Well, the power of the South Africans on the internet has been proven. We're taking your women, jobs and now board games too.
The big push by various South African bloggers, me included, to get the most beautiful city in the world - Cape Town - onto the World Edition of Monopoly has paid off. Cape Town rocketed from not even…
Do you quite happily fire off text messages to your mates because they're quick, easy and more importantly cheap? Well maybe it's time to think again about the cheap part.
There was a program on TV a couple of weeks ago about the costs of sending text messages (SMS) and the scientist on the program calculated that the cost of sending…
Voting is over for the main contenders in the "Monopoly Here & Now Edition" online "vote-athon" and thanks to some great publicity by fellow South African bloggers (here, here, here, here, here and me) and Facebook users, I think Cape Town is sure to be on the new board.
It's now time to cast your votes for my hometown, Johannesburg, in…
Looks like everyone is taking heed of the South African blogs and voting for Cape Town. Check it out, up to 4th already.
Keep up your daily votes and who knows, maybe Cape Town will come out tops. Oh, and don't forget to nominate "Johannesburg" for your wildcard choice. It's up to 9th now.
Hasbro, the makers of Monopoly, is launching a new "Here & Now World Edition" and is inviting everyone around the world to vote for the greatest cities around the globe. The 22 cities with the highest worldwide votes will make it onto one global Monopoly board.
At the moment it's looking like a "Who's Who" of European capitals, with the odd…
This is very cool, and quite cheap and simple to do. It's quite amazing the games manufacturers haven't thought of this yet, but now this video is out, I'd expect to see some pretty awesome Wii games coming soon.
There was absolutely nothing on TV last night, so I started flipping through the channels. Whilst doing so, I stumbled upon a home shopping channel selling these things - Window Wizards:
From the way they describe these things, you'd think they've only just been invented and are the next best thing since sliced bread (aren't they always). But sadly, this isn't…
As is common in a lot of households in the UK, Sunday evenings at 8pm is TopGear time. For those who don't know, TopGear is the best car program I've ever seen and it's broadcast on BBC 2 every Sunday at 8pm. This week's episode has got to go into the history books as one of the funniest episodes of …
These Japanese think of everything. Apparently, they've discovered that during severe epileptic fits, the brain can get itself very worked up. So much so that it actually gets hotter and make the fit even worse. So how do you think they solved the problem?
Just like you would with a computer - slap a heatsink on it. Now I don't know…
Well, the power of the South Africans on the internet has been proven. We're taking your women, jobs and now board games too.
