Considering the fact that Big Concerts imho know little to nothing about South African rock bands, here’s a couple of my suggestions for the South African support acts.

Love Jones in Joburg – they did Cape Town last year, but we love them up here.
FotoNaDans – coming off an album launch it’ll be great to watch [...]

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Coke Fest is back. No, not the white powder up nose kind, the big red sugar water company kind.
Here’s the link to the details.
A seriously nice line up this time – Big Concerts are starting to figure this whole “big concert” thing out…
Korn
Muse
Chris Cornell
Kaiser Chiefs
Good Charlotte
The R600 burn in the back pocket for a golden [...]

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Brotherly chat.
Sent at 12:41 PM on Tuesday
Ryan: omg insane
downloading at 1.2KB/sec \o/
Shaun: holee cow!
peeps iz in my firewallz stealin mah intarwebz too
Ryan: so its not an iburst thing?
Shaun: no its an iburst thing too
they throttle per tcp stream, especially during the day
Ryan: its balls
Shaun: they don’t have enough bandwidth to support what they have sold
they [...]

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xkcd – a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.0

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Hugh MacLeod over on gapingvoid just posted the news that Google has bought Jaiku.
Here’s a quick description of the Jaiku product from their site:
“Jaiku is an activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones.”
And here’s a description of Dodgeball: Dodgeball is an SMS tool that lets you tell your [...]

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It’s an instant classic – a Wiki project to get The Bible translated into kitty pidgin (the language of lolcats):
LOLCatBible.
Here are a few class excerpts:
Mattehw 1:20: “But when he was tihnkin, zomg, angel frm Ceiling Cat was in his dreems! Angel sayed “Hai, don’t be fraided to has Mary for ur wife, cuz her baby [...]

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Isolation.tv just posted a quick review of the Joburg FotoNaDans album launch. Having seen this band live (at Oppikoppi) and having great expectations for this band I simply had to get my own copy right away.
But it’s late at night – the stores are closed, what to do? Well, not all stores are closed. A [...]

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