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Competition: Win No Country For Old Men on Blu-ray!

Note: This competition has ended.

For our monthly Blu-ray competition we’re giving away the highly-praised, award-winning crime thriller No Country for Old Men!

Winner of four awards including Best Picture at 80th Annual Academy Awards, No Country for Old Men is directed by the Coen brothers and faithfully adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. It tells the story of a botched drug deal and the ensuing cat-and-mouse chase for stolen loot. Three men crisscross each other’s paths in West Texas, and one of them is a sociopathic hit man wielding a slaughterer’s gun…

Competition details after the jump.

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Competition Winner: Caption This!

Our caption contest has come to an end and once again we had a great number of entries so thanks to everyone who submitted their captions. The panel of judges – His Royal Assness (me), Satan’s left foot (Lucy Furr), and queen of the house (Mummy Cat) – have conferred and we’ve picked a winner…

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Competition Reminder: Caption Contest & SA Blog Awards

Just a friendly reminder to those you may have missed this month’s first competition. To stand a chance of winning a t-shirt from the Neatorama shop, enter our worldwide caption contest. It ends tomorrow (Monday, 9th March).

The 2009 SA Blog Awards are upon us, and if you’d like to nominate us click HERE, fill in your details, and hit Submit. The closing date for nominations is Saturday, March 14th Wednesday, March 18th.

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Nominate Us For The 2009 SA Blog Awards

Everybody Loves a Winner. The 2009 SA Blog Awards are upon us and nominations from the general public started yesterday and will continue until March 14th March 18th, 2009.

In 2008, my old 24.com blog was placed a runner up in the Most Humorous South African Blog category. I’d like to think that our shiny new blog here at Onelargeprawn.co.za is bigger, better, and profoundly funnier. If you like what you see here, and you get some good laughs from the content, please nominate us. Come on – you know you want to! And more than you want to (probably), we want you to because we would love to be winners. And then you can tell everyone you nominated a candidate that you’re actually cool with (unlike most of our political candidates this year).

To nominate us, head to the 2009 SA Blog Awards site, type our blog address in the category (or categories) you think we fit into, fill in your details, and hit Submit.

Alternatively, if you’d like to nominate us for Best Entertainment Blog, Most Humorous South African Blog, and Best New Blog categories click HERE, fill in your details, and hit Submit.

Thanks :)

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Competition Winner: Transformers on Blu-ray!

Our first competition here at the Onleargeprawn blog has finally come to and end. To stand a chance of winning Loud Noises Transformers on Blu-ray, we asked you to tell us the actor who voiced N.B.E. -01. The answer was Agent Smith himself, Hugo Weaving.

We had an overwhelming number of entries so thanks to everyone who entered. The List Randomizer has done its thing and given us a winner…

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Ghost Fight!

Ghost Fight is probably the best stick figure animations out there. With its slick style, watching two stick men trying to kill each other hasn’t been this much fun.

Use your arrow keys, mouse, and 1-4 numeric keys to watch the fight from different angles.

See more angry stick people fighting at Stickpage.

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Tango by Zbigniew Rybczynski

Tango is a short film by Zbigniew Rybczynski. There is a static shot of a single room and over the 8-minute span of the film, 36 different characters enter the room at different times and perform a specific action. Each character never acknowledges the presence of the other characters.

Tango won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1983. Rybczynski talks about the project on his website:

Thirty-six characters from different stages of life – representations of different times – interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece. The miracle is that the negative got through the process with only minor damage, and I made less than one hundred mathematical mistakes out of several hundred thousand possibilities. In the final result, there are plenty of flaws ® black lines are visible around humans, jitters caused by the instability of film material resulting from film perforation and elasticity of celluloid, changes of colour caused by the fluctuation in colour temperature of the projector bulb and, inevitably, dirt, grain and scratches.

Click Play or go to Libero Video [NSFW – nudity].

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Competition Reminder: Win Transformers on Blu-ray

Note: This competition has ended.

With just one week to go before the end of the very first competition here on the Onelargeprawn blog, Megan Fox has kindly agreed to pose in frilly lingerie remind those who haven’t already entered, to do so now.

To stand a chance of winning the 2-disc special edition of Transformers on Blu-ray, click HERE. Good luck!

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Workplace Misery at Chinese Keyboard Factory

Sometimes I take things for granted and bitch about how bad it is at work when someone’s finished off my favourite Dark French roast; I especially hate it when we run of the 3-ply toilet paper in the bogs.

The Meitai keyboard factory in Dongguan City makes keyboards for companies like Lenovo, Microsoft, and HP, and its workers know all to well about bad working conditions. Underpaid, and overworked, they are subjected to unsafe working conditions and denied medical assistance when they’re injured. They are also required to “love the company like their home.” I suspect if anyone were to speak up against the tyranny management, they would get marched off to the next building where the company tests their experimental Meat-Mincer 6000.

Herewith an except from the Meitai factory’s Factory Regulations and Discipline, Chapter VII:

  • Employees should actively monitor each other.
  • Infractions punished with the loss of over two hours’ wages (approximately USD 1.44):
    • Being 1 to 5 minutes late to start a shift…
    • Wearing work shoes outside the work room after work.
    • Putting hands in pant pockets while inside the factory or workroom.
  • Infractions punished with the loss of 4 ½ hours wages (approximately USD 2.88):
    • …answering a personal telephone call in the workroom.
    • Putting personal objects on the work desk.
    • Not diligently working or raising ones head to look around when guests or cadres come to visit.
  • Infractions punished with the loss of nearly seven hours’ wages (approximately USD $4.32):
    • Switching beds without authorization.
    • Riding the elevator without permission.
    • Chatting at the workstation during work hours…
  • Infractions punished with firing:
    • Not following the procedures spelled out by government regulations on stopping work, slowing work down, encouraging others to stop or slow down work.
    • Missing three days of work.
    • Disobeying China’s one-child policy.

Read more about the deplorable condititions these workers face at The National Labor Comittee – via Boing Boing.

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Staying Conscious Fail

A Serbian game show host faints during a broadcast. Note how her female co-host does nothing. That’s some heartless shit right there.

More of this kind thing at Failblog – via Blog of Hilarity.