To celebrate 500 episodes with Springfield’s most famous family, the producers of ‘The Simpsons’ are also preparing to break a Guinness World Record by challenging the show’s biggest fans to sit down and watch all 500 episodes of the show, back to back.

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It’s nice that companies are willing to go to insane lengths to try and make us buy their things. Take G-Form, who wrapped up an Apple tablet in their ‘Extreme Edge’ case, and launched it into space on a weather balloon before dropping it back to earth to prove how extreme their case really is.

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Those Aussies just need to be the best at everything, don’t they? Except, a British medical journal recently revealed that Australia and New Zealand also top the global charts for usage of marijuana and methamphetamine! Awkward!

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Instead of selling off some non-essential items like a TV or maybe a set of golf clubs when his financial situation became dire, a Saudi business man chose to sell his son. For $20 million.

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The mother of a prospective student has been killed in a stampede for late registrations at the University of Johannesburg, which has been confirmed by a spokesperson for the university.

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The Cape Town City Bowl has, luckily, had a fairly quiet fire season. Just before midday today, a fire started on Signal Hill, and drew the attention of two helicopters, which brought it under control rapidly. Pictured is the yellow Working on Fire, chopper dropping water from its Bambi Bucket.

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Hout Bay residents are furious about a R54 million office development along Chapman’s Peak that will be used by Entilini, the company that operates the Chapman’s Peak toll road. It goes without saying that the development would be one of the most exclusive offices to work at in the country, but is it legal?

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Julius Malema is raring to go with his appeal against the five year ANC suspension he received a few weeks ago. He has been quoted today saying he’s prepared to accept any outcome. How diplomatic. (But please note, if you still think Juju is really going to retire to the country to be a farmer, you may have to reconsider.)

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Greek disability groups expressed anger yesterday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs. No news yet as to whether or not these people will also qualify for special parking close to schools, playgrounds, and shopping malls.

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Full Canadian uniform. Oh yeah. One of the many premier athletes in the 2oceansvibe stable, Ryan Sandes, or henceforth, “Mr January 2013” is described thus in COSMO’s 2012 Sexiest man Calendar. January 2013: Ryan Sandes (Trail runner) – The ‘Sandman’ travels the globe, running in crazy places such as Antarctica and the Amazon, and winning […]

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Ever wondered how many times a bungee cord can be used before it snaps? The answer, as an Australian tourist recently found out, turns out to be about 50 000 times. Miraculously she survived her 111-meter nosedive into the Zambezi River – video after the jump.

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I picked up the latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine on my iPad (using the Zinio app) this weekend and thoroughly enjoyed the interview with chart-topping indie band, Black Keys. Here is an excerpt: Patrick Carney is pretty sure he knows what’s ailing his chosen genre these days. “Rock & roll is dying because people […]

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We got this heartwarming report from 2oceansviber, Carryn Ortlepp over the weekend. Some people forget to mention they are 2oceansvibers when they use our partners, like Digicape. You really should make a special effort to name drop when you’re around one of our brand partners – this is the kind of stuff that goes down.

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Well, this is the fight against sexism taken to a whole new level. The word “Mademoiselle” has been banned from all official documents in the French suburb of Cesson-Sévigné, in Rennes. Formerly regarded simply as the title given to an unmarried woman, the term is now considered sexist, apparently.

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NASA has launched an open-source portal to make it easier for agencies to evaluate and improve upon its projects. The initial setup works as a simple directory of open-sourced projects in development, which is hoped to expand into a platform for tracking, hosting and planning the various pieces of software created by the American space agency.

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Tired of peoples’ phones hogging the dinner table ambience? Here’s a nifty little social exercise fresh out of America that puts a high price on handling your handset at the dinner table. It’s called the phone stack, and here’s how it works.

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Click through to watch a video of Bevan Small and Michael Mason’s combined effort to dismiss Brad Wilson in New Zealand’s T20 domestic league. It may well be the best catch ever caught on camera.

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China is at it again. When they’re not building war-machines, churning out electronics and manufacturing cars at the speed of light, they’re constructing 30-storey hotels in the time it usually takes to get your call answered by Telkom customer service.

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Super scientist, Professor Stephen Hawking turned 70 years old yesterday, defying all the odds in his battle with motor neurone disease. Unfortunately, he was not well enough to deliver his birthday address – his chance at reflecting at his life and career.

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Nelson Mandela’s life story is to be turned into a television mini-series, entitled “Madiba”. Mandela has given his personal approval for a series that will follow six decades of his life, but there’s been no word yet as to whether or not Matt Damon or Morgan Freeman will be involved.

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Cape Town police arrested an as yet un-named man today holding a virtual armoury of weapons, and a literal pharmacy of illegal narcotics in Woodstock. What was this man on a mission packing? We’ve got the whole list!

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The Titanic has been lying at the bottom of the ocean for nearly a century. On 15 April this year, 5 000 items from the world’s most famous shipwreck will be auctioned off in one lot – on the 100th anniversary of the disaster that took place on April 15, 1912. See some of them after the jump.

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Ryan rounds up the Top Tech Stories from 2011. He also talks to Marlon Parker, from Rlabs.org, about the role that technology can play in bettering human lives. And this week’s review, is software for all you video editing enthusiasts in the house.

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Phobos-Grunt, the 13-ton, US$ 170 million Russian space probe that was launched into orbit and promptly crippled by failed auxiliary engines, is due to crash back onto Earth soon. Russian space authorities have named January 15th as the likely re-entry date. In case you thought that your fears of high-speed orbital debris ended with 2011.

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Lepel Lê, a private beachfront camping site in East London, is a musem of sorts. It’s a museum, in the sense that it is a fine example of apartheid-era ignorance, racism, and hate, and also in the sense that the people inside the place are highly realistic copies of real human beings with souls. Juanelle Landman, of Cape Town, booked a stay at the private resort in East London for her family, and the friend of her son, who happened to be black. After receiving advice that she should phone ahead to confirm that the resort wasn’t subject to the Group Areas Act of 1956, she was told by an official at the camp that the resort was for whites, only.

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Your CD collection has officially become outdated, because 2011 was the year that digital music sales finally surpassed their plastic disc-based counterparts, and the trend doesn’t look to be over.

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Durban, the sweaty sticky place of my birth. Salty, thick air, slops, shorts, bananas and spice. If Capetonians are laid-back, it is because they’re stoned. In Durban people are simply mellow. It’s built in, climatic. It takes longer to walk through the weighty, humid air. As I was buffeted by this wall of jungle breath, and a filmy layer of sweat – that would remain with me for the next 10 days – formed, I wondered what wines would suit such a climate. And, more importantly, where could I get them?

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Whether you love it or hate it, Facebook’s new Timeline feature is here to say. Rather than jump on the bandwagon condemning the new feature, an Israeli ad agency used it to send a powerful anti-drug message.

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If you’ve been on the internet at all in the last year or two, chances are you’ve stumbled onto what is known as a “tumblr.” These are trendy blogs, mostly filled with pictures, and the occasional short posts by their users. The company is now looking at opening its own blogging operation.

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Here’s a little inspiration for your Friday morning. A 19-year old boy with no arms has just found out he has got into the university of his choice, having written his matric exams with his feet. Letlhogonolo Mafela, from Matshepe Village, North West has done his school and his family proud.

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