another time a filly bit my sister’s shoulder. She was never the same after that. I’m so glad my parents found that horse farm outside Kimberley and never had YouTube and never saw what they do with their kids in Russia.

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The face of news is changing on a daily basis. It really has to. For as long as people have communicated, the basic premise of news has been one person asking another, “Tell me something new and interesting.” One person’s “new and interesting” may not be another’s news. News24 is very aware of this fact.

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Watch the video – it should bring you up to speed. Oh, animated Taiwanese news clips. You educate, you entertain, you sort of fail to make sense despite sticking to the facts. What can’t you do? Are you free for lunch some time? Coffee, maybe?

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Yes, I know that headline sounds like something you should be thinking about whilst in a dark room with a towel, but it’s actually rather funny. Sabine Schmitz takes CAR magazine’s Juliet McGuire around Zwartkops in a matte-black M3 Frozen Edition.

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If Vodafone based the design of their 3G modem on a device that takes up three USB ports unnecessarily they succeeded. On a grand scale. Is this 1998? Are we in the Stone Age? Behold, the great plastic death is reaping its harvest. This is the technological equivalent of the fat guy who takes up one and a half seats in economy class.

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On the whole, I am a fan of living in the future; video-phone calls, makin’ sheep immortal, that whole schtick. Except every now and then, slightly disturbing developments crop up, and I’m forced to consider a future where this is much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and zombies. Case in point: you can replace missing arms with robot tentacles.

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Kim Jong Il’s thousand yard stare is known from all four corners of the earth. His enemies tremble before it, his friends allow it to fill them with the glory of ages past, and the certain hope of yet more to come. Our Dear Leader, as we like to call him (some us even get to call him Special K, but hey, each to his own, right?) enjoys staring at things. We should enjoy staring at him, staring at things.

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Alan Pardew is the bookies’ favourite to take over as manager of Newcastle United after Chris Hughton was sacked last week. Now, for some that may not be a bad thing, but let’s just say I never quite saw him in the same light after I’d heard him say on Match of the Day that Michael Essien “absolutely RAPED” Manchester City’s Ched Evans. True blunder.

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It’s been thirty years since John Lennon was murdered by a man who got a little bit too excited about his music for his own good, and for John’s, for that matter. In any event, we bring you a truly remarkable short film made in 2007 by a man who as a teen interviewed Lennon in his hotel room. It bears repeating on this infamous day.

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So this is sort of interesting – some photos have appeared of Emma Stone with her new blonde get-up, in preparation for the Gwen Stacey role in Spider-Man Whatever. What’s interesting is that a number of people have commented on how much she looks like a Steve Ditko character – Ditko being Spider-Man’s co-creator.

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Scott Pilgrim vs The World is brought to us by the guy that gave us Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. His name is Edgar Wright, whose dark British comedy films have become cult hits with the help of partner-in-crime, Simon Pegg. However, Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a departure from his usual […]

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Daddy Cool has bestowed his generosity on all of us, gang. If you’d like to enjoy the dulcet tones of Seth Rotherham’s voice, and learn about how to make your life better through the use of tabs on your browser, then make sure you click through for the following public service announcement.

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There’s an ancient Tibetan joke that goes something like “There’s nothing funny about a car accident unless one of the cars involved was transporting a bucket of PVC paint, which exploded on impact, for maximum comedic effect.” Sure, we’re the first to admit that some of the humour is lost in translation, but the wisdom is clear.

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A warm welcome to Kitty Warner, who will be writing for us on a weekly basis. Sex In The Mother City‘s format will be a chronicle of Cape Town life, documenting various (s)exploits in and around Cape Town. Sex In The Mother City is based on true happenings in the Mother City (names have been […]

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For your reading pleasure: The criminal indictment of the taxi driver who has since been sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder of Anni Dewani. The 32 page document includes allegations of Zola’s employment as a hit man by Shrien Dewani, Anni’s husband. You can download it after the jump.

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That’s because everyone’s boycotting it. China said they’re not going so then Russia said if China’s not going they’re not going and obviously if Russia’s not going Kazakhstan’s not going either. Now Iran, Iraq and Vietnam joined a growing number of countries that refuse to attend the western world’s award ceremony run by “clowns” who are “interfering in China’s judicial affairs.” Where is the love?

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Michael Bay, for those of you who missed it, directed Transformers. Transformers turned Megan Fox into one of earth’s hottest women. Bang, just like that! Now imagine what a maniac like Bay could do, if asked to direct and capture the Victoria’s Secret supermodels? Including Candice Swanepoel. Ja, exactly. Best you follow the link.

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PayPal, the online payments service that recently bitched out and froze the account of Wikileaks, citing terms of use violations completely unrelated to the recent US diplomatic cables leaks, has some interesting clientelle that it hasn’t dropped yet – the KKK, for instance.

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Who would have thought that Roodepoort was aware of the word ‘biatches,’ let alone actively catering exclusive for ‘real biatches’ within the lifestyle boutiques arena. We have so much to learn about this part of South Africa. But there is so little time. I just went to the Biatches website and WOW – you gotta check this out. After the link..

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Ricky Ponting and his team have every reason to feel decidedly morbid. Yesterday’s annihilation has brought a collective grumble from local newspapers that have likened the national side to a “toothpick trying to derail a speeding bullet train.” There have even been calls for Shane Warne to drop the commentary mic and grab the kookaburra. Desperate times.

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Shrien Dewani Killed His Wife For R15k: Driver – Yesterday’s confirmation by taxi driver Zola Tongo that Anni Dewani was killed by a man hired by her husband, was not the big revelation. The big revelation (for me at least) was that their dinner in The Strand was purely to kill time, as the killers […]

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I have been dying for these pics from the GUESS fashion show which was held at Caprice at the end of last week. It was on the beach and was jam-packed with beautiful angels and slicksters, all melting into the Atlantic Ocean and Camps Bay sunset. 14 beautiful models dressed in the latest GUESS threads took to the ramp as table mountain glowed in the dusk. Click for the carnage..

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Those Scandinavians, darem. Not only do they have lovely fjords, now they’re also setting trends in the workplace. The latest management technique to come from Norway involves women wearing red armbands when it’s that time of the month. I kid you not.

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Paying things with cards is weird for me. I mean obviously the convenience of having a plastic card that gets me stuff is great – I got to take advantage of the Threadless sale, for instance – but without that tangible sense of loss at having to fork over a wad of cash, there is the risk of going overboard is substantial. Folks at MIT have some ideas about that.

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If you got tired of the ‘New York State Of Mind’ parodies, then I am happy to tell you there are others. And this time they’ve covered and tweaked Eminem and Rhihanna’s song, ‘Love The Way You Lie.’ Better yet, this one has to do with Prop 19. Weed-heads, this one’s for you!

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The investigation of the murder of Anni Dewani, a newly married British tourist who was gunned down in Gugulethu last month, has taken a spicy twist this afternoon. Yes, you can all roll your eyes and gesticulate wildly. Feel free to throw in a “I told you so” if you like.

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Well, well, well. I guess we’ll be seeing that insurance policy of his sooner rather than later. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been nicked in London on charges of “sexual crimes”. The warrant was issued in Sweden. Look, sex, the Swedish, and foreign people almost always leads to confusion.

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