Awesome parody satire site Hayibo.com relates Mbeki’s comments on Mugabe:
“That’s why I sold every last shred of moral high ground the ANC had after 1994 to keep him out of the International Criminal Court in The Hague,” said Mbeki.
“Now I realise I was just like Amy Winehouse and he was like Blake. They wanted to [...]
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Mbeki on Mugabe (via Hayibo.com)
Google Zeitgeist 2008 for South Africa
For those of you interested in seeing what South Africans search for, here’s the Google Zeitgeist 2008 for South Africa. It’s actually quite boring in some places. I mean who googles for yahoo? Or googling for facebook? Or the worst – googling for google? An indication perhaps of immaturity in South African search usage? I [...]
Coldplay’s Costly Creativity?
Did Coldplay plagiarise Joe Satriani’s work? They claim they didn’t, but the Youtube video says otherwise.
Quiverful? Seriously? Dumb Religion at its Best
I don’t actually want to get into any religious debate – I’m not a fan of organised religion in any form. However, sometimes you read something that just comes across as stupid. These “Quiverful” families basically hold that they will keep on breeding so long as God keeps them fertile.
The Duggar family now has 17 [...]
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Lefsetz Tells the Music Labels How It Is
Congratulations major labels… You’ve marginalized yourselves! Wanting everybody to pay for music, suddenly few are. And all the money is on the road. And why should an act give you a share of its road money, you’re not agents, you don’t know how to do it, you only want to skim the cream from the [...]
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Diamonds are only De Beers’ Best Friend
Ever since watching the absolutely horrifying Blood Diamond (the movie where Leo DiCaprio can for like to talk wif a Souf Efriken accent), I’ve had a rather bitter taste in my mouth when it comes to any glassy rock, and their biggest monopolistic producer, who, it is claimed, deliberately stockpile the rocks to increase scarcity [...]
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