In a recent study, researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University detailed how Facebook erodes users’ privacy. Researchers found that during the first four years, users steadily limited what personal data was visible to strangers within their school network. Yet through changes Facebook introduced to its platform in 2009 and 2010, the social network actually succeeded in reversing […]
Cape Town club, Tiger Tiger is giving away a R30 000 breast augmentation surgery for “National Cleavage Day”. The club, which has branches across the country, posted this to their Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon. National Cleavage Day – one of the biggest events of the year – 2013 NCD going to be MASSIVE!!! National […]
If you have, like me, sufffered from migraines at work, then you need to read this. After two weeks of suffering I went to the doctor, obviously fearing a tumour. It took all of 10 seconds for him to ask how I sit at work, and diagnose that my poor posture was causing neck stress, […]
President Obama might have a little bit of animosity heading his way if people take doppelgängers too seriously. On Saturday, right wing political pundit and television show host, Glen Beck pointed out the uncanny resemblance between the president and the character of Satan in the History Channel’s The Bible miniseries. Anyone else think the Devil in #TheBible Sunday on HIstory Channel […]
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Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg recently called on creatives to devise a better plan for communication in New York to replace the mangy, disease ridden pay phones currently in operation. The goal of the project was to completely redesign the and rethink the pay phone as a platform for communication, as well as […]
Louise and Martine Fokkens (really?) have sucked everything they can from the prostitute business in Amsterdam. The twins are Amsterdam’s oldest prostitutes, but have officially decided to retire at the age of 70, after being in the business for more than 50 years. It is estimated that between the two ladies, over 335 000 men […]
Bodies dating back to the era of the Black Death have been unearthed during excavations for London’s Crossrail project. A black plague burial ground was long rumoured to be in the area, but the exact location was unknown. Thus far 13 bodies have been found in a 5,5 metre wide shaft at the edge of […]
St Patrick’s Day celebrations were in full swing on Sunday all across the world. Check out the gallery, featuring a dazzling array of Irish people, and people who desperately want to be Irish people engaging in pub brawls and street parades. Even the Obamas celebrated in front of the White House. The building was illuminated in green for the occasion. […]
Fear not, I will not be ranting here. I will not spend 1000 words frothing at the keyboard about the abysmal, facile, corporate, lackluster, insulting, sell-out winelists that do not deserve the bad laminating they have.
Ever wonder at what point in the pope’s life he chose to literally take a leap of faith and become a priest? When Pope Francis was just the wee age of 12, he had a relationship with a woman named Amalia Damonte. Now 76, Damonte has decided to tell the world about their “love-affair.” When […]
We’re only a few days into Pope Francis’ papacy, and already red flags are being raised, linking the Pope, and the role played by the Catholic Church in the brutal military dictatorship of Argentina. Both the Catholic Church and Pope Francis have been accused of complicit silence during the “dirty war” that was waged on the […]
According to odds given by Paddy Power, the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina for Pope was highly unlikely, with the Irish bet makers offering a 33-1 stack on Jorge becoming Pope. But Bergoglio is the hero the Catholic church needs, even if no one cares whether they deserve it or not. Pope Francis […]
D-Rod just can’t stop himself from visiting secretive rulers in tiny, controversial countries. Yesterday, Dennis was spotted outside the Vatican City. Fresh off his tour of North Korea, where he befriended dictator Kim Jong-Un, Rodman is in Rome – and the Vatican – to promote Irish gambling company, Paddy Power. Although Rodman stated that he […]
The Rally Fighter is the first production race car to be designed and built through internet crowdsourcing. The muscly car turned heads as it drove through downtown Austin, flaunting a new, bright orange paint job and steer horns mounted to the grill. John B Rogers, the President of Local Motors – the car company that […]
Last night white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel, signalling the election of the new Pope. Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was the chosen one to lead the Catholic Church, and was officially sworn in with the name of Francis. But everyone knows that by now. If you want to be the one to impress your friends […]
Ok it’s not really Woody Allen, but damn Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina looks a lot like the Bullets Over Broadway director! Anyway, the new guy is 76 years old and is also the first non-European leader of the church in more than 1,000 years.
Incredible scenes today, as our first ‘Naughty Hipster’ who was spotted in The Loop, Cape Town, has come forward to claim his pair of Puma shoes. As per the competition rules, the photographer only gets the Puma shoes if the hipster doesn’t come forward within 24 hours. Here is his proof.
Wow, you will be very impressed with this week’s Naughty Hipster Of The Week winner. The tight pants were great, the beard and elf shoes were awesome, the shades at 8am on a rainy day were killer. But it was the headband that really sealed it..
I don’t think shopping has ever looked any easier. All of us have had a run in with the shopping demons, there can be more than a few things that make our day at the shops more stressful, for example: Not being able to find something specific in the shopping isles Looking for something that […]
Let’s be honest, you probably haven’t made plans for the Easter Weekend yet. It’s a long one, and it deserves something special, but work has been so hectic since the new year kicked off, and you honestly haven’t had the time to call up a handful of B&B’s in Paternoster. And then you’re wrestling with […]
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found evidence that ancient Mars could have supported organisms, and they may even have thrived. Curiosity touched down on Gale crater a little over seven months ago. The crater had been identified by satellite data as a possibly inhabitable environment. The results were returned fast, with Curiosity discovering an ancient riverbed […]
I have been thinking quite a lot about Pinot Noir lately after having written an article on the grape for a local magazine. I feel that I can usefully reconstitute some of those points here in slightly stronger language.
The obituary of Harry Weathersby Stamps, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s former Dean has gone viral. “Harry Weathersby Stamps, ladies’ man, foodie, natty dresser, and accomplished traveler, died on Saturday, March 9, 2013,” was the opening line of Stamps’ obituary. Each of those traits were later detailed. The obituary reports Stamps loving smart women, from his […]
Are you quite good at spotting hipsters? With their beards and tight jeans and tweed jackets and pipes? Then you could win a pair of Pumas every week. And if you’re the hipster in our weekly competition, then you could ALSO win a pair of Pumas.
Apparently Britain’s elite, celebrities and Olympic Gold medalists choose Nando’s. The first woman to win a gold medal for boxing, Nicola Adams celebrated at the popular food restaurant. And footballers earning £25 000 (R330 000) a week, choose Nando’s as their after training meal of choice, not to mention Rihanna, Britney Spears and Lewis Hamilton. In […]
Marcial Maciel Degollado, a priest from Mexico is a walking contradiction. He was the greatest postwar fundraiser for the Catholic Church, and its greatest criminal. Pope Benedict XVI described Degollado as “A life … out of moral bounds,” and a “wasted, twisted life.” In the 1940’s Degollado founded the religious order, The Legion of Christ. Degollado […]
We spotted an article on BusinessInsider about a Reddit post which showed a search for high and low end retailers, as a way to define a city’s rich and poor areas. We did the same thing, pitting Woolworths against Shoprite. Here are the results:
For over four years, the BBC searched the African continent to find and film unfamiliar wildlife, surprising behaviour and new landscapes for the BBC’s new Africa series. The Africa series is however drawing to a close, with only one geographic still to be covered on BBC Knowledge, DSTV Channel 184. Episode one was filmed […]
Recently, a hacker gained access to self-portrait artwork painted by the former United States President, Georg. W Bush The self portraits framed Dubya in the shower and bath, and they were so, so awful. It has now surfaced that the person to blame is Bush’s art teacher, Bonnie Floods. Floods reportedly spent a month teaching […]
While Sharai Mawera and an unidentified fisherman friend were making the beast with two backs in the middle of “a bushy area” somewhere in Kariba, Zimbabwe, they had no idea that another beast was lurking in the distance. Actually, seven beasts were lurking. The pride of lions attacked the couple, and unfortunately Mawera could not get away. The […]