Remember the surfer from a while back that rode the world’s biggest wave? I thought he had pretty big balls. Turns out he ain’t got nothing on this guy.
Last month, Google Maps’ Street View functionality started displaying photos of retail spaces’ interiors; now Google Maps itself is headed indoors, too, with a proposed Google Maps Floor Plans feature. This would mean Google maps of airports, shopping malls, and other buildings that you might somehow be able to get lost in.
In a blow to those with shy bladders, a UK company has piloted a new urinal entertainment system that allows the pee-er to play a video game on a LCD screen positioned above the urinal, using their pee stream to control the game play.
A scene which could’ve come right off the pages of Slumdog Millionaire took place at a Mumbai train station recently when a citizen-initiated flash mob erupted in the midst of commuters.
An American gun club has invited children and their families to pose for pictures with Santa Claus – and a high-powered firearm! They are able to choose between grenade launchers, assault rifles and AK-47s. The picture, taken against a festive backdrop, will then feature on a holiday card. Afterwards, the families also get a chance to test out the machine guns.
Akio Toyoda, Toyota’s president, described the freshly-unveiled Fun-Vii as “a smartphone on four-wheels,” which sounds like something you would say to describe a car with lots of gadgets. Except Toyota’s new concept car, unveiled ahead of the Tokyo Auto show is like a smartphone on four wheels because it has giant touchscreen doors.
As World AIDS Day approaches, health advocacy groups and charities across the developing world are tightening their belts following an announcement by the The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria that the expected 11th round of funding due in 2012 would be cancelled due to “resource constraints”.
Nearly 10 000 people dressed up in zombie gore and wandered through Mexico City this weekend, in a bid to set the new world record for zombie walks, which is a thing. Once verified by Guinness, the walk will blaze past the previous record of 4 093 zombies, set in New Jersey last year.
John Carpenter’s 1982 ice-bound identity horror fest, The Thing, is one of those films that grew on audiences and critics hearts’ as the years passed since its mediocre initial reception. Let’s see if 2011’s ice-bound update get’s a less chilly reception.
Fully equipped with a personal submarine, a helicopter that nests in a hydraulically operated hangar and water cannons, the PJ World Yacht is the ultimate floating luxury mansion that you’ve always dreamed of… and will never have.
The first person to fly with a pair of jet-propelled wings, Yves “Jetman” Rossy, recently completed a flight over the Swiss Alps in formation with two jet planes. Wearing a pair of wings and four jet engines, Rossy jumped out of a helicopter and flew alongside the jets using his body movements to perform midair […]
Who says politics can’t have a pretty face? This last weekend, Lance Weyer, a DA councillor from Buffalo City in East London walked off with the title of Mr. Gay SA at the Grand Finale held at Gold Reef City in Gauteng.
This is one of the most powerful videos I’ve seen in a long time.
A couple of “Natty Light” enthusiasts approached the brewer, Natural Ice with the idea to make the mediocre frat-house beer slightly more remarkable by making it the first to be sent into space. Their spacecraft’ was a styrofoam cooler, a GPS tracking device, and an HD camera, launched into space with a weather balloon last week.
Disgraced High Court Judge, Nkola Motata, has filed papers at the Pretoria High Court demanding his job back. Given his indiscretions, however, he might be about to hit a brick wall… again.
Facebook, the social network we all love to hate. Already in its seventh year of existence, the online community has managed to connect everyone with everyone, even if they barely know one-another. For exactly that reason, many people have gone about culling off some of these Facebook “friends”, and while it freed up their newsfeed, it left others scorned.
Kristina Rei from Russia clearly never watched that Absolutely Fabulous episode where Eddie tells Patsy that your lips should always be smaller than your face. She has just had her 100th botox injection – bringing her total expenses on these procedures to R50 000 so far. Her quest is twofold: to emulate cartoon diva Jessica Rabbit, and have the world’s biggest pout.
Here’s a first look at the cover of the upcoming issue of ‘Life With Archie’, featuring Kevin Keller and his husband Clay, being cheered by the Archie gang after tying the knot.
Art in South Africa tends to suffer from two things: landscape oil paintings, and the expense of awesome, contemporary art. Enter, stage left, a company named “Like Limited Edition”.
Three prominent gender rights organisations met with Mandla Mandela yesterday. This, after he made statements regarding South Africa’s sexual age of consent last year, saying that when it comes to culture, the sexual age of consent is a “white, Western notion.” He was specifically referring to the ukuthwala practice, where girls as young as 14-years-old are abducted and forcefully married to older men.
Porsche is designing a $650-million, 57-story highrise to go up in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Which isn’t that big of a deal. What is pretty insane, however, is the fact that the highrise will feature a robotic car elevator that takes condo owners directly to their door while still in the vehicle.
From April next year, the SA Treasury will cease production of the current five cent coin and will issue a new look 10 cent coin that is more cost effective to produce.
It’s been a while since we hung out at the Planet Bar. And when I say “hung out” I mean arriving there at lunch time and leaving at midnight. Because that’s what we used to do. Then time got lost and some years went by, and now I see Cape Town’s coolest lounge/champagne bar is […]
As part of what is the ‘most rigorous’ form of non-custodial punishment, a young offender was told to write an apology letter for his crimes. Instead, he took the opportunity to mock and insult his victims.
The Brothers Streep were recently seen on Idols, where they poked a bit of fun at some of the show’s more controversial moments and characters. And before that they performed live for Anna Paquin on the Graham Norton show. This time they tackle the ANC’s steamrolling of the Protection of Information Bill in parliament this week. Check out “The Secrecy Bill” after the jump.
Google seems to be dabbling in the censorship game too, these days. They’ve added sites like The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, and 4Shared to their “blacklist”, which doesn’t prevent the pages from showing up if searched for, but does prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete services.
A few nights ago on the Bill O’Reilly Show on Fox News, anchor Megyn Kelly claimed that pepper spray was a “food product”, essentially. If an online petition has its way, she may literally be forced to eat her words.
A Thai man has received a sentence of 20 years in prison for committing computer crime and lese majeste – insulting the monarch – which is a big no-no in Thailand. In fact, insulting a Thai king or queen is dealt with more severely in that country than just about anywhere in the world.
Joyce Evans is an American news anchor for a local station in Philadelphia. She recently became a bit more famous when a vintage clip of her back in the 80’s surfaced online. After signing of a report in perfect English, she waits a couple of seconds, and then… No, rather watch for yourself. Trust me on this one.
This shouldn’t be surprising to anybody, but it’s probably good to be reminded. A study by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism that surveyed the top 100-grossing movies of 2009, and found that only 32,8% of the 4 342 speaking characters were female. Let us remember that 2009 was the year that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen came out.