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Pure Awesome – The Cape Town Airport Escalator Voice Guy – In The Flesh [Video]
08 Apr 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s a voice you will recognise from your last visit to Cape Town International Airport – found by some intrepid travellers halfway across the world.
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Lose The Lanyard: Office Workers Are Getting Under-Skin Chip Implants To Gain Entry
03 Feb 2015 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Car keys, house keys, office keys – yes, one less would be great, but are you willing to have all your info stored in your hand??
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Pirates Rejoice: Download Site Might Be Live By Feb
27 Jan 2015 by Kiernan / 3 Comments
Be honest, you’ve popped online and illegally downloaded a few movies before, we’re not judging. Rather let us rejoice, one of piracy’s pioneers looks set to return.
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This Story Of A Stray Jungle Dog Following A Group Of Adventurers All The Way Home Is Too Much [Images]
26 Nov 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is the stuff that keeps us going as the human race – when people and animals can live harmoniously and do good things for one another and create a happy ending.
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BLIND: Julian Assange Misunderstands The New Legislation – British Home Office
19 Aug 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Julian Assange wants to be free. Of course, it’s not as easy as that. What’s going on at the Ecuadorian embassy in London?
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This Mutant Rat Terrorised A Swedish Family
27 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A 38 cm long massive rat, dubbed ‘Viking rat,’ terrorised a family in Sweden. The family first suspected something was amiss when their cat refused to enter the kitchen in their home in Stockholm.
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Got An Idea? Live On This Island For Free While You Work On It
17 Mar 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Throughout history, creatively inclined people have had to sometimes rely on a rich benefactor for financial backing, while their ideas are still in the teething phase. “Ideas Island” is project by Fredrik Härén which allows creatives to stay on one of three private islands for free.
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Ronaldo Fans, This One’s For You [VIDEO]
21 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Tuesday night saw possibly one of the most hotly contended FIFA World Cup qualifier matches, as both Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic got on the scoresheet in a five-goal thriller.
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Public Masturbation Is Now Legal In Sweden
19 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
A Swedish court has ruled that masturbation in public is acceptable as long as it is not directed at any particular person.This comes with the acquittal of a 65-year-old man who was charged with sexual assault for masturbating on a beach. The shocking acquittal was ruled by the Södertörn District Court, and raises concerns over what will happen in the future.
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Sweden’s Twitter Experiment Gets A Little Anti-Semitic
13 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Sweden has been handing its Twitter account to a different citizen every week for the past seven months. Which has been great for the most part, with priests and lesbian truck drivers representing the country – except the latest @sweden handler has been catching some flack for trying to figure out “whats the fuzz with jews.”
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Swedish Performance Art Cake Sparks Outrage [VIDEO]
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An art installation has caused outrage from the African community in Sweden. Supposedly highlighting the ordeal of female circumcision, the stunt involved a cake depicting a black African woman with minstrel-esque face. Everytime someone sliced a piece, the woman’s head screamed as if in pain.Video after the jump.
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Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate
19 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Julian Assange has found a way to run for the Upper House of the Australian Senate, in spite of, you know, being detained under house arrest in Britain. Which makes sense, I guess. Along with Assange’s candidacy, WikiLeaks announced on Twitter that they’ll be running a nominee against the current Prime Minister, Julia Gillard.
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Swedish Man Survives Being Trapped In Snowed-In Car For Two Months
20 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I think we may have found wolverine. A Swedish man went for a drive a little while ago, December the 19th to be exact. Whilst on his drive, he was caught in a snowstorm which left him trapped in his car. On February the 17th, just two days shy of two months in a car, he was found. Alive.
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File Sharing Is A Religion In Sweden Now
05 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Following on the heels of the now infamous Swedish Pirate Party – a political group that holds a seat in parliament and lobbies for file-sharing rights – recognition has now been given to a new religion. This is the Missionary Church of Kopimism, which holds Control-C and Control-V as their sacred symbols.
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The Award-Winning Invisible Cycling Helmet [VIDEO]
06 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Swedish designers have made a cycling helmet that isn’t totally obnoxious, which is pretty great. It won an award. Understand that no matter how nice this helmet is, it still isn’t okay to wear this guy indoors, because that’s rude. Still, it just won the Index:Award, the largest monetary prize for design in the world.
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Street Artist In Stockholm Creates Bottomless Pit Illusion [VIDEO]
10 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Perspective-based art is usually a little lame – ‘look, guys, I’m holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa!’ – but this dude pulls it off. Erik Johannson, Stockholm street artist, set up this bottomless pit illusion called ‘Mind Your Step’ in Sergels torg, and let passers-by play around with it. It’s cool.
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Swedish King In Strip Club Scandal
06 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I shall not for a moment attempt to feign journalistic integrity here. This is the kind of thing the public loves. Allegations that King Carl Gustaf of Sweden has been visiting strip clubs and having affairs has the media baying for blood and the public frothing at the mouth.
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‘Nitrogen Funerals:’ The Eco-Friendly Way To Deal With Death
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Wow. Okay. So a Swedish company wants to make burials more eco-friendly by freezing dead people in liquid nitrogen, using sound waves to shatter the ice before drawing all the moisture out of the remains with a vacuum. Because the Swedish word for ‘eco-friendly’ also means ‘traumatic’ and ‘awesome.’
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