David Shapshak Apart from leaving the world with his crazy, eccentric comic genius, Douglas Adams created an online version of his famous eponymous travel-guide novel, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The online version, h2g2 (www. h2g2.com), is named after the Guide and is every bit as brilliant as any of Adams’s off-the-wall novels. It […]
David Shapshak It seems almost silly to have a remote control for a laptop. But if you are doing endless PowerPoint presentations the infrared device is a very welcome peripheral. It even has a built-in laser pointer and is appropriately slick and silver, much like the laptop itself. The remote is one of the features […]
Pule waga Mabe Observers and role players within the youth sector expect the National Youth Commission (NYC) to be addressing issues of youth unemployment, HIV/Aids and apathy. But there is little sign of any direct action at the commission’s plush offices, where more than three directorates deal with policy, communications and finance. Its electro-magnetic doors […]
The reaction by the office of Peter Marais, the Democratic Alliance mayor of Cape Town, to the Mail & Guardian’s expos of fraudulent vote rigging in his campaign to rename two city streets is unsurprising. Marais and his acolytes have claimed that political opponents planted the forged votes with the M&G to discredit him and […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni South Africans who wish to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the June 16 Soweto uprising but cannot afford to attend the various events will for the first time honour the young heroes through cyberspace. The South African History Online project (Saho) has published a special multimedia, interactive focus on its website […]
Deon Potgieter boxing Day two of the New York trial that will shed light on the heavyweight division was completed on Tuesday, with the court scheduled to sit again on Monday. Promoter Cedric Kushner and former heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis are suing Don King, Hassim Rahman and Rahman’s managers, alleging interference and breach of […]
Peter Robinson cricket One of the least fearsome sights of recent weeks has been the United Cricket Board’s (UCB) disciplinary committee girding its loins to take swift and decisive action. Herschelle Gibbs should be able to vouch for that. Gibbs, who has been in so much hot water over the past couple of years that […]
Rumours of drug use surround the top runners for this year’s Comrades marathon Martin Gillingham If you can come to terms with the fact that the winner of Saturday’s Comrades marathon might well be a cheat then you’ve every reason to consider an entire Saturday spent glued to the box watching the 90km slog from […]
Andrew Gilder looks at the background to the launch of a performing arts network last week Some observers argue that human history has a cyclical nature that historical events recur over time. Most commentators use timeframes of centuries, or even millennia, to track this repetition. It is with a sense of ironic dj vu, therefore, […]
Wilhelm Disbergen In the current curriculum for social work at Unisa, homosexuality is defined as abnormal. In Unisa’s textbook homosexuality falls within a category entitled “Sexual Deviancy”. The description of homosexuality reads: “Most homosexual males pass for normal in society and only a small percentage are explicitly effeminate. Effeminate males feel a strong need to […]