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The Biggest Private Yacht In The World – Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s new yacht, measuring nearly 560 feet long, is the biggest private yacht in the world. The yacht, named Eclipse, reportedly features a missile defense system, an anti-paparazzi laser shield and at least one mini-submarine. The Eclipse is also said to have two helipads, two swimming pools — the larger of which converts into a dance floor when drained. [luxuo]
World Cup Trophy Will Be Kept In Louis Vuitton Case – The 32cm-high, 6,175g trophy currently trundles around the globe in a battered aluminium case, but after Fifa asked Louis Vuitton if it could come up with something more suitable, the French luxury bag manufacturer was happy to oblige. “When you have the most beautiful girl in the world you hope she will wear the most beautiful dress,” says Jérôme Valcke, secretary general of Fifa. “That’s exactly what we’ve done.” Nice one, Jérôme. [guardian]
George Smith Killed Lolly Jackson – The head of crime intelligence in Gauteng, Commissioner Joey Mabasa, told the Mail & Guardian on Tuesday that George Smith called him on Monday night to allegedly admit to killing strip club kingpin, Lolly Jackson. The name of the commissioner was not known until now. He called Mabasa shortly after shooting Jackson 15 times at a house in Edleen, Edenvale, at about 11.00pm on Monday night. [mail&guardian]
Times Square Bomber Was Already On The Plane When He Was Caught – Faisal Shahzad had boarded a jetliner bound for the United Arab Emirates before federal authorities arrested him. Although under surveillance since midafternoon, he had managed to elude investigators and head to the airport. The night’s events underscored the flaws in the nation’s aviation security system, which often comes down to someone making a right call. Silly fool should have laid low for a while. [telegraph]
Christian Right Leader Caught On Holiday With Rent Boy – The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. The profile touts his “smooth, sweet, tight ass” and “perfectly built 8 inch cock (uncut)” and explains he is “sensual,” “wild,” and “up for anything” — as long you ask first. George Rekers, one of America’s most prominent anti-gay activists, was. And did. [miaminewtimes]
Jude Law And Sienna Miller Are Fully Back In The Mix – When reports that Jude Law and Sienna Miller had reunited first emerged late last year, the couple insisted they were nothing more than “friends”. But this week the former lovers confirmed what many already suspected and went public with their new relationship – in a very high-profile manner. Jude and Sienna stepped out together to walk down the red carpet at one of New York’s biggest social events by way of debuting their rekindled romance. [hellomagazine]
Picasso Painting Sells For Record $106.5 Million – A 1932 Pablo Picasso painting of his mistress has sold for $106.5 million (R765Million), a world record price for any work of art at auction. “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust,” which had a pre-sale estimate of between $70 million and $90 million, was sold at Christie’s auction house on Tuesday evening to an unidentified telephone bidder. Hmm, they neglect to tell us that there were TWO phone bidders, but $100 was my limit. [msnbc]
Stephen Hawkins Explains How To Build A Time Machine – “To see how this might be possible, we need to look at time as physicists do – at the fourth dimension. It’s not as hard as it sounds. Every attentive schoolchild knows that all physical objects, even me in my chair, exist in three dimensions. Everything has a width and a height and a length. But there is another kind of length, a length in time. Everything has a length in time as well as space. Travelling in time means travelling through this fourth dimension.” God, it’s so obvious! [dailymail]
Ferrari World’s F430 Spider-Inspired Rollercoaster – Ferrari World is the new theme park being built in Abu Dhabi and according to the people at the Prancing Horse it will be the world’s biggest indoor theme park; it’s being built alongside the F1 circuit on Yas Island and is set to open in the second half of 2010. There will be a total of 20 rides, including two rollercoasters. The F430 Spider is a ‘racing coaster’ meaning two competing carriages are sent ‘sprinting along twisting parallel tracks on a race to the finish line’. Sick! [carmagazineuk]
iPad Gets Custom Install in the Kitchen Cabinet [VIDEO] – The iPad is really starting to get around — not only is it in the car, but now it’s also embedded in the kitchen. Alan Daly custom mounted the “magical” Apple device inside his kitchen cabinet.The headphone jack funnels sound into a MIDI system for audio output duties, and apps like Epicurious turn Daly’s kitchen cabinet into a modern-day bottomless recipe book. [mashable]
Volcanic Ash Closes Some UK Airspace – Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority announced that some airspace over Northern Ireland and Scotland would be closed Wednesday because ash emissions from Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull grew heavier and dipped further south. I tell you, it just goes to show: You can’t live with volcanoes, you can’t live without ’em! [cnn]
Al Gore’s DIY TV Hits Our Screens – Former US politician Al Gore’s global subscriber channel Current TV might give new pay-TV entrant Top TV an unusual edge over rival DStv. Top TV was launched in SA this week, with Current TV an integral part of its “bouquet” of channels. Environmentalist Al Gore believes his innovative approach to television production offers something different to DSTV [timeslive]
Michelle Obama’s First Tweet – The first lady’s entrance into the Twitterverse came after CNN’s Ed Henry — who was sitting with Obama and comedian Jay Leno at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night— was tweeting about the dinner. Henry encouraged her to send a tweet. But the first lady told Henry that she couldn’t tweet without Robert Gibbs’s permission, so Henry secured the blessing from the press secretary himself! [politico]
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