Alas it’s a bit grainy. I had to put the ISO up high to compensate for the poor light.

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Indeed, over the irate comments of angry waiting passengers there was a strange repetitive bumping sound. That was the sound of hundreds, if not thousands of passengers being bumped from their original flights onto others. That then caused other passengers to be bumped from theirs and so on as the cascade [...]

A few days ago, I saw one of those ubiquitous “pay your TV licence” adverts that the SABC runs to fill up empty space. This one featured some local celebrity checking out a DVD rental shop, and explaining that even if you use your TV to watch DVDs and nothing else, you still need to [...]

Sorry I’ve only picked this up so late, but it seems that the government has issued a request for comment on the proposed name change of Johannesburg International Airport to Oliver Tambo International Airport.
I’ve written about the proposed renaming before, and my sentiments have not changed. I believe the renaming will be a colossal waste [...]

The Mail & Guardian’s group blog glorified forum continues to impress:

Those that still don’t believe in the New World Order…
It’s interesting how popular culture pre-empts future/current events.
It seems that a popular computer game by EA , Battlefield 2 has a new expansion set Special Forces. Read the marketing material:
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Basically it prepares the youth of things [...]

First the tragedy of Vanilla Coke*, and now this: the best comedy show on TV, bar none, is being pulled off the air.
The poor ratings of Arrested Development are testimony to the main problem with democracy: the nonexistent wisdom of crowds. This was definitely a case of the masses being too stupid to know what [...]

…has to be the “revelation” – seven months of the Department of Defence candidly mentioned it in their own publication – that the US used white phosphorus in the Battle of Fallujah.
Look, unlike a lot of pro-war bloggers, I’ve been rather reluctant to make the media into the enemy. In retrospect, it is obvious that [...]

According to some reports, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have been killed in a gunfight in Mosul yesterday.
It appears that American and Iraqi forces launched a raid on a house after receiving an intelligence tip-off indicating that high-ranking Al-Qaeda members, possibly even al-Zarqawi himself, were meeting there. The raid sparked an intense firefight, with the 8 [...]

Mbhazima Shilowa was quoted in Nova (a tabloid sold in Gauteng) as saying “There are a lot of critics of the Gautrain, but no one is giving any alternatives”.
This is preposterous. Of course there are alternatives. The most commonly cited one is to upgrade Metrorail, so that maybe the trains will run on time and [...]

Initial thought: Israel is screwed. Sharon can’t win on his own, Labour simply isn’t a serious governing party right now, and there are no obvious successors to Sharon within Likud. The Likud succession issue was always going to be a problem, but now Sharon has forced it to the fore. This is doubly bad [...]

I wrote the following in the comments section for a previous post, but I’ve decided to repost it on the main page because I am confronted with this issue so often that I feel it needs more prominence. So I apologise in advance for posting old content.
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For years now I’ve been hearing the claim: The [...]