So they say this kind of thing is “new”, but I think what they really mean is that it’s “new” to public knowledge. It uses thermal imaging technology, something that’s been around for a while already, and it just seems impossible to believe that “scientists” wouldn’t have thought of it before.

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Just how big will the biggest airport in the world be? Daxing airport is expected to handle 120 to 200 million passengers a year. That’s about three times the capacity of Heathrow’s current annual passenger flow. It will occupy a total of 54 square kilometers and boast nine runways. That’s almost Mark Wahlberg size!

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New oil leakage has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, near the BP well that burst 15 months ago; the oil currently covers an area about seven kilometres long and 50 metres wide. It’s not clear if the oil is coming from the reservoir itself, or if’s been trapped in last year’s damaged rigging.

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Hipsters get way too much credit these days. I don’t mean that in a good way. Hipsters – especially those of a South African persuasion – deserve all the deep-seated hatred that comes their way. What I mean is that they are credited with far more social traction than they actually possess. They just aren’t that big of a deal. I’m far more forgiving of emos than I am of hipsters.

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More than 1 000 gingers held a massive confidence-boosting weekend in Breda, Holland, to celebrate International Redhead Day this last weekend. News reports coming out of the area have been slow because national news agencies were weighing up whether or not such distressing information would serve the public interest.

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As far as extreme sports go this is far from ‘just another jump’. Not only did it take these guys ten years to get a permit to pull this off, but they will be joined by Timeslive photographer, Marianne Schwankhart. Oh, and the mountain they’re about to jump off of, is 5895m high. If you’ve only done Lion’s Head, start hyperventilating now.

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Really not exaggerating in that headline. Two days ago, blogger Shoshana Hebshi, a self-described “half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife,” found herself cuffed and thrown off a Frontier Airlines flight and strip-searched – because she was seated next to two Indian guys she didn’t know, and another passenger had found that suspicious.

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As you know, here at 2oceansVibe we celebrate guys and girls who are able to transform everyday tasks into something spectacular. Take this oke for instance – in all honesty, how exciting can pouring tea in a restaurant be? But this boss has developed it into a fine-tuned, multi-tasked, balancing act. Well done!

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Screw climate change, we’ve found a new home. Well, I mean that’s my attitude whenever astronomers says they’ve found new planets within the “Goldiclocks zone” of core temperature – like the one European astronomers announced yesterday, the catchy-sounding HD85512b, which fits life support parameters, and is a little over three times the size of Earth.

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Hollywood’s pathological lack of imagination/lust for audience dollars gathers force as it continues to pilfer the back catalogue of fan favourite flicks. This time not to re-make, or reboot, but to re-D into 3D. Reports have emerged that both Top Gun and Titanic are to receive the 3D treatment and be re-released to audiences around the world as early as next year.

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The utter tragedy that is rhino poaching hit hardest within South Africa’s wildlife conservation community over the weekend. A top Kwa-Zulu Natal game ranger was killed accidentally by colleagues during an anti-poaching operative on Saturday. The incident, which took place at the Umfolozi Game Reserve in Zululand, has been described as the most devastating event in the history of conservation.

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European stocks have bounced back slightly (well, leveled, more than anything) on news that China and Italy are in discussions about “significant” purchases of Italian bonds and investments in strategic companies. Greece will probably get that next round of funding, but Europe still needs to approve it. Here are some interesting numbers if Greece does go bang.

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A 130kg man has sued a popular American fast-food giant, because the sitting booths in their restaurants are apparently “too small”. He is claiming that the uncomfortable booths violate the civil rights of fat people. In all fairness, this guy probably has a point. It is, after all, guys like him that spend the most money there.

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Click through for a glimpse of the eternal Riaan, nailing it in a jacuzzi, 2oceansVibe style.

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There are reports of a blast at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule, in the Gard region – with further claims that there is a risk of radioactive leakage. The explosion followed a fire in a radioactive waste storage sight, killing one person and injuring three more.

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In a recent ruling by Judge Colin Lamont, “Dubula Ibhunu”, also known as “shoot the boer”, has been deemed hate speech. Lamont, who is presiding over Julius Malema’s hate speech trial, also made it clear that the Equality Act was put in place to protect all groups in a country, and in this case, more specifically, minorities. Sorry JuJu. Not.

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Vodacom has popped a cap in the bandwidth of Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) subscribers who exceed a monthly data limit of 100mb – cutting the speeds from 3G to 2G. Vodacom claims that this should only affect around 5% of the user base, as the rest are all using the service “fairly”.

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How about I give you a short cut from Brightwater Commons in Johannesburg, to Fourways? Without using Malibonge Drive? Pretty handy for skipping highway traffic and roadblock traffic, I think you’ll find. Check it out, my boet! Remember you can get to 2oceansvibe TV anytime by going to 2ov.tv or 2oceansvibe.tv

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This really has nothing to do with making your pet cat fluorescent so that you can see it in the dark and not stand on it when you get up to go the toilet at night. It has, however, everything to do with the similarities between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV).

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StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization that records and shares stories of average Americans. With the tenth anniversary of September 11th this weekend, they have released three animated shorts documenting the stories of four people who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. It left a very teary-eyed writer this side.

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If people keep telling you that drinking alone is a sign of alcoholism, then you either need to drink less, or find a way to make sure that there are people to drink with all the time. The geniuses behind the social network app ‘Let’s Drink Tonight’ figured the latter choice made more sense too.

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Footloose is an odd creature in the world of 1980s dance-saves-the-world feature films. It never hit the dizzy heights of fan or critical acclaim that Dirty Dancing did, and now, twenty seven years later, a re-make appears. But does it have that Bacon sizzle?

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A DA councillor has reported 5fm morning DJ Gareth Cliff to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA). The councillor, Tex Collins, was outraged at a sexist comment which he claims Gareth made to a female interviewee on air.

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Reports coming out of the East and Europe this morning paint a dismal picture for Greece. The Euro had already slipped to a 10 year low against the Yen and a six month low against the dollar in overnight trading. Bloomberg thinks Germany might give up on Greece because a Greek default is probably inevitable.

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Remember Josef Fritzl? The Austrian who imprisoned his daughter in an underground chamber for 24 years and fathered her seven children? It would seem he has a Mexican counterpart by the name of Jorge Iniestra Salas – one very loco ese! He kept the teenage daughters of his girlfriend captive for five years and fathered five children with one of the girls.

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Greenpeace! What a dumb idea. That giant recreation of da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is going to disappear as soon as that iceberg melts – OH. Oh gosh. You’re trying to put together some sort of heavy-handed metaphor about ‘mankind,’ ‘melting,’ like some sort of iceberg, because of ‘climate change.’

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Gareth Newham, head of the crime and justice programme at the Institute for Security Studies, is claiming that the increase in drug-related crimes, possession of illegal firearms and drunk driving are a good thing. According to him it doesn’t mean more crime it means more criminals being arrested. A spokesperson from ‘Fake it ‘til you make it SA’ had this to say: ‘stop talking kak.’

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A German court on Friday upheld an injunction requested by Apple barring the sales of Samsung Galaxy tablets in Germany. In what is surely another groundbreaking ruling against Samsung and the Galaxy Tab, the German court ruled that Samsung had basically copied Apple’s iPad.

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That’s right, Jax himself has taken to Youtube to beg, no literally plead with young South Africans to collaborate with him on a musical project, and he’s not alone…

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Mel Gibson is busy making a movie about the life of Jewish hero Judah Maccabee. This is the same person who was phuza when he got pulled over by a police officer a while back. He shared the following insights with the cop: “Effing Jews… The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world… Are you a Jew?”

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