Late yesterday afternoon, and once more in the early hours of this morning, the hashtag #kidnapping began trending locally on Twitter. Multiple tweets claimed that a child had been kidnapped from the leafy Cape Town suburb of Newlands, and a red VW City Golf Velocity with the registration STW048GP was identified as the getaway car. It has since been debunked as a hoax. More after the jump.
There’s nothing we love more than incredibly lame fake video, and this one is a doozy. An engineer surveying for a planned road claims to have taken video of an actual wooly mammoth crossing an icy river in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia.
It was announced earlier this week that rock n roll legends Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be performing at this year’s GRAMMY Awards. If you don’t know who the above mentioned is you have no business calling yourself a music lover and you have my deepest sympathies.
It’s always great to see epic acts of bad-assery, and this one is pretty bad-ass. A photo taken in 1936 has emerged showing a man standing amongst a dockyard full of people, all giving the Nazi salute. What makes it so cool? He’s just standing, arms crossed. Full size pic after the jump.
Eight years after leaving his home country, this Congolese refugee can finally say his expectations of a better future in South Africa have been met. Fernando Brice Olivier Ogadi, 35, has just received a job offer in the profession he is qualified in – as a school maths teacher. His new employer noticed him in a parking lot giving free maths lessons.
See, it turns out that Google doesn’t actually know everything about your online browsing habits. But boy, they’d sure like to! Which is why they’re rolling out two services that records users’ online activities in full, in return for Amazon gift cards or – in the sightly more intense version – hard cash.
One Chinese family in Xinxiang City, Henan Province has gotten the Year of the Dragon off to a stellar start, producing the heaviest newborn ever recorded in China, weighing in at a whopping 15,52lb, or just over 7kg!
This thing. Is the coolest thing. Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner is going to overcome his dorky name by leaping from a balloon at a height of 36km, and 35 seconds later become the first person to break the sound barrier during free fall. Then he’ll probably deploy his parachute and land safely in New Mexico.
A teen surfing in the wake of a yacht off the Gulf of Mexico was pleasantly surprised when two animal friends decided to join him. Watch this very cool video – featuring a pair of curious Bottlenose dolphins swimming and jumping beside the boy – after the jump.
The Eastern Cape branch of the ANCYL has proclaimed that they will ignore Julius Malema’s suspension from his chairmanship of the Youth League until the final mitigation of sentence can be decided upon, or at least until a pronouncement can be made at the ANC national congress in December.
Sure, Marvel dropped their ‘Avengers’ trailer during the super bowl too, but if there’s one thing Marvel likes it’s making money, and nothing makes money like overstimulated comic book movie fans. And this trailer for Marc Webb’s ‘The Amazing Spider-Man,’ starring Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone, is very, very stimulating.
Very clever McDonald’s. The fast food giant has introduced eco-advertising to its marketing strategy – in the form of a seed bomb campaign by designer Sean Click. It’s not the first time the technique has been used, but the ingenious part of the McD’s seed bomb ad that has blossomed on the side of a California highway is that its removal would probably be illegal.
The owner of Bronx Nightclub, Bruno Bronn, was found dead in his Green Point home this afternoon. Eyewitness news published the following: His domestic worker made the discovery when she arrived for duty on Tuesday morning. The woman who discovered the man’s body is currently giving a statement to police. Speaking to Eyewitness News, one bystander said they […]
Old Spice is so powerful, it sells itself in other people’s commercials. No, really, true story. If that’s still not enough for you, then how about Terry Crews’ pecs making super cute laser sounds? Video after the jump.
Inbetween all the hoo hah around last minute touch downs, Madonna’s cartwheels and Clint Eastwood’s voice overs, Marvel dropped this little gem during the much hyped Superbowl XLVI this past weekend.
Oscar Pistorius has won the 2012 Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Award. This after he became the first amputee to win a non-disabled World Championship track medal, as a member of the South African silver medal winning 4 x 400 metres relay team in South Korea. See a list of all the other winners inside.
So! Die Antwoord’s new album, TEN$ION, is coming out tomorrow – the first release on their new, Interscope-free, indie label, ZEF Records. Which is cool. Even cooler is the fact that it’s available for free streaming on Dutch broadcasting channel 3VOOR12, in case you’re somebody who likes free stuff. Listen here.
Just in time to save our flagging New Years resolutions to get in shape, here is some February oomph courtesy of an unfortunate Pretoria man who was so obese at time of death, that it might not be possible to bury him.
How did you get to school in the morning? Did your mom take you? Did you take the bus? Or did you ride a bike? Being the crazy bicycle fanatics that they are, it comes as no surprise that the Dutch have created the world’s first pedal-powered schoolbus, capable of taking 12 kids to school, solely on their own steam.
You may never have heard of TV celebrity and author Zanele Mbokazi. It would mean you’ve never watched SABC1’s Gospel Gold show, for which she used to be presenter, but anything’s possible. However all of that is beside the point. Because Zanele is now even more famous for something else: helping to bust some very naughty SAPS officers on Sunday.
Yesterday, OK Go released their new music video for Needing/Getting, which doubled as a Super Bowl ad for the Chevy Sonic. The band drives a Chevy fitted with retractable arms down a 3km stretch of desert lined with 1 000 instruments to perform a version of “Needing/Getting” that took four months to prep and four days to shoot.
There is simply no stopping Die Antwoord. After dropping a new video and introducing their daughter to the world, they can now also tick appearing on David Letterman AND modeling for Alexander Wang off their bucket list.
Hot off the press in Iran this morning comes a report that the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran has added any and all toys derived from The Simpsons to a nationwide ban list, which includes Barbie dolls and assorted products.
An 83-year-old woman has successfully had her lower jaw replaced with a 3D-printed model by scientists at Belgium’s University of Hasselt. This is the first such implant in the world, and was a much faster process than traditional artificial implants – we’re taking hours instead of days.
Yesterday’s 46th Superbowl in the States, which saw the New York Giants eke out a last minute 21-17 win over the New England Patriots, also saw an unprecedented surge in activity on social messaging phenomenon, Twitter. To the tune of 10 000 tweets per minute, that is.
Capetonians lost their collective faces when they were woken by a rare pre-workweek thunderstorm this morning. This shot was snapped shortly after the storm dissipated, by Twitter overlord, Alex van Rensburg – @Oolex. And the following shot was taken by 2oceansvibe emperor, Seth Rotherham, from Camps Bay’s vantage point.
Douglas Mallett, 23, won a Golf GTI in the fading light of the Cape Town Tens rugby festival over the weekend. This post could also be titled: “How To Kick A Rugby Ball At A Crossbar…Like A Boss”.
It is very, very dangerous being ambassadorial these days. Probably moreso if you were ever one of Muammar Gaddafi’s diplomats. Libya’s former ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, died during detention by armed militia in Tripoli – and judging from the autopsy, it was not a merciful killing.
OK Go did a song about the primary colours on Sesame Street. No other band would make me care about this, but OK Go are sort of the kings of viral videos. So click through for some stop-motion, a new track, and primary-coloured theme outfits. No spandex this time, though.
Fresh off the multi-million dollar catastrophic failure that was Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, comes news that a musical version of Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 classic time travel trilogy, Back To The Future, might be in the works.