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Aww, Google’s Valentines Doodle Is All Heart
14 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What better way to remind the love of your life that you’re thinking about them / want to change their personality completely than directing them to the world’s most popular search engine for this year’s sweet as sugar Valentines doodle?
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Unreleased Die Antwoord Track Leaked
14 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well hey there, internet – look what you brought in. “Money and Da Power,” a track that Die Antwoord has performed a couple of times on live tour but didn’t include on TEN$ION has been leaked onto Soundcloud by some or other file-sharing hippie. It’s a neat song, though. They sample sound from The Godfather.
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Naked Ukrainian Protester Group Strikes Once Again [Mildly N5FW]
14 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last month we told you about Femen, the naked Ukranian protest group who tried to break into an invitation-only gathering of international CEOs and political leaders held in Davos. These politically conscious ladies have struck again, this time demonstrating outside the headquarters of Russian gas monopoly, Gazprom. See the full gallery of their passionate protests after the jump.
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Here’s The Hot First Trailer For Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [VIDEO]
14 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s our first taste of a sweet little piece of cinematography coming our way later this year from producer Tim Burton, and director Timur Bekmambetov (of Russia’s Day Watch and Night Watch fame), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter!
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Airbus Admit They “Screwed Up” Over A380 Wing Cracks
13 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
“We screwed up!” These were the words of Airbus CEO Thomas Enders at the Singapore Airshow this weekend, as the entire European fleet of A380’s is downed to check for cracks in their wings. Aeroplane manufacturer FAIL.
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January Was Good For SA Job Creation, But Not Good Enough
13 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So there’s good news and bad news. According to figures released today: in January, our economy created 80 000 jobs, which is a significant rise from the end of 2011, but still significantly short of government targets. What’s the situation?
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2oceansvibe Received Over 2 Million Visits In The Last Year
13 Feb 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
We’re pleased to announce our latest annual stats have broken all previous records, showing over 2 million visits in the last 12 months. More staggering is the number of unique readers, which has more than doubled (compared to the previous 12 months), showing over 1 million individual people. This often converts to over 200,000 unique […]
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Nelson Mandela’s Face To Replace Animals On SA Bank Notes
13 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
President Jacob Zuma made a very cool announcement this weekend on the 22nd anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. Towards the end of this year South Africa will get a series of new bank notes which will have Madiba’s image as the main illustration instead of the animals we’ve come to know.
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Fake Louis Vuitton Condoms Go Viral On Twitter
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Twittosphere went a little gaga earlier this week over pictures of a supposed line of Louis Vuitton condoms that the luxury French fashion house was planning to unleash on their highbrow clientele.
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Calm After The Storm – A Wrap Up Of CT’s Weather Week In Photos
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Commenting on the weather is usually as insightful as commenting that a pregnant chick’s belly “is growing”. It’s obvious, a bit silly and we all still do it. But in Cape Town this week the weather really was worth mentioning – and worth looking back at.
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Obama Releases Campaign Playlist, Listens To Arcade Fire
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Obama seems to be going with the “sing when you’re winning” line of thought – first his rendition of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together”, and now his 28-track long Campaign playlist has shown up on Spotify, to remind voters that he’s totally hip to the groove. Take a look to compare your tastes with the POTUS.
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Siberian Wooly Mammoth Video: Fact Or Fiction? [VIDEO]
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There’s nothing we love more than incredibly lame fake video, and this one is a doozy. An engineer surveying for a planned road claims to have taken video of an actual wooly mammoth crossing an icy river in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia.
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Refugee Lands Maths Teacher’s Job By Explaining Equations To Passing Shoppers
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Eight years after leaving his home country, this Congolese refugee can finally say his expectations of a better future in South Africa have been met. Fernando Brice Olivier Ogadi, 35, has just received a job offer in the profession he is qualified in – as a school maths teacher. His new employer noticed him in a parking lot giving free maths lessons.
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Google Would Like To Buy Your Privacy Now, Please
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
See, it turns out that Google doesn’t actually know everything about your online browsing habits. But boy, they’d sure like to! Which is why they’re rolling out two services that records users’ online activities in full, in return for Amazon gift cards or – in the sightly more intense version – hard cash.
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Chinese Woman Gives Birth To 7 Kilo Baby
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
One Chinese family in Xinxiang City, Henan Province has gotten the Year of the Dragon off to a stellar start, producing the heaviest newborn ever recorded in China, weighing in at a whopping 15,52lb, or just over 7kg!
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Sky-diver To Break Sound Barrier With Jump From Edge Of Space
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This thing. Is the coolest thing. Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner is going to overcome his dorky name by leaping from a balloon at a height of 36km, and 35 seconds later become the first person to break the sound barrier during free fall. Then he’ll probably deploy his parachute and land safely in New Mexico.
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Dolphins Swim And Jump Alongside Surfer [VIDEO]
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A teen surfing in the wake of a yacht off the Gulf of Mexico was pleasantly surprised when two animal friends decided to join him. Watch this very cool video – featuring a pair of curious Bottlenose dolphins swimming and jumping beside the boy – after the jump.
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Eastern Cape ANCYL To Ignore JuJu Suspension
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Eastern Cape branch of the ANCYL has proclaimed that they will ignore Julius Malema’s suspension from his chairmanship of the Youth League until the final mitigation of sentence can be decided upon, or at least until a pronouncement can be made at the ANC national congress in December.
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First Theatrical Trailer For “The Amazing Spider-Man” [VIDEO]
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Sure, Marvel dropped their ‘Avengers’ trailer during the super bowl too, but if there’s one thing Marvel likes it’s making money, and nothing makes money like overstimulated comic book movie fans. And this trailer for Marc Webb’s ‘The Amazing Spider-Man,’ starring Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone, is very, very stimulating.
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This Eco-Advertising By McDonald’s California Is Illegal…To Remove
08 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Very clever McDonald’s. The fast food giant has introduced eco-advertising to its marketing strategy – in the form of a seed bomb campaign by designer Sean Click. It’s not the first time the technique has been used, but the ingenious part of the McD’s seed bomb ad that has blossomed on the side of a California highway is that its removal would probably be illegal.
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Old Spice Once Again Delivers An Epic Advert [VIDEO]
07 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Old Spice is so powerful, it sells itself in other people’s commercials. No, really, true story. If that’s still not enough for you, then how about Terry Crews’ pecs making super cute laser sounds? Video after the jump.
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Check Out Marvel’s Awesome Superbowl Avengers Trailer [VIDEO]
07 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Inbetween all the hoo hah around last minute touch downs, Madonna’s cartwheels and Clint Eastwood’s voice overs, Marvel dropped this little gem during the much hyped Superbowl XLVI this past weekend.
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Oscar Pistorius Wins 2012 Laureus World Award [PICS]
07 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oscar Pistorius has won the 2012 Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability Award. This after he became the first amputee to win a non-disabled World Championship track medal, as a member of the South African silver medal winning 4 x 400 metres relay team in South Korea. See a list of all the other winners inside.
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Die Antwoord’s New Release Is Streaming Online
07 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
So! Die Antwoord’s new album, TEN$ION, is coming out tomorrow – the first release on their new, Interscope-free, indie label, ZEF Records. Which is cool. Even cooler is the fact that it’s available for free streaming on Dutch broadcasting channel 3VOOR12, in case you’re somebody who likes free stuff. Listen here.
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Pretoria Man Too Large For Burial
07 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just in time to save our flagging New Years resolutions to get in shape, here is some February oomph courtesy of an unfortunate Pretoria man who was so obese at time of death, that it might not be possible to bury him.
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TV Presenter Catches Out Corrupt Cops
07 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You may never have heard of TV celebrity and author Zanele Mbokazi. It would mean you’ve never watched SABC1’s Gospel Gold show, for which she used to be presenter, but anything’s possible. However all of that is beside the point. Because Zanele is now even more famous for something else: helping to bust some very naughty SAPS officers on Sunday.
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OK Go’s Insane Chevy Music Vid [VIDEO]
06 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, OK Go released their new music video for Needing/Getting, which doubled as a Super Bowl ad for the Chevy Sonic. The band drives a Chevy fitted with retractable arms down a 3km stretch of desert lined with 1 000 instruments to perform a version of “Needing/Getting” that took four months to prep and four days to shoot.
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Die Antwoord Appearing On David Letterman AND Modeling For Alexander Wang
06 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There is simply no stopping Die Antwoord. After dropping a new video and introducing their daughter to the world, they can now also tick appearing on David Letterman AND modeling for Alexander Wang off their bucket list.
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The Simpsons Join Barbie On Iran Toy Black List
06 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hot off the press in Iran this morning comes a report that the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran has added any and all toys derived from The Simpsons to a nationwide ban list, which includes Barbie dolls and assorted products.
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US Superbowl Smashes Twitter Record
06 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday’s 46th Superbowl in the States, which saw the New York Giants eke out a last minute 21-17 win over the New England Patriots, also saw an unprecedented surge in activity on social messaging phenomenon, Twitter. To the tune of 10 000 tweets per minute, that is.
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