Two Capetonians attempt to construct the perfect Gatsby. Spoiler: You won't want to eat lunch after this.

A week or two back though, Darryn started a twitter conversation that spilled over into all of the other social channels I’m in. It also eroded what little respect I had for him – and for much of humanity in general. I discovered on that day, that many people eat their cereal with hot milk. What? WHY?

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.