In a landmark decision, Austria has granted “pastafarian”, Niko Alm, the right to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver’s license photo.
Gonorrhea, one of the most commonly treated STDs, is becoming more and more resistant to the only drug left to treat it. US scientists are warning that it could be the next super-bug.
A UK man was one of six drug smugglers caught yesterday at OR Tambo International. The creative fellow was wearing a handsome bra and panties stuffed full of cocaine.
Here’s a fun video on gun safety, by Derek “Tex” Grebner, who describes himself on his YouTube channel as “a pretty unprofessional outdoors show host and an unbiased online gear reviewer”. In the video, Tex shows us how not to draw your Kimber Pro Carry II .45 ACP from its holster, by shooting himself in the leg.
Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com, not to be confused with the co-founder of Microsoft, has said on his Google+ page that the new social network may surpass ten million users within the next 24 hours. Zounds!
I wrote earlier this morning about a row over the World Cup anthem “Waka Waka”, in which a musician called Dominic James claims that the song by Shakira, featuring Freshlyground, has been incorrectly credited, and has benefitted Freshlyground unfairly. Here is Freshlyground’s reply, which seems to suggest that Sony is mostly to blame for the saga.
According to New York-based musician Dominic James, The World-Cup theme song “Waka Waka” by Shakira and Freshlyground, has been incorrectly credited and has benefitted Freshlyground unfairly. He says that all the original guitar parts of the song were recorded by him and that Freshlyground contributed very little to the worldwide release.
Serenading the one you love has long been considered one of the most romantic gestures a man can make. But doing it by rubbing your penis against your body must surely be the most romantic thing you can do. An insect called the water boatman has the art down.
Is it just me or are high-profile types doing an awfully large amount of sexting? There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t see some celebrity that’s in the news for sending naked pictures of himself. And now, To Catch a Predator’s Chris Hansen has made it into the news twice in a week for his pervy behaviour.
We all know that President Obama has paid a visit to the headquarters of “Twitterrrs”, but it wasn’t until yesterday that we learned that, in order for the President to log onto Twitters on his presidential computer, he needs to visit the “internets”.
A massive sand storm, called a “Haboob”, wreaked havoc in Phoenix, Arizona when it came roaring through the desert like an apocalyptic nightmare on Tuesday night. The massive storm resulted in absolute chaos, delaying flights and causing power outages across the city.
After what seems like an eternity, my good friend Mikhail will finally have to stop bitching about the fact that Sharks forward, Jean Deysel, has been left out of the Springbok squad.
An inmate at a Michigan jail says he’s being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because he has been banned from having porn.
The 2011 Tour De France didn’t start very well for a number of competitors on Saturday, after an over-eager spectator leaned in too close, causing a massive pile-up that brought down dozens of competitors.
Vocal genius, Matt Mulholland, has produced yet more hilarity by over-dubbing the famous lobby shoot-out scene in The Matrix, using only his voice. The video is complete with score and loads of “pew pews” for the gun sounds. It’s hilarious and reminds me that there was once a time where not every shoot-out scene in a movie looked like this one.
Michael Bay, womaniser, loon and director of brilliant movies, such as Pearl Harbor and the Transformers trilogy, has been caught cheating… again, this around time by recycling footage from The Island and using it for Transformers 3.
A bitchy mother-in-law’s email to her soon-to-be daughter-in-law has become a web hit after the mail spread like wildfire on the web on Thursday.
I have always loved Monty Python. I grew up on Monty Python. I wouldn’t be who I am today without the Pythons. And now they’re all back together again, sort of, to make a film based on the memoirs of the late, great Graham Chapman.
Dutchman Johan Huibers decided, after a dream where everything flooded, that he too should build an ark, and now it’s just about ready to set sail.
The internet is just the right place to find really disturbing stuff, and I try my very best to steer clear of it. But, when I saw this nightmare story appear in my RSS feed, I had to write about it. Here’s what the feed said: “AUSTIN, Texas — The body of a missing woman has been found inside a restaurant ventilation duct.”
This video illustrates what happens when you try to demolish a building with a pneumatic hammer instead of getting an expert demolition team to do it.
Princess Diana has risen from the dead, on the front cover of Newsweek in a picture that shows her walking in town with her new daughter-in-law, Kate. Creepy much?