As one twitter joker put it, it was either a horrible mistake or an act of media genius when the PR team behind former Britain’s Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle decided to launch her new album, Standing Ovation, with a very special #susanalbumparty.
However, since the folks at @SusanBoyleHQ have yet to comment on the intention behind the tweet, we can only take it at face value and offer our own standing ovation to the 51-year old Grammy-award winning singer for finally giving voice to her true passion.
Given that there’s apparently a daring SuicideGirl lurking within Susan Boyle, we’d like to offer her an honorary membership to SG, since we think she’ll feel right at home in our Ass Appreciation and Anal Sex groups.
Ingredients
2 cups plain flower
2 tsp baking powder
5 ml salt
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup castor sugar
2 tbs instant Cuppacino
100g butter (room temperature)
cupcake cups
Icing:
125 ml fresh cream
1 cup icing sugar
1 tbs instant coffee powder
mini chocolate balls
Method:
Preheat your oven to 180 degrees (celsius). In a bowl, sift together all of your dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, cream together your butter and sugar before slowly adding the eggs. Add this mixture to the dry ingredients. Combine thoroughly before spooning into the cupcake cups, places in a muffin tray to hold them in place. Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until an inserted knife comes out clean. Place onto a rack and allow to cool.
And now for the icing; In a bowl, whip the cream until it’s stiff before adding the combined sifted icing sugar and instant coffee powder. Once the cupcakes have cooled, smother them in the coffee cream and then sprinkle with mini chocolate balls to garnish.
“I’ve heard of actors that give a better performance just for their close-up and I wont do that because its ridiculous.” – Catalina Sandino Moreno
Maria Full of Grace tells the story of one young woman’s journey from a small Colombian town to the streets of New York. A bright, spirited 17-year old, Maria Alvarez [Catalina Sandino Moreno] lives with three generations of her family in a cramped house in rural Colombia and works stripping thorns from flowers in a rose plantation. The offer of a lucrative job involving travel – but, in fact, becoming a drug “mule” – changes the course of her life. Maria is transported into the risky and ruthless world of international drug trafficking. Writer/director Joshua Marston is an American but he decided to go to Colombia and cast and shoot the movie there. Moreno is a real find and is sure to be a big star. For her first performance, she is amazingly real.
A group calling itself the Z Company Hacking Crew (@Z_H_C_) have hacked and thoroughly pwned the online persona of Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom. The group announced via Twitter that they had defaced Shalom’s Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts late Wednesday afternoon. Subsequent posts stated they’d also hacked the prominent Israeli politician’s blog, and had gained access to his email and contact list.
The Z Company Hacking Crew’s actions were done in solidarity with #OpIsrael, an online campaign which was launched last week by hactivist collective Anonymous (see story) in response to the Israeli government’s threat to cut off the internet in Gaza. However, when Russia Today (@RT_com) reported news of the Shalom hack, the @Z_H_C_ Twitter account requested that the Russian state-funded news network clarify that it was done by the Z Company Hacking Crew autonomously from Anonymous. In a follow up post the group explained: “ZHC are not Anonymous. We work with Anon on some projects but we are a completely separate team.”
But that’s not all folks! Z Company Hacking Crew have promised to publish an Ezine containing emails and a selection of documents “soon.” The group also cryptically revealed that they’d uncovered evidence that Shalom was in the process of “transferring all his money to UK banks,” hinted that they’d found something of an embarrassing nature in a Picassa photo album, and boasted that they had his private telephone number.
[Screenshot of Silvan Shalom’s hacked Twitter]
[Screenshot of Silvan Shalom’s hacked Facebook]
[Screenshot of Silvan Shalom’s hacked blog]
[Screenshot of Silvan Shalom’s hacked Gmail account]