Yardley classic gold..

Especially with that smile at the 10 second mark..

Anyone for a brandy and coke?

Hundreds of thousands of people in Brazil are protesting over an increase in bus fares. Naturally, discontent over  inequality, and the quantity of money being spent on next year’s Soccer World Cup fueled the action.

Indonesia, meanwhile, is boiling over in the face of their first major fuel price hike in five years – the overall concern being price inflation, and the affect on the common man.

Here’s a Vine video that illustrates the scale of the protests in Rio alone last night. Sao Paulo also saw mobilized protest action.

And here’s a video of the police firing batteries of flares at protestors in Indonesia.

And Turkey is still simmering. You can get a handle on that vibe, here.

Hold tight, every body!

Using his Canon 5D Mark II, Elia Saikaly has managed to put together one of the most spectacular time lapses yet. Expect to see skies plastered with stars and goose bumps to rise all while you journey through this imagery, form the top of the world.

While most climbers slept, I attempted to capture some of the magic that the Himalayan skies have to offer while climbing to the top of the world.

[Source: Design Taxi]

Gleis is normally commissioned to photograph the aircrafts for designers, completion centres and brokers that are involved in the project. After this, the jet is unlikely to be seen again by the team who worked on it. Gleis said:

 You see more conservative interiors today than in the past. This is often because owners want a more low-key look and also, like with anything else, a highly customised look to someone’s personal taste brings the value down.

Check out the gallery below and if you feel you need your own jet, you might want to get some tickets for tonight’s R1.9 BILLION Euromillions lottery draw (EUR 143 million) here.

[Source: The Telegraph]

This fiery redhead bombshell has been putting her amazing features to use since she was discovered in a mall in 2001. Brazilian born and blue eyed – the 26-year-old has been seen on the covers of French Marie Claire, Elle, Madame Figaro and Brazilian Vogue, not to mention her features in five years worth of Sports Illustrated.

Here is a gallery of her fine pictures, enjoy!

[Source: Wikipedia]

Steve Jobs And Apple Branding 

Before the distinctive designs of headphones after 2001, the accessories were usually dark-grey or black. Of course Steve Jobs came up with something to make the launch of the iPod something that would always be remembered. Jobs made everything about the Apple brand like a walking advertisement. The product accessories were all to be white and crisp. “iPods became the only music players with white headphone leads. Even if you couldn’t see the iPod, you knew what it was,” and we still do today.

Pelé Ties His Shoe For Millions

Football isn’t just a game between the players on the field, it’s also been known to start quite the brand war. When sport brands Adidas and Puma were in the middle of a fight to win World Cup fans over, they made an informal agreement. This stated that neither brand could advertise themselves using football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé. Puma representative, Hans Henningsen, went behind Adidas’ back and paid the star over R1 million to tie his Puma shoe before the final match.

Oakley Gets Free Marketing

Probably one of the greatest forms of strategic marketing has to go to Oakley. When the horrid Chilean mining ordeal was going down in 2012, the brand cleverly donated 35 pairs of sunglasses to the miners before they were rescued. The concept was drawn from the fact that the miners had not been exposed to light for almost 69 days, and so Oakley was there to protect their eyes. According to CNBC, the brand gained over R400 million worth of free publicity.

Liquid Soap Dispensers

Back in the 70′s, liquid soap was only sold by one small company: Robert Taylor’s Minnetonka. When the company decided to penetrate the big markets, there were threats of rival companies copying them. But there can be no liquid soap without dispensers. Before the bigger companies could have a sniff at the market, Taylor dipped into his funds and purchased every single plastic pump that could dispense soap. About R120 million later, the man had purchased everything from the only two producers of the product.

Eventually Colgate Palmolive were forced to buy them out.

Coca-Cola Bottle Design Competition

In 1915, a lawyer for the Coca-Cola Company, Harold Hirsch, came up with a design competition. The contest challenged bottle designers from all of the world to compete in creating the most recognisable bottle of all time, “a bottle which a person could recognise even if they felt it in the dark.” Earl R. Dean was the winner of this distinguished bottle patent that was accepted in 1916.

For more, click here.

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[Source: Business Insider]

However, due to battery problems, the fuel-efficient dreamliner has not taken off.

Some of the treats on Qatar’s dreamliner include 10.6 inch screens, power outlets, larger overhead compartments and adjustable headrests. And these treats are available for economy class passengers.

[Source: Business Insider]

UPDATE: We’ve added a link at the bottom of the article about a deal we find which let’s you save R6,000 on your very own full-grain leather Chesterfield sofa. One times family heirloom, coming up!

You would be correct if you guessed England – in the 18th century, to be exact. One times Philip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, was looking for something which he could sit on, without wrinkling his clothes. Somewhere he could chill, whilst the women carried on with their needlework, or whatever it is they do.

According to London Gallery:

It is believed that Lord Phillip Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), commissioned the first leather chesterfield settee with its distinctive deep buttoned, quilted leather upholstery and low seat base. Aside from being a much-admired politician and writer, patron of Voltaire, the Earl was a known trendsetter. Apparently the Earl requested a local craftsman to construct a piece of furniture that would allow a gentleman to sit upright in the utmost of comfort allowing sitting without wrinkling the garment. This was the original purpose of the chesterfield sofa with its characteristic deep buttoned upholstery, rolled arms, equal back and arm height and nail head trim. Lord Stanhope was a noted writer of letters to his illegitimate son, extolling all method of manners and morals. The Chesterfield sofa is certainly a refined and mannerly example of seating.

Now it’s all very well that he might have commissioned one, but how did it get from there, to the family heirloom your grandmother promised to pass down to you if you behave?

You’ll enjoy this part:

Legend has it that in March 24th, 1773 when the nobleman passed away his very last words were directed to his personal butler. The old Earl didn’t forget his good manners while he was in his deathbed so when a friend came to visit him he ordered to his manservant: “Give Mr. Dayrolles a chair” just before expiring. The servant took Lord Stanhope at his word and waving away protests, insisted that Stanhope’s godson Dayrolles, a budding young diplomat who had come to enquire after the elderly man’s health, take the armchair with him. After carrying the heavy chair back home, Mr. Dayrolles had a proper look at the chair: a magnificent piece of work in deep brown leather, indented with large, deeply set buttons. The years of wear had served to lend the item an even more attractive appearance. It was an ageless and timeless masterpiece.

After that episode we have to imagine Dayrolles acquaintances commissioning similar chairs for themselves as a natural reaction to the great admiration caused by the first chesterfield armchair.

I had a friend who lived in a flat the size of a mousepad, with a three-seater chesterfield sofa taking up most of the lounge. It was indeed part of his inheritance from his grandmother. He couldn’t afford storage and wasn’t going to sell that beast – especially with the years of wear and smoke which only add to the quality of the thing. He swore it was worth more than his car.

That’s all relative, of course, as one man’s car is another man’s mountain bike. But looking through Gumtree, there are a number of second hand chesterfield sofa’s for around R13,000. Here is one for R12,500 (they call it a ‘couch’ – sis).

But that’s got other families’ memories in it and I far prefer to create or form part of a legacy, rather than to simply buy one.

This beauty at Cielo is priced at R17,000 and comes with the obligatory studded arms, made with genuine quality top-grain leather.

That’s fairly hefty, even for a family heirloom!

You’ll be quite pleased to note that the very same sofa is on special right now for only R10,995. You can find that special here.

That’s a six grand saving..

I’d get that if I were you.

[source : londongallery]

In today’s news, further studies of the same H2O mixture of decaying radioactive atoms has since been proclaimed as the oldest water to be discovered and it’s…salty.

Barbara Sherwood Lollar, an Earth sciences professor at the University of Toronto told the LA Times the following when asked about tasting the ancient liquid:

What jumps out at you first is the saltiness. Because of the reactions between the water and the rock, it is extremely salty. It is more viscous than tap water. It has the consistency of a very light maple syrup. It doesn’t have color when it comes out, but as soon as it comes into contact with oxygen it turns an orangy color because the minerals in it begin to form — especially the iron.

I have to admit I have tasted it from time to time. It tastes terrible. It is much saltier than seawater. You would definitely not want to drink this stuff. We are interested in the saltiest waters because they are the oldest, and tasting is the quick-and-dirty way to find which are the most salty. I don’t let the students do it, though.

According to Lollar: “The water has the same kind of energy that supports the microbial life found near deep-sea vents and in the South African goldmine.” It’s proven that such properties in water are habitable, but it will take up to a year to find out these specific results.

If you would like to read an interview with Barbara Sherwood Lollar about her water studies, click here.

[Source: Gizmodo]

Bam received the good news at none other than a party at Skyroom Live on Friday night. The beauty has jumped up from her position at number 13 in last year’s list, beating off local favourites like Minki van der Westhuizen and Lee-Ann Liebenberg, and international stunners like Mila Kunis. 

Bam:

It feels a bit surreal because I can still remember in 2010 when I did the calendar, I was on the 100 list but thought… okay… winning, never going to happen – and now it did! I’m so thrilled,

At the age of just 24-year-old, the blonde from Pretoria can boast the title of Miss SA 2011 and now, FHM’s Sexiest Woman. You will have to buy the mag to see her spread though.

[Source:IOL]

During his fraud trial, Brown lived in three seperates homes that had a collective value of R26,9 million. But he told reporters this week that he doesn’t “live in luxury from supposed ill-gotten gains”. The individuals paying for Brown’s rent have not been identified, but he clarified that he is receiving “financial spport of my family and individuals who believe in my plight”.

Brown’s “plight” includes admitting to embezzling hundreds of millions of Rands from the retirement funds of former Fidentia clients.

Brown said:

Considering my reliance on others, my living expenses are very conservative.

[Source: News24]

Facebook is rumoured to reveal this new product that will enable Instagrammers to record and share videos across social networks whilst giving Vine a run for its money. This isn’t hard to believe because stats for this month show that, for the first time, shares of Vine videos on Twitter exceeded those of Instagram shares on Twitter.

We hope you’re ready to be bombarded by up to 10 seconds of Super8-esque cat videos.

[Source: MSN]

The animal quickly returned to its shy nature, and as soon as its head was free, it ran into the woods. One of the men joked by saying “where is the thank you?”

[Source: YouTube, Daily Mail]

Based on the bestseller, The Wolf Of Wall Street, the movie adaptation tells us the story of the mighty talented Wall Street executive. Now you can see into the life of the man, “who sold the world” for midget throwing, drug taking and partying.

For our exclusive 2ov interview with Jordan Belfort, click here.

[Source: Dlisted]

Director-general Nopparat Benjawatananun from the Office of National Buddhism said after viewing the video that monks from a monastery in Thailand are “not to repeat the lavish behaviour.” According to Benjawatananun, their actions were “inappropriately, not composed and not adhering to Buddha’s teachings of simplicity and self-restraint”.

The monks seen in the video live at Khantitham Temple in Sisaket province. This was confirmed by an administrative officer of the temple, Monrudee Bantoengsuk.

Benjawatananun said:

When Lord Buddha was alive, there wasn’t anything like this. There were no cars, smart phones or cameras, so the rules were much simpler.

While the monks need to keep themselves abreast of new knowledge, current events and technology, they are restrained to choose the appropriate tools.

Buddha’s doctrine is trying to be upheld by the land that has the largest Buddhist population, Thailand. But their efforts seem to be lost when monks are creating controversy for the religion. Some 300 Buddhist monks were reprimanded last year alone for outlandish behaviour. Their misconduct ranged from consuming alcohol to fornication.

[Source: YouTube, The Telegraph]

But on Monday, Snowden gave The Guardian readers exclusive access to his reasoning and thoughts, in a public Q&A session.

Here are some of the most interesting responses and questions, for the full set, click here. OR visit #AskSnowden on Twitter where you can follow all the ranting and raving.

Q: Did you lie about your salary? What is the issue there? Why did you tell Glenn Greenwald that your salary was $200,000 a year, when it was only $122,000 (according to the firm that fired you)?

A: “I was debriefed by Glenn and his peers over a number of days, and not all of those conversations were recorded. The statement I made about earnings was that $200,000 was my ‘career high’ salary. I had to take pay cuts in the course of pursuing specific work. Booz was not the most I’ve been paid.”

 

Q: Why did you wait to release the documents if you said you wanted to tell the world about the NSA programs since before Obama became president?

A: “Obama’s campaign promises and election gave me faith that he would lead us toward fixing the problems he outlined in his quest for votes. Many Americans felt similarly. Unfortunately, shortly after assuming power, he closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused to spend the political capital to end the kind of human rights violations like we see in Guantánamo, where men still sit without charge.”

 

Q:

1) Define in as much detail as you can what “direct access” means.

2) Can analysts listen to content of domestic calls without a warrant?

A: 1) More detail on how direct NSA’s accesses are is coming, but in general, the reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on – it’s all the same. The restrictions against this are policy based, not technically based, and can change at any time. Additionally, audits are cursory, incomplete, and easily fooled by fake justifications. For at least GCHQ, the number of audited queries is only 5% of those performed.

2) NSA likes to use “domestic” as a weasel word here for a number of reasons. The reality is that due to the FISA Amendments Act and its section 702 authorities, Americans’ communications are collected and viewed on a daily basis on the certification of an analyst rather than a warrant. They excuse this as “incidental” collection, but at the end of the day, someone at NSA still has the content of your communications. Even in the event of “warranted” intercept, it’s important to understand the intelligence community doesn’t always deal with what you would consider a “real” warrant like a Police department would have to, the “warrant” is more of a templated form they fill out and send to a reliable judge with a rubber stamp.

 

Q: Regarding whether you have secretly given classified information to the Chinese government, some are saying you didn’t answer clearly. Can you give a flat no?

A: “No. I have had no contact with the Chinese government. Just like with The Guardian and The Washington Post, I only work with journalists.”

 

Q: What are your thoughts on Google’s and Facebook’s denials? Do you think that they’re honestly in the dark about Prism, or do you think they’re compelled to lie?

A: “Their denials went through several revisions as it become more and more clear they were misleading and included identical, specific language across companies. As a result of these disclosures and the clout of these companies, we’re finally beginning to see more transparency and better details about these programs for the first time since their inception.”

A Met spokesman said:

Officers from the Community Safety Unit at Westminster were aware of the Sunday People article which was published on 16 June and carried out an investigation.

This afternoon a 70-year-old man voluntarily attended a Central London police station and accepted a caution for assault.

Saatchi’s version of the event:

About a week ago, we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella’s neck repeatedly while attempting to ­emphasise my point.

There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place.

Nigella’s tears were because we both hate arguing, not because she had been hurt. We had made up by the time we were home.

The paparazzi were congregated outside our house after the story broke yesterday morning, so I told Nigella to take the kids off till the dust settled.

The pictures which were taken on 6 June 2013, were only published on Sunday and have resulted in a social media frenzy. And according to the photographer who captured the shots, the arguing was not “a game”.

Lawson has moved out of the home she shares with Saatchi which has been confirmed by her reps.

[Source: Mirror]

According to CityPress:

Players in the Atlantic seaboard’s multibillion-rand property market say that in the neighbouring suburb of Fresnaye, former Springbok coach Harry Viljoen’s sprawling mansion was bought by a Middle Eastern businessman for R110 million this week.

Viljoen denied this, saying the deal was not finalised. “I have had offers, but the deal is not through yet. There’s been so much hype around this sale, I’m telling people to relax. It’s worse than in my sporting days.”

No Harry, it’s not worse.

It’s not even close.

Click thumbnails below to check out Harry’s House.

[source:pamgolding]

NeoMan studio has created this interactive infographic which details “why your brain craves infographics.” This infographic has exciting animated graphics and each reason why we love infographics can be tweeted individually should you wish to share the information with friends. The interactive infographic was built with HTML5 and CSS3.

View the interactive infographic here.

[Source: Design Taxi]

A recent report shows that in 40 per cent of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. What does this say about society?

Her response to this question was the true star. For a pageant beauty who didn’t snag the title she has some serious buzz surrounding her. Powell’s response was trending on Twitter after the competition, with some suggesting it was the worst answer ever.

[Source: YouTube, The Age]

Obama, Putin Disagree On Syria At Icy G8 Talks In Northern Ireland - US president Barack Obama has sparred with Russia’s Vladimir Putin over how to end the war in Syria during an icy encounter at a G8 summit where divisions over the conflict eclipsed the rest of the agenda. [abc]

Putin Denies Stealing Superbowl Ring – Russia’s president is fighting back: No, he did not steal a Super Bowl ring. And no, he’s not rocking the diamond-encrusted prize on his finger, either. [cnn]

Legendary F1 Commentator Diagnosed With Cancer – The voice of Formula 1, commentator Murray Walker, has been diagnosed with cancer.
The 89-year-old announced last night that he had a form of lymphatic system cancer. He was diagnosed with the disease following tests after a fall in which he broke his pelvis last month. [dailymail]

President Obama Defends NSA Spying - It’s “transparent,” the president tells Charlie Rose in an interview. Here’s a portion of that transcript, from PBS. [buzzfeed]

Kate Moss Poses Nude For Playboy - Kate Moss is set to take it all off for Playboy. The British fashion model is due to pose nude for the magazine’s January issue – their 60th anniversary and her 40th birthday. She has been pictured nakend many times before (N5FW eg. here) [nyp]

Celebrated SA Artist Accused Of Beating Woman To Death - In news that has shocked South Africa’s art community, renowned artist Zwelethu Mthethwa has appeared in court after having been arrested for allegedly beating a woman to death in Cape Town earlier this year. [citypress]

North Korea Proposes High-Level Nuclear Talks With US - The powerful National Defense Commission headed by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un issued a statement through state media proposing “senior-level” talks to ease tensions and discuss a peace treaty formally ending the Korean War. [foxnews]

Julian Assange’s One Year Anniversary Living In Ecuador’s London Embassy – It is almost a year (19 June 2012) since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked into Ecuador’s London embassy and claimed asylum in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes. [metro]

Jay-Z Announces New Album, ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ - Jay-Z shared some big news tonight during Game 5 of the NBA Finals: He’s got a new album coming out in less than a month. Titled Magna Carta Holy Grail, the rapper’s 12th studio album will arrive on July 4th. [rollingstone]

Scientists Uncover Clues To Cancer’s Spread - Scientists believe they may have discovered a key to developing drugs which could help stop the spread of cancer. [telegraph]

India To Send World’s Last Telegram. Stop. - Once a staple of authoritative communication across the Indian subcontinent, the telegram has lost too much ground to smartphones. The world’s last telegram message will be sent somewhere in India on July 14. [csm]

Mumford And Sons Star Posts Pic After Brain Op - Ted Dwane writes ‘Bear with a sore head’, thanking fans for their support as he continues to recover from surgery. [skynews]

Thousands Protest In Brazil As Discontent Spreads - Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Brazil’s biggest cities on Monday in a growing protest that is tapping into widespread anger at poor public services, police violence and government corruption. [reuters]

Pope Blesses Hundreds Of Harleys – Pope Francis has blessed thousands of Harley-Davidsons and their riders as the American motorcycle manufacturer celebrated its 110th anniversary with a loud parade and plenty of leather in the Vatican. [indep]

There Is A New Miss USA – America has a new leading lady! Miss Connecticut Erin Brady was named Miss USA at the annual Miss USA 2013 pageant at Planet Hollywood Resort Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 16, 2013. [nydn] 

Report: Kim Jong Un Handing Out Copies Of ‘Mein Kampf’ To Senior North Korean Officials - Senior North Korean officials received copies of “Mein Kampf,” Adolf Hitler’s rambling prison memoir, as gifts for Kim Jong Un’s birthday this January. [washpo]

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Forbes Magazine’s Sizwe Nzima On Imbo Live at 10h20 – In studio this morning at 10:20am with the Imbo Live team is Sizwe Nzima inspiring 21 year old entrepreneur who made Forbes Magazine’s 30 under-30 Africa’s best young entrepreneurs list. Don’t forget to visit www.imbomag.com for out of the box fashion and conversation. [imbolive]

Are You Challenged With Fussy Eaters In Your Family? Tune In To Mommy Matters At 9am - In the ever growing chaos of our already busy lives we often don’t have time to think about balanced meals for our families, and it is far easier to stop on at the convenience store on the way home from work to grab a microwavable family dinner than it is to prepare one. Many parents have, or are still in the thrall of exam chaos at this time of the year, and Mommy Matters recently attended a Mom’s Store Tour hosted by Woolworths, which highlights the importance of nutritious meals to make our family and specifically children, function at their academic best. Woolworths Dietician Cindy Chin who had this to say: “Exams are a stressful time for both parent and child. With these tours we aim to provide practical guidelines to help them put together meals and snacks that can optimise energy levels and assist parents to better understand the nutritional information provided on labels. We also encourage participants to ask as many questions as possible during the store tour, so we can assist with those on the spot”. [mommymatters]

Spicy Afternoon Fiesta, 15h00-17h00 - This show features the only best, less mainstream artists from our local up and coming bands and DJ’s/Producers and the emerging underground artists from around the world. The Dirty Mexican also reviews a movie and video game suggested by a listener. Listen live from 15h00. [spicyafternoonfiesta]

Here’s the original, for your comparative pleasure.

[Thanks, K-Sharm]

This custom designed and interactive culinary experience gives guests the opportunity to enjoy their meal in the heart of the hotel’s flamboyant kitchen. Now you can enjoy your lunch at an intimate table just inches away from the acclaimed Chefs. Watch as they put your together your tasteful dishes on he five course menus that are designed according to what is seasonal or what is foraged that day.

Sip on fine wines as you gaze into the oversized mirrors that give you a clear picture of every carve and every julienne. But you are not just spectators at this dinning frenzy. Guests can observe the preparation and plating of their favourite dishes alongside chefs that will entertain with their knowledge, secrets and love for each dish they create.

Here are some of the details regarding your future, best lunch ever…

The Chef’s Lunch Table can cater for up to twelve lucky guests, seated at four separate tables. The availability will run from Friday 1 July onwards and cost a slim R500 per person, including a glass of wine with each course.

For any further information, or to book your magical experience, you can contact The Mount Nelson restaurant reservations desk on +27 0 21 483 1000.

E-mail: restaurantreservations@mountnelson.co.za.

To visit their website, click here.

Brought to you by The Mount Nelson Hotel

According to scientist, Harminder Dua at The University of Nottingham, a new human body part has been found. But you’ll never be able to clap your eyes on yours.

The new classification comes in the form of a layer in the eye. The appropriately-named “Dua Layer” is found at the back of the cornea, and only measures 15 microns thick, whereas the cornea measures 550 microns or 0.5mm thick.

The biological discovery does not only change what ophthalmologists know about eye anatomy, but treatment of eye conditions will improve.

Dua said:

From a clinical perspective, there are many diseases that affect the back of the cornea which clinicians across the world are already beginning to relate to the presence, absence or tear in this layer.

[Source: Earthsky]

Israeli prankster and sitcom writer, Nimrod Kamer lives a parallel life in which he falsifies information on celebrity WikiPedia pages, and then offers to change the information back to the previous iteration, for cash.

Kamer has a fairly decorated history of trolling celebrities with WikiPedia blackmail. Notable marks include Kanye West, Alan Sugar, and Julian Assange.

Kamer states that he “can promise editing efforts, but cannot promise results.”

Check the full video out below and see of you think it’s a viable business plan.

[Source: Vimeo]

Hilariously, but perhaps not altogether too surprisingly, the photo (above) got over a million likes in less than a day. So how exactly did the picture hit it so big?

One of the authors, Alex Dow cites “Cascades of reshares”.

You can see those in effect in this graphic representation of the shares of the photo, with each dot representing a human.

More, from Mashable:

The important thing about that graphic, if you’re a data scientist, is that it validates the whole concept of going viral. Strangely, it turns out, there haven’t yet been a lot of studies that prove online stories spread person-to-person, like a chain letter or, indeed, a virus.

They’ll be presenting the rest of the paper at the Artificial Intelligence conference next month.

You can read the rest of the academic paper, here.

[Source : Mashable]

Groupies chalk up their cues and make the shot with a Standard Size Pool Table. Crafted with MDF with wood grain and polyester cloth, the table is sturdy and durable, providing hours of shot-taking, competitive fun. With two cues, a triangle, a set of balls, a brush and chalk, potential pool pros rack em’ up and sink the black.

CLICK HERE TO GET YOURS

What you need to know:

• MDF with wood grain
• PVC laminated
• Polyester cloth

Set includes:

• Two pool cues
• One triangle
• Set of Balls
• A Brush
• Chalk

Video on demand will eclipse the movie business for film makers:

What used to be the movie business, in which I include television and movies … will be Internet television

Big name directors won’t get in to movie theatres unless they make cheesy blockkbusters:

It’s almost that way now. ‘Lincoln’ and ‘Red Tails’ barely got into theaters. You’re talking about Steven Spielberg and George Lucas can’t get their movies into theaters.

There’s going to be one big melt down that will change the landscape of entertainment:

There’s eventually going to be a big meltdown, there’s going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen of these mega-budgeted movies go crashing into the ground and that’s going to change the paradigm again.

Going to the movies is going to become super expensive:

You’re going to end up with fewer theaters, bigger theaters with a lot of nice things. Going to the movies will cost 50 bucks or 100 or 150 bucks, like what Broadway costs today, or a football game. It’ll be an expensive thing. … (The movies) will sit in the theaters for a year, like a Broadway show does. That will be called the ‘movie’ business.

The future of entertainment is brain implants:

The next step is to be able to control your dreams, you’ll just tap into a different part of your brain. You’re just going to put a hat on or plug into the computer and create your own world. … We’ll be able to do the dream thing 10, 15 years from now. It’s not some pie-in-the-sky thing.

Click HERE for the rest of the interview.

[Source : Vanity Fair]

It took them exactly one month to respond with this TVC, which was launched in tandem with the unveling of the new Mac operating system, now named for the world-famous California surf spot, Mavericks (no relation).

The video that began airing this week, shows the mission statement and intent behind the production of every charger, every phone and everything in between. Here’s the ad transcription, word for word:

If everyone is busy making everything, how can anyone perfect anything? We start to confuse convenience with joy, abundance with choice. Designing something requires focus. The first thing we ask is: What do we want people to feel? Delight. Surprise. Love. Connection. Then we begin to craft around our intention. It takes time… There are a thousand no’s for every yes. We simplify. We perfect. We start over. Until everything we touch enhances each life it touches. Only then do we sign our work: Designed by Apple in California.”

It’s hard to deny the fact that the spirit of Steve Jobs feels alive in this video.

Brought to you by Digicape

[Source: Vimeo]

The magical combination of P-Diddy, Paul Rudd and Lonely Island has resulted in over two million hits in less than a week.

Happy Friday, everyone.

[Thanks, Nick!]

[Source: YouTube]

The subjects chosen by Naman were musicians from his home town of Albuquerque. Each musician is seen wearing their band’s name on a t-shirt. This is Naman’s marketing ploy to expose these groups which are often dwarfed by the music scene of Santa Fe.

Naman said:

Even if we get half the viewers we got with Scotch tape, and even if half of that half listens to the music, it’s still a good way to get it out there. I’m hoping it gives Albuquerque a little bump, the Colbert bump if you will.

Check out the gallery of portraits below.

[Source: Wired]

Some risky business is going down with the female Israeli Defence Force recruits, and it has nothing to do with battle.

Three women decided it was a good idea to use their weapons as stripper poles, for booty dropping and twerking. It’s not clear whether the video features the same girls who stirred up controversy a few weeks ago, or new recruits, so to speak.

The video was uploaded to Facebook. Which was a bad move in terms of privacy.

[Source: NY Post]

Ladies, gentleman and secret agents. today we shall be hitting one of the biggest enablers of the mass murdering mugabe. the ANC in 50 min

— Anonymous Africa (@zim4thewin) June 14, 2013

@MyANC_ 20 minutes until your site is offline

— Anonymous Africa (@zim4thewin) June 14, 2013

http://t.co/36tbTWkOiQ is tango down! for being corrupt and supporting the mass murdering mugabe #anc #africa #zimbabwe #anonymous

— Anonymous Africa (@zim4thewin) June 14, 2013

Meanwhile, the @Zim4thewin Anonymous Twitter handle took heat from an international Anonymous Twitter handle for taking down the IOL news website earlier this week. Anonymous is generally pro-media, and anti government.

@AnonymousOpsIRC our issues are bigger than your rules

— Anonymous Africa (@zim4thewin) June 14, 2013

@AnonymousOpsIRC the ops we are doing to zimbabwe, mugabe would execute us for, this is high stakes and not some romantic gentlemen club

— Anonymous Africa (@zim4thewin) June 14, 2013

No word yet on whether Anonymous Africa plans to hack the websites of innumerable white power pro-segregation websites in South Africa.

[Source : Tweezy]

That’s not to say that they’re not walking very close to the naughty line.

Will they get away with this? Won’t they? You’ll have to ask an American, I’m afraid.

[Source: YouTube]

The statement said:

We have no desire of playing fashion police in this institution, however, the inappropriate manner in which Mazibuko was dressed [on Wednesday] showed total lack of respect to the debate and the decorum of the House,

The “controversial” outfit worn by Mazibuko was described as a paisley shirt, jersey and a dress that ended – hold on to your chair – ABOVE THE KNEE!

Moloto Mothapo, spokesperson for the ANC, said that her choice of dress was “too casual”.

Although she wasn’t in jeans, she was still too casual. The issue has nothing to do with her style, everything to do with the casual nature of her attire,

What do you think of her outfit?

 [Source: Mail & Guardian]

This amazing man gives us a full lesson on the drum-kit and how to play said drum-kit on the electric keyboard, that he is selling, obviously. And sell he does. Watch how he shows off his mad skills, from drummin’ 101 to what sounds like a bit of Song 2 by Blur towards the end.

Verimark could definitely take a couple of pointers from this guy, until then he has a place in our hearts and in our Boss Hall Of Fame.

Wok On! Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Boss Hall Of Fame.

[Source: YouTube]

Hirsch co-hosts the Rhys Woods show on 2oceasnvibe Radio. If you missed last week’s bulletin, check out the “related posts” list on the right over there. There you go.

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This year, a second year student from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem came up with an awesome concept to advertise the festivities in Tel Aviv. Vania Heymann created this extraordinary video that literally brings the moon closer to life on Earth.

Her footage tracks night’s brightest light and “pulls it closer to the earth” with nifty manual manipulation of perspective.

[Source: YouTube]

According to The Mail & Guardian:

there were approximately 5 090 civil claims against the SAPS in the 2011/12 financial year at a cost of over R13-million to the state attorney’s office.

The arrests, made between September 2010 and April this year, have apparently spurred police management to start cleaning up “the system.”

Gauteng police commissioner, Mzwandile Petros reacted to the report at the latest New Age Breakfast.

It takes two years to train a police official. Even if we are left with 10, or one police official, that is how far we are going to take the campaign.

Police crime and brutality has come under the spotlight in the last year, with indications of unlawful enforcement at the so called “Killing Koppie” of Marikana, and filmed incidents of police violence against immigrants like Emidio Macia, which resulted in the arrest of nine police officers.

[Source: Mail & Guardian]

Murdoch reporidly filed for said divorce in the New York Supreme Court as the 14-year “relationship between husband and wife has broken down irretrievably.”

Before the couple’s wedding in 1999, a prenuptial agreement was signed entitling Deng to claim an as yet unknown share of the 82-year-old’s R100 billion fortune. His second wife, Anna came out of her failed marriage to Murdoch with around R16 billion.

For more insight, continue reading here. 

[Source: The Daily Beast]

Good timing because…

Bill Clinton Warns Obama Will Look Like A ‘Wuss’ Over Syria - In sharp remarks directed against his Democratic successor and his wife’s former boss, President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that President Barack Obama risks looking like a “wuss,” a “fool,” and “lame” for not doing more to influence events in Syria. [dailybeast]

UN Says Nearly 93,000 Killed In Syrian Civil War, With Civilians Bearing Brunt Of Fighting - Syrians are being killed at an average rate of 5,000 per month, the U.N. said Thursday as it raised the overall death toll in the civil war to nearly 93,000, with civilians bearing the brunt of the attacks. [washpo]

‘Arrest Obama When He Visits’ - The Muslim Lawyers Association in Johannesburg wants US President Barack Obama arrested and tried for war crimes when he arrives in South Africa on June 29. [timeslive]

Rupert Murdoch Files for Divorce from Wendi Deng - News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce from his wife Wendi Deng Thursday. [time]

Snowden Used A Flash Drive To Steal The Data – Former National Security Agency contract employee Edward Snowden used a computer thumb drive to smuggle highly classified documents out of an NSA facility in Hawaii, using a portable digital device supposedly barred inside the cyber spying agency, U.S. officials said. [latimes]

Apple Claims 20% Of e-Book Market – testimony from Apple executive Keith Moerer in the ongoing e-book price fixing trial has revealed that Apple holds approximately 20% of the e-book market in the United States, roughly double many of the previous estimates made by third parties. [macrum]

Twitter Offers Analytics Service To All – Originally available to advertising partners, Twitter Analytics platform is now open to the public. The dashboard allows Twitter users to check the performance of their tweets and view breakdowns of their followers, presenting the data in neat tables and graphs for easy reference. [verge]

Facebook’s Mobile Ad Revenue Should Top $2 Billion This Year – Facebook’s worldwide mobile ad revenue will top $2 billion for the first time this year, an increase of more than 300% from the less than half a billion dollars earned in 2012. [mashable]

Surprise: Julius Malema Needs Money – Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has sent out an e-mail announcing he needs money to start a new political platform. [citypress]

Queen’s Portrait Defaced With Spray Paint In Westminster Abbey - A portrait of the Queen in Westminster Abbey has been defaced with spray paint, an abbey spokesman has said. [bbc]

Zuma Visits Mandela In Hospital - President Jacob Zuma on Thursday visited former president Nelson Mandela in the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, where the elder statesman was admitted with a lung infection on Saturday. [news24]

NGO Lays Claim to ‘Agang’ Name - A non-governmental organisation has laid claim to the name “Agang”, which is also the name of a new party political platform led by Mamphela Ramphele. [iol]

SA To Return R10 Billion Gaddafi Money – South Africa will return assets and cash stashed in the country by the slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the Treasury said on Thursday. [fin24]

New CIA #2 Pick Used to Read Anne Rice Aloud at Her Bookstore’s Erotica Night - In her 20s, Avril Haines held erotica readings at the Baltimore bookstore and restaurant she co-owned at the time. Ben Jacobs and Avi Zenilman report. [dailybeast]

Duchess of Cambridge Names Royal Princess Ship - She has been a member of the Royal family for two years, but until today one particular rite of passage had eluded the Duchess of Cambridge: launching a ship. [telegraph]

‘Psychic’ Who Reported Mass Grave Must Pay R69 Million - A self-described psychic who triggered a media frenzy when she told authorities a US couple had a mass grave on their property has been ordered to pay the couple $6.8 million. [chron]

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Jersey Boys On 2 Girls 1 Mic At 12h45 – The stars of the absolute must-see musical, Jersey Boys, joins Angel and Kamini from 2 Girls 1 Mic in studio today. Tune in for the interview and a ticket giveaway – you could be on your way to see this spectacular production, on us. [2girls1mic]

Sox And The City 15h00-17h00 - For your Friday afternoon fix, DJ Sox will be banging out the best dance floor mixes. King of Castle Caprice, 31 and Trinity, Dj Sox is as consistently hot as a night out in Ibizia. Tune in from 15h00 and allow Sox and DJ Yaron to get you ready for the weekend! [soxandthecity]

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Tracey Britt is her name, and she comes packed with a Harvard MBA as well as a high ranking at Berkshire Hathaway (American multinational conglomerate holding company). In her short four years of being there, she has moved form financial assistant, to becoming the chairman’s righthand woman.

Not only does she share higher levels of brain activity like her esteemed superior, but she also shares Midwestern roots with Buffet.

According to the Wall Street Journal:

The firms in which she serves as chairman, including building-products company Johns Manville Corp. and paint manufacturer Benjamin Moore & Co., total more than $4 billion in annual sales. In March, a few weeks after Berkshire and Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital said they would buy ketchup maker H.J. Heinz & Co. for $23 billion, Mr. Buffett sent Ms. Britt to Brazil, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ms. Britt is also one of the most influential women within Berkshire, which has three women directors on a 13-member board and five women CEOs out of 81 operating companies.

Nice find, Buffet!

[Source: Business Insider]

Here’s more from Pam Golding:

Absolute opulence in this one of a kind, secure and spacious triple storey, corner penthouse apartment, with uninterrupted 270 degree views

Automated lighting system throughout, electric blinds, wifi, aircon,(heating and cooling), under-floor heating, to name but a few of the outstanding offerings in this absolutely unique apartment. Abundant balconies, all with views, with a heated pool and steam room, on the roof. The building offers a restaurant, health spa and sophisticated gym, as well as indoor and outdoor pools.

Property Details

Morningside

R60,000,000

Building Size: Approx 585 m²

Apartment

4 Bedroom

6 Bathrooms

2 Reception Rooms

7 Garage(s)

Staff Accommodation

Click thumbnails below for images and click here for the property’s main page on the web.

[Source: Pam Golding]

The documentary displays the former American president’s last few years before his assassination that carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald.

The movie is set to debut in November 2013 alongside the anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death.

Some are saying Rob Lowe has been miscast, claiming no physical resemblance, and others are hoping Lowe’s acting ability will make up for what he lacks physically. We will have to wait and see.

Original portrait of John F. Kennedy

[Source: Inside TV]

1. United States

The United States of America has the lowest power index with 0,2475. They have a defense budget of $689,591,000,000 and have 1,477,896 active military or frontline personnel. They have 15,293 aircraft.

2. Russia

The country has a power index of 0,2618 and a defense budget of $64,000,000,000. Russia has 4,498 aircraft and 1,200,000 active military peronnel.

3. China

China has a power index of 0,3351. The country’s defense budget is $129,272,000,000 with 2,285,000 active military personnel. They have a total number of 5,048 aircraft.

4. India

Has a power index of 0,4346 and a defense budget of $44,282,00,00. There are 1,325,000 active military personnel  Their military has a a total of 1,962 aircraft.

5. The United Kingdom

The country’s power index is 0,5185. The defense budget is $57,875,170,000 with 1,412 aircraft and 224,500 active military personnel.

6. France

A defense budget of $58,244,000,000 and a power index of 0,6163. There are 362,485 active military personnel with only 544 aircraft.

7. Germany

Germany has a defense budget of $43,478,000,000. There are 148,996 active frontline personnel and an available manpower of 36,417,842. Germany has 925 total aircraft. And has a power index of 0,6491.

8. South Korea

South Korea has a power index of 0,6547. The country has 653,000 active frontline personnel and 25,609,290 of available manpower. They have 871 aircraft and a defense budget of $28,280,000,000.

9. Italy

Italy has a power index of 0,6838 and a defense budget of $31,946,000,000. A total of 770 aircraft and 293,202 active frontline personnel make up other figures of firepower.

10. Brazil

The country has a power index of 0,6912 with a defense budget of $31,576,000,000. A total of 822 aircraft and 371,199 active frontline personnel isn’t too shabby either.

[Source: Gloabal Fire Power]

According to Reuters, and their knowledgable sources, the iPhones could see screen sizes of 4,7 inches (approximately 10 centimeters) and 5,7 inches (nearly 13 centimeters). There are also the persistent talks of a cheaper iPhone that would retail for R997 and also be availbale in an array of colours.

These rumours are supposedly “under discussion”, so at this point it is anybody’s guess as to whether they will make it to the market or not. The colour palette would certainly be a different move for Apple who are known to have limited colour options. The screen size ranges would also be a departure from the company’s current 3,5 inch (about 7,6 centimeters) screen for the iPhone 4S and 4 inche (a little over 10 centimeters) screen for the iPhone 5. But these changes have not been confirmed.

A source told Reuters, “The company is constantly changing product specifications almost to the final moment.” Until Apple launches their next iPhone, these changes are just guesses.

[Source: Mashable]

Signed to Lil Wayne’s Cash Money Records.

There has been no official announcement as yet, but Hilton has been signed to Cash Money Records. Some paperwork is still being finalised and after that should come the big announcement. She is currently in studio putting the finishing touches on her album which she says is “going to be so sick.” If you’re wondering about the genre:

It’s an electropop album with some dance-y songs.

Kim Kardashian “duplicating Hilton’s blueprint for stardom.”

People say it all the time, but it’s not something I really think about. I’ve seen a lot of girls in Hollywood try to duplicate what I’ve done because I was the first one to do all of this. I think it’s flattering to see that people want to be like me, I guess.

Her career and joining the family business.

The “Simple Life” days are over for Paris, she has just opened her 44th Paris Hilton store and launched her 15th perfume. She prides herself on being a businesswoman and not being interested in that “scene” anymore.

I’ve been going out for so long, and now when I’m at an event or a party, I’m being paid to be there or I’m there for my products or my brand. Now it’s just about business. I don’t enjoy going out like I used to.

Hilton is also set to join the family business. Her first property is opening in Manila. The complex houses a movie theatre, a nightclub, restaurant, spas and a manmade beach. After that, Hilton is hoping to open a few boutique hotels and nightclubs in Mumbai.

The Bling Ring gang.

These attacks started in late 2008, when Hilton was targeted by the privileged teenage gang. Despite living in a gated community in Los Angeles, the Bling Ring gang managed to make their way onto her property. They had made a copy of her front door key and entered Hilton’s home six times. The first few times the gangs stole from Hitlon, they took anything designer – handbags, dresses, sunglasses. But their final robbery upset Hilton the most. The gang stole $2 million worth of priceless jewelry.

Both of my grandmothers had passed away in the past couple of years and left me jewelry that had been in my family for ages that I’ll never be able to replace. Awful.

Some of the stolen goods Hilton got back, but she said, “only my costume stuff.”

Anything of value, every single Rolex, diamond earring, or anything else, they had sold. I just got back a bunch of things that weren’t that important to me.

But it wasn’t only jewelry and designer items that caught the robbers eyes, they removed polaroids from a racy shoot she had done for her Champagne line.

And they took some photos. I did a campaign for my Champagne line and they had me painted all in gold—I actually have them blown up in my living room—and those were the Polaroids from the shoot.

Hilton still lives in the house that was burgled and that will be featured in Sophia Coppola’s new movie based on the Bling Ring gang. And of course Hilton makes a cameo appearance.

[Source: The Daily Beast]

The 115 meter yacht called Migaloo boasts features that some peoples houses may not even have. But don’t get too excited, the “yacht-submarine hybrid”, named after an albino humpback whale, has not yet been built.

According to Austrian industrial design studio, the luxurious transportation device was created to settle rich mens urges for a “unique boat.”

So far, the “billionaires toy” boasts an 8 meter pool, cinema room, helipad, library, gym, lounges and six decks. The Migaloo’s expected pressure proof glass and flashy features is yet to have a price tag attached, but we are pretty sure only the Daddy Warbucks’ out there will be able to afford it.

Take a look at the gallery of images below.

[Source: Business Insider]

Directed by Noam Murro, 300: Rise of an Empire is slated to hit theaters on March 7, 2014. Will you take your girlfriend?

[Source : YouTube]

But who is complaining? We have the pleasure to introduce to you a celebrity Tuesday Tabs if you will. From Robbin Williams’ daughter to Tom Hanks’ ripped son, there is a bit of eye-candy here for everyone. If you have reservations about looking, don’t worry, they are all over 18.

Rumer Willis

24-year-old Rumer is the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. Her fetching looks have been seen in 90210 and House Bunny and this July she will join the cast of Pretty Little Liars.

Spencer Grammer 

The daughter Kelsey Grammer, this blonde bombshell is most well-known for her role playing Casey in the Greek series. Expect to see her showing her stronger side when her new NBC series Ironside is released.

Lorraine Nicholson

Best known for her role as the heroic athlete in Soul Surfer, Jack Nicholson’s 23-year-old daughter is on her way to being a heartbreaker.

Zelda Williams

We don’t blame you if you don’t see the resemblance. Yes this beauty belongs to none other than the clown-natured Robin Williams. Named after the Legend Of Zelda, this 23-year-old offspring dresses her dog up in Lord Of The Rings elf costumes when she is not busy playing video games.

Bria Murphy 

Oh no you didn’t, Eddie! 23-year-old Bria has been a runway star, the face of Dark & Lovely, positioned on Maxim’s Hot 100 list and is on her way to model for Victoria’s Secret. We wonder how dad Eddie Murphy feels about this one?

Chester Hanks

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson created this heartthrob. Chester (22) is reportedly popular with the ladies and on his way to being a…rap artist. The photo below says a lot, don’t you think?

Zoë Kravitz

The classic rockstar’s daughter. You might recognise this stunner from X Men: First Class or just by the genes she got from dad Lenny Kravitz and mom Lisa Bonet. The lucky actress is working her way up and is currently in production of her latest film “Divergent.”

Patrick Schwarzenegger

When Arnold is your dad, you are sure to be under some pressure. The 19-year-old heartthrob has had a reputation for getting thrown out of nightclubs and is a self proclaimed gym junky. Great!

Allison Williams

26-year-old Allison is better known as Marnie Michaels on HBO’s Girls. The daughter of acclaimed news anchor Brain Williams doesn’t take life as seriously.

Evan Ross

Of course you can expect Diana Ross’s son to have some pipes. The 24-year-old aspiring artist has some hard footsteps to follow, but with blood like that, we are not too worried.

To check out some more celebrity offspring, click here.

[Source: Business Insider]

This official teaser trailer gives us a look into what we can expect from the film. The movie, Diana, focuses on the last two years of her life, from her campaigns against landmines to her relationship with surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan.

By the looks of it, Niomi Watts has got the charitable Diana’s look down to near perfection for what looks to be an enthralling film. It opens on September, 20 in the UK. Further scheduling is yet to be announced however.

[Source: Business Insider]

These are the top five answers that only Kanye West would be able to provide with a straight face.

Caramanica: But has that instinct led you astray? Like the Taylor Swift interruption at the MTV Video Music Awards, things like that.

West: It’s only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It’s only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That’s all it is.

Caramanica: Respect my trendsetting.

West: Yeah, respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins. The world wins; fresh kids win; creatives win; the company wins.

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means. I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump. I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it’s like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.

I’ve been connected to the most culturally important albums of the past four years, the most influential artists of the past ten years. You have like, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, Nicolas Ghesquière, Anna Wintour, David Stern.

I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.” So when you get something that has the name Kanye West on it, it’s supposed to be pushing the furthest possibilities. I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

Caramanica: One of the things that you’ve thrived on over the years is sort of a self-conception as an outsider, that you’re fighting your way in. Do you still, in this moment, feel like that? What changed?

West: No, I don’t think I feel like that anymore. I feel like I don’t want to be inside anymore. Like, I uninvited myself.

I think just more actual self-realization and self-belief. The longer your ‘gevity is, the more confidence you build. The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I’ve put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn’t put themselves in. Like what’s vanity about wearing a kilt?

Caramanica: I wonder if you see things in a more race-aware way now, later in your career, than you did then. The intensity of the feelings on “Watch the Throne” is much sharper.

West: No, it’s just being able to articulate yourself better. “All Falls Down” is the same [stuff]. I mean, I am my father’s son. I’m my mother’s child. That’s how I was raised. I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I’m also in the lineage of a Miles Davis — you know, that liked nice things also.

Caramanica: When you’re uncertain about love, it can be such a distraction. It infects all the other areas.

West: Yeah, that’s what I mean when I say like, “Yo, I’m going to be super Zenned out like, five years from now.” I’m the type of rock star that likes to have a girlfriend, you know? I’m the type of soul that likes to be in love and likes to be able to focus. And that inspires me.

Read the full article here.

[Source: NY Times]

And like any aspiring actor, he wants to make a name for himself in Hollywood. He also hopes the treatment will enhance his features and help him attract some of the ladies. Nicholas said:

I wanted was more definition in my jaw bone, like Ryan Gosling.

He’s got a look that a lot of people in America are looking for right now, especially in my line of work. I’m hoping I’ll get more auditions and roles if I look more like Ryan Gosling. That’s why I had the surgery.

This according to Beverly Hills surgeon Dr Tim Neavin who preformed the “transformation” on Nicholas:

The patient already shares some similarities with Ryan Gosling, but has some deficiencies, so we built those areas out to give him that squared-off jaw Ryan Gosling made famous.

[Source: Mail Online, YouTube]

Durkee said:

The kids actually found them and came in and said, ‘mom there’s a kitty with two heads,’ and I said, ‘I think you guys are just tired, you’re crazy, that doesn’t happen.

Even though Deucy did not ask to be born this way, the kitten’s mother has disowned it. This rare condition is known as Janus cats.

[Source: YouTube, USA Today]

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Aspiring cooks can make their Italian meals a little more authentic with a Pasta Maker, available in two stylish colours. Featuring adjustable steel rollers for kneading, as well as nine thickness settings and a recipe book, this easy to operate Pasta Maker will keep kitchen inhabitants creative without resulting in the need to kidnap a real Italian.

Choose from the following options:

• Black
• Silver

What you need to know:

• Adjustable steel rollers for kneading
• Nine thickness settings
• Removable handle and clamp
• Cutting accessory with adjustable wheels
• Recipe booklet

For four months, Huggies used intricate processes to design a pregnancy belt for Dad. They have come up with this simulation that becomes possible when mother and father are wearing specially designed belts.

Fathers can now feel their baby kick and move in the mom’s belly, and in real time. A demonstration that was done in Argentina induced some extraordinary experiences for the fathers-to-be. From happy smiles to happy tears, the men were able to get in touch and in tune with their feminine side.

[Source: MSN]

Tonight, in order to promote their redesign, Myspace will relaunch itself, by airing its first commercial. The network has always had a strong music influence and it looks like they are going to use this aspect to sell themselves to their fans, once again.

The commercial is part of the more than R200 million campaign they have initiated that will eventually cover all forms media, form radio to digital broadcasts.

Expect to see some of your favourite music celebrities and a lot of controversial banter from this point on.

Good luck, Myspace.

[Source: Mashable] 

From the start of the school year, teachers started noticing an increase in the number of students who were wearing eye patches, but they could not detemine the cause. A teacher known only as Mr Y caught two pupils in the act. Mr Y said:

After class one day, I went into the equipment store in the gymnasium to tidy up. The door had been left open, and when I looked inside, a male pupil and a female pupil had their faces close together and were kind of fumbling around. Could it be bullying? I wondered, but when I had a good look, the boy was licking the girl’s eye! Surprised, a shouted “What are you doing? Stop it at once!” and the two of them were so shocked they jumped apart. The girl burst into tears, and the boy just went bright red and was shaken up. At any rate, to try to calm them down I took them to the janitor’s room and listened to their story.

The two pupils explained to Mr Y their reasoning for engaging in this bizarre behaviour. The male pupil responded, “because it’s popular in our class. It’s not just us two anyway. Everyone’s doing it.” After this encounter, Mr Y found the cause of the increasing number of eye patches.

A possible explanation for eyeball-licking as a courting ritual is that the eyeball could be an erogenous zone. But this practice has also led to increased numbers of teenagers having bacterial conjunctivitis – hence the eye patches.

[Source: Japan Crush]

The chef survived the harrowing ordeal for two days, in a small pocket of air, until two South Africans eventually found and rescued him.

Here are some words from Okene via Reuters explaining what he went through:

I was there in the water in total darkness just thinking it’s the end. I kept thinking the water was going to fill up the room but it did not,” Okene said, parts of his skin peeling away after days soaking in the salt water.

I was so hungry but mostly so, so thirsty. The salt water took the skin off my tongue,

At 4:50 a.m. on May 26, Okene says he was in the toilet when he realized the tugboat was beginning to turn over. As water rushed in and the Jascon-4 flipped, he forced open the metal door.

“As I was coming out of the toilet it was pitch black so we were trying to link our way out to the water tidal (exit hatch),” Okene told Reuters in his home town of Warri, a city in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta.

“Three guys were in front of me and suddenly water rushed in full force. I saw the first one, the second one, the third one just washed away. I knew these guys were dead.”

What he didn’t know was that he would spend the next two and a half days trapped under the sea praying he would be found.

Turning away from his only exit, Okene was swept along a narrow passageway by surging water into another toilet, this time adjoining a ship’s officers cabin, as the overturned boat crashed onto the ocean floor. To his amazement he was still breathing.

FISH FEASTED ON THE DEAD

Okene, wearing only his underpants, survived around a day in the four foot square toilet, holding onto the overturned washbasin to keep his head out of the water.

He built up the courage to open the door and swim into the officer’s bedroom and began pulling off the wall panelling to use as a tiny raft to lift himself out of the freezing water.

He sensed he was not alone in the darkness.

“I was very, very cold and it was black. I couldn’t see anything,” says Okene, staring into the middle distance.

“But I could perceive the dead bodies of my crew were nearby. I could smell them. The fish came in and began eating the bodies. I could hear the sound. It was horror.”

What Okene didn’t know was a team of divers sent by Chevron and the ship’s owners, West African Ventures, were searching for crew members, assumed by now to be dead.

Then in the afternoon of May 28, Okene heard them.

“I heard a sound of a hammer hitting the vessel. Boom, boom, boom. I swam down and found a water dispenser. I pulled the water filter and I hammered the side of the vessel hoping someone would hear me. Then the diver must have heard a sound.”

Divers broke into the ship and Okene saw light from a head torch of someone swimming along the passageway past the room.

“I went into the water and tapped him. I was waving my hands and he was shocked,” Okene said, his relief still visible.

He thought he was at the bottom of the sea, although the company says it was 30 metres below.

The diving team fitted Okene with an oxygen mask, diver’s suit and helmet and he reached the surface at 19:32, more than 60 hours after the ship sank, he says.

Okene says he spent another 60 hours in a decompression chamber where his body pressure was returned to normal. Had he just been exposed immediately to the outside air he would have died.

The cook describes his extraordinary survival story as a “miracle” but the memories of his time in the watery darkness still haunt him and he is not sure he will return to the sea.

“When I am at home sometimes it feels like the bed I am sleeping in is sinking. I think I’m still in the sea again. I jump up and I scream,” Okene said, shaking his head.

“I don’t know what stopped the water from filling that room. I was calling on God. He did it. It was a miracle.”

[Source: Reuters]

The Blue Lake is 1,200m above sea level and the only time the lake may become murky is when sediment is washed into it from heavy rains, but it soon recovers to its natural clear beauty. Glacial debris serves as the lakes filtering system allowing for crystal clear waters. The water in the lake is displaced almost every 24 hours through a hole that lies at the bottom of the lake.

[Source: The Guardian]

The server hub is largest of its kind in Europe, and most northerly of its magnitude anywhere on Earth.

Facebook’s carbon footprint seems to be decreasing with the new data centre too as it’s powered by hydro-electricity and the servers are cooled down with icy Nordic air.

[Source: The Telegraph]

Duratec, Technodat and Evektor are the three Czech companies that have joined forces and created a prototype of a flying electric bicycle. The design is far from slim-line or attractive, but the simple idea of being able to fly your bike is amazing.

The propellers on the bike are battery operated with the bike weighing in at 94kg. For humans to be able to sit in the rider’s seat, much stronger batteries are needed. The flying bike took off for its first demonstration on Wednesday in Prague. The five-minute flight was remote controlled and had a mannequin sitting in the rider’s seat.

[Source: Mashable]

Shuttleworth Says He Shouldn’t Have To Leave The Country To Work In A Modern Fashion – South Africa’s exchange control system is “long past its sell-by date”, mainly because nobody has questioned its justification. [techcentral]

Hong Kong Will Decide My Fate, Edward Snowden Tells South China Morning Post - In an exclusive interview with The South China Morning Post, Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old government contractor who leaked secret NSA documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post, said he is leaving the “courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate.” [time]

Edward Snowden Is In A Safe House – Today, just over three weeks later, he is the world’s most famous spy, whistleblower and fugitive, responsible for the biggest intelligence breach in recent US history. [guardian]

Oldest Man In History Jiroemon Kimura Dies At 116 - A Japanese man recognised as the world’s oldest living person, and the oldest man recorded in history, has died aged 116, local officials say. [bbc]

Mandela “Responding Better To Treatment” – Former South African leader Nelson Mandela was “responding better to treatment” on Wednesday, President Jacob Zuma told the country’s Parliament. [cnn]

Malema: Zuma Told Me Mbeki Must Go - Julius Malema says he had a talk with Jacob Zuma in which the president said former leader Thabo Mbeki “must go”, according to a report. [mail&guardian]

Brazilian Journalist Slain In Apparent Effort To Silence Coverage - The head of a newspaper renowned for reporting on crime and corruption was shot to death Tuesday in a town outside Rio de Janeiro, the latest in a string of apparent assassinations of Brazilian journalists. [latimes]

“Gasoline On Everything!” – Brutal Mob Killing Video Sold in Southern Mexico - Police said Wednesday they are investigating the recording and sale in local markets of a grisly video that shows a mob beating and burning to death three men suspected of raping and killing an Indian woman in southern Mexico. [abc]

Facebook Adds Hashtags to Organize Public Conversations - Facebook has joined the hashtag revolution, introducing a tool on Wednesday that allows users to add the # symbol before a word to signify its topic. The topic would then be easily searchable by other users of the social network. [newyorktimes]

Japan Tests 4K Television Streams Over The Internet - A Japanese telecoms company is carrying out tests to try to prove 4K-resolution video can be streamed over the internet to television set-top boxes. [bbc]

Strange Photos That Appear To Show A Young Edward Snowden Have Been Found Online - Internet sleuths have begun digging — and they appear to be finding a trail that Snowden may have hoped to hide. [busins]

Shit’s About To Get Real In Turkey – Turkey’s prime minister defied a growing wave of international criticism on Wednesday and issued a chilling warning to the protesters who have captured central Istanbul for a fortnight, declaring that the demonstrations against his rule would be over within 24 hours. [guardian]

Thousands Of Anti-Putin Protesters March In Moscow – Thousands of Russian opposition activists marched through Moscow on Wednesday, decrying President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian rule and calling for the release of people they consider political prisoners. [associated]

British Tabloid Spent R2.3 Million In Plot To Catch Pop Star In Cocaine Scandal - The Sun is rumored to have spent as much as £150,000 ($230,000) on an elaborate sting involving private jets and Bollywood stars to catch a b-list pop star in a cocaine plot. [busins]

Gwyneth Paltrow Warns Pals Not To Talk To Vanity Fair About Her – Gwyneth Paltrow has been warning friends and business associates not to participate in a Vanity Fair article about her. [nypost]

Mystery Prude Staples Dresses Onto Scantily Clad Rihanna Posters [Photo] - A mystery prude with a sense of humor has been stapling dresses onto posters of a nearly naked Rihanna plastered all over Dublin for her “Diamonds” tour. [msn]

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Deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann said:

SAA’s exclusion of white male candidates constitutes subsidised racism… .The taxpayer is forced to pay for the government’s obsession to apply national racial demographics at all levels, everywhere in South Africa.

In August last year, the SAA lifted the ban on applications from white males for its cadet programme after Solidarity launched a major public protest campaign against the SAA.

It is clear that the lifting of the ban was merely a smoke-screen for continued racial discrimination by the airline.

Those white men who were unsuccessful in selection for the programme were contacted by the union in an attempt to investigate taking legal action on their behalf. But according to SAA, those cadets that were chosen fall under the the category of previously disadvantaged individuals as set out in the Employment Equity Act. SAA spokesman Tlali Tlali said:

It is important to note this in the context of the current reality and measures that need to be taken.

The cadet programme is the airline’s effort to transform not only its own but also the country’s flight deck community, which is nowhere close to reflecting the country’s demographics.

In the case of this particular programme, when assessing all applications, SAA is obliged to give preference to previously disadvantaged groups.

[Source: iAfrica]

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Malema attacked the ANC and blamed the country’s poverty, unemployment and inequality on their lack of leadership. But his new forum, according to Malema, will hold national meetings where issues of “redistribution of land and the nationalisation of mines and banks” will be discussed.

Malema said:

The ANC is committed to a right-wing, neo-liberal and capitalist agenda which has kept (the) majority of our people on the margins of South Africa’s economy.

[Source: Fin24]

The cast of This Is The End, the apocalyptic movie that was released today 12 June, has given us an entertaining stint. James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and Danny McBride, join together for a special version of The Real World.

While the world turns to ruins, these four hilarious actors with roommates Averey-Lee Jane and Joi Niemeye get stuck together in a Portland cabin. Expect to see “shit getting real, really real,” like James Franco having indiscretions with peanut butter and Kenny Powers weeing in a hottub. Just another day in the Real World House…Enjoy!

[Thanks, Nick!]

[Source: YouTube]

Each office designed for the company is done so uniquely with regards to its corresponding location. Google makes sure that the architects have come up with an interior that represents the country’s history and culture.

Today we feature the Google office located in central Tokyo, Japan, in the Roppongi Hills Tower. The offices have been kitted out with everything needed to mark the essence of Japanese history.

From digital koi ponds to a Mount Fuji mural painting, the office’s brightly coloured designs have everything to represent Japanese heritage.

Take a look at the gallery of images below:

[Source: DesignTaxi]

Unfortunately, After Earth is not his comeback. The film may leverage the sentimental father-son team of Will and Jaden Smith from The Pursuit of Happyness, but it’s stunted by it’s own lofty ambitions. Shyamalan manages to create some tense scenarios, but After Earth’s sluggish pacing is further undermined by uninspired performances from Will Smith and his son, Jaden.

Will Smith is a likable actor, often compared to Tom Cruise. However, it’s like he’s trying to deny the very charm that made him famous as The Fresh Prince. The accomplished actor’s sparkle has faded and he’s lost that wink-wink warmth. It’s as if he’s brick-walling to be taken seriously as an actor, with a loose attempt to channel Laurence Fishburne in After Earth.

It seems as though he’s passing the torch onto his son, Jaden. The young actor has proven himself in The Pursuit of Happyness and The Karate Kid, but literally throwing him into the wilderness to fend for himself is difficult for a cub and even seasoned campaigners like Tom Hanks. Jaden has communication links with his father in a Simba-to-Mufasa dynamic, but his vulnerable performance just doesn’t jell with the onslaught of perils in this do-or-die adventure.

“Hang on, Dad… so it’s left over right first?”

After Earth’s production design is a point of interest. The designers have given this vision of the future a texture

The attack was announced by Anonymous Africa on Twitter. On MyBroadband’s forum, it was described “as a hacktivist protest against the article, ‘Mugabe hero of African liberation’ on iol.co.za. AnonAfrica will be taking down iol.co.za with a DoS attack”.

The hacktivist, @zim4thewin tweeted this:

@iol your website is tango down for supporting the dictator Mugabe #Zimbabwe #Africa #Anonymous

— Anonymous Africa (@zim4thewin) June 12, 2013

The attack against @iol will continue until 2pm. we have made our point #anonymous

— Anonymous Africa (@zim4thewin) June 12, 2013

IOL posted this on their Facebook page:

IOL is having problems! We’re aware that the site is down, and we’re working hard to get it back up again… bear with us.

[Source: News24, My Broadband, Twitter]

Food just seems to pop up, like this obnoxious biological need that I need to get rid of.

Soylent is a combination of a person’s recommended daily dietary intake requirements made into a drink. The food alternative is not yet available to the public but Rhinehart has raised close to a half a million dollars thanks to his crowdsourcing campaign and plans to take the mixture to manufacturers.

Rhinehart was his own guinea pig. He lived on Soylent for a month and documented the results in a blog post “How I Stopped Eating Food”. He claims while on the Soylent his skin was clearer, he had more energy, he slept better and also lost 13 pounds (5,8 kg).

Rhinehart’s Soylent drink garnered the attention of a Chigao reporter, Julie Beck. Beck says that she drank the mixture for seven days without cheating.

But Rhinehart’s Soylent diet has been critised by some. One nutritionist told the Business Insider that the Soylent mixture is “a red flag for a potential eating disorder,” while another said that Rhinehart “cannot assume what his body needs.”

The chocolate, strawberry and plain-flavored whey makes the Soylent taste like a chocolate malt, a strawberry wafer cookie and a vanilla milkshake, respectively, except not quite. It’s as though an alien race tried to recreate the taste of those things out of chemicals they had available to them and they came very, very close, but couldn’t quite make it. There’s a chemical aftertaste that lingers, rising in your throat like a vapor. After that first day, I stick to the “plug and chug” system—plug your nose and chug it.

Beck explains the effects of Soylent she experienced were nowhere near those experienced by Rhinehart. She was never hungry, nor full, was not tired, but also not energetic.

She admits there are postives with Soylent: The constant need to think about what to eat, or what to make for lunch or supper is gone. With Soylent there is only one option. Beck became accustomed to the mixture, to her it became almost habitual. She also noted that her skin had become clearer and she had lost three and half pounds (1,5 kg).

[Source: Science]

The Daily Show nails an accurate summary of the situation as it stands, in five minutes.

Also, they have jokes.

Now you’re smarter.

[Source : YouTube]

Rituals cosmetic company came up with this hilarious “What makes you smile” campaign for their Laughing Buddha collection. Their plan was to see how contagious laughing would be. One man starts to laugh uncontrollably at the tram stop, normally associated with people waiting around with long faces. The sure happiness of one man has a contagious effect on the rest of the people, truely showing that “When you smile to the world, the world smiles back.“

The video has become a viral hit and gotten over 400,000 viewers smiling. Bravo!

To see the rest of the Rituals channel, click here.

[Source: YouTube]

These are the apps that Apple’s new iOS 7 is set to squash:

1. Web browser

With the new operating system comes a new web browser. Safari has received an upgrade. It will now be faster and display all your tabs in 3D.

2. FaceTime apps are out

Say goodbye to Viber and Skype, with the new operating system you will be able to make calls over Wi-Fi using an app that has been built into the phone.

3. iBooks

If you have an Amazon desktop reader, it might be outdated when the new iBooks hits your desktop.

4. Manage your passwords

With Mac OS X, password manager is built-in. This password manager also works with iOS devices. Apps like 1Password and LastPass are no longer neccesary.

5.  iTunes Radio

Pandora who? iTunes Radio service is the new kid on the block.

[Source: Business Insider]

Compiled by YouTuber, Zapatou, this Best Of Web video is, as its name suggests, a highlights reel of the top YouTube videos posted over the course of the last year. And it is 10 minutes of your time very well spent.

Here’s the list of 243 videos from which this supercut was compiled.

[Thanks, Adam!]

The thunderstorm, known as a supercell because of its rotating updraft, was the answer to Olbinski’s prayers. In Booker, Texas on 3 June 2013, the photographer and his friend Andy Hoeland were able to capture the powerful supercell.

Olbinski:

I’ve been visiting the Central Plains since 2010. Usually it’s just for a day, or three, or two… but it took until the fourth attempt to actually find what I’d been looking for. And boy did we find it.

 ..there was no tornado. But that’s not really what I was after. I’m from Arizona. We don’t get structure like this. Clouds that rotate and look like alien spacecraft hanging over the Earth

Below you can view the extraordinary time-lapse footage he took with his Canon 5D Mark II and a Rokinon 14mm 2.8 lens.

[Source: Vimeo]

The adaption of J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpiece continues with the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. For now, WarnerBro’s have treated us to an official teaser but you will have to wait until December 2013 to see it in full.

For a review of the last movie, click here.

[Source:YouTube]

Whilst nature reclaims its land, we’re taken aback by the sweet results. Check out the images below:

“The Tunnel of Love” represents lonely train tracks in a north Ukraine town.

This extraordinary imagery shows a Brazilian yacht that has been at the bottom of the ocean for almost a year, untouched. This boat was once used for scientific expeditions and experimentation - now it forms the object for unreal photography.

Off the coast of Malta, this Jesus statue blessed by Pope John Paul II sits as a attraction for divers.

Derelict City Methodist Church, built in 1926.

City Hall in New York hosts this abandoned subway station. A photography dream.

A broken organ sits alone in a neglected room.

An unknown school rots in the sun.

[Source: TWC]

Backyard Brains is a neurological education and outreach company that launched on Kickstarter on Monday, and since then the company has gained worldwide support. The company was co-founded by Greg Gage who said that RoboRoach has been in development for a few years now. But before they could bring it to a classroom, Gage and a lab partner from the University of Michigan, Tim Marzullo, had to overcome a few hurdles.

Research shows that 20% of the world’s population will be diagnosed with a neurological disease. Diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s that currently have no cures are top amongst them. This is where RoboRoach fits into the equation: RoboRoach is placing neurotechnology in the hands of young minds to encourage them to find cures for these diseases, and this is by no means offering a cure.

The concept of RoboRoach was born when the pair were finishing their PhD’s in the neural engineering lab. They wanted to take all they had learnt and teach neuroscience in schools in order to show children that a career in neuroscience can start at the early stages in their education. The only the way the pair could bring neuroscience into the classroom in a fun and exciting manner was with RoboRoach. It’s a learning tool that was interactive, inexpensive and not illegal.

Gage said:

They also have neurons that are similar to humans. Not exactly the same, but the essence is the same; they both fire spikes, and so, if you can record those spikes, you’re actually kind of seeing what’s happening in your brain.

According to Gage and Marzullo the RoboRoach is a tool that can assist students in learning more regarding “neural control of behaviour, learning and memory, adaptation and habituation, stimuli selection and the effect of randomness.”

Take a look at the video explaining RoboRoach:

The campaign on Kickstarter is seeking pledges that will assist in the development of more prototypes, hardware and gear that is more affordable, and in time, an app for Android devices.

To date, 150 kits of the RoboRoach have been sold to high schools. The goal that RoboRoach has set itself, according to Gage:

The overarching goal of our company is to bring upon the ‘neuro-revolution,’ which is where people can contribute to science almost like they do in mathematics and astronomy. In computer science, for example, there are tons of amateurs that are contributing to that field because the access to the tools is affordable and cheap. Wouldn’t it be cool, in neuroscience, if we could do the same thing?

[Source: Mashable, YouTube]

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When it comes to keeping up with the Joneses, everyone knows that it’s the accessories that can make or break the outfit. The same applies to the technology we choose to use on a daily basis. This compact 5-in-1 camera connector kit for the iPad ensures that your iPad is able to complete a great range of tasks without additional difficulty, also increasing the connectivity capabilities of your iPad with the addition of one small dongle.

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• Convenience of five ports in a single dongle
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Before we begin, two bits of news. Firstly, congrats to Tzi, who came forward as the hipster within 24 hours with this extraordinary proof of life. If only he got in touch after 24 hours, then Eric, who took the pic (see original entry for last week here), would have won the Pumas!

So here is this week’s winning entry. The clock is ticking, as this hipster has 24 hours to come forward to win a pair of Pumas, otherwise the person that snapped this pic, gets the shoes.

Hey Seth,

Check out this naughty hipster that was found shopping for edibles in Union Kloof.

Notice the cool tattoo behind the ear.
The cap, baggy jersey, beard and signature skinny jeans.

His friend even looks like a qualified hipster too. #ultimatehipsteraccessory

Cheers

Sven

Good job, Sven. It’s not often we get a combo like that. And I do enjoy this fellow’s sleepy look – adds to the hipster’s “I don’t care” vibe. But secretly, they do.

Good luck!

So, according to our rules, this naughty hipster has 24 hours to contact us with proof that he is the naughty hipster in the photograph. So if you know him, tell him to email editor@2oceansvibe.com and he will get a brand new pair of Puma shoes if he can prove it is him. See Terms & Conditions below.

If he DOESN’T claim the Pumas in 24 hours (10am tomorrow) then the person that sent this in (Sven, mentioned above) gets the Pumas.

Good luck to the rest of you, as you hunt down your very own naughty hipster.

A reminder of the Terms & Conditions:

1) Send in your pictures to editor@2oceansvibe.com with the subject ‘Naughty Hipster’

2) Tell us where you took the picture in Cape Town. Make SURE you tell us which ‘neighbourhood’ it was in. All of Cape Town’s new neighbourhoods can be seen at capetownhoods.co.za. Explain what the naughty hipster was up to. Was he/she talking about single-speed BMXs, for example?

3) The most outrageously-hipster photo of a hipster will be posted every Wednesday on 2oceansvibe. 

4) The hipster in the photo will have 24 hours to email us at editor@2oceansvibe.com and prove that he is the hipster in the photo. If he manages to do that within 24 hours of the post going up, he wins a pair of Pumas (any pair of Pumas, excluding the ‘Black Station’ collection).

5) If the naughty hipster in the photo does not claim that prize in 24 hours, then the person who took the photo wins a pair of Puma shoes!

6) You can’t take pics of people you know, or people who know you’re taking the pic (unless they look at the camera at the moment of the photo). ie. no friends and no posing for pics. 

So off you go – start hunting those naughty hipsters!

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But for all those Mafia watching fans out there, the ending to one of the greatest shows in our lifetime, is still hard to fathom. What happened at that diner?

Arguably what was one of the most annoying endings to a final episode shows Tony eating a with his family at a diner. The protagonist then looks up at the opening door bells and the screen goes black …forever.

So many questions are left unanswered. Who opened the door? Why did Tony look up every time he heard the door bells ring? Was he expecting it – better yet was he prepared for it? Did he play Journey for a reason? Were the sinister eyes from other patrons in the diner in on it?

So many questions left unanswered. In the words of Tony himself “Let’s try remember the good times.”

[Source: Today]

I am going to tour The World (our one, Earth) with Messiah Complex, causing bother and excitement and offering opinions that have not been either solicited or thought through.

His stand up act will be “a dissection of various social and religious figures and the reality of their lives through comparisons of each other.”

The South African leg of his “Messiah Complex” tour will be in Cape Town on 16 November 2013 at the Cape Town Convention Center, followed by Johannesburg on 17 November 2013 at the ZA Teatro.

[Source: UPI, That TV Guy]

We’ve all been there: stuck in traffic, frustrated that you chose the wrong route on the drive to work. But imagine if you could see real-time traffic updates from friends and fellow travelers ahead of you, calling out ‘fender bender … totally stuck in left lane!’ and showing faster routes that others are taking.

The Waze community and its dedicated team have created a great source of timely road corrections and updates.

According to McClendon, Waze’s product development team will remain in Israel and work from there. Waze CEO Noam Bardin said:

Nothing practical will change here at Waze. We will maintain our community, brand, service and organization.

The start up was founded by Uri Levine, Ehud Shabtai and Amir Shinar five years ago, and claims to have doubled its users in a six month period from the end of 2011 to June 2012. The app relies on input from community members which allows for real time updates. These updates assist users to avoid traffic delays or congested routes.

[Source: Wired, The Guardian]

Mandela Family Gathers Round Ailing Icon - As ex-president Nelson Mandela battles in hospital against a potentially life-threatening lung infection, his kin – no strangers to family feuds – have come together to be at his bedside. [news24]

Here Is Whistleblower Edward Snowden’s Pole-Dancing Girlfriend – Lindsay Mills, a 28-year-old dancer in Hawaii, is the girlfriend of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, according to various reports. [gawker]

Google, Others Pushing For More Transparency Post-NSA Revelation - After days of fielding criticism about the government’s surveillance programs, tech titans went on the offensive Tuesday. [politico]

Sales Of Orwell’s ’1984′ Spike After NSA Revelations - As of this morning, Amazon sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 had jumped 6,021 percent in just 24 hours, to No. 213 on Amazon’s bestseller list. [npr]

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Gauntlett: Shuttleworth Bid Could Be Devastating For SA - Mark Shuttleworth’s bid to have SA’s exchange control declared unconstitutional could have a devastating effect on the country, says Jeremy Gauntlett. [mg]

Google Buys Israel’s Waze to keep mobile maps lead - Google Inc bought Israeli mapping startup Waze on Tuesday for just over $1 billion, a source familiar with the matter said, acquiring an online real-time mapping service to safeguard its lead in one of the most crucial aspects of smartphone usage. [reuters]

South Korea: Talks With North Scrapped Over Negotiators - The Koreas’ first high-level talks in years were scrapped a day before they were to begin Wednesday because the sides didn’t agree on who would lead the talks. [time]

Smit Outlines His Plans - John Smit, the incoming CEO of The Sharks, has addressed the media at Kings Park, outlining his role, effective from July, which includes making difficult decisions. [sport24]

Sergio Garcia Left An Apology Letter In Tiger Woods’ Locker - Sergio Garcia told reporters at his U.S. Open media conference Tuesday afternoon that he left a note in his rival’s locker earlier in the day addressing a racist remark he made several weeks ago at a European Tour awards dinner. [usatoday]

Russia’s Lower House Passes Anti-Gay Bill As Protesters Beaten, Arrested - A bill that stigmatizes Russia’s gay community and bans the distribution of information about homosexuality to children was overwhelmingly approved by the lower house of parliament Tuesday. [washpo]

One-Armed Miss Iowa Will Compete in Miss America Pageant – Nicole Kelly, who was born without her left forearm, was crowned Miss Iowa over the weekend. As a result, the 23-year-old will find herself competing at the Miss America pageant on Sept. 15. [eonline]

Ringo Starr Will Adapt ‘Octopus’s Garden’ As A Children’s Book - Starr is taking the Beatles song – one of the few that Starr wrote and sang for the group – and turning the idea into a children’s book. The picture book is planned for an October release in the UK and a January 2014 release in the US and will be published by Simon & Schuster. [csm]

Video Reveals Bizarre Deep-Sea Oarfish - Behold the oarfish, a bizarre beast the lives in the deep ocean, far offshore. Due to its remote home, little is known about the fish, whose dorsal fins delicately undulate as it glides about the deep. [livescience]

Jackson Family: Debbie Will Become Paris’ Guardian Over Our Dead Bodies - Michael Jackson’s family has circled the wagons … with many family members expressing outrage at the prospect Debbie Rowe could become Paris Jackson’s legal guardian. [tmz]

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Siv Ngesi With Bailey Schneider At 2pm - Siv is in to talk about his one man show Panic at the Artscape Theatre. Siv plays Thando Molepo – a young man in his late twenties, facing and attempting to deal with a number of internal, domestic, relational and macro conflicts, all of them related in some way, or having some bearing on each other. Panic is written by Mike van Graan and directed by Heinrich Reisenhofer. [baileyschneider]

The Bro Show with Paul Snodgrass, 18h00-20h00 - Some shows just have an angle we like and know you will love – Snoddy’s Bro Show is just that. Great local and international bands, celeb guests and the unique workings of the mind of one of South Africa’s finest full on shock comedians, Snoddy is perhaps that blip on the radar of life that you know you want to get to know. Tune in from 18h00-20h00 and catch The Bro Show live on 2ovfm! [broshow]

Bass Instinct With Candice Heyns, 20h00-22h00 - Candice is one half of the unstoppable musical duo Blush ’N Bass – two South African females that bring a tasteful, yet sexy, music experience to electro nightclubs in SA. Candice promises a professionally delivered show with music that will tantalize anyone’s ears. She takes you through a musical journey and without you even realizing it, you will be off your couch, tapping your feet, clapping your hands or dancing in front of your mirror singing to yourself! [bassinstinct]

Rumours of “poo attacks” were circulating on Sunday evening and by Monday morning the police presence had significantly increased. While security was increasing, protestors and their leader Andile Lili were caught at the Esplanade train station in Ysterplaat. These protestors are believed to be responsible for the dumping of faeces. The arrests were confirmed by Lili, who stated that he and six others had been arrested. But according to Lili the reason for the arrests were unkown. Lili said:

We have not done anything wrong. It’s our human rights and dignity that’s being trampled upon.

This is the latest in poo attacks. Western Cape Premier Helen Zille had to cancel a scheduled visit as protestors from Harare and Khayelitsha threw faeces on her car. Zille was forced to leave the scheduled talk.

A little after 15h00 on Monday three men were seen dumping the contents of portable flush toilet tanks on the steps of the Protea Assurance building which is situated less than 200m from the provincial legislature. There was a security guard on duty but he was caught off guard.

One of the three men was Loyiso Nkohla, said the aim of the “poo dumping” was to have government experience what it is like for the poor in Makhaza.

The attacks, according to Zille, are part of a campaign to make the city ungovernable – part of the ANC Youth League’s strategy. Zille said:

It is bizarre that the campaign is focusing on the city’s ‘portable flush toilet’, which the city is using to eradicate the remaining bucket toilets.

The portable flush toilet is used like an ordinary flush toilet. The waste is stored in a tank that is clean, hygienic and odourless, and the tank is serviced three times a week.

[Source: Mail & Guardian]

Alex Jones, conspiracy theorist and radio loud mouth, joined Andrew Neil and David Aaronovitch to discuss the secretive Bilderberg Group conference.

The Group, joining for their annual meeting near Watford, consists of leading political and business members from the US and Europe. It was the perfect news for the show’s agenda.

The “debate” ended up with Jones being called idiot and “the worst person” Neil had ever interviewed while he shouted chants like “Liberty is rising! Liberty is rising!”

Check out the video above, or click here for the full version.

[Source:YouTube, BBC]

Here is a gallery of her fine pictures, enjoy!

[Source: Wikipedia]

You think you don’t need a bakkie, but we have five good reasons why you really do.

Moving house:

Sand duning in Atlantis: 

Being the neighbourhood hero:

Bossing city traffic with your massive bull bar:

Collecting good karma by giving lifts to randoms:

7days sells bakkies, and they sell them for a heck of a lot less than the on-floor salesperson at the dealership.

Check out how they work, here.

All the machine needs is your credit card and a cyclist in distress can shop for tubes, lights, patch kits and other emergency products. According to the company:

We want to revolutionise bike riding and its shopping experience with an innovative new automated retail shop and support cyclists by making it easier to fix their bike while on the road

The vending machine was designed by Brooklyn New York resident and amateur cyclist Shimon Kivman in light of the Citi Bike share programme for all New Yorkers. He says:

We take care of everything. We stock it and we make sure it works. You just plug it in.
The whole machine has been customised.

The vending machine may have been designed with the cyclist in mind, but it also serves another purpose. Runners will be able to swipe their credit cards and choose nutrition gel packs or somehing more specific.

[Source: Design Taxi, Inhabitat]

A group of Chinese biologists have developed a way that can reversibly kill sperm cells. To date the method has only been tested on mice. Before it is ready for use by humans, researchers would need to iron out a few kinks according to John Amory of the Univeristy of Washington.

This is how this birth control works. A mixture of nano sized rods of gold are injected into the testes of mice. The testes were then targeted with an infrared laser. The laser heats the gold that was injected into the testes. Once the testes reach a certain temperature, the sperm cells are killed. The sperm cells are not killed to a point that the cells can’t make new sperm though and the “killed sperm” only lasts for a particular period of time.

Some men seem to be more keen than others. When a human trial was set for another male birth control method, reporter Bill Gifford came across many males who seemed more than willing to use the technology. One man said:

I’d gladly put my balls on the chopping block for the benefit of mankind.

With the birth of the female pill, most believed the pill for men was only steps behind. But it wasn’t. One possible reason for this, according to researchers, is that developing birth control for men is far more challenging.

[Source: Popsci]

Ben Canales, a popular nighttime photographer shared some tips about his art skill. Get your tripods ready and your batteries packed, you’re in for an educational ride.

Location

Get away from the city, there must be no light pollution for at least 80 kilometers.

After that, I typically look for a landscape feature I can key on. Is there a mountain on the horizon or a lake that will provide reflections of the stars? I often look for a human element like an old barn or a ruin or something like that to include in the foreground.

Balancing Light 

In order to balance the foreground with the sky light, it is easier to start with a pitch black landscape and add light on the levels you wish.

I’ll have a headlamp or some small LEDs I can position in order to light paint onto the scene. I can choose what I want the viewer to see. I’ll take anywhere between five and 25 shots of a certain scene using different motions with the headlamp until it starts to look right.

Tracking Stars

Canales uses a website called Stellarium, which he refers to as the “Google Earth for stars.” The programme allows you to see what the area you are wanting to photograph will look like at the time and place you wish to photograph.

Weather

Anything worse than partly cloudy is a no no.

Over the years, I’ve learned to interpret the cloudy descriptions on weather websites. If it says mostly clear, then you’re fine. Passing clouds are fine. Partly cloudy is usually the tipping point and once they say mostly cloudy, then it’s usually not worth trying. You’re going to go anywhere between 45 minutes and three hours, so there’s a big commitment to these efforts.

Shutter Speed

When you are not looking for star trails, you can get static shots if you use a 30-second exposure and if your camera is on a high ISO.

If you do want trails…

Method 1:

The static method is where you take a 30-second exposure and keep repeating it over and over with something like an intervalometer. Then, in Photoshop, you just combine them all as layers into one file. You switch the blending mode to lighten and Photoshop will progressively overlay the stars so you get trails. This is getting popular because it also gives you the files you need for a time lapse video all in one effort.

Method 2:

Then there’s the old-school method where you attach a cable release to the camera and you do single exposures of anywhere from 30 minutes to three hours. So, instead of using ISO 3200, you’re going to ISO 400 and instead of F/2.8, you’re using an aperture like F/8. You just have to do the math to compensate the extended shutter time.

Check out the gallery of his work below and for more advice and the full interview, click here.

[Source: Pop Photo]

With Cannes entries at an all time high, having about 35,765 entries from 92 different countries, the boys wondered what else could have been done with the exorbitant R250 million spent on entry fees.

The images below will give you an idea of the incredibly effective website, but to check the full site, click here.

To check out their full site, click here.

[Source: Amsterdamadblog]

This inforgraphic explains exactly how you can take your addiction and turn it into a career.

[Source: All Top]

This year, Gentleman Jack will be rising to the occasion with a VVIP experience in Miller Boomtown that offers the best seats in the house both for the finish line and the amazing line-up of visiting international and local artists. Think Khuli Chana, AKA and Reason, along with DJs Euphonic, Vigilante, Dimplez, Speedsta and more.

The Prize:

• Double VVIP tickets to the Vodacom Durban July on 6 July 2013.
• Access to the Boomtown marquee, GJ VVIP lounge experience.
• Whiskey tasting
• A bottle of Gentleman Jack
• Prize valued at R5,000!

TO WIN:

Simply send us your name, date of birth and the answer to the following question:

How many times is Gentleman Jack mellowed through 10 feet of Sugar Maple charcoal?

Provide your answer in the comment section below.

Winners will be contacted directly.

Competition closes 28 June 2013.

Ts & Cs apply.

*Please note the prize does not include flights or accomodation.

The bank is responsible for looking after 200 metric tons of gold, which is the equivalent of about R92 billion. The Singapore FreePort high security vault is situated just across from the city’s main airport.

Mark Smallwood, Deutsche’s head of wealth management:

Gold has traditionally been stored in London, Zurich, and New York, but there is a serious shift in dynamics going on as the global financial crisis continues to evolve.

FreePort has become the trusted hub for storing precious items such as art or jewelry in Southeast Asia. The flashy storage facility boast promises “of legally avoiding taxes and customs inspections.”

Ironically FreePort was actually built by Swiss architects.

Unlike the warehouse type vaults in Switzerland, the FreePort facilities have sleek and stylish designs for their over 6,000 kg doors.

Although it’s no Gringotts, this well conceptualised and high-security vault is something to check out. Here is a video tour.

Brought to you by Consequence

[Source: Quartz]

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While some are teaming up together and preparing for Snowden’s arrest, it seems others are routing for his freedom. Snowden has gained a following of supporters. A petition has been put in place to have the Obama administration pardon Snowden. The Petition says Snowden is a “national hero” and ”should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed.”

United States President Obama commented on the leaked information:

There’s a reason why these programs are classified.

I think that there is a suggestion that somehow any classified program is a ‘secret’ program, which means it’s somehow suspicious.

In order for the White House to respond to the petition, the petition is required to have 100,000 signatures.

The petition To Pardon Edward Snowden has to date received over 40,000 signatures.

[Source: Business Insider, Mashable]