Briget from BecauseIcan has started a new initiative.  You see, basically her car is breaking down and due to financial constraints of the recession, she can’t afford to buy herself a new one.  So she’s come up with a mathematical calculation that works out to 500 people paying R260 each.  This will enable her to get brand new wheels.  Already 9 people have signed up, that only leaves...

For many years I’ve grown up hearing jokes about Martha Stewart.  References to her uses in the kitchen.  Vows from housewives the world over to be “more like Martha”.  Well all of those things could pretty much stab themselves in the eye with one of her rusty teaspoons because it looks like she’s just received a running, jumping, glittering twitslap. Tweets streaming in...

If you’re a gamer or generally just enjoy bloody big gatherings of gamers, you will be beyond ecstatic to learn that this weekend is the monthly Organised Chaos (OC) LAN weekend. From 5 p.m. on Friday 19th February until 12 p.m. on Sunday 21st February, you can get your groove on at the Bellville Vellodrome playing a wide range of games like Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, Dawn...

Yo! So, Cath from OMC was kind enough to offer NerdMag readers two sets of double tickets, one for each festival in Cape Town and Joburg respectively.  Read all about the concerts here, and then complete the task at the bottom: This year the festival is supported by World Wild Life Fund, Green Peace and will be audited by Steadfast Greening. There are also great initiatives such as Walking the Daisies...

Cath Jenkin, our busty tech correspondent and foreign affairs mistress, was lucky enough to attend this years Tech-Ed in Durban.  She reports below. - Ed.   It’s no secret that some things really make me smile – two of those are new toys and boys who can replace a motherboard faster than I can  J . So, Tech-Ed has been a rocking time for me, in many respects. Not only did I learn a...

So tonight is the 27dinner, one of the hottest events on the Nerd Calendar. The sign-up list always fills up in about 2.5 seconds after opening. Unlike last time, when SheBee and I had to bribe certain people,  with offers of boobie pictures, to give up their seats so we could attend, we managed to sign up on time. Mostly because The Goose sms’d to remind and prod us to do so. This time around...

 Finally, a competition aimed just at us geeks! Virgin Atlantic are running a  “25 Years and Still Red Hot” competition and showing some love to the geekisphere by making it only available online. So take that you people who read those antiquated things called newspapers and listen to the radio in your car. We who subscribe to RSS feeds and download podcasts are claiming this one!   So...

If you haven’t heard of the 27Dinners then you must be living in outer space.  Or Egypt.  They were started by the legendary Mike Stopforth a couple of years ago and from the time when I was still a baby geek, I always wanted to attend one. It was bad enough having to watch twitter streams live tweeting the events but then speaking to people who’d actually attended drove me off the edge...

I think it was @arthurficial whose first question upon meeting me (for the first time at the Durban 27 Dinner) was “why do you swear so much?”. Good question, Arthur. And I think it was @blindcripple who said, yesterday, that it’s only sexy if a girl swears sometimes. In other words, not all the time. And in even more other words, not all the time like me. While I may not be able...

Having been closed for the past 3 weeks or so, I’ve sorely missed my second home, Cool Runnings in Melville. But fear not, tonight is the relaunch, and there’s some irie shit going down this weekend, so if you have plans, change them! You wont want to miss this, I promise! Tonight is jammin’ reggae band Dilani, there’s a special on pizzas (for when you get the serious munchies)...