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Lifestyle
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Do You Love Your Company Enough To Have The Logo Tattoed On Your Body? [VIDEO]
02 May 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
Would you get your company’s logo tattoed on your arm? No? Would you get your company’s logo tattoed on your arm IF they paid you to do it? These employees did just that.
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Make Your Weekend Plans Now – The Elgin Wine Fest Is Where It’s At
02 May 2013 by silverstreak / No Comments
Elgin, it’s a beautiful place. Like a scene from a Blake poem, it’s all dew drops, unpasteurised cheese and wood fires, fresh fruit and good wine. Which makes it’s the perfect place to host a wine festival.
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The Winter Specials At The Mount Nelson Are Here – Try Not To Freak Out
30 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / No Comments
Given it’s classic, stately vibe, the Mount Nelson is objectively the best hotel to choose if you’re going to survive the winter in Cape Town with any shred of sanity in tact. The Nellie is beckoning us for a snuggle in her classy arms with these stunning specials.
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The Not So Healthy Reality Of Fruit Juice [INFOGRAPHIC]
30 Apr 2013 by silverstreak / 1 Comment
Fruit juice is the healthy option, right? Of course it is. Or is it? This infographic goes so far as to call fruit juice the “evil twin” of fizzy soft drinks. Check out how fruit juice could be wreaking havoc on your health.
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Tuesday Tabs #349 – Vlada Roslyakova
30 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / No Comments
This 25 year old wasn’t taking a chance of being confused with model Elena Rosenkova. At the beginning of her modeling career Vlada changed her name from Elena in order to dismiss the confusion between the two models. By the looks of her that probably wasn’t necessary. This Russian-born looker has turned heads with her trade-marked walk [...]
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Shocking Footage Shows Beijing Dance Teacher Abusing Students [VIDEO]
30 Apr 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
A dance instructor in Beijing, China can be seen verbally and physically abusing her students in class. The instructor kicks her students, hits them with a cane and slaps them on the head when they are not dancing correctly, bringing them to tears and shouting at them for that too.
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What R2 Million Buys You In Different Cape Town Suburbs
30 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / 3 Comments
Have a look at the flats and houses Cape Town has to offer you for just R2mil.
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Richard Hammond Will Join May And Clarkson For Durban’s Top Gear Fest
30 Apr 2013 by silverstreak / No Comments
Richard Hammond has re-arranged his schedule, and will be joining James May and Jeremy Clarkson at this year’s Top Gear Festival, at Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium.
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Incredible Photos From Egypt’s Lost City Of Thonis-Heracleion [GALLERY]
30 Apr 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
Heracleion was once believed to be nothing more than a myth, a legend set far beneath the blue ocean. Ten years after divers stumbled upon its treasures deep beneath the ocean, archaeologists have produced a scientific rendering of what life in the city may have looked like.
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Pregnant, Or Trying To Fall Pregnant? These Apps Will Make Your Life Easier
29 Apr 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
Birds do it, bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. But only humans do it with apps. These ten apps will aid you in your pregnancy, and make life for you, your partner, and your baby considerably easier.
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Virtual Reality Could Be The Drug Rehab Of The Future [VIDEO+PICS]
29 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / No Comments
Imagine the cure for addiction looked like a video game. With funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Department of Defense, assistant professor at Duke University in the USA, Zach Rosenthal might have found a way to help the helpless.
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Pairing Wine & Food Made Easy [INFOGRAPHIC]
28 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / No Comments
This is probably the best thing an uneducated wine drinker could ask for. You know that moment when your waiter asks you what wine you’d like to drink with your food, and you panic, and end up going with old faithful? Well this little infographic could save you from tragic pairings in the future.
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SA’s Elon Musk Drops Half A Bar To Speed Up Roadworks In LA
26 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / 3 Comments
He is a billionaire entrepreneur, the co-founder of Tesla and PayPal, and he really, really hates traffic. Yes, we are talking about Elon Musk. In fact, Musk hates traffic so much that he’s just spent $50,000 to fix the problem in Los Angeles.
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Marijuana Reporter Eats A Weed Brownie Without Knowing It – Overdoses [VIDEO]
26 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / No Comments
Michael Montgomery, a glorified pot reporter, got a rude awakening when he ate brownies he didn’t know contained a high dose of medical marijuana. This animated video uses Montgomery’s hairy experience as subtext to explore the growth of marijuana into a mainstream recreational and medicinal substance in California.
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Follow This Epic Road Journey From Norway To Noordhoek For Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital
26 Apr 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
A Cape Town couple from Norrdhoek, Sally and Stan Hannath are undertaking a road trip from Norway to Norrdhoek. The aim of the trip ios to rais awaerness for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hosptial in Johannseburg. THe cape2cape4kids road expedition will cover 27 countries and will run form June to October 2013.
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The Most Insane Indoor Beach You Will Ever See [VIDEO + PICS]
26 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / 2 Comments
Winter’s coming, which might depress you. But who said you had to be outside in order to take a dip? Imagine a world where you could break out your bikini or speedo anytime you wanted, even if it was snowing outside? Of course zi Tjermans have already made such a thing possible. This mindblowing indoor [...]
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These Are The 2013 Sony World Photography Award Winners [GALLERY]
26 Apr 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
This year’s L’Iris d’Or, the Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year, went to 32 year old Andrea Gjestvang from Norway. Gjestvang beat out 122,000 hopeful entries from 170 different countries. Check out her photo, and other winners
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Hyundai Advert Makes A Punchline Out Of A Botched Suicide Attempt [VIDEO]
26 Apr 2013 by Gabi October / 1 Comment
Contracted Hyundai advertising agency, Innocean was manadated to create an ad to show off the new ix35′s fairly amazing 100% water emission feature… And they ballsed up. Or did they?
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Get Fat – Buy This Awesome Ice Cream Maker For Only R449 (Incl. Delivery)
26 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / No Comments
When people have their friends over for dinner, they generally impress the guests by presenting them with a home-cooked lamb tagine with apricots and spicy couscous, or creme brûlée, at the most. No one expects the host to whip out a pint of home made ice cream. That kind of thing is NEXT LEVEL
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House Of The Week – Klap It In Kommetjie For 25 Million Bucks
25 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / 1 Comment
This place is so geared for living the holiday, it comes with its own separate guest cottage. Honestly, that’s naughty. Parents visiting? Here’s your own cottage, mom. Not the family type? Fine. You have yourself a ready-made staff quarters right there, my friend. And it’s all spitting distance from the waves
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Awesome Maths Questions From North Korean Text Books
25 Apr 2013 by Gabi October / No Comments
Russian historian, Andrei Lankov lived in Pyongyang in the 1980′s, where he was an exchange student. His forthcoming book takes a look at how the government established a tight grip on the lives of everyday North Koreans. Take, for example, these anti-US questions cited by Lankov in a North Korean student textbook.
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The World Is Amazing And Terrifying – A Round Up Of News In Pictures [PICS]
25 Apr 2013 by Aramat Broccoly / No Comments
The world is an amazing, terrifying, and wonderful place, and nothing describes a situation with the impact and immediacy of a good photograph. Gleaned from news streams, our social network feeds, and television, here’s a look at some of the top stories from yesterday, in pictures
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Porn In Your Living Room: SA’s ‘Top TV’ Gets The Go-Ahead For 3 Porn Channels
24 Apr 2013 by Gabi October / 1 Comment
Top TV has been approved by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to broadcast three adult content channels. Their three new channels are: Playboy TV, Desire TV and Private Spice. These adult channels will be broadcast from 20h00 to 5h00, daily
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Wine PR – Where Words Go To Die
24 Apr 2013 by Harry Haddon / 2 Comments
I am sure that for every sensible word written about wine, Public Relation teams issue out 100 silly ones. Luckily conscientious writers shield the broader public from much of this hyperbolic guff, however, some of it does slip through on back labels, and boy, is it a load of tripe.
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