“I’m shutting your butt down.” With these words, Quentin Tarantino refused to discuss any link between movie violence and real life violence during a TV interview. He was being questioned by Britain’s Channel4 presenter, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, before the London premiere of Django Unchained yesterday.

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Google has been handed a clear message from Brussels that will see the search giant have to modify the way it presents its results because it unfairly promotes links to its own services above those of third party companies.

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The White House has come out and given an official response to the petition to deport Piers Morgan for expressing his views that he doesn’t like guns.

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Fans of Seattle rapper Freddy E were shocked by a series of disturbing live-tweets moments before the artist committed suicide on Saturday.

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It’s tough for everybody at the moment. It’s harder to get a home loan, increase your credit limit, or to hijack a supertanker. That’s the word from Somali pirate Mohamed Abdi Hassan — also known as “Afweyne,” or “Big Mouth” – who is quitting the game.

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This should serve as a wake up call to everyone, but it probably won’t, and the human race will continue to waste vast amounts of food.

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Passengers on a Qantas flight over Australia got more than what they bargained for yesterday when they spotted a 3,6m-long python clinging on to one of the plane’s wings.

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Today’s recipient of a 2oceansVibe Boss Hall of Fame badge has perhaps watched the movie “Taxi Driver” one too many times.

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Cape’s most prestigious horse racing event, L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate is one of the most stylish events on the South African calendar, and, while quadrupedal contenders will compete for the R1 million prize, race-goers will be looking to land the honours of Best Dressed and the Best Hat. Since the inaugural race in 1861, the event has followed […]

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A total of nearly 58 000 South Africans were questioned for the latest annual Anti Drug Alliance’s survey and report. And it seems a lot of people out there are doing a lot of naughty things. In fact, middle-class South Africans are indulging themselves with one-in-three using an illegal substance for recreational purposes. Anti Drug […]

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Tim Flach is a British photographer who is known for snapping incredible human-like photographs of animals. Going far beyond taking a simple photo, Flach also captures the emotions of wild creatures through intensely close-up shots.

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Rahat is a magician with his own YouTube channel, called Magic of Rahat. And although he has uploaded some quality laughs in the past, his latest stunt is by far his funniest.

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A school in Texas, in the United Sates, of America, has been given the right to force its students to wear locator chips when they are on school property.

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The London Underground turned 150 yesterday. That’s a hell of a lot of underground travelling. The Telegraph put together a fantastic list of facts and figures about the world’s oldest underground railway.

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It was six years ago that the world received something it had yet to conceive: the iPhone. That historical day saw Steve Jobs make his way onto stage at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco to deliver a product that has revolutionised the mobile phone market.

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Alex Jones, the guy who wants to get Piers Morgan deported from the US for his views on gun control, was invited to Morgan’s show on Monday night. Jones lost the plot and ended up sounding like an even bigger nut-job than before. No one thought this possible.

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News broke on Wednesday of the imminent closure of Cinema Nouveau’s Cavendish Square theatre in Cape Town. What began as general expressions of disappointment morphed quickly into breathless online outrage, with calls to protest the closure of the cinema. And then the snark started. In no particular order, here are the nine funniest reactions to […]

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We have already had a look at some of the really cool things that have come out of 2013’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, but here is a more comprehensive list of some of the coolest things.

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An incredible time-lapse video of a male transforming into a female over three years have surfaced online.

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North of South Africa, things begin to get a bit hectic when it comes to accepting gay people in Africa. Uganda is right up there, but so is Cameroon.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reached his 30th birthday yesterday, and to celebrate he sent 1kg of candy and cookies to every child in his country.

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Cyril Ramaphosa appeared on CNN’s Christiane Amanpour show last night, and gave a frank and wide ranging interview, covering a mix of subjects including the general state of South Africa and our prospects as a nation, a retrospective of the Lonmin Massacre, and the implications of President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla residence. The interview is excellent […]

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Australian fire services have issued what they’ve called “catastrophic” warnings in parts of that country as temperatures are expected to breach 45C in the days to come.

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The movie director behind films such as Snakes on a Plane and Final Destination 2 has died in Johannesburg on Monday.

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The beloved tradition continues! That’s right, boys and girls, the annual 2oceansvibe Intern Hunt is underway! No experience is necessary. We’re looking for sharp minds, and fresh meat. Here are some questions you need to ask yourself: 1) Do want to witness the dawn of sexy, groundbreaking profitable publishing? 2) Do you want to have […]

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Mark Shuttleworth took a few minutes out form patrolling the floor at the ongoing CES 2013 conference in the USA to demo the latest development edition of the Ubuntu OS for smartphone. Apart from a basic scroll through a a few sceen scopes, Shuttleworth painted a picture the one device/multi-screen functionality of the OS, which […]

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Tommy Carrol has been skating since he was ten, but has been blind since the age of two. The guy has an incredible amount of talent. Most of us can hardly go down a straight road on a board, with both eyes open.

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A photo of an Indochinese tigress shaking herself dry has been crowned the Grand Prize Winner of the 2012 National Geographic photography competition.

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It seems that most of the larger car manufacturers are keen to follow in the footsteps of Google and launch their own self-driving cars. Toyota has just joined that party.

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A team of scientists has captured the world’s first live images of a giant squid in it’s natural habitat. This is the same mysterious creature thought to have inspired the myth of the “kraken” – a tentacled monster which was reputed to drag ships and sailors to their doom.

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