5 ways to ensure a good relationship with your Systems Administrator
If you’ve spent much time interacting with system administrators, you know how unlikely it would be for them to host a relationship-fixing TV show. Were they born like this, or did IT support requests...
View ArticleGoogle easter egg pays homage to Silicon Valley TV show
After yesterday’s Alphabet announcement, an umbrella group to all Google-owned companies, it began to emerge that the internet giant had hidden something in the press release. Silicon Valley is a...
View ArticleMeet Penny Sparrow’s ‘wonderful, thoughtful’ black friends
It’s fair to say that there’s been more than a little anger and vitriol on South African social media over the past couple of weeks. It comes as relief then to discover that the country’s citizens are...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Friends Day video will move you in unexpected ways
Thursday this week marked Facebook’s 12th birthday and its first inaugural Friends Day. People around the world got the chance to reminisce about some of the experiences they’d had with everyone...
View ArticleBatman, Superman lose their patience with Jimmy Kimmel
More footage of the upcoming battle of the titans Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie. By now, you’ll be able to piece together the entire movie from all of the trailers and footage, but, at...
View ArticleState trooper lifts Wonder Woman, Captain America to kid’s birthday party
Who says that the police is a useless force in the face of superheroes and their awesome power? What if said superheroes’ their car breaks down and they have no conceivable clue about the workings of...
View ArticleYou can remove Zuma…from your browser
Despite the best efforts from South Africans of all walks of life and political leanings, Jacob Zuma remains president of the country. It’s tough, but it’s reality. Luckily though, you can take some...
View ArticleBoaty McBoatface is the perfect name for a $300m ship, says internet
The internet really wants to call a US$300-million boat Boaty McBoatface. If you read that line without laughing, you did a whole lot better than me. Nevertheless, it’s all true. British-based Natural...
View Article#Brexit: Imgur reacts to the EU referendum in 15 witty images
The conclusion to the #Brexit referendum and the United Kingdom’s move to leave the European Union, has sent shockwaves through world economies, politics and of course, the internet. The pound sterling...
View ArticlePokemon Go gets childhood-ruining NSFW parody, continues odd trend
If Pokemon Go hasn’t yet ruined your childhood memories of the boy wonder Ash Ketchum and his troop of merry monsters, this surely will. Thanks to a few crafty comedians, a new Pokemon Go parody will...
View Article10 things #HighSchoolTaughtMe according to Twitter
Do you remember wearing tartan ties, knee-high socks, your locker combination, the faint whiff of baked pies at lunch time, the screams of kids playing football on the field, or the clip-clops of...
View Article10 words/phrases we encounter too much at Burn Media
Being a tech journalist is a dream job for me but, as with any job, it does have a few drawbacks. One of those is that you’ll be bombarded constantly with buzzwords that mean nothing and add even less...
View ArticleSomeone turned Donald Trump’s tweets into a beautiful emo song
From YouTube channel Super Deluxe comes your new favourite emo song for when you’re feeling that presidential teen angst. Picking up on the number of complaints Trump has tweeted post-election despite...
View ArticleThis wearable makes your shoulders weapons of mass flirtation
For some people, flirting comes naturally. But for the rest of us sorry sods, flirting is like a foreign language. Personally, someone could be hitting on me for three hours straight and I wouldn’t be...
View ArticleThe April Fool’s Day jokes that popped, tanked and made us sad
The day that celebrates fake news has come and gone. It’s now 3 April, and there’s no need to cower beneath your bed waiting for April Fool’s Day to end. We resisted posting our own April Fool’s story...
View ArticleThanks to Merriam-Webster, you can now officially call Apple fans ‘sheeple’
You might’ve used the word sheeple to describe a certain population of buyers who regularly indulge in the likes of the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. You might’ve been ridiculed for doing just that...
View ArticleSamsung’s Bixby disses Apple’s Siri in voice assistant rap battle
Samsung just couldn’t resist taking a swipe at Apple’s Siri using its own smart voice assistant, could it? Bixby, which launched this weekend in South Korea on the Samsung Galaxy S8, hides a rather...
View Article15 classic Star Wars GIFs to use this #MayTheFourth
We know the pressure you’re under today. While mashing away at your keyboard trying to get those reports and submissions prepared, you’re also trying to find that perfect Star Wars GIF to use on...
View ArticleParliament takes swipe at Jacob Zuma, ANC through WiFi hotspot names
We know that politicians often mock and chastise one another in Parliament through points of order and the like, but what about WiFi hotspots? In a rather tech-savvy jibe at President Jacob Zuma and...
View ArticleMan’s awkward reaction to sexy Harry Potter fan fiction is now on Twitter
Shelley Zhang’s friend thought he was reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when he was told that nowhere in the books does Dudley Dursley commit suicide because Peter Pettigrew had him...
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