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New Kids’ “Breastfeeding” Doll Is All Sorts Of Weird [VIDEO]
12 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / 1 Comment
Mums in the UK are up in arms over a doll designed for girls as young as two to “breastfeed”, calling it “weird” and “creepy”. The cringeworthy toys have children wear a bib with “flower nipples” while the “Breast Milk Baby” makes suckling sounds when the girl puts it to her chest.
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Navy Seals Leak Secret Bin Laden Assassination Intel To Videogame Designers – Get Punished
09 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
Seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to assassinate Osama bin Laden have been helping EA games with inside information to make EA’s latest shoot-em-up “Medal of Honor: Warfighter.” The US military is not amused.
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Drinking With The Suits – Notes From A Hyper Corporate Wine Contest
09 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / 4 Comments
If you haven’t noticed, it’s full-blown awards season in the wine industry. You can shake the proverbial stick and more than likely poke a winning winemaker’s eye out.
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Ryanair Boss Says Seatbelts On Planes Are Useless, Wants Standing Room Only On Flights
08 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / 5 Comments
Michael O’Leary, Cief Executive of Ryanair budget airlines is thinking out the box right now. He told The Telegraph that seatbelts on planes won’t save anyone, and wants to make low-cost “standing room only” cabins a reality.
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Cash For Cuddles: Professional Snuggler in NY Charges $60 An Hour
07 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
Spending for spooning. Coinage for canoodles. Funded fondles. OK, we’ll stop. But listen: Jackie Samuel, 29, runs a company called The Snuggery out of her Rochester, New York home. She says the non-sexual service is a way to encourage human touch and provide “a healing connection.”
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Justin Bieber Sex Doll Sells Out Fast
06 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / 3 Comments
The wonderfully named and anatomically correct sex-doll, ‘Just-In Beaver’ has apparently sold out very quickly. Fans heard a few days ago that they could ‘snuggle’ up to a life-size plastic Bieber for the bargain price of $32.95.
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These Are The Only Smartphones Worth Buying
06 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / 3 Comments
Are you due for an upgrade? Or did you forget your iPhone in your pocket when you went for a swim and are thinking about a change? Check out these smart phones as ranked by Business Insider. It’s one of these, or nothing..
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Football Result Means Romney Should Win US Election
05 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
Well, that’s if you go along with the ‘Redskin Rule’, a bizarre correlation that has predicted the US presidential election for the last 72 years – except one but we’ll get to that*. It’s pretty simple: If the Washington Redskins win their last home game before election day, the incumbent party wins; if the redskins lose, the opposition takes the election.
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Platter 2013 Launched: Worthwhile Christmas Present, Or Just More Ratings Nonsense?
02 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
The 2013 Platter guide has been released and the five star wines have been revealed. Are the five star wines that good? Is the Platter guide the vinous present to buy this Christmas? Harry Haddon finds out.
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Mexican Drug Cartels Enslave Engineers To Build Radio Network [VIDEO]
02 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / 1 Comment
The drug-cartels in Mexico mean business. Whether this is stringing up dead-bodies to quell opposition, or building a sophisticated radio network, they just do what they want.
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Swartland Revolution 2012 – A Wine Street Party Of Epic Proportions
01 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / 1 Comment
The time is almost upon us. This weekend Riebeek Kasteel will be bathed in fine wine. It’s the third edition of the Swartland Revolution. The wine festival put on by Swartland producers which has seen a massive sucess over the last two years.
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Brazilian Playboy Model’s ‘Sexy’ Post-Sandy Photo Shoot Goes Viral [Gallery]
01 Nov 2012 by Harry Haddon / 2 Comments
Former Playboy Brazil model Nana Gouvêa posted tactless photos on her Facebook page leaning seductively on fallen trees and ruined cars in a post-Sandy New York. It went viral, with an article on the photos gaining 5.9 million likes, and 5900 tweets.
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Old Spice Lays Down Crazy Internet Challenge To Find Strategist
31 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / 1 Comment
Wieden + Kennedy, the ad agency that looks after the Old Spice, has come up with a novel way to find the brand’s next social media strategist. They have setup a list of interesting social media challenges that must be completed by November 5th.
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Director Of Virginity Auction Could Face Sex-Trafficking Crimes
30 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / 1 Comment
Last week we told you about the beautiful Brazilian model who put her virginity up for auction. Now, the director of the documentary that facilitated the auction may be charged with sex-trafficking crimes.
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Five-Year-Old Tells Hijacker He’s “Naughty”
29 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / 1 Comment
For most people, when a gun is pointed at them, and the car they are in has been hijacked, will quietly, whimpering softly, kak themselves. Not five-year-old Angie Lombard of Pretoria. This tiny bad-ass simply gave the criminal a good telling off.
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Spier Revisited – A Middle Class Wet Dream
26 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / 3 Comments
I have made jokes about Spier in the past. It’s not hard. They have cheetahs and more tourists than you can shake a stick at. The jokes have never been that fair. So I thought I should visit again, to recalibrate my idea of Spier.
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FBI Arrest NYPD Cop Plotting To “Kidnap, Cook, And Eat Women”
26 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / 3 Comments
Land of the free, home of the complete nut-cases. A 28-year-old New York City police officer was arrested this week by the FBI and charged with “conspiracy to kidnap, cook, and eat” nearly one hundred women including his girlfriend.
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Rodriguez To Tour South Africa
25 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / 4 Comments
Rodriguez is back on everyone’s mind since the brilliant documentary Searching for Sugar Man was released. We’re all stoked that he has just announced that he will be performing two concerts in February next year.
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Superman Quits Journalism To Become A Blogger
24 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
Superman is quitting the Daily Planet, the newspaper he has worked at since the 1940′s and will start blogging. DC Comics says Kent will walk out in protest that hard news has given way to too many “soft” entertainment stories.
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Greece’s Newest Problem: Malaria
23 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
The poor Greeks. With mounting financial cut-backs, Greece is dealing with – what is believed to be a first for Western Europe – the first domestic cases of malaria since 1974.
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The Day I Was Humbled – A Wine Competition From The Inside
23 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
I have mentioned in one or more of these columns that I am not exactly a fan of wine competitions. In this column I report back on the challenges I faced when helping judge in a recent local competition.
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BBC Investigates The Passive Agressive Wi-Fi Name
22 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
The BBC has taken a look at the rise of the passive-aggressive wi-fi names. The gist of the matter is that wi-fi network names have become the fridge notes of the digital age.
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Top 10 VIP Donors In The American Presidential Race
19 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / 2 Comments
It’s all about the money. Becoming president in the USA costs a lot of dough. Each month, political pundits track fundraising and spending by the political parties, the campaigns and the political action committees, or PAC’s. Check out the top 10 dropping big tom on Romney and Obama.
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Space Station Time-Lapse Lets You Fly Through Time And Space [VIDEO]
18 Oct 2012 by Harry Haddon / No Comments
Photographer Christoph Malin from Austria created this amazing film by stacking image sequences taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. It shows beautiful star trails and city lights streaking over the Earth’s surface as seen from space.
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