Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder everybody keeps forgetting about except when he talks about stuff like this, has pointed to a handful of “threats to internet freedom” – Facebook, Apple, the entertainment industry, and governments that censor their citizens. By which I guess he means threats to Google.

Continue Reading

Henry Dryer, age 92, is one of seven patients profiled in a new American documentary called Alive Inside, which looks at the power of music to help people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Watch how he reacts when he is given music from his youth to listen to.

Continue Reading

Recently published photos have revealed what is believed to be the world’s first “strawberry” leopard. The big cat was discovered in South Africa’s Madikwe Game Reserve and is an incredibly rare find.

Continue Reading

Mitt Romney has only just been confirmed as the presidential candidate for the Republican Party in the US, which means pretty soon he’s going to have to be answering some big question and making some tough political decisions. The most important of these has just arisen – to SNL, or not to SNL?

Continue Reading

The search is on for a South African yacht which has gone missing somewhere in the Indian Ocean off northern Mozambique. It’s feared that pirates have taken the yacht, called the Dandelion, and its passengers captive. Two South Africans – including skipper John Sergel, from Durban – are believed to be on board, together with tourists from America, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and France.

Continue Reading

King Juan Carlos of Spain is no stranger to controversial hunting. Six years ago, it was asserted that the 74-year-old shot a drunken Russian bear that had been lured with honey and vodka. Officials dismissed the allegations as ridiculous. The Spanish media have just had another field day though, after they learned he’d broken his hip hunting in Botswana recently.

Continue Reading

Arthur Goldstuck is a pioneer in the South African market in the use of the internet as a tool for productivity. He developed the first South African benchmarks for website usability and strategy, and has represented South Africa on judging panels for events ranging from the International Advertising Festival in Cannes and the Global Mobile […]

Continue Reading

Grabbing a dose of our favourite healthy natural plant remedy just got a whole lot easier. If you work up a little joint inflammation while searching vigorously for your new cricket bat, tennis racquet, or Speedo (no one’s judging you), head over to the BuchuLife shelf in the Totalsports or Sportsmans Warehouse – you’re bound […]

Continue Reading

Unfortunately we don’t speak enough Vietnamese around the 2oceansVibe Compound to know exactly what Lieutenant Nguyen Manh Phan was saying, but we understand that the Vietnamese policeman is very passionate about his job. He made the bus stop.

Continue Reading

If you ever find yourself cruising up shit creek without a paddle, then you need not worry. Just give our latest addition to the 2oceansVibe Boss Hall of Fame a call – this Vietnamese excavator rowing boat will get you there in no time!

Continue Reading

Cape Town’s film industry is about to get a real boost as the internationally renowned Tribeca Film Festival, started by Robert De Niro ten years ago, is set to come to Cape Town each year for the next five years.

Continue Reading

Let’s be honest, no one enjoys commuting. It’s a frustrating, time-consuming, anger-inducing practice which has become an unfortunate fact of life for some. Even more concerning however, are the actual negative effects it has on your physical and mental health. Click through for an insightful infographic breakdown.

Continue Reading

Wine is drunk a lot. But what else can we do with the contents of Bachus’s juice bottle? Does wine have to be confined to the glass and stew? Does wine have a life outside sipping and slurping? Surely this most miraculous of beverages has other uses. It does friends, it does. And these uses have got me out of a few scrapes in my lifetime let me tell you about a few.

Continue Reading

A prankster recently visited a mall in America with one goal in mind: to trick shoppers into thinking he was a famous celebrity, called Thomas Elliot. Within minutes he had a crowd following him, mall security guards for protection, and even had entire stores close so he could shop in private! See all the madness inside.

Continue Reading

A rather large group of former NASA scientists and astronauts have come together to express their distrust at the way NASA thinks about climate change. They’ve written a letter, in which they criticise the Goddard Institute For Space Studies for telling fibs about man-made carbon dioxide.

Continue Reading

J.K. Rowling – author behind the Harry Potter series – is back with a new book. Not even remotely Potter-related, she calls this one a “blackly comic tale for adults.” Read more about the book’s title and plot details, after the jump.

Continue Reading

Julius Malema’s fall from the graces of his ANC handlers seems to have eroded much more than his political riches. The Beeld newspaper reported that Malema was allegedly unable to settle debt of R400 000 owed to his building contractor at the end of March, after which the company decided to transfer its workers to another project in Bedfordview. See more, after the jump.

Continue Reading

Attention Saffa’s overseas! SARS has issued a Five Year Compliance Drive this month, which includes all South Africans residents working in foreign countries. The rules of compliance for submitting tax returns and payments have changed, so make sure you have all the information you need! More on this foreign income foolery, after the jump!

Continue Reading

For nearly a decade, one man has been working on an epic project that has the potential redefine how the world sees our country and our continent. This project has finally culminated in an amazing, entirely locally produced, graphic novel, but it needs your support if it is to continue. Click through for an inspiring sneak peak and to learn how you can help.

Continue Reading

Not even the most token of attempts was made by the ANCYL to wish President Jacob Zuma well for his 70th birthday yesterday. This was in stark contrast to the lengthy statements the league released last year to honour the birthdays of Nelson Mandela, Zuma’s deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe and ANC stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

Continue Reading

It was only going to be a matter of time before we started seeing the real impact of e-readers on paperback sales. On top of the figure quoted in the headline above, industry analysts, Nielsen BookScan, say that overall, total book sales are down by 11 per cent, according to their latest figures.

Continue Reading

Do you have what it takes to call yourself a lumberjack? Have you got experience in wielding a chainsaw? Are you looking to win rad prizes and the respect of your friends? If so, then we need you to enter the Lumber Games. A crazy mix of curious South Africans will be making up the […]

Continue Reading

A $15 million, 42-metre luxury trimaran yacht, named Adastra, launched yesterday in China. It is being described as “one of the world’s most amazing super yachts.” See why after the jump.

Continue Reading

In another great instance of American judges believing that their jurisdiction has no limits, a U.S. judge has ruled that Motorola cannot enforce an injunction that would prevent Microsoft from selling Windows products in Germany, should a German court issue such an injunction next week.

Continue Reading

While the sea bed around Indonesia’s Aceh region seems to have settled, and the aftershocks of yesterday’s massive earthquakes tailed off, locals returning home are still vigilant and cautious of more seismic disturbances that could cause tsunami to devastate their coastal settlements.

Continue Reading

Former Sunday Times editor and chairperson of the South African National Editors Forum, Mondli Makhanya, has been charged with the criminal offences of forgery and uttering, fraud, and attempting to obstruct the course of justice. The charges were laid at Parkview SAPS. Click through for the whole story, including Bullard’s statement!

Continue Reading

Inside Out is the brainchild of Easton, an American sports equipment maker. The concept is simple enough, strap over 100 GoPro cameras to athletes from various disciplines and let them do what they do best. Click through for the awesome result.

Continue Reading

A big, red push button was recently placed on an average Flemish square of an average Flemish town. A sign with the text “Push to add drama” invited people to use the button. The result is nothing short of mind-blowing. Find out what happened – after the jump!

Continue Reading

The art of indulging in “num-num”, or free sex with a prostitute, may be news to you and I. But it isn’t to two members of Durban’s SAPS’s Port Security Services unit, commonly known as the harbour police. After a high-speed chase, gunshots, and a bite from a police dog, the two officers and their “partners”, were eventually apprehended.

Continue Reading

I’ve heard of the saying, “don’t take a knife to a gunfight”, but taking a gun to your graduation ceremony is just plain ridiculous. A female student at the University of Pretoria was wounded yesterday when she sat down, only to have a gun go off inside her graduation gown. She was wounded in her stomach and is “seriously injured.”

Continue Reading