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My Stepmother Is An Alien

By 6000 | 6000 | April 5, 2012

…was a 1988 film featuring Kim Basinger (phwoar!) and Dan Aykroyd detailing the somewhat outlandish story of a female alien coming to earth and trying her hand at parenting. This obviously fictional movie should not be confused with the obviously very real story related recently by Councillor Simon Parkes, who was elected to represent Stakesby ward [...]

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Le Onde

By 6000 | 6000 | August 31, 2011

It might not seem like a big deal for many people, but I didn’t enjoy being stuck in hospital, even though it was just for a couple of days. I was bored, sore, drugged, a bit scared. It wasn’t nice. What kept me going was Ludovico Einaudi – more specifically his music – and even [...]

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Great Chromebook ad

By 6000 | 6000 | May 20, 2011

File under: Afford, Things that you wish you could. Google’s Chromebook sounds pretty revolutionary, but it’s actually just the natural progression to our new digital lives “on the Cloud”. With more and more stuff being saved, accessed and manipulated remotely, is there really any need to have anything other than a connection to the web? The [...]

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Flying news

By 6000 | 6000 | January 6, 2011

Another two parter – this time with airlines doing nice some altruistic (sort of) things for people. I like KLM’s surprise for social media users (spotted via @tara_lawson). And though it was just a bit of an experiment, it worked for them, with over a million mentions on twitter alone. Someone, somewhere will be able to [...]

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Five stars

By 6000 | 6000 | December 10, 2010

When it comes to catching on to social media and the internet as a marketing tool, I think it’s fair to say that some of the more traditional industries have been a little behind the curve. I’d include wine-making in that category, but it does seem that some SA wineries are beginning to realise not just what [...]

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