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Great Ad

By 6000 | 6000 | March 7, 2012

This ad for DollarShaveClub.com is very amusing and makes some very interesting points. Michael Dubin (that’s “Mike” in the video above) describes the video as very irreverent, smart, fun, very Internet… DSC has already raised over $1m in venture capital and despite its rather mundane product offering, it might well be one to watch.

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192 Shoreham Street

By 6000 | 6000 | March 7, 2012

Wow. I love this conversion of an old warehouse near Sheffield city centre. “The upward extension replaces a pitched roof, creating three duplex studio offices within a powder-coated steel volume that both overlaps and bites through the original brick structure. A new restaurant and bar occupies the double-height warehouse space below, where it benefits from light through the [...]

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Cosatu march route: Cape Town

By 6000 | 6000 | March 6, 2012

Via the Mail and Guardian: Cape Town Cosatu march, Wednesday 7th March 2012 from 10:30am. The route for the Cape Town march against labour broking and urban toll roads on 7 March 2012. Cosatu expects up to 30,000 people. Traffic disruption will start during late morning rush-hour, but the crowd should be dispersed by mid-afternoon. [...]

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ARGH!

By 6000 | 6000 | March 6, 2012

In today’s news: Religion forces science teacher to quit A science teacher at an upmarket Cape Town school has found herself at odds with senior staff over her desire to teach evolution in science lessons. She said that the teachers in the school’s science department were mainly Christian and that she was reprimanded over teaching the [...]

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When Fracking Goes Wrong…

By 6000 | 6000 | March 5, 2012

Saw this on twitter and had to share… When fracking goes wrong the environmental impacts aren’t as severe as when coal mining goes right. — Francois Fourie (@FrancoisFourie) March 5, 2012 This after an Econometrix report suggested that if estimates of the amount of shale gas under the Karoo were confirmed:  …it could provide the [...]

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