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SA Post Office Releases Gorgeous New Stamps To Celebrate Freedom Day [PICS]
24 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The South African Post Office is celebrating the 18th anniversary of our transition to democracy this Friday with a set of eight gorgeous new stamps designed by Lize Marié Dreyer, a third-year student at the Open Window School of Visual Communication in Gauteng. We’ve got the full set of these philatelic fancies, after the jump!
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Going Going Gone! Khulubuse Zuma’s Possessions Go Under The Hammer [PICS]
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Downed mining magnate and Presidential nephew, Khulubuse Zuma’s belongings are on auction in Verulam, KZN. We’re following Sarah Britten (@anatinus) on Twitter to get the low down on the high price of Zuma’s luxury living. All our favourite tweets and pics, courtesy of Ms. Britten, after the jump!
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India To Declare Tea Its National Drink
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This weekend, Indian authorities announced that they planned to establish Assam tea as the national drink, celebrating the life and work of the man who introduced tea farming to Assam state, and also died trying to boot the British out. More of this hot cup of history, after the jump!
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Apple And Google Face Salary-Fixing Lawsuit
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google, Apple, Adobe and Intel – among other companies – have been accused of restricting salary increases and restricting career development by agreeing not to poach each other’s staff; California District Judge Lucy Koh has found that there’s enough evidence to support trial for antitrust injury. Intuit, Pixar, and Lucasfilm are also involved.
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Giant Dog Hot-Air Balloon Floating Over Cape Town [PICS]
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oscar, one of the world’s most famous adopted dogs, and his owner, Joanne Lefson is currently in in Cape Town. They are championing the cause of dog adoption – with a giant dog hot-air balloon floating over the Mother City this morning. See pics inside.
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Hacker Posts Details Of 3 Million Iranian Bank Accounts
20 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And you people wonder why they tried to switch the internet off. Khosrow Zarefarid, an Iranian software manager, warned Iran’s banks’ CEOs of a security flaw in the banking system. When nobody responded, Khosrow hacked 3 million accounts across 22 banks, then dropped these details — including card numbers and PINs — on his blog.
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Facebook Targets May 17th For IPO Launch
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Signs suggest that Facebook is looking to have its initial public offering launch on on May 17th, assuming that the Securities & Exchange commission rubber-stamps all of the social network’s paperwork – including documents concerning Facebook’s recent billion-dollar acquisition of Instagram. Facebook is set to be initially valued at around $100 billion.
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Oscar Pistorius Makes TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People In The World List
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oscar Pistorius has been named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2012. He is the only South African on the list. See who he shares it with, and what the magazine had to say about him, after the jump.
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Arrested Development Will Premiere Its Entire Fourth Season At Once
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mitch Hurwitz, Arrested Development creator, has revealed that the long-mourned show will be premiering it’s 10-episode fourth season in one huge lump on Netflix’s Watch Instantly feature in 2013. You’ve got a year to come up with a plausible excuse to spend a day off from work to watch the entire season.
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Spain’s King Juan Carlos Apologises For African Hunting Trip
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 9 Comments
Spain’s King Juan Carlos finally issued an apology this morning for the hunting trip he took to Africa recently where he shot live game on a private reserve in Botswana, including elephants. The scandal might never have come to light if he hadn’t had an accident during the trip and had to be taken back to Spain for emergency hip surgery.
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Brilliant Solar Flares Exploded From The Sun Yesterday [VIDEO]
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday NASA managed to capture the clearest-yet footage of a solar flare in process after magnetic fields on the Sun’s northeastern curve exploded in huge streams of plasma and sun stuff. The footage only accounts for about five seconds of explosion, but it’s very, very cool, both in and out of time-lapse.
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What Classic Show Is Single-Handedly Saving SABC 3’s Ratings Death Spiral?
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s hard to find a success story in the spiralling shit storm that is practically everything to do with the SABC these days, but SABC3 have bucked the trend a little, reaching into TV history for a programme that is turning their ratings nosedive around – and you’ll never guess who it is!
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Physicist Uses Mathematics To Get Out Of Traffic Fine, Publishes Findings
18 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
UC San Diego physicist, Dmitri Krioukov got ticketed recently for running a stop sign – which isn’t unusual. What is unusual is the fact that, rather than pay the $400 fine and move on, Krioukov wrote a mathematical paper proving that the cop who ticketed him had a “perception of reality that did not properly reflect reality.”
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BREAKING: Missing SA Yacht Returns Safely From Sea, Skipper Writes In To 2ov
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday we told you about SA yacht, The Dandelion, which had been missing at sea for days since her departure from northern Mozambique. Local and foreign authorities feared the vessel and its seven multi-national passengers had been captured by pirates in the Indian Ocean. 2oceansvibe has just received word – from the South African skipper, John Sergel himself – that the Dandelion has returned safely, and why she was held up. Click through to read.
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Julian Assange Talk Show Debuts From Secret London Location, Interviews Infamous Hezbollah Leader [VIDEO]
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s controversial new talk show is set to drop today at 13h30 South African time on a Russian digital news channel. Nothing this man does is not bent on overthrowing the way we look at our society and the world around us, so the first episode of The World Tomorrow should be a hefty serving of global illuminati conspiracy cray-cray realness. Check out Episode One, after the jump!
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Disabled Soldiers To Tackle Mount Everest With Prosthetic Ice-Axes
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
25-year-old South African serviceman, Private Jaco van Gass, lost his left arm to a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan three years ago. Now he’s testing a prosthetic ice-axe – an invention of his own design – in preparation for an attempt at Mount Everest in May, alongside five other injured servicemen.
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Google Drive Launching Next Week With 5GB Free Space
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google’s long-anticipated cloud storage service, Google Drive, is set to launch some time next week – in yet another attempt to move in on a service that other companies have been occupying for years. What’s interesting here is that Google is planning on starting everyone with 5GB of free storage, easily trumping Dropbox’s 2GB base quota.
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Pacific Quake Update: Papua New Guinea Suffers Magnitude 7 Quake, No Tsunami Warning Issued
17 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Seismic instability continues on the Pacific Rim this week with a magnitude 7 earthquake recorded off the coast of Papua New Guinea early this morning (just after 05h00 Australian Eastern Standard Time). The tremor struck at a depth of 202km and was centred 137km north of Lae, Papua New Guinea’s second-largest city.
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BREAKING: New iPad Available In SA End Of April
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
FNB have announced they will start offering the new iPad to their customers at the end of this month, the first South African company to make the new iPad available domestically. More details on the South African launch after the jump!
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Stay Tuned: SA’s “Shambolic” Digital Switch Over Pushed Back Again
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
South Africa’s transition to full digital terrestrial broadcasting is one of those processes that one measures in aeons, like the lifespan of stars or the inexorable evolution of monkey-fish-frogs into homo sapiens. The Ministry of Communications released the latest twist in this lengthy tale this morning, so get your R700 Set Top Box fee ready while we explore Dina’s latest digital daydream, after the jump!
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Google Co-Founder Says Facebook & Apple Threaten Internet Freedom
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Documentary: Watch The Power Of Music Bring This Elderly Gentleman Back To Life [VIDEO]
16 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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How To Row Down The River Like A Boss [VIDEO]
13 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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!
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Film Fans! The Tribeca Film Festival Is Coming To Cape Town For A Five Year Run
13 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Update: SARS Requires South Africans Abroad To Declare Their Income
13 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
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!
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Ultra Long Range Superyacht Launches In China [PICS]
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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.
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US Judge Rules Against German Microsoft Injunction
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Indonesia Quake Update: Tsunami Warning Cancelled, Locals Still Cautious Of Aftershocks
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Mind-Blowing TNT Public Advertising Is Mind-Blowing [VIDEO]
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
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!
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George Zimmerman Charged With Second Degree Murder For Death Of Trayvon Martin
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
After a ridiculous amount of time at liberty, George Zimmerman – the guy who shot Trayvon Martin for wearing a hoodie – has been taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder. Due to some oddment of Florida law, a charge of first-degree murder was ruled out. If convicted, Zimmerman faces life in prison.
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