With the Olympics fading off into the distance, it's a good time to remember what stopped you all from winning when we played this Hashtagging game two weeks ago: [The Story So Far: Every Wednesday at 12 noon South African time [6am EDT] an inspired and growing number of brilliant, creative and absolutely fun people from all around the world take part in what is called a Hashtag game. @AFrikkinHashtag [say it out loud] is South Africa’s [...]
LET'S LEARN FROM THIS GUY A couple of different people shared this story with me this last week and it was so powerful that i really wanted to try and capture the heart of it in a blog post so it would stick around for longer. You have likely seen this iconic Olympic photograph before and wondered, like myself and so many others, what is going through the white guy's mind and possibly questioned his [...]
so this week i found out on twitter that our south african olympic swimming gold medalist, cameron van der bergh, had admitted to cheating to get his gold medal by doing a succession of dolphin kicks underwater in the pool [apparently only one is allowed] and it bummed me out. so, as one does, i made a facebook status about it... and was doubly surprised and bummed at how many [mostly christians] wrote comments on [...]
this started out as a hashtag on Twitter i believe, but why should everyone else miss out on the fun... so far we have such winners as: Anne Hirsch for North Pole Volting, Synchronised Swinging and Underwater singing Bruce Collins for Field Hickey and Archrivalry and of course i have been going crazy but amongst my suggestions are such diverse elements as: Cross Country Music, Intimate Frisbee, Underwater Signing, Corgi Putt, Table Tenants, Stolen Television [...]
