Stalking Venus

Business Report’s top story of the morning is that (surprise!) our economy is still buggered sideways up the ass with a rusty steel rod. Warnings by Nedbank and African Bank Investments Limited (Abil) yesterday reckon that South Africans need to punch new holes in their belts because of the worsening situation.
Nedbank said yesterday that earnings [...]

Every time I watch American Idols, the only thing I’m really interested in is Paula Abdul’s pissed, crack smoking, mushroom munching, meth snorting mayhem.
I mean, the woman’s brilliant!
Here’s a YouTube clip from the latest edition of Idols, where Paula judges a song fairly coherently, but then it turns out that the song was never sung. [...]

Finally, the Apple iPhone is coming to South Africa!
Vodafone International announced today that they would be making Apple’s landmark cellular phone available later this year to ten different markets, including Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, Turkey and, (woohoo!) South Africa.
The phone will be tied to the Vodafone network, so [...]

Interesting interview with the artist here, via NOTCOT.

Back from holiday/vacation with…
Pic of the day!

You can call it Meth, Tik, Speed, Crank, Crystal, Ice, or anything else you want. Fact is that 4% of Aussies are using it. Technically, that means that four out of every hundred people you meet in Australia, are speed freaks.
This according to a study performed by the National Centre for Education and Training on [...]

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There’s a great little review over at the Universe Today website of the Celestron Skyscout ‘personal planetariam’. A gadget that can tell you all about the stars and other celestial objects you point it at.
From the review:
“Turn it on and GPS technology takes over. Within minutes, the Celestron Sky Scout had pinpointed my location on [...]