It’s Friday the 13th! For many, it’s an ill omen, a sign of impending misfortune – for other like me, it’s a meaningless day. It’s a Friday, and Friday the 13th is better than Monday the anything. Triskaidekaphobia is a very real thing, and one of the more prevalent superstitions. While I don’t consider myself a superstitious person at all, I’ll still pause when I have to say, walk under a ladder, or open an umbrella indoors. Then I’ll do it anyway as reason overrides the bits of my brain that have these long-ingrained superstitions in them.

FanCon Cape Town Comic Con is back this year for a third outing, bringing more international comic book creators and cosplayers to our shores.

The author may have been dead for 45 years, but it seems there is no stopping him from still having new books published.

Check out this exploration of the journey that SpideyPlanet embarked on to create a screen-accurate Spider-Man mask based on the 2002 incarnation of the wallcrawler

There’s an adage around social media platforms and their associated apps and service: If you’re not paying for it, then you’re the product. It’s entirely reductive, of course – but it’s the belief that if a website or service is pending its time and resources to give you content without asking for anything in return, then they are probably selling information about you to others to make money, to sell ads or worse – some other nefarious purpose.

There’s something absolutely magical about the right track at the right time on a lonely length of tarmac, that just lifts your spirits up and keeps your road senses sharp while your feet dance on the pedals. It’s a feeling that is magnified when you have company in the car, and everyone happens to know the song in question.

There are few things that get me quite as riled up as walking in to a pharmacy – a place that dispenses medicine – and finding its shelves filled with homeopathic nonsense. I’m always tempted to have a bunch of stickers printed that say “This is not medicine” and plaster them all over the homeopathic junk littering shelves.

As you likely already know, Spotify has officially launched in South Africa. After what seems like forever, the premier music streaming service is finally available to us. Here's why you should give it a try.