Topic: colour

Lekota compares ANC to National Party of the old days

November 17, 2008 by evl

Lekota says that the ANC is being like the National party was during the times of apartheid. Lekota said: (from IOL)

"There is great fear here. People are terrified, just as they were under apartheid, when the ANC was banned. During that time, if the National Party government discovered what was in our hearts and minds we were arrested, lost our jobs, and some even got killed,"

I am not that old but I can remember the National Party. I dont have a opinion though i might have been a bit young to realise what was going on. But according to them it was bad, and now the ANC is doing the same to the Congress of the people. The closer the general election comes of 2009 we are starting to see the true colours of the ANC. According to IOL Lekota also said:

"Many people who wanted to be here have not come, after seeing what happened at the other meetings. "People think that if they come to these meetings the people in government will discover they were here. When people are afraid of a party, it means it no longer represents them,"

The 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa mascot, Zakumi

October 5, 2008 by clyde

So last night the new SA mascot called Zakumi was unveiled in a badly lit TV broadcast. [caption id="attachment_14776"; align="alignright" width="283" caption="ZAkumi - The South African 2010 Mascot"][/caption] 2010 World Cup Soccer hosted in South Africa brings the worlds eyes to South Africa once again, but at least this time its in the view of a 14 year old kid inside a Leopard Suit, called Zakumi, the new face of 2010 South Africa. The mascot entered through a beaded curtain Monday in Johannesburg. But what the heck does that mean? Well the first two letters of Zakumi are the country's initials in Afrikaans (one of South Africa's 11 official languages) and "Kumi" means 10 in many African languages representing the year of the tournament. Tim Modise, spokesman for the South African organizing committee, said zakumi can also be understood as "come here" in southern African languages. SO WHATS THE BIG DEAL? Zakumi was created by Cape Town-based artist Andries Odendaal. The predominantly gold colours - subtly incorporated with green and white, with the letters "South Africa 2010" across his chest apparently represent the country's wealth and hopes for 2010 and the prickly dreadlocks are meant to give him the edge over his fellow cats. [caption id="attachment_14777"; align="alignleft" width="307" caption="Zakumi bouncing around on the badly lit sound stage for the camera."][/caption] Zakumi's costume was produced by Cora Simpson who produced Simba the Lion and Dazzler, the official Mascot for the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Zakumi also joined the ranks of SA's born-free generation as he was accorded with the birth date of June 16 1994, meaning he will turn 16 in 2010.

Kitanica Mark IV the best jacket ever for geeks and off course bomb technicians

September 16, 2008 by evl

The jacket Adam Savage often wears on Mythbusters is one of the coolest looking jackets ever. Wearing this people will give their attention to you even if you dont deserve it. Might have a few hassles at a US airport but for the rest it looks pretty cool.

This jacket is made to be basically indestructible. It's got tons of features, almost as many as the iphone including a place to put your iphone.

Functions include:

Spine pad

Rifle Coil and some other stuff

Comes in 4 colours

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WP-Cumulus tag flash plugin for Wordpress

September 7, 2008 by evl

This plugin looks amazing. You can even customize the colour, the width and the length of how it looks. This plugin rotates your tags at the speed you set it. As the plugin page quotes

WP-Cumulus allows you to display your site's tags, categories or both using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D. It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting. Clicking the tags can be a little hard (depending on your speed setting) but does take you to the appropriate page :).

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/