Site of the Week – World of Merix The Yellow Llama (Mark to his mom) alerted me to this fantastic use of the jQuery javascript library by World of Merix, a polish web design firm. Innovative uses of jQuery and other scripting libraries, along with HTML5, should hasten the demise of Flash which will be [...]
This arrived in my Inbox today. HOW TO HELP WITH THE TV CRISIS MARCH As you all know, the television industry is staging a peaceful protest action against the SABC on 4 June 2009. The response to our call for companies and individuals to join us has been well received and our numbers are growing. [...]
The following is a press release from the Encounters organisers. Please note the plea at the end. Further commentary on the appalling state of the SABC is unnecessary. 20 May 2009 Encounters Documentary Festival in crisis The future of South Africa’s premier documentary festival, Encounters, hangs in the balance since its principal sponsor, the SABC, [...]
In 1967, the US aircraft carrier, the Franklin D Roosevelt visited Cape Town. The apartheid government refused to allow crew members ashore, not because they were taking a stand against American imperialism or shows of force, but because some of the sailors were black and it just wouldn’t be done for them to mingle with [...]
In 2003 the Red Bull Music Academy took place in Cape Town. As part of the month long session Spektrum Radio received a temporary license from ICASA to broadcast interviews, live sets and various shows from participants in the academy and local DJs. It was great to have the airwaves filled with something other than [...]
It’s not much to write home about. Unless you live in Cape Town, that is. We woke up this morning to find small patches of snow dotted about the garden. I’ve never seen this here before. It’s not the LHC that’s going to kill us, it’s the bloody weather.