The Australian government appears to be seriously considering a culling-for-carbon-credits plan to reduce the methane emissions from the estimated 1.2 million wild camels roaming the outback. Earlier today we reported that domestic cats in parts of Sydney have a curfew. Now camels are in trouble for burping and farting too much.

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A study done by some reputable people has found the average video gamer to be around 37. Quick question: who do you picture when you think about a 37 year-old gamer? Does it involve someone who has yet to lose his virginity, or someone who can actually speak Klingon? You’d be wrong. The study cites more parents playing games with their children as main reason.

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Look, I don’t like to court contradiction, least of all on the web, but I think I may have accidentally lied to you guys yesterday. I told you that this beer advertisement was the best beer ad that there ever was, and I meant it. I did. But then the internet showed me this.

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Tech site cnet is having an important Reporters’ Roundtable discussion on a topic that affects us all: Why are end user license agreements and terms of service so incredible long and virtually indecipherable? Academy Award winner, Richard Dreyfus, helps to illustrate this point, by performing the iTunes EULA.

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In yet another move to convince us that Scandinavian politics makes sense: the government of Norway is inexplicably offering to ‘train’ foreign diplomats in the ways of black metal. As in, the musical genre. Specifically, ‘True Norwegian Black Metal’, which you would know by now if you were a foreign diplomat in Norway.

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MINI SA has finally announced the imminent arrival of the all-new MINI Coupé! And my God this thing is beautiful! Check it out… “MINI is expanding its product family with the launch of a model geared squarely to maximising driving fun. The MINI Coupé indulges the keen driver with a level of agility unmatched in […]

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The Aussies are extreme at the best of times, but now pet cats in several of Sydney’s suburbs will be forced to curl up inside their homes from dusk to dawn under a new curfew rule that hopes to curb overnight attacks on native wildlife.

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Sarah Burge is no stranger to the Mother of the Year competition – almost a veteran, really. Last year she made the finals for teaching her six-year-old how to pole dance. This year she’s made the short list once again with a brilliant example of motherly love: giving her daughter a boob job voucher for her SEVENTH birthday. Well done, mom!

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In a seriously bizarre story, a Virginia inmate, named Ophelia De’lonta, is suing the US Federal Government for the right to have a sex change after “she” failed on numerous occasions to castrate herself.

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The ANC Youth League is not very happy with Idols judge Gareth Cliff. In fact, they have called for him to be axed from the show. The reason: he said that the youth of Polokwane have no talent.

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Yay, science. The guys over at Continuum fashion have made the world’s first ready-to-wear, completely 3D printed bikini. It’s called the N12, and it’s pretty cool. Above and beyond it being a sexy-looking bikini, the whole thing is made up of 3D printed pieces that snap together like lego.

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Reject tag. That’s the best solution to most Facebook picture problems involving you looking dodgy, drunk or disorderly in someone else’s weekend photo album, right? Not anymore. In more FB news today, the social network has decided it’s rad and totally okay to have face-recognition software automatically detect users in images, even career-damaging ones.

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The campaign against the current tabulated form of the proposed Protection of Information Bill peaked at the end of last week. The ANC finally realised how silly it might look in the long-run and joined the united push for a postponement on its signing. Desmond Tutu is now rallying us all to get behind our freedom too.

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Footage of a bunny born without ears has emerged from just outside the exclusion zone, near Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant. Thanks to help of local media and Japan’s online community, the inhabitants of this area now fear the possibility of one day bearing kids with no ears.

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moonage3, who uploaded this advert by Hahn Brewery, called it the ‘Most EPIC beer commercial EVER.’ Now, the word ‘epic’ is getting a little stale, and nobody likes too many letters in upper case, but just this once I’m in agreement with moonage3. Please. Let Hahn Brewery show you how they put awesome in a bottle.

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Ah the Department of Home Affairs. They might be one of the world’s most bloated, corrupt and incompetent government departments, but at least they have a sense of humour. As 70-year-old pensioner, Paulinah Ragatji found out, when she was told that she would need to be accompanied by her dead parents, in order to receive an ID.

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One of the United States’ most globally popular comedians, Pablo Francisco, will be live via telephone on 2oceansVibe Radio’s Bro Show tonight. The show runs from 18h00 to 20h00, so be sure to tune in if you don’t want to miss out! Oh right, you’re not sure who Pablo Francisco is? He’s this guy. You […]

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The FIA has reinstated the Bahrain Grand Prix on the 2011 F1 Grand Prix calendar, despite numerous independent reports of government-sponsored torture and murder of political dissidents in that country, since February 14 of this year. The FIA report, endorsing the re-institution of the event on the F1 calendar, has just been leaked, and has […]

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At the Harbin Siberian Tiger Park in Northern China, feeding time has become something of a spectator sport. The park is reportedly home to around 1 000 tigers and it’s also one of the world’s largest and most successful conservation parks for the endangered animals.

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Break-ups can sometimes turn very nasty. Take this guy for instance – he appeared on a billboard slamming his ex.The featured photograph shows him holding the outline of an infant, along with text that reads, “This Would Have Been A Picture Of My 2-Month Old Baby If The Mother Had Decided To Not KILL Our Child!” That’s pretty harsh! See pic inside.

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On Friday, Francisco Solomon Sanchez, who had tried to kill himself on at least ten separate occasions, finally managed to end his life by jumping into traffic from an overpass in California. Police say the 41-year-old man jumped from the 210 freeway, and was hit by at least one car after his fall.

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There’s a lot of that volcano business going down at the moment. Over 3,500 people have been evacuated from the area surrounding the Chilean volcano Puyehue, active for the first time in 50 years. Volcanic ash, stirred up by the activity, has spread across the border into Argentina, shutting down businesses and airports.

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In an exemplary case of ‘Stand By Your Man’, Stacey Giggs has dismissed allegations that her footballer husband Ryan conducted an eight year affair with his brother’s wife. The Manchester United star has denied sister-in-law Natasha’s accusations that he cheated on his wife repeatedly with her. And apparently Stacey believes him. Let’s see how long that lasts.

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Jet-packs are a big deal for us. We’ve talked about “the jet-pack issue” before, and you should bend your ears to listen. The term “jet-pack issue” could easily be substituted for a term like “the freedom issue”, or “the liberation from the constraints of our bodies issue”. The latest development is that a feasible jet-pack […]

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To all the overworked and swamped scholars in South Africa, we’d like to say please hang on a little bit longer – help is on the way! The education department has announced that students will now also get June 17 and August 8 off from school. This is due to the those dates’ “proximity to public holidays”.

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One of the many perks of writing is the freedom to grace an article with the headline it deserves. Many media outlets have covered this story, but nobody has called it what it is. Every single one of us who buys a new car in South Africa today is being screwed. It’s called a Green […]

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Acclaimed comedy group, The Brothers Streep, made an appearance on The Mark Bayly Show on 2oceansVibe Radio yesterday afternoon, which is a significant upgrade from their appearance on BBC’s Graham Norton show (that’s a joke). In between gulps of wine and pieces of chocolate, Simon and Dylan managed to crack out excellent acoustic renditions of […]

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Painter and musical performer Leon Botha, best known for featuring in the music video of Die Antwoord’s ‘Enter The Ninja’, passed away on Sunday, one day after celebrating his 26th birthday. Botha was diagnosed at an early age with progeria, which lowers life expectancy drastically. Despite this,he lived a longer and fuller life than most thought possible.

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A man who suffered from both Leukaemia and HIV seems to have been cured of HIV, after he received a unique type of bone marrow transplant.

Seriously. Check it out…

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Wow. How something like this even happens, I’m not even sure. But, it is both hilarious, and an epic fail. During a Fox News report on 2012 American presidential candidates, Fox News displayed a picture of Tina Fey playing Palin on an episode of Saturday Night Live instead of showing an actual picture of Sarah Palin. Awkward.

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