Saturday, January 18, 2025

Friday Morning Spice

Virgin Active’s R26 Billion JSE listing. Family won’t ‘drop’ Henri van Breda. Taiwan plane crash survivor tells all. Child porn found in Vatican. Pandora stock tanks 20%. SAPA to close. Finland dropping cursive handwriting from schools.

Friday Morning Spice

Massive news for Virgin Galactic. The ANC is giving Adult World so much free PR. Scientists insist e-cigs are the way forward. Charlize compares celebrity pitfalls to rape. Kimye appears publicly as married couple. Someone has just bought the LA Clippers.

This Beautiful Blonde Student Is Auctioning Her Virginity

Bizarrely, there still seem to be men out there willing to spend millions of Rands on auction, to take the virginity of willing women. Why that would appeal to them, we don’t know. But it doesn’t seem to be stopping. Meet ‘Elizabeth Raine.’

Thursday Morning Spice

Brit TV company to buy Virgin Media. Mamphela Ramphele might launch political party next week. Google to sell ads on Yahoo. White SA beggars make R10k a month. Largest prime number found. Africa Cup of Nations semi-final wrap for dummies.

Beautiful Brazilian Woman Sells Virginity for R7million In Online Auction

A Brazilian woman who is trying to raise funds for her village has sold her virginity online for $780,000. The 20-year-old phys-ed student will be deflowered by a Japanese businessman. She argues that she is not a prostitute as she will only do this once. Follow link for full story, video and pics.

Skrillex Teaches Richard Branson Dubstep [VIDEO]

There’s probably not all that much that dubstep DJ Skrillex, and billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson have in common. Yet, this past Saturday, they shared a musical moment when Branson had a brief introduction to dubstep DJing.

Virgin Galactic Spaceship To Make Farnborough Debut

The 48th annual Farnborough International Airshow promises to be a special one because a version of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo – a two-pilot, six-passenger craft capable of sub-orbital travel – is scheduled to make its European debut at the show.

The World Without Richard Branson [Infographic]

Richard Branson is the most prolific, if not the best entrepreneur in the world. Having grown his company from nothing, he is now the man behind commercial space travel – quite literally proving that the sky is not the limit. Forbes paid homage to the man with an infographic on what the world would be like without him.

I’m Seriously Considering Going To Space

That’s right, I am officially considering it. I spent some time with Virgin Galactic‘s Commerical Director, Stephen Attenborough (no relation, but an appropriate coincidence, nonetheless) the other day, as we shot the breeze at the Mount Nelson hotel. ETV News captured our conversation, so keep an eye out for the Tech Report on Thursday nights (channel […]

Round-Up Of 2012’s Better April Fools’ Jokes

April Fool pranks played by people tend to be either cruel or embarrassing. April Fool pranks played by tech companies, however, are charming and endearing attempts at being funny for one day every year – and this year’s haul of PR stunts is actually pretty good. Check them out after the jump.

Virgin Atlantic Wants to Circle the World on Second-Hand Carbon

Virgin Atlantic announced that their planes will soon be able to fly from London to Hong Kong on fuel that produces half the carbon of regular jet fuel – which is sort of huge news, given that flying is one of our most carbon-intensive activities, enough to offset any good otherwise done by unplugging unused appliances or whatever.