TIME Magazine have announced their prestigious Person of the Year, and this year there might not be enough seats in the awards venue, given the scale of their award. So, who took the title?
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In a bid to get rid of all of the possible visual triggers of her ex-husband Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez has gone on a spree to eliminate all items from her life that may remind her of him.
It’s always nice when researchers employing a loosely scientific method produce results you were more or less expecting. Folks at the University of Portsmouth have determined that loud music makes people want to drink alcohol in greater quantities and at a much faster rate because the music makes it taste sweeter. Science!
HEMA, a Dutch department store has cast a man in its new lingerie campaign. They claim that their latest push-up bra will give females “two extra cups”. And they seem to be telling the truth, as pictures reveal his “no-cup” chest appears to have been augmented up to a B-cup.
Sacha Baron Cohen, the man that brought us Borat, Ali G, and Brüno, has just released the trailer for his latest offering – “The Dictator.”
Well, it’s nice to see that the House and Senate can agree on something. Although in this case they’ve agreed to a provision snuck into the U.S. military’s 2012 funding bill that grants the military power to conduct “offensive” strikes online — including clandestine attacks. And won’t that be fun for everybody.
The 27th day of December 2011 is a public holiday throughout the Republic in terms of section 2A of the Public Holidays Act, declares Presidency in response to Union petition.
Well, not really. But North Korea has issued a stern threat to their southern neighbours, warning of “unexpected consequences” if South Korea initiates “psychological warfare” by lighting up any Christmas trees near the north/south border. As opposed to, you know, the actual warfare initiated by the north when they shelled one of the southern islands.
Last week, Justin Bieber almost ruined the collective festive cheer of the entire world by announcing he was working on a dubstep album, but thankfully it’s still the season for giving, and a handful of awesome classic rock outfits have announced their plans to tour SA in 2012, effectively cancelling out the horror aftershocks of the Lesbieber’s awful, awful news.
Here’s some excellent news for everyone counting their annual leave days for the Christmas break. President Zuma may declare Tuesday 27 December a public holiday this year.
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The Melbourne-based Art Series Hotel chain is holding an art-stealing competition, starting this Thursday. For the next month, a signed print of Banksy’s “No Ball Games,” worth ZAR 125 500, will be hidden in different locations throughout the chain’s hotels. If people can find and steal it without getting caught, they get to keep it.
By now you must have heard of Nobanda Nolubabalo, the 23 year-old South African who was arrested in Bangkok on Monday. She is accused of being a drug mule and was allegedly carrying 1.5kg of cocaine, hidden in her dreadlocks. Photos of customs officers searching her hair have since appeared online. See them after the jump.
Space probe Voyager 1 is about to do what no man made object has done in our history. It is about to burst through the outer reaches of our Solar System, almost 11 billion miles from the Sun.
Critics adored the adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s sprawling fantasy epic, Game Of Thrones, and so did audiences around the world. So, imagine the frenzy when HBO dropped this little number on YouTube.
The sirens go off, the lights flash, you blink in disbelief as you try to comprehend what has just happened – you’ve won the slots jackpot at a casino! Your mental shopping list is already on its third page when an elegantly dressed gentleman taps you on the shoulder to inform you it was a system glitch.
True to the pledge it made back in July to digitally archive images of the parts of Japan affected by the March earthquake and tsunami, Google has uploaded imagery of post-earthquake Fukushima to Street View. They’ve also set up a ‘Build the Memory’ website which compares before-and-after shots of the affected towns.
Pockets Warhol is white-capped capuchin monkey. He has been given that name because he uses his tail, hands, feet, and of course, a brush, to daub canvases with his own unique artistic paintings. Pockets has become a money-spinning machine for bosses at at Story Book Farm, a primate sanctuary in Canada, with his paintings selling for as much as R3 500 each. See examples of his work after the jump.
Internet meme vultures, Know Your Meme, recently posted their favourite ten online memes of 2011. Here we present the crème de la crème of wasting time on the internet.
Australia’s military is becoming notorious for its culture of drinking and sexism. Which is probably not much fun if you’re a woman. A senior naval officer has just been convicted of no fewer than seven counts of indecency without consent. He’d been engaging in some pretty questionable behaviour in the workplace, including spanking a female sailor’s bare buttocks to “test her discipline and compliance”.
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Meet the Freebord, a cool skateboard that completely changes the way you ride. It’s a little bit longboard, a little bit snowboard, and a whole lot of awesome. Check out a video after the jump.
Santacon is a thing that happens in San Francisco every year; people dress up as Santa Claus and get very drunk. Public nudity is also legal in SF. So it makes sense for this year’s Santacon to have been an attempt at setting a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of naked Santas ever.
This clip, taken last year, is believed to have been filmed at the Olympic Game Farm in Washington. It features a huge Kodiak bear waving back at sightseers and has quickly become a hit on the internet. Viewers are particularly delighted by his cheery demeanour. I love how he gives that, “OH IT’S YOU!” look before waving back.
That’s according to Karlien Breytenbach (pictured), who went to school with the Oscar winner. She says that Charlize Theron is a liar and her recent statements about being bullied at school are false. On the contrary, apparently, “She was never bullied. She’s the one who bullied the other children.” Follow the link for more insight […]
The respective returns of J.R. Ewing and Jesse Metcalf! What’s not to love?
No matter how passive and opposed to violence you might be, there are times when you just want to hit something (or someone) to relieve some stress. Sadly this is not always appropriate behaviour in civilised society. Thankfully Old Spice has provided the perfect digital alternative.
It didn’t take long for the internet to respond to Perry’s ridiculously offensive ad. Besides over 120 000 dislikes on YouTube, here is a taste of the many fine parodies his bigoted nonsense stimulated, while his new videos have comment and rating functions blocked.
Bosses can be real dicks sometimes, refusing to give you the time off you need to attend your kid’s prize-giving at school, or when you just need some “personal time” to recover from that mid-week hangover. A man from the US has just hatched a great plan – by sending his local newspaper an obituary of his still-living in mother, you know, to prove to work that he was entitled to the time off.
It’s official – Earth and Mars are similar enough for terrestrial life to be sustained on the red planet. Australian scientists have confirmed that organisms from our planet can survive on a substantial percentage of Mars. This study is said to be the best estimate yet of how habitable Mars is for Earth-dwelling microbes.
A highly embarrassed Dutch architectural firm has had to apologise for its design of twin skyscrapers in central Seoul, South Korea, because they look pretty much like freeze frames of New York’s late World Trade Center, as both towers exploded. The design for the luxury apartment buildings has enraged families of the victims of the September 11 attacks.