This song has already been thoroughly taken to task by memesters – we’ve seen versions of it sung by goats, rabbits, the wine press lady… The list is endless. Now you can ad subway violinists to that.
Facebook Home’s most current video is slightly easier to understand than a few of their earlier efforts – the only problem is that that message of the ad has been roundly rejected by The People of The Internet.
The Bay Side area of Silicon Valley attracts crowds of successful entrepreneurs to settle down, owing to its close proximity to a concentrated cluster of hyper-successful tech companies. And boy, do sex workers like this neighbourhood
Art work by Kobus Myburgh, showing President Jacob Zuma and former president Nelson Mandela as white has been removed from an art exhibition scheduled to open at the Van Riebeek Hall in Nelspruit yesterday.
Sam Parnia is the head of the intensive care unit at Stony Brook University Hospital, New York. Sam can resurrect you from the dead. In fact, he’s done it a few times.
Atlantic Fog Time-lapse from Eric Nathan on Vimeo.
Photographer Eric Nathan captured the fog rolling in over Cape Town on Sunday evening, and the results are glorious. Check out the amazing time lapse video, after the jump
Google Executive Chairman, Eric Schmidt claims that everybody will be online by 2020, which he stated on his Google+ account this Saturday.
We’ve all seen them being sold in trendy home stores, and coveted, hard. Perfect for getting back in to your cocktail habit, these swing chairs are novel, and comfortable. And the stand is genius. Check them out
For years, science has agreed that plastic waste is destructive for our environment , but not according to Somerset West inventor, William Graham. To Graham, the tons of plastic waste produced by our society on a weekly basis is an ever-growing stack of gold
Obama makes announcement. Gold tanks. China posts disappointing growth figures. SA gives Zim close to R1 billion. Google boss worried about drones. Twitter buys music company. Bitcoin mining bad for environment. Massive Wordpress hack.
Reports are coming in about a massive explosion at the finish line of one of the world’s most famous road running races – The Boston Marathon. Some publications are saying there was one explosion, others two.
In a titanic effort to become the single most hated South African on the internet, convicted criminal and occasionally bankrupt nightclub owner Kenny Kunene has confirmed that he sleeps with underage girls, and loves being “raped” by women.
I was given the heads up this afternoon that local DJ, Damian “Dplanet” Stephens had created a meme from a photo of me with two friends. Check out the gallery below. Which one do you reckon’s best?
There was a time when “somebody hold my baby” was just a line from a standup comedy set. Thanks to the convergence of smartphones, public transport, and the internet, it’s now also a line from a real-world YouTube video
Following South Africa’s disastrous military intervention in the Central African Republic, reports have emerged that South Africa and France are heading for a diplomatic showdown on commercial and political interests in Francophone Africa. This, and more on the M&G Newsroom podcast
Finally it’s here, the trailer for the second installment in the popular Hunger Games trilogy. The MTV Movie Awards was the stage for the premier of the official trailer for Hunger Games: Catching Fire, this last Sunday. Katniss Everdeen is back with her thousand yard stare, and it looks like she’s in just as tight a spot […]
Kmart have taken to YouTube to promote their new shipping service, and they have nailed it by encouraging customers to “ship my pants”. Say that fast. There isn’t really much more we can say about this, apart from the fact that the child is a real highlight.
The GoPro 3 Hero Edition is hot fire, and is widely regarded as the single best ultra-portable camera in the world. In the WORLD. Now’s your chance to get one, for less. So, go ahead and do that.
France got their own taste of an epic, Hollywood-style Prison Break this last Saturday, when one of their most notorious gangsters, Redoine Faid escaped from prison. Faid has claimed that his crimes are inspired by Scarface and Heat
The British Government’s former top advisor on narcotics, Professor David Nutt has claimed that the global financial crisis of 2008 was caused by widespread overuse and abuse of cocaine in the finances industry.
When do you think it will dawn on Oscar Pistorius that he is hanging with the wrong crew? When do you think he will take a step back and see how this looks to people who don’t own guns, and don’t admit to pumping bullets into occupied bathrooms?
You’ll have heard a lot of finance types talking down the usefulness of Bitcoin as a currency, and/or a commodity in the last few weeks. The guys over at the Joy of Tech have nailed the central thesis of why no one’s listening to those Finance types
A lot of people are not enjoying the feature on Whatsapp which let’s everyone know when last you checked Whatsapp. It’s especially annoying when people have written to you and now know that you are ignoring them as your ‘timestamp’ says you were there..
This video has had over 52 million views since it launched on Friday evening. That’s much more than 500,000 views an hour, which makes Psy almost as big as cats on the internet.
First Australian to win Masters. DA calls for police brutality probe. Pick n Pay, Checkers and co. fingered in meat scandal. George W Bush becomes grandparent. Bieber’s Anne Frank comments panned. Alonso wins in China. Snails as big as rats in Florida.
The sure skill and balls of the driver – who submerges his vehicle completely under water water for a good minute or so, is what gets him into our Boss Hall Of Fame
On Friday former South African president, FW de Klerk accused President Jacob Zuma of using apartheid to cover the ANC government’s failures. These remarks came after Planning Minister Trevor Manuel told Zuma that apartheid could no longer be used as an excuse
This image of North Korean soldiers wearing massive platform heels was taken on Thursday while the “lady-guards” (who make up 10% of the North Korean army) patrolled the banks of the Yalu River.
It’s here! The Taste Of Cape Town festival kicked off last night, and those of you who think it just happens to be about fine dining need to readjust your perceptions before you’re suffering from a massive case of FOMO on Monday morning. In general, you can expect gourmet food from a laundry list of […]
Identical twins, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have amassed the single largest portfolio of online currency over the last six months, and it’s all in Bitcoins. The Winklevii, as they are better known, say they own nearly 1% of all available Bitcoins.