If you have not yet seen the awesome  “Look at your man” Old Spice advertising campaign, you’re certainly missing out. This has got to be some of the most appealing advertising I’ve ever seen. And that’s definitely not because it features a half-naked man. Each video just has the right dosage of humour and “wow” to snag your full attention. Some bloggers even managed to get the personal treatment from Old Spice, which shows Old Spice have their head in exactly the right place.

But it gets better, through some editing from the video below you can now get your own custom Old Spice Guy voicemail at http://oldspicevoicemail.com. There’s a version for the guys too, which means this might actually tempt me into actually activating my voicemail.

So you’ve manged to score an overpriced ticket for the game. You’ve found your way to the stadium, bought your ridiculously overpriced beer and found your seat far back at the top of the stands. The game begins, and within minutes, even from a point as far away from him as you can possibly get, you see a guy who is paid more than you’ll ever earn in your entire life plainly and deliberately acting up a foul instead of just playing soccer? That’s not cool. Ever.

I say harden the fuck up, pussy boys. TIA, Africa is not for sissies. It’s time to remove the mistaken decisions, introduce some TV-refereeing and penalize those players who try to cheat.

If a team filled with prima donnas get through to the final I will be well upset.

Apart from the old Street View being launched in SA, Google has also introduced a few other treats in anticipation of the soccer World Cup.

For instance, if you search for “World Cup” on Google, you get a summary schedule of upcoming matches, as well as a list of teams and pools. If you then scroll further down the page, you’ll see this beauty:

Nice one, Google.
Oh, and Bafana supporters, don’t forget to tweet with tag #WhenBafanaWins to get onto the When Bafana Wins microsite.

Barely scraping it in by the skin of their teeth, Google has managed to get its Street View imagery operational for South Africa just in time for the World Cup. Yay! No more lost tourists.

They’ve also done a huge amount of work in the Google Earth platform to create 3D imagery of all the stadiums which looks quite beautiful:

Over and above the 27 towns and cities photographed, the cars and trikes also made over 40 ‘special collects’ of imagery at special locations.  Amongst others, these include:

• For sports lovers:
  • Soccer City
  • Loftus
  • Moses Mabhida
  • Peter Mokaba
  • ABSA Durban
  • Mbombela
  • Wanderers
  • St Georges
  • Supersport Park

• For outdoors lovers:
  • Cape peninsula
  • Natal Midlands
  • Kruger
  • Addo
  • Tsitsikamma
  • Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens
  • Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Midlands
  • Tsitsikamma
  • Wilderness
  • Harkerville Forest
  • Kagga Kamma Nature Reserve
  • Blyde River Canyon

• For city lovers:
  • Nelson Mandela Bridge
  • Vilakazi Street
  • Gandhi Square
  • Walter Sisulu Square
  • Newtown and Africa Museum
  • Adderley St and St George’s Cathedral
  • Beach Road, Cape Town
  • Company Gardens
  • Apartheid Museum
  • Turffontein Race Course
  • Settlers Park

• For wine lovers:
  • Meerlust
  • Jordan Wines
  • Rustenberg
  • Klein Constantia
  • Bouchard Finlayson
  • Morgenster
  • De Wetshof
  • De Rust Estate
  • Warwick Wine Estate
  • Vilafonte Vineyards
  • Hamilton Russell
  • Fairview

Usually being African makes life a little less digital, but this time, thanks to Google, it’s good to feel like a 21st century citizen.
More at: Google Street View South Africa.

According to news site MyBroadband, Google has now announced that it will launch Street View Imagery in South Africa on Tuesday, 8th of June 2010, in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

A quick glance at maps.google.com show’s they’ve already uploaded some higher-res imagery of parts of SA. Presumably we can expect views of the World Cup stadiums, possibly inside and out, as well as a trip through the Kruger National Park and perhaps one or two other exciting highlights.

More details about the service will be revealed at a media event on 8 June.

Here’s a short clip from the TTXGP series currently running in North America. While it is probably just as fast and dangerous and even as exciting as any normal motorbike racing, the sound sure leaves something to be desired…

[Via: Wired]

In a show of support for the South African national soccer squad, Bafana Bafana, it’s time for South Africans to rise up with speculation on what will happen when Bafana wins matches at the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

Visit the When Bafana wins microsite.

Like to contribute? Use the #WhenBafanaWins hashtag on twitter and it might just get picked up and published.

Ricky Gervais will be suitably impressed with Greg Viljoen’s portrayal of the “boss figure” in this South African tribute to the legendary The Office. It had me grinning ear to ear. Let’s hope this promo gets the attention it deserves to be turned into a full-on series.

It seems the financial analysis gurus(?) have come to the soccer World Cup party, with a few mathematically modelled predictions for the winner of next month’s world cup here in South Africa.

“JPMorgan, which described the report as “an opportunity to lightheartedly explain quantitative techniques,” applied a mathematical model, built to screen and identify stocks, to soccer. It used data including bookmakers’ odds, official FIFA world rankings, previous results and the match schedule to predict a winner.”

If they’re right, then we really did not need to spend ridiculous sums of money on infrastructure and stadiums, did we?
Let’s hope this maths hasn’t taken all the unpredictability out of the sport.

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