I wonder if Julius knows what an interwebs is… cos the interwebs sure knows who he is:

Clearly the new BMW S1000 RR has a few tricks up its sleeve.
Real or not? I can’t be sure, though I suspect some hidden “German engineering” was involved – nothing on the table seemed to move at all.
When I tried this with my Fireblade last night it turned into a whole lot more fun than that clinical German solution. Broke all my chinas.
Note the baby wheelie at the end – this bike doesn’t really let you wheelie.
Besides all that, having ridden the bike, I have to admit it is an amazing machine at an amazing price.

State of The Internet

Cool stats in this short interweb summary.

So in anticipation of a quiet Friday, here’s a collection of links to the most interesting of the past few weeks: (Actually just an excuse to clear up some browser tabs!!).

• A (Photo) History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things
  Sometimes being the POTUSA has its advantages, sometimes it doesn’t…
• The 40 Most Sexual Photos from the Olympics
  Kinky stuff indeed.
• Backdoor Corporate Sabotage with DNS
  Another relatively-obvious-in-hindsight corporate espionage scenario
• Parking Strategies
  Because some lazy people, really, really need to read this.
• Setup Your Own Proxy Server in 5 Minutes For Free (with little to no technical knowledge)    Because Corporate Internet Proxy Filters are misguided, misdirected and usually misconfigured too.
• Lyricstraining helps you learn foreign languages through music and lyrics of songs.
  The interface on this is, quite simply, brilliantly done… and yes, it is fun.
• Understanding Credit Card Numbers
• How To Write Your Own Facebook App in 5 Minutes
  Build a Facebook app – make millions of dollars, in theory, anyway.
• The Man Your Man Could Smell Like
  If you haven’t seen this, where have you been?
• The Age Old Question: Is It Better To Rent or Buy A Property
  America specific discussion, but still handy for getting your head around the details.

We Are The World 25 For Haiti – Official Video

Massive disaster strikes, the world needs something to rally around, so what do we do? We take a dead pedophile’s song and a bunch of new artists and re-sing it in the hope that it will do something to fix the disaster, or at least make us feel better about things. Yes, that’ll work! That’ll fix everything. I’m so glad someone thought of that. At least we didn’t need to write a new song…

Seems rather pointless to me, but make your own mind up I guess.

Ok, so it’s kinda like my job a labour of love and tribute to talent to make sure their website DieAntwoord.com stays up and running all perfeshinal and serving poes-cool next level beats and pics, so today I saw they’ve updated with 20 Fun Facts About Die Antwoord (It’s on their “About” page.) Here are a few of my faves:

1-NINJA, YO-LANDI and DJ HI-TEK made all their music, music videos, video stings, photos, and this next-level interwebsite all on their own with the help of some good friends.

3-NINJA has a secret fairy forest tattoo on left arm that he covers with bass. (Isn’t that “heavy bass”??)

5-Yo-landi’s mom cuts her hair, but she gets her hair dyed at SCAR HAIR. Yo-landi says: It’s always important to remember your roots.

7-NINJA likes Dolfins.

10-ZEF is a unique South African term that has been around for fuck knows how long. This term was made famous 10 years ago by a next-level interwebsite called WatKykJy.com.

17-NINJA does not sit like a doos with a koki pen and draw every single one of his tattoos on in the exact same identical place every time he has to be in a photo or a music video or a rap show you fuckin idiot, or wait…maybe he does. Jissis!

19-DIE ANTWOORD raps for the Chosen Ones.

Visit the site for the rest: DieAntwoord

Die Antwoord – Zef Side

If you’ve been hiding under a rock, or at the bad end of a TelkomADSL line, heads up because musical genius trio “Die Antwoord” has just exploded all up in the interwebs. And by explode I mean EXPLODE!!!!

Yes, according to site logs they’ve been pushing up to 280 Gigabytes of traffic from their site in a single day. (Yes I host the site, which is how I know).

Check their website here: Die Antwoord, and sommer Youtube a bit for their other videos.

News of the day is that the script kiddies have gotten hold of the admin passwords for Gauteng’s Department of Local Government content management system and decided to add some Arabic flavour.  A message “Hacked by CeCeN Hack Team” now greets visitors to the previously unknown site. The message extends further with:

“Allahu Ekber! denmark israel asshole Americas – 45 thousand people will give account – Hooray Chechnya”.

I like the background music though – that was a nice touch! Visit the site here or a screengrab here if it gets switched off.

Elaborate hoax
Industry experts, however, are calling the hack “an elaborate hoax”. Some claim the “hack” is simply a carefully crafted “viral marketing campaign” to try and get the website its first visitor. South Africa, they say, with a mere 400 000 broadband subscribers, simply has not had the internet penetration that would see people visiting a bland local government website instead of getting their usual facebook fix, and so a drastic approach was developed to pump up the traffic to the government site.

Only time will tell if the approach works, or if the site will simply return to its previous anonymity.