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Tiger On The Loose In Mpumalanga

Tiger On The Loose In Mpumalanga – Do not fear, you do not have to lock up your wives and girlfriends, this is merely a wild Tiger, NOT Tiger Woods. Phew – what a relief! Apparently this one (name is “Panjo”) jumped out of a bakkie (not a strip club) and is quite tame. It has been on the loose for a couple days now and if you see it you should apparently let the authorities know. Which I would never do. I would take it home and let Mavis take care of it. [msn]

2oceansvibe Radio Goes LIVE Every Day From Tomorrow – That’s right – you will finally be able to tune-in every single day, as Richard Hardiman kicks off tomorrow morning from 8am and will continue to do so every weekday from 8-12. We will fill in the rest of the gaps as we continue building the content you have been dreaming of for way too long! So much in store. Go to the website and check the top and right hand menu for simple instructions about tuning in at home, work and in your car! [2oceansviberadio]

Girl With Dragon Tattoo First Digital Book With 1Million Sales – Stieg Larsson, a Swedish journalist and detective novelist best known for his Millenium trilogy, has become the first author to sell more than 1 million e-books in the Kindle Store.The three books in the posthumously published trilogy — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, are all among the Kindle Store’s 10 bestselling books of all ti [mashable]

Daniel Craig To Star In Dragon Tattoo Remake – Sources confirm that Daniel Craig, the man best known as James Bond, will next play the scruffy muckraker Mikael Blomkvist in the Hollywood adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Deadline first announced the longtime rumor. Craig, 42, has signed on as the middle-aged journalist in David Fincher’s suspense-filled trilogy, the first of which is set to be released Dec. 21, 2011. There you go, Oksana – why don’t you get your talons into him? [hollywoodinsider]

Yahoo Japan To Tie-Up With Google – Microsoft has denounced Yahoo! Japan’s internet search alliance with Google, saying it would give Google near-total control over the third-largest market for search queries in the world.”Google’s plan would cement its position as essentially the sole provider of search results in Japan for years to come,” Microsoft vice president and deputy general counsel Dave Heiner said in a blog post [nzherald]

Chelsea Football: Dressed By Dolce & Gabbana – Dolce & Gabbana, the Italian designer label, has signed a three-year fashion partnership with Chelsea Football Club. The style deal means we can expect to see the likes of John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Nicolas Anelka and Ashley Cole out on the town in exclusive, dark blue, three-piece suits, with matching shirts and ties, designed by D&G, the same duo which dresses George Clooney, Morgan Freeman, Sir Mick Jagger, Bono, David Beckham – and AC Milan, among others. [telegraph]

Revolting Bloemfontein Students Plead Guilty – The screening of the infamous Reitz four video during court proceedings in Bloemfontein yesterday evoked renewed disgust at the university students who filmed it. The four former University of Free State students – Schalk van der Merwe, Johnny Roberts, RC Malherbe and Danie Grobler – pleaded guilty to, and were convicted of, charges of crimen injuria. Wait until you check the story they gave in court. [timeslive]

Elvis’ Piano Expected To Get $1 Million At Auction – Elvis Presley’s white grand piano and his 1955 contract with RCA Records are going up for auction in Memphis next month, with the piano expected to fetch more than $1 million, auctioneers said on Monday. The purchase agreement for the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Graceland mansion, and a letter Presley wrote in 1955 to his then girlfriend shortly after entering the U.S. army, are also among the highlights of the 270-lot Elvis memorabilia auction on Aug. 14. Thangyaverymuch. [msnbc]

Protesters Disable London BP Petrol Stations – Protesters from environmental group Greenpeace disabled some of BP’s 50 petrol stations in central London on Tuesday in protest at the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Greenpeace and BP said activists stopped the flow of fuel by flipping safety switches on forecourts before removing them to prevent the service stations from reopening. Very cool. I think we should do the same here or, at the very least, boycott BP petrol stations. [reuters]

Law Student Killed Controlling Father: Buried Him In Concrete – A gifted law student murdered his father and buried him in their back garden because he resented the ‘weight of his expectations’, a court heard yesterday. Determined to finally have his way, Alexander killed his 70-year-old ‘barely mobile’ father at the home they shared. He is accused of attempting to dismember him with a saw and trying to burn his remains, before burying them under four separately laid levels of concrete two months later. [dailymail]

Vuvuzela Rage: Man Fires Gun – An Italian man was so infuriated by the constant buzzing and droning noise of Vuvuzelas at his local bar that he undertook a ‘walk by’ on it. The 51-year old, who has not been named exploded with rage after enduring hours of listening to the controversial instrument. Exasperated by the noise, the man grabbed his rifle and fired shots in the air, the warning had no effect as the crowd simply ignored him. Failing to command some respect from the revellers, he resorted to ramming his car into the bar several times before fleeing the scene. [popjolly]

Yoyo Ono Opposes Parole For Lennon’s Killer – Yoko Ono will again oppose the release of the man who nearly 30 years ago killed her husband, former Beatle John Lennon, and who comes up for parole next month, her lawyer said. Ono has consistently opposed parole for Mark David Chapman and has again sent a letter to the parole board, her lawyer, Peter Shukat, told the Daily News. “Her position has not changed,” Shukat said in an article published Tuesday. [yahoo]

Wikileaks: Welcome To the New Age Of Whistle Blowing – They have been denounced as “a criminal act” and hailed as the future of investigative journalism in equal measure. But the question is: how did the Wikileaks disclosure of US military documents come about? More than 90,000 documents, dated between 2004 and 2009, on the war in Afghanistan, have been released, but the whistle-blowing website will not disclose the identity of any of its sources. [bbc]

Rotisserie 360 Celebrates Its First Full Rotation – For a year now the little hole in the wall on the corner of Bree and Bloem has been serving delicious street fare to a loyal lunch time crowd and treating the after work crew to scrumptious take home meals. To celebrate their first year of fowl play Rotisserie 360 is doing R7 coffees all week: time to treat your central nervous system like an amusement park… [rotisserie360]