Yup – the music biz is at it again. Singing their hearts out, but this time for Haiti.

We really wonder who benefits more – the artists with lukewarm careers looking for a bit of PR exposure or the people in Haiti who so badly need help to get back on their feet. Guess it’s better than doing nothing.

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There’s been a lot of talk about ’saving the planet’ and ‘going green’, but talk is cheap and your actions today will affect society tomorrow.

Here’s how South Africans are changing the world for the better… and no, we’re not talking about Die Antwoord.

Not the iPad

You’re going to label yourself terrible as a nerd if you have one of these, but for those that dream about the lovechild of a MacBook and Iron Man – this is for you.

Get it - before it’s too late

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If you like this kinda thing – here’s the trailer for the upcoming Iron Man 2 movie…

Tank

Lowe Bull have pulled out another interesting print ad campaign for the Cape Times. It’s not as powerful as the previous one [The Day Before] but acceptable all the same.

Moon

Shoe

Previously: The day before – Cherryflava

[thanks Simon]

Doh...

Mike Ratcliffe is globetrotting and kindly sent us his favourite sign, which he spotted in the Washington DC area.

Probably the absolute worst name they could have granted this place. [thanks Mike]

Please, pray to your gods that this does not become reality. We’d rather exist in a world where machines control us that be spammed like this. Somebody go and take care of the mo’fo that invented this AR stuff before it’s too damn late. [thx Jonathan]

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In general, city skyscrapers are damn ugly. It’s no wonder people feel tired and listless when they walk into these places. They’re not natural, or fun or inspiring in anyway. How innovation and creative thought is meant to flourish in a solid concrete block pumped full of artificial light and air conditioning is beyond us.

So it’s pretty exciting to see how some interactive designers are playing with QR codes, LEDs and augmented reality to make city landscapes – more there!

Sadly – we don’t for a second think that any of this thinking will be implemented in South Africa any time soon, but it’s always inspirational to see how creative, interactive technology is making cities more attractive and engaging elsewhere.

Top video is of a shop that uses QR code tech to offer in-store info like specials and coupons plus you can see the Tweets and comments of the people inside, thanks to Twitter geotagging [more here]

This is an interactive building in Belgium that passers by can interact with via a touchscreen.

More via Fast Company

Left front

Our understanding is that aircraft paint is damn expensive. Probably because is not such a great idea to be bulleting through the atmosphere at the speed of sound with a squashed pigeon still attached to the edge of a wing – so the fancy paint eliminates that unfortunate situation.

Right front

So it’s encouraging then that Kulula are taking the opportunity to use the expensive paint to get a smile out of their passengers. At least you’re fully briefed as to what’s going to be happening within the pressurised tube before you step inside.

Left tail bit

Other side of the tail

Secret agent code – pfffffffff

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We’ve been avoiding talking about this ad on the Cape Talk Ad Feature for some time now, but we just can’t keep it in any longer.

Wonder if Jacob Zuma is spending a lot of time at Chicken Licken. Or maybe licken’ chicken is what got him into trouble in the first place.

KFC are also on the ‘pregnant’ vibe. Is it something in the water? What came first the chicken or the egg?

Read: ANC defends Jacob Zuma over ‘love-child’ claims – BBC

The ransom note

As part of their Valentine’s Day campaign, Woolies are running a Twitter-based competition which was promoted with in-store banners with one glarring error…

Oops

The web address on the posters www.woolieslovebird.co.za was clearly incorrect and was not registered by Woolies. Spotting the error the guys over at Yuppiechef [an online kitchen tool retailer] registered the domain and held the Woolies love birds for ransom.

The terms of the ransom?… [www.woolieslovebird.co.za]

To get it [the domain] back, and have us point the address to their competition asap, we’re asking Woolies to match, rand for rand, all donations made towards our 2010 charity, Soil for Life, between now and Valentines Day (and to be nice, we’ll put a limit of R5000 on it). Sound good? Excellent. So we invite all our fans to go ahead and donate R25 or more to support a great cause and make Woolies pay or the lovebirds get it

Thankfully Woolies are indeed playing along and are matching the donations rand for rand for Soil for Life.

Go donate R25 now.