One more, coz it’s Friday. Which means I’m too lazy to type long article-type stuff. Kinda like most other days lately it would seem…
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Source: Pilfered from theCHIVE.
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Some folks need their heads read: apparently you can now treat yourself to sushi at a cost of $2,750. “Why so pricey?” I hear my local Ocean Basket branch whine. Well, good Sirs, it’s due mainly (okay, it’s due pretty much TOTALLY) to it being covered in gold and diamonds. Take a look:
BornRich.org described it like this:
All I can say about this is: “Why? WTF is the point of covering your chow in gold and diamonds?” Pretentious knobs, the lot of ‘em! — I’ll be sure to give this self-indulgent stuff the attention it deserves as I munch on my Marmite-on-toast I’m planning on feasting on tonight. Jissis. Take a look at these pics of an abandoned mental asylum in New Jersey. That place would scare the kak outta you on a moonlit night. The institution in question is a New Jersey State Hospital located in Morristown, NJ, USA, and was built in the 1870′s. Known as Greystone Psychiatric Hospital it’s probably safe to assume that the very next day it was considered by all who passed by to be ‘as scary as f@ck!’
Click the first of the below images to open up the rest of the gallery: — How they ever managed to get out to tell their tale before the ghosts got them is anyone’s guess. What? Apple’s in the news for a change? Surely that can’t be so. Believe it folks – it has been a whole 3 minutes since Apple last dominated the world’s technology news. Here’s the latest:
3 million iPads sold in less than 3 months Despite numerous folks asking what exactly the point of Apple’s iPad is, fans have clearly found a need, nay a devotion, to the thing. According to Mashable:
Not too shabby. By the way, I see you still haven’t bought me one yet. What exactly is the delay? Maaitjie FAIL.
First iPhone 4 reviews coming in According to Wired some tech journos managed to get their hands on the new iPhone 4, and their reviews are starting to come in. Here’s the crux of it:
Detailed enough for you? Yes? No? Maybe? Unfortunately the majority of the snippets deal more with moaning about America’s (apparently) rather rubbish AT&T network – seeing as the phone is locked to them, a la Vodacom here in South Africa, – and less about the phone itself.
The iPhone 4 goes on sale tomorrow (Thursday 24 June) in the US, the UK, France, Germany and Japan. And in South Africa? Who knows… Just incidentally, I want one. In case you were wondering. So whenever you get around to buying me that iPad you promised, feel free to throw in an iPhone 4 for good measure. Thanks, you’re a legend! Until now that is.
An enterprising site has released Phoneballs – that’s right, a silicone cover for your iPhone with ummm… balls. According to the manufacturers site, the features are as follows:
So as per the final point, it’s all for a good cause. Get your iPhone a set in either BlueBalls or PeachFuzz.
Classic! 10 points. — C’mon – it’s not that complicated people!
Ever tried hitchhiking? I know I did during my wayward youth. It’s not something I’d recommend – you wait for literally hours before anyone will give you a lift, and for good reason: in this day and age of dodgy folks you never quite know:
My experience in thumbing a ride from Pretoria to Johannesburg over 10 years ago was a long drawn out affair as I spent literally hours watching cars zoom by while the drivers mumbled something along the lines of “Get a car you useless hippie!”. Well one guy has taken the whole concept of hitchhiking a step further, as explained by a post on Luxury Logistics:
Good luck mate. It’s a valiant effort, if a little misguided – we all know know who’s gonna be raising that World Cup trophy aloft on 11 July, and it sure as Hell ain’t England… — As reported here last week, Google Street View South Africa launched today. Naturally it took me all of 4 seconds to type in my address, and lo and behold, there was my house! How cool is that?
And of course there’s my brother’s car parked in the driveway. He’s clearly there to raid MY fridge and watch MY satellite television. Get a job! Let’s all just try to ignore the Psychiatric Hospital marked on the little map in the corner though, okay? Running this site has not driven me completely batty. Yet. Of course it’s nice to know that if I ever do feel the need to skip up and down the road while wearing a tutu and hurling insults at random pot plants for their plot to enslave buttercups help is not too far away… For those of you who have never used Street View before you can simply change the orientation by clicking the compass and literally follow the road along to see exactly where you need to be going, a la:
No more crappy cartoonish maps for me, no Sir! Go try it out for yourself: http://maps.google.com/. Not all the major intersections and places you’d expect to be available appear to be so, but I assume it’ll get there eventually. I imaging that a feature like this is constantly being updated.
Another feel good animal-friendship story for this cold Monday morning…
There is a YouTube clip of the two available on urlesque, the source of this post, but alas, National Geographic have blocked access to it outside of their main territories. Where those territories are and end evades me, but it does work in the USA. Or at least I assume so, or they wouldn’t have posted it, né? Additionally, Sky News has a 12 photo slideshow of the pair. Go have a look. Anyway… ag cute.
Images sourced from a previous urlesque post about these two. —
The hippopotamus and the tortoise…
Apparently Facebook has wound a couple of folks up one too many times. If you’ve been following all the skinner and skandaal in the news about the constant changes to Facebook’s security systems you’ll be aware that things may be ever so slightly lax over there. With this in mind, some users formed a petition-style site aimed at getting as many people as possible to delete their Facebook profiles on Quit Facebook Day – today, the 31st of May 2010. Why they couldn’t just simply harrumph to themselves and quietly delete their own profiles and be done with it I’ll never know. We all know how much everyone likes a good protest, né? At the time of writing the site had 26 084 cranky profile-owners signed up and ready to go. Hey Buddy – perhaps if you didn’t feel the need to put every single detail of your mundane existence all over the web you wouldn’t be so concerned… 26 000 out of approx 400 to 500 million users… whatever will Facebook do? Fascinating. Yawn… UPDATE: Tuesday 1 June Where are the banners? Where’s the “CONGRATULATIONS! YOU DID IT! NOW BUGGER OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE!” welcoming Flash animation (with customary booms and whizzes of course)? Hmmm? Boring. |
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