Usher Stole OMG from Homer Simpson?

R&B star Usher has found himself in the middle of an bizarre plagiarism claim -- with people saying he's ripped off a song by Homer Simpson. Below is the YouTube video. It actually does sound the same. I can't help but laugh, Homer is a musical genius. :-P

Send 60-year-old astronauts to Mars on a one-way trip to save money, say scientists

Scientists believe the best way to colonise Mars would be to start by sending elderly astronauts on a one-way mission to the red planet.  Two scientists are suggesting that colonisation of the red planet would be faster and cheaper if astronauts behaved like the first settlers to come to North America - not expecting to go home.

The less said reason is because the mission would undoubtedly reduce a person's lifespan, from a lack of medical care and exposure to radiation.   Radiation could also damage reproductive organs, so sending people of childbearing age is not a good idea, Schulze-Makuch said.

Mars is a six-month flight away, and it has surface gravity, a thin atmosphere, frozen water, carbon dioxide and essential minerals. 

Despite the lack of enthusiasm from NASA, Schulze-Makuch believes many people would be willing to make the sacrifice.

This sounds like a suicide mission, even though they say it is not. You get to be a trail blazer in mars colonisation, but you can never come back, your lifespan is reduced and you have very limited supplies.  Wonder how the sign up sheet is going...

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Road kill soft toys

With Christmas coming up what is more perfect than Road kill soft toys?  Makers say they make perfect gifts for sociopaths… and could be ideal for traumatising your little one on Christmas morning, though they suggest not gifting them to under 14s.  I would love to have on.  It would go perfectly with my Rayman's raving rabbids and happy tree friends collection. 

Currently there are three squashed-looking gruesome characters, Twitch the Racoon, Grind the Rabbit and Splodge the Hedgehog.  Bodybag and identity tag included.

See the website for more details

Road Kill

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Traffic cop's narrow escape from pack of wolves on freeway

Two Russian traffic cops on the freeway doing what they do best. Luckily a car with one head light out drove past and the one officer pulled him over. As he was talking to the driver they heard a noise and the weirdest thing happened.  A pack of hungry wolves came running out of the woods, straight towards them.  The officer jumped into the vehicle and closed the door in the nick of time. I would have loved to know what he was thinking. Afterward he slowly walked back to the police vehicle, leaving the perpetrator ticketless. 

The lesson learned. If you want to avoid getting a ticket. Organize killer wolves.

See video below.

Russian space guest house

A Russian firm has announced plans to open a four-room guest house in space by 2016. They say it will offer wealthy space tourists a more comfortable stay than the International Space Station (ISS). Wonder if they serve bacon and eggs.

The target group they are aiming for is wealthy individuals and people working for private companies who want to do research in space.

Guests would be transported to the guest house on a Soyuz shuttle. It is of  the same type used to transport cosmonauts to the ISS.  The first version of the guest house would have four cabins, designed for up to seven passengers, who would be packed into a space of 20 cubic meters (706 cubic feet). It would follow the same orbit as the International Space Station.

With Australia working on space beer and Russia working on space hotels, I would love to see what China and America is working on. It is just a pity I'm not a "wealthy individual". 

For more read this link

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Iron man suit

 

Being Iron man no longer seems to be a childhood dream, as the Raytheon’s second-generation exoskeleton (XOS 2) has been revealed.  The Exoskeleton XOS2 is said to be lighter, faster and stronger than its predecessor while at the same time using only half the energy.

The "wearable robot" has been developed for the U.S. Army.  It is built from a combination of structures, sensors, actuators and controllers, and it is powered by high pressure hydraulics.

Makers say it allows a wearer to easily lift 200lbs hundreds of times without tiring and repeatedly punch through three inches of wood.  

I must say if this is version 2, I would like to see what they come up with in a few years time. I can also imagine a bunch of people buzzing around in their "iron man" suits avoiding traffic and doing house hold chores.

For more info read here

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Space beer

Australia is about to release the world's first beer to be certified for consumption in space.  It will soon undergo tests done by Astronauts4Hire, a non-profit space research corporation,  in weightlessness. The beer has been specifically brewed for easy drinking in both microgravity environments, as well as here on Earth.

Testing is set to begin in November 2010 on board Zero Gravity Corporation's modified Boeing aircraft, which flies a series of parabolic arcs that simulate environments of weightlessness.


Even though this is the first time we're taking beer to space, we have in the past brought beer back from space. In 2006, the Japanese brewery Sapporo teamed up with Okayama University in Okayama, Japan, and the Russian Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Moscow, to create a special brand of limited space beer.

The brew, called Space Barley, was prepared using barley grown from seeds that had flown for five months on the International Space Station.
 
This is all motivate by the to be space tourism. Exciting if you ask me, it just sounds very expensive.

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Springbok Nude Girls - blue eyes

Most South Africans know the famed Blue Eyes by Springbok Nude Girls.  It has become some what of an nostalgic anthem, being used in multiple ads and sang by the masses.

The other day I had an interesting conversation as someone told me that the song is based on a father that kills his entire family and blue eyes is his daughter that got away.  He sing to her that he is coming for her and that killing her too is his ticket out. I was so shocked that I immediately played the song to find proof. As the lyrics played "Sorry to say the others didn't make it", "love you to death", "while I feed my arms for love murder", I realised once again how we sing along without knowing what we are singing.

I went online to try and find the bands opinion on the song and all I could get is a quoted letter to Honda, who used the song in one of their ads.

"The song’s lyrics do not speak of any specific incidence or endorse violence in any way. ‘Blue Eyes’ was written as a lament to the tragedy of family murder, a relevant issue in South Africa when we first released the song in 1997. The intention in the song is to describe the tragic emotion that ensues in a family through the intensity of facing its own destruction."

What do you think of this?

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Flying donkey

A donkey was attached to a parasail over the Sea of Azov in the in the Krasnodar region of Southern Russia, as part of an advertising stunt to attract holidaymakers to a private beach.

"The donkey screamed and children cried," police spokeswoman Larisa Tuchkova told AFP news agency.

This is one of the most shocking stuff I've seen in a while.

See original article

Monkey see monkey do

Looks like monkeys have caught the soccer fever. A monkey in Amanzimtoti was spotted blowing a vuvuzela.  The horror! Now you don't only see monkeys running around blowing vuvus at the soccer stadiums, but at your home.  If they can't bring you to the vuvus, they'll bring the vuvus to you.

Goodbye Bafana

Look! They even made a movie about it!

Goodbye Bafana. Well done in the SWC. GG. We are all proud.

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Ayoba!!

My company getting ready for the big soccer kick off today!! Ayoba!

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Hyundai's giant vuvuzela

In keeping with Hyundai’s “Bring the Gees” message, their agency The Jupiter Drawing Room has constructed this massive Vuvuzela on the unfinished bridge in Cape Town.


I would definitely not want to hear this thing blow. :-P

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World cup soccer schedule

With the world cup of soccer starting this week,  I found an excellent display of the schedule.

This handy display has the schedule categorised in the following views.

• World Cup 2010 Schedule
• Cities and Stadiums
• National Teams
• Groups and stages

Check it out HERE

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Boy Survives Moose Attack Thanks To World Of Warcraft

Hans Jørgen Olsen, a 12-year-old Norwegian boy, recently survived a moose attack by using his "feigning death" skill.

In World of Warcraft, "feign death" is a skill acquired by hunters at level 30 that allows them to take a page from the possum playbook, collapse to the ground, and convince their enemies that they’ve died.

During a walk in the forest near their home, Hans and his sister apparently enraged a local moose. After shouting at the gigantic creature to ward it away from his sister, Olsen dropped to the ground, and presumably his lifebar plummeted to zero.

Who said games are bad for you?  As proven by this story, the skills acquired by playing games could save you life, event if they are fictional skills.

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Counterfeit R200 notes in South Africa

If you are in South Africa or you are planning to visit South Africa soon, I would like to warn you of a little counterfeit situation that came to play a few weeks ago.

There was an issue with the counterfeit R5 a few years ago, which wasn't as serious because they only presented issues at vending machines. Now we have counterfeit R200 notes. The guy who did it didn't even do a good job, but if you don't know what to look for you could be a victim. Lets be honest, we don't walk around with UV lights in our pockets. Apparently these notes came from within the bank...

There are many differences between the real R200 note and the counterfeit one, but you won't notice the difference if you are holding the counterfeit in isolation and you don't know what to check. I have attached a picture of the real R200 note and the counterfeit one, the top/first note on the picture is the real one. If you end up with one of these notes, here are a few differences to look out for:

* The counterfeit R200 notes are signed in orange and are written 'president governor' and the legitimate ones are signed in grey/black and written 'governor' at the bottom of the signature,

* The counterfeit note has a big R200 printed on the top right hand corner of the governor's signature whereas the real note has R200 printed on the top left and bottom right corners with smaller fonts,

* The counterfeit R200 note is about 3mm shorter than the real note,

* The silver strip that runs across the R200 note is thinner on the counterfeit note and thicker on the real note,

* The counterfeit notes are more orange in colour than the real notes.


Good luck. Hopefully your money won't get inspected at the bank like ours did last week.

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Happy National Cleavage Day!

Today is the day in south africa that all the woman strap down and let them loose. It is National Cleavage day!

Have a great one! ;-)

TigerText, the iPhone app for cheating

TigerText is a new iPhone app that is ideal for cheaters and spies. Sent messages can be deleted on demand or be set to automatically vanish after a specified period. A "delete on read" feature starts a 60 second countdown when a text message is opened and then erases it at zero. This sounds a bit like inspector gadget, with a bit less exploding.

TigerText messages cannot be saved, copied or forwarded by recipients.

Apparently the name has nothing to do with golf star Tiger Woods, who recently admitted to having multiple affairs and was rumored to have been found out thanks to some steamy text messages. The name instead refers to actual tigers. Whatever ;-)

According to them "Tigers are notoriously difficult animals to track," the software makers said, noting the app was being launched in the Lunar Year of the Tiger. "TigerTexts are difficult to track as well."

While reading messages is free, the service costs $US1.49 per 250 messages sent monthly or $US2.49 per month for limitless messaging. I'm not desperate enough to pay that much, but I guess if you are earning in dollars or if you have millions, this seems cheap.



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Marvel Ant-Man to be release in 2012

I know we were joking about the mighty ant and his amazing strength earlier this week. Apparently we were on to something.

Edgar Wright is planning to direct an action movie based on the marvel comic Ant-Man, which is going to be released in 2012.

On February 9, 2010 Stan "The Man" Lee, the co-creator of Ant-Man, met with Wright for lunch, and Lee proudly recapped on his Twitter feed with two intriguing tweets: "To make up for my previous grievous error, here's a little item that may have escaped you. Marvel is prepping a movie starring-- Ant Man!" and "I had lunch with the cool, young director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and, as you'd imagine, we had fun discussing the tiny hero."

On February 11, 2010, Edgar Wright told MTV News, "Because that character isn't one of their biggest properties, it’s not like a tent pole deadline. It’s more like me and Kevin Feige saying, 'Let's make a really good script.' We've always agreed on that — 'Lets make a good script that works, that’s all about a great genre film, and that isn’t necessarily relying on anything else.'"



The story of Ant-Man started when Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym uses his latest discovery, a group of subatomic particles, to create a size-altering formula. Though his first self-test goes awry, he develops an instrument that helps him communicate with and control insects. Through further research he invented the various methods for someone to reduce their size and assume the identity of Ant-Man, armed with a helmet that can control ants.



I don't know if this is going to be any good. It is suppose to be more action and less of a comedy as in the case of the fantastic four, but be honest, a tiny ant man runny up a gangsters nose... Comedy!

Is being tiny and controlling ants really that useful? But then again, I didn't read this comic. Maybe Ant-Man can save us from the 2012 doomsday. :-P
Would you watch this?

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A dedication to 2009 - DJ Earworm

I would like to dedicate this to the year that has passed. 2009 was lots of fun filled with lots of new people. To all of you, DJ Earworm - United State of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop


Love
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