Microsoft has recently shelved its famous operating system, Windows XP. Let’s take a trip down memory lane: here’s the story behind XP’s iconic default background, “Bliss.”
To have a successful business it is vital to motivate your staff. Motivation is more important to a company’s success than employees’ intelligence, ability or salary. Here are four ways to motivate your kids, employees or spouse.
Hark! Worldly travelers should heed these hand signs. Knowing them might save you from landing in hot water with the locals. Crossing your fingers may be perceived in the west as wishing for good luck, but in Vietnam it’s a lewd sign for female genitals.
A couple of weeks ago Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg started a campaign to ban the word ‘bossy.’ But there’s an alternative. Instead of removing a word from language entirely why not start an informed dialogue around how the use of the word? Listen to what these little girls have to say about the word ‘bossy.’
This artwork takes a new spin on not remembering where you parked your car. Even if you remembered where it was parked, you might not be able to spot it. Check out how Sara Watson used paint to create an almost invisible car.
Throughout history, creatively inclined people have had to sometimes rely on a rich benefactor for financial backing, while their ideas are still in the teething phase. “Ideas Island” is project by Fredrik Härén which allows creatives to stay on one of three private islands for free.
Gangland thrillers, with their true-to-life characters and gripping storylines, are taking South African cinema by storm. Best-selling crime fiction writer Mike Nicol finds out why.
Watch out! This baby has a gun! Not really though, she doesn’t even know where the trigger is – dumb baby. This picture a dad took of his baby daughter with a bolt action rifle resting on her lap has caused a ruckus on social media.
If english isn’t your home language in South Africa, there is a very high chance that you speak more than one language. And if you do, take this moment to bask in the glory that is your superior brain.
Imagine a world without burgers – it’s scary, we now. This documentary created by Burger King features people that never knew burgers even existed trying them out for the first time. Our favourite is the guy who says he prefers seal meat.
Cap d’Agde is “village naturiste” in France. And no, you may absolutely not go there with your clothes on. In fact, they have fairly stringent rules. Check them out, after the jump.
Over a century ago, 600 Afrikaner Boer families left South Africa for remote Patagonia. This community survives to this day – but is on the verge of dying out. This is a teaser for the documentary feature film in production, The Boers at the End of the World. Follow the project, here. Read an extensive story […]
With the ancient Hindu festival of Holi having recently been turned into an excuse for wearing a tank top and throwing lumo paint in the air, we offer you few new festivals from around the world to try in order to stay ahead of the trends.
We know it becomes very cumbersome to lug around your death-ray from flat to flat. Urgh – and finding property in town with two bedrooms, en-suite bathrooms, with a pool big enough to house your sharks with frickin lasers can be such a hassle.
Woody Allen’s wit and nuances, coupled with his unprecedented work load, churning out one movie every year, most of them award winning, makes it hard not to like the short, spectacled filmmaker. But a dark cloud has resurfaced around Woody Allen’s past recently, due to an article published by Vanity Fair.
Never mind wife swap, this is body swap. Yes folks, there’s a device out there that lets you see, hear, and even feel what what it’s like in another person’s body.
The 56th Grammy Awards reunited Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr for a special performance of ‘Queenie Eye’ taken from McCartney’s 2013 album, ‘New’. The two Beatles members didn’t miss a beat and had the entire crowd of the Staples Centre in Los Angeles on their feet by the end of the song.
The 56th Grammy Awards splashed across television screens throughout the world last night, and there was good news for Daft Punk fans.
As the revolution in Kiev gets uglier and uglier, a video has emerged of riot police making a detained protestor strip and stand naked in the snow while they photograph him.
Facebook and Princeton University are embroiled in what will inevitably be the nerdiest standoff in history. A few Princeton epidemiologists got together, did some research, and published a paper on a very dubious premise: that if you look at Facebook as an infectious disease, then 80% of its hardcore users may well have “recovered” and abandoned the service by 2018.
Cecil Chao, the Hong Kong billionaire who oferred an initial sum of R650 million to the man who could win his daughters heart, has now doubled up his offer in a desperate attempt to ensure he has grandchildren.
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, otherwise known as the FLDS, is one of the most secretive and mysterious cults in America.
There’s nothing quite as fun as mocking old-school music videos. And Noel Gallagher does it best.
When was the last time you entered a corner shop that was locally owned and operated?
Andre Prinsloo and Ruhan Janse van Vuuren, the sculptors behind the newly-erected Nelson Mandela statue at the Union Buildings, have a secret hidden in Madiba’s ear. Because they weren’t allowed to put their signature on any part of the statue – they decided to take matters into their own hands – they put a little rabbit in there.
The Winter Olympics in Russia have not yet begun, but the scandals surrounding the games in Sochi started a while ago. One would think that hosting an international event in a country run by a despotic, homophobic regime would be a bad idea. Washington Post journo, Charles Lane seems to think so – he called the olympics a “corrupt quadrennial exercise.”
Snowden became one of the world’s most wanted men when he leaked information about the extent of the surveillance power of the NSA.
That’s right! We have a new world leader in the dumbest-ever-password category. And it’s… Well, its pretty daft.
More accurately, he’s aiming to eradicate the poverty, not the countries. Every year for the past five years, Bill and Melinda Gates have published an annual letter in which they tally the success or failures of their foundations, and set the philanthropic agenda for the next year. This year’s annual letter, which was released today, goes down a slightly different path. Rather than a letter, it’s more of a manifesto.
This is just glorious. As a stunning reminder that life in South Africa will never be boring, we present ‘Girl Met Die Polo’, by a local artiste named Arri. Just enjoy that over your lunch break.