With the Easter weekend but a heartbeat away, please be careful on the roads. And don’t even think about driving while under the influence, ok? Not even traffic cops can get away with that anymore. In another ironic turn of events in the world of law enforcement, a traffic officer was arrested for drunk driving last weekend.

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In what is not your typical Chinese dog story, hundreds of dogs were spared from being served as the main course in restaurants in China last Friday. Activists managed to stage a 15-hour standoff in order to save them from the dinner table.

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Two Russian men found the slender, badly damaged corpse of what they claim to be an alien in Siberia. Footage of the men making the find was uploaded to the net three days ago, and has since been viewed nearly five million times. Cue the inevitable back and forth between denialists and enthusiasts.

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British filmmaker and photojournalist, Tim Hetherington, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated documentary on the Afghanistan War, Restrepo, was killed yesterday in Misrata, Libya, following the firing of an RPG at a group of journalists. He was 41 years old. Three other journalists were injured in the attack.

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The 2oceansvibe Breakfast team is joined this morning by Cape Town City Mayor, Dan Plato. Tune in to catch the chatter. That’s all done now – if you missed the show, a podcast will be up shortly on 2oceansvibe Radio’s website (new one coming soon ;-)) For now please enjoy this stunning pic of 2oceansvibe […]

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Never one to shy away from saying things that might just come back to bite him, our national rugby coach and orator, Peter de Villiers, has pretty much called Sonny Bill Williams overrated. He’s also said that we’ll have him worked out come the World Cup.

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You may knowingly or unknowingly be one of five million South Africans who have two Identity Documents, even if you don’t want two. Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said yesterday that they were able to determine this fact by checking the re-issue dates of documents. Simple, but brilliant.

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When his two-year-old sister was found floating in their grandmother’s pool on Sunday, Mesa, Arizona boy Tristin Sagh knew exactly what to do, and performed CPR on her, saving her life.

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Finally, the average layperson will be able to write and solve invisible ink messages. And not with those funny highlighters that did the rounds in the 90’s either. The CIA has no doubt allowed us all to become privy to this information because they have no need for invisible ink anymore. Data encryption has progressed somewhat.

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Jiroemon Kimura is the oldest man on earth, and he celebrated his 114th birthday yesterday. Jiroemon has seven children, of whom five are still alive, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren. Respect!

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Today is the 20th of April and I have no idea what that means, but here Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci sing about the difficulties involved in trying to of obtain medical marijuana in California, directed by Raul B Fernandez. It’s cute, and enjoyable for regular and chemically-enhanced viewing.

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For reasons that need not detain us, one day last week I found myself in the early hours of the morning watching the Hanna-Barbera cartoon “Stop the Pigeon”.  If you ever feel that your mind is slightly out of synch with the rest of the world’s, and that perhaps you should visit a good nerve […]

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For the last week, the whole state of Texas has been battling enormous wildfires which have scorched a million acres of earth. The Texas Fire Service has had to rope in firefighters from 34 states to assist with managing the fires. All they can do is concentrate on putting out the big ones first.

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The recession is serving up another good deal, friends. For about R5,4 million you can buy the historic village of Valle Piola in Italy. It’s surrounded by wild and mountainous terrain, and is set in the heart of one of the country’s biggest national parks, Gran Sasso.

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Today is a pretty significant day for those in the marijuana smoking community, as 20 April is totally considered International 420 Day. At 16h20 this afternoon blunts, bongs and blunts (did we say that? Ah well) will be lit all around the globe in celebration of a small-to-medium sized plant.

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The Syrian government yesterday passed a bill lifting the country’s decades-old emergency law, some hours after protesters were fired upon by security forces. This follows weeks of pro-reform demonstrations and protests. Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has at this point not yet signed the bill into legislation.

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According to the Facebook profile of a local Cape Town resident, Roman Abramovich is in town for the Jewish holy day of Passover (Pesach). Moreover, Roman will be spending it at this chap’s house. Look at you, kid.

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A number of bloggers have been making reference to a ‘Jasmine Revolution,’ wherein Chinese citizens show discontent for local corruption by walking around crowded public areas on Sunday afternoons. This never happened, but Sunday walks did. Authorities are convinced that the protest is still happening.

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One cannot but be amazed and horrified at the actions of Kipp Rusty Walker of Bend, Oregon, who stabbed himself to death on stage, in front of a live audience. Kipp had just finished playing a song called “Sorry For All the Mess”, at an open mike night at Strictly Organic Coffee Co. when he repeatedly stabbed himself in the chest with a six-inch knife.

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Linen Technology Tracking from Miami, Florida, recently patented a radio-frequency identification chip that’s been designed to manage stock counts of inventory items that frequently get mislaid or stolen. Enter: hotel linen protection. You’re going to need to think twice about nicking that towel now.

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The S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards is a pretty big deal. The judges scour the world for the finest of fine dining, and it just so happens that Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek nabbed the number 36 spot. Two thumbs up!

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Five years after their last big push against online gambling, which resulted in PartyGamings jump to German servers, the US Department of Justice is again making inroads – last Friday taking over the URLs for PokerStars, Full Tilt, & Absolute Poker, and seeking US $3 billion in civil penalties.

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Our infallible chief of police, General Bheki Cele, has humbly decided to withdraw his statement calling murder suspect, Shrien Dewani, “a monkey”. It has been a mere four months, but Cele decided that in the interest of all concerned, he ought to withdraw his monkey comment, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said on Monday. And so he did.

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Remember the story about the Pied Piper of Hamlyn? He was the guy hired to lure rats away from the city by playing his magic pipe. The city of Johannesburg may be in need of its own modern day PPOH, given the rat infestation currently plaguing the CBD.

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If you care about people dying of malaria (which you should, and if you don’t, you may want to review your pulse, or your existence), then take one minute to watch this delightful video, featuring Cape Town’s beloved Snoddie.

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On Monday NASA announced it was distributing $269 million to four companies for them to develop spacecraft to take astronauts into orbit. The investment is an Obama administration gamble that will enable commercial companies to get people to and from orbit in quicker time and with less cost.

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A prominent US politician, Marilyn Davenport, is in trouble for sending out an email with a photo of chimpanzee parents and their infant. Barack Obama’s face is superimposed on the chimpanzee infant, and the caption reads: “Now you know why no birth certificate.” Her response to the whole matter, however, is even spicier.

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This Sri Lankan girl got hit so hard by a moving train that she did a pretty impressive double spin. If this was ice skating, she’d have scored at least a 7,9. But instead of being thankful that she was only knocked unconscious for a couple of minutes, all she seems concerned about is finding her missing shoe.

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Some naughty US websites broke the press embargo a few hours ago, but these are the first official images of the 2012 Volkswagen Beetle. And we dare say it looks superb!

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The opening of Burberry’s flagship Beijing store was marked by a holographic runway show. Holographic models walked through the virtual images of one another, flickering up and down the catwalk, and disappearing in pyrotechnic bursts. Also, Edie Campbell turned into Jourdan Dunn mid-stride – no spice.

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