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Google Opens Its First Retail Store In London
10 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
As part of its promotional campaign for the new Chrome operating system, Google has quietly opened up its first retail store in London, called the “Chrome Zone”. The store is Google’s first venture in realspace retail, using the location to sell its Chromebook computer line.
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Two SABC Officials Allegedly Arrested After Not Paying Prostitutes
30 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Please notice the “allegedly” up there. Reports claim that two senior officials at the SABC have been arrested in London after refusing to pay two prostitutes for their services; the two men were in the UK for a business school initiative set up between South African and British academic boards.
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London Named The New Fashion Capital Of The World
17 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
London has overtaken New York City as the world’s fashion capital for 2011. Given the number of badly dressed folk in the news looting the English capital at present, this may be difficult for the rest of the world to swallow.
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English Man Arrested For Planning Water-Fight With BBM
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A 20-year-old man in Essex has been charged with “encouraging or assisting in the commission of an offence” because he used Blackberry Messenger to invite people to a public water fight. Whether this means British cops can now wiretap the Blackberry messaging network is unclear, but either way: great job, democracy.
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Scary Photos Of London Rioters Posing With Their Weapons [PICS]
12 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Josh Cole is a photographer from London with a strong background in the hip hop, parkour, and street culture. He returned to some of his old haunts following the riots over the last couple of days. Here are some rather disturbing pics of rioters he met, and the kind of weapons they aren’t afraid to use on whoever stands in their way.
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Crowdsourcing London’s Riot Clean-Up
10 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
There is something encouraging coming out of the past three days of rioting and looting, even if it is a remote silver lining: the online mobilization of volunteer clean-up operations, mostly organized via Twitter and Facebook. By this time yesterday, #riotcleanup, was the second-highest trending topic worldwide.
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Iran Says London Logo Is Racist, Needs Redesign
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Well here’s some sport’s news from those kooky guys in fun-lovin’ Iran. The world’s craziest government has now decided that the 2012 London Olympic Games logo is racist.
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Artist Sails On The Thames In A Paper Boat
16 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The other day, while I was busying myself writing articles about men who use Gumtree to swap citizenship for sex, a German artist was doing something infinitely more radical.
As part of an a contemporary art exhibition in London called Drift, Frank Bölter created an enormous paper boat and sailed the Thames in it.
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Found Footage Friday: John Lydon Interview, C.A. ’78
05 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s Friday, you should look at this. A classy young John Lydon walks through London in proto-hipster gear, talking about the disintegration of the Sex Pistols and general punk things. He knew the vibe.
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