The MSP mailing list is crawling with satire regarding the president’s resignation and Zuma. Laugh about these clowns while they’re funny, soon we’ll see the destructive effect of the current situation on the economy. Let’s hope the crisis is resolved before any more damage is done to the economy. Here’s a couple of the good ones:

It looks like Kader Asmal was right, Zapiro always has the last say, this time his satirical controversial comics made headlines all over the world.

BBC: SA rape cartoon is ‘derogatory’

The Independant: Zuma camp vents fury over rape cartoon

Newsweek: Zuma’s Cartoon Character

Volkskrantblog: Vrouwe justitia verkracht in Zuid-Afrika

Rue89: Afrique du Sud : un caricaturiste déclenche la colère de l’ANC

Actually all I wanted to say is, congratulations Zapiro!

A picture says a thousand words, but a well designed comic has the world on fire when the underlying message conveys the truth. If the ANC wants to sue Zapiro for his satirical masterpieces, they will be fighting against the very thing that they were fighting for back in the days when they were labeled the outcasts. Jonathan Shapiro (aka Zapiro) told the BBC that it was defendable if he so happens to face legal action from high above.

Time to go sanitize myself as I’ve defiled myself with politics disguised as a circus (For those of you that don’t know, I hate politics and I hate clowns!)

You ask, what’s so special about this super car? This super car can deliver blazing performance while at the same time use less petrol than your average super car, think in the lines of 17-20 km/l achieving 0-100 km/h in about 3.5 seconds, being able to go faster than 300km/h boasting with an impressive 450hp with dual turbos running an Acura V-Tech, V-6, Type S, 3.5 Liter power-plant from the 2008 TL TypeS.

The fuel economy is achieved using a build in electrolyzer powered by the alternator which converts water into hydrogen and oxygen (the mixture is known as brown gas), this mixture is then directly sucked into the engine where it is burned with the fuel which burns the fuel cleaner than an engine without hydrogen injection, that means almost zeros emissions while a 30-50% increase in fuel efficiency.

Aaaaaagh, screw the specs, like Jeremy Clarkson says, the car can be super fast, if it doesn’t appeal to the eye, it’s worthless (If you’re looking for more specs, take a look at Ronn Motors’ website)

Here’s some pics to drool over, my opinion . . . my favorite car until now, the Lamborghini Murcielago suddenly looks like a museum piece from the 80’s, love the Scorpion’s look!!!

How long has amatomu.com been down? I’ve seen on Friday that somebody mentioned it on twitter.com, it’s been two days and still nothing, are they migrating or shutting down or drying their hair as seen in the Google search results?

According to my ping machine, the host is unreachable.

PING www.amatomu.com (196.33.227.230) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 196.14.75.242 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

— www.amatomu.com ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4001ms

(If you’re having DNS problems or need to check whether an URL is working and don’t trust your own ISP’s DNS lookups, this ping machine is exactly what you need, take a look at this topic for more information: http://forums.mycee.net/index.php?topic=836.msg1997)

Speculating at the amount of traffic that site is getting from South Africa, I reckon they are migrating to bigger servers, hope to see them back online soon!!!

I’ve just noticed a new tab in my GMail settings section, it’s a tab called labs where Google is adding experimental features to GMail.

So far I have:

Quick Links Adds a box to the left column that gives you 1-click access to any bookmarkable URL in Gmail. You can use it for saving frequent searches, important individual messages, and more - definitely a feature I’ll be using, it’s almost like a build in digg for Gmail.

Superstars Adds additional star icons. After enabling this feature, you can choose which icons you wish to use in the “General” Settings page - finally, the boring yellow stars was starting to limit me.

Pictures in chat See your friends’ profile pictures when you chat with them - will give it a shot, actually prefer the minimalistic version of the chat box.

Fixed width font Adds an option to the reply dropdown menu that lets you view a message in fixed width font - this will be great for viewing emails containing ascii art.

Mouse gestures Use your mouse to navigate with gestures. Hold right-click and move the mouse left to go to a previous conversation, move it right to go to the next conversation, and move up to go back to the inbox view. Works best on Windows - never been a fan of mouse gestures.

Signature tweaks Places your signature before the quoted text in a reply, and removes the “–” line that appears before signatures. Can’t use this and the “Random signature” Labs feature at the same time - finally!!!

Random signature Rotates among random quotations for your email signature. Can’t use this and the “Signature tweaks” Labs feature at the same time - no thanks, I prefer my signatures static, boring and clean.

Custom date formats Adds options to the general settings page allowing the date and time format to be changed independent of language. For example, you can use a 24-hour clock (14:57) or show dates with the day first (31/12/07) - at last, this feature is welcome anytime!!!

Muzzle Conserves screen real estate by hiding your friends’ status messages - might turn it on to turn of annoying status messages.

Old Snakey Kick it old school with Old Snakey! Enable keyboard shortcuts and hit ‘&’ from the main page to play a game of snake-procrastination just became a lot easier.

Email Addict Lets you take a break from email and chat by blocking the screen for fifteen minutes and making you invisible in chat - hopefully I’ll get some work done with this feature, haha.

Hide Unread Counts Hides the unread counts for inbox, labels, etc - that’s what I use filters for, if I want email to automatically be marked as read, I’ll rather set it up in a filter.

Let me know if you find any new features, I’ll probably turn most of them on just to test drive drive it and leave the useful features on after beta testing all the existing features.

I must say, I’m glad I don’t live in Zimbabwe, an annual inflation of 1281.1% (according to mail and guardian) is a big turn off for foreign investors, not to mention daily price increases on everything. If you think about it, there’s no point in saving money when the inflation is at such an insane level, no wonder doctors in Zimbabwe wants an 8000% increase in salary.

Results of Zimbabwe’s election is still unknown, at least the official results are still unknown, both ZANU-PF and MDC are confident that they’ve won, MDC is currently leading according to unofficial results while ZANU-PF said they’ll use all the state’s organs at their disposal to ensure victory (in other words cheat if they have to and probably broadcast some absurd statements over the media blaming Tony Blair for everything)

While official results are being delayed even further, I’m going to get some more popcorn, this election is nearly as exciting and nail biting intense as the first season of prison break! I’ll be putting my money on MDC, even if ZANU-PF does win, something extreme like the French Revolution or something similar will happen in Zimbabwe providing South Africa with some extra soccer balls for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

Place your bets now, winners take all, I’ll open up with R500 on MDC!

What were the police busy doing on Friday night the 7th of March until Saturday morning the 8th of March other than abusing their power or acting like arrogant pigs?

Luckily I decided against going out at the last minute, but quite a large number of fellow Maties of which some are friends and some are acquaintances, had quite a frightening experience when the police decided to raid Bohemia, Mystic Boer and Springbok for no apparent reason. From what I heard, students were thrown to the ground, those who asked questions got pepper spray in the face, police lifted up girls’ tops and skirts searching them while filming everything on camera, those who attempted to take photos had their cameras / phones confiscated (or even damaged) or got the police hitting them and intimidating them until the photos were deleted. Some were brutally manhandled for no apparent reason.

A few students reported seeing cops in BP laughing and mocking the whole scenario as if they enjoyed terrorizing the students. They’ve definitely picked the wrong crowd to mess with and they are going down, mess with one Matie and you have thousands of angry Maties gunning for you mobster style!!!

Take a look at the newly created facebook group “police raids in stellenbosch” and raise your voice if you were one of the victims: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9589380734

UPDATE: As promised, here’s some video footage of the happenings (from Die Burger), since people complained that it’s too small on dieburger.com, I’ve decoded their system to figure out where the video clips are hidden and have uploaded them to my blog so you can download them again and view it in full screen:

CCTV1 [Click to Download]
CCTV2 [Click to Download]