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Waste Not, Want Not: New House Designs In Nigeria
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Here’s a novel idea that might help put a dent in the massive backlog of new homes our government has promised to the millions without adequate shelter, plus it’s great for the environment!
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South Africa’s Internet Turns 20 Tomorrow!
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of South Africa’s usage of the World Wide Web!
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Mininum Wage Increase In China: Everything Is Going To Get More Expensive Next Year.
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Effective January 1, 2012, the minimum wage is going to increase by as much as 20% in Guangdong, the industrial province in China where most of the stuff you’ve bought in the past decade was produced. Which means you’ve got yourself a significant rise in consumer good prices worldwide incoming.
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Chinese Couples Race To The Altar On Lucky 11/11/11
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Today’s date – 11/11/11 – is an auspicious one. Particularly so for many Chinese couples, who have adopted ‘the day of six ones’ as an exceptionally lucky wedding date, ignoring the fact that 11 November is usually celebrated as an unoffical singles day in China. Once a century, those extra two ones make this an excellent day to leave the single life behind.
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Nokia’s New Flexible Phone [VIDEO]
11 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nokia has released a concept video for their new HumanForm phone – which isn’t so much human-shaped as it is oblong. What’s interesting about it is that the casing is meant to be flexible, and the entire surface is meant to run off of touch recognition, which is fairly rad.
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International Energy Agency: Climate Change May Become Irreversible In Five Years
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the most thorough analysis yet of world energy infrastructure and carbon emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warns that we are likely to build so many new fossil-fueled power stations in the next five years that it won’t be possible to hold global warming at safe levels.
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Moscow, Ve Have A Problem: Russians Lose Control Of Probe
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A 13-ton, US$ 170 million Russian space probe that was launched on Wednesday, due for a rendezvous with one of Mars’ moons, has had a system fail before it even left earth orbit, and now threatens to do what asteroid YU55 didn’t. провалить!
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Russian Newsreader Caught Masturbating Live On Air [Video]
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Russian news bulletin recently aired a segment on strippers. They then cut back to the news anchor live in studio – only to reveal him masturbating to the footage! Obviously realising he is on air, he quickly composes himself and continues to read the news as if nothing is wrong. But keep an eye on his “guilty” hand and what he does with it.
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Drinkify: The Website That Lets Your Music Dictate What You Drink
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
If you’re bad at choosing both your music and your beverage, drinkify.org will help ease the burden by telling you which drinks go best with your music of choice. And if this isn’t what the internet was made for, well then I have been mislead.
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MTN To Roll Out R8 Billion 3G Upgrade in 2012
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re on MTN and suffering the curse of slow data on your smartphone, the fix is in! MTN have announced the roll out of R8 billion worth of 3G wireless stations to enhance service provision across the country.
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Rugby Vibe – Ep.12
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the final episode of this season of Rugby Vibe, Steve and his guest, Phillip Venter consider the personnel that South African rugby has at its disposal as it moves into the future. Following on from last week, Steve covers his pick of forward players. Proudly brought to you by:
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Occupy Denver Protestors Elect Border Collie As Official Leader
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, has been pressuring members of the Occupy Denver movement to pick a leader, “to deal with City and State officials.” So the protesters, in the most benign shove-it gesture imaginable, elected a three-and-a-half-year-old border collie. Named Shelby.
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Apple iOS Security: There’s A Hack For That
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apple recently showed a St. Louis, USA-based app developer a red card, giving him a one year ban from their App Development Programme, all because he tried to prove a point.
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They Have Cookie Flavoured Lip Balm Now
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Cosmetics line, Lip Smacker has unveiled a new line of Girl Scout Cookie-themed lip balm tubes featuring balms matching five well known cookie flavours – Thin Mints, Trefoils, Tagalongs, Do-si-dos, or Samoas. So, you know, now you can have whole minutes of cookie taste on your lips without any impact on your hips.
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Europe’s First Transsexual MP Takes Her Seat In Parliament
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday was a big day for European politics, with Poland welcoming their first transsexual woman ever into its parliament. Anna Grodzka was born a man but underwent a sex change. She was also joined by Robert Biedron – the country’s first openly gay man to be elected to office.
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Harold Hackett Has Sent You A Friend Request On… Well, The Ocean Wave
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Harold Hackett doesn’t use Facebook, LinkedIn or any of the vast array of dating platforms to make friends – he goes the Castaway route by tossing messages sealed in bottles into the surf near his home on Prince Edward Island, Canada. And it works.
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Straight Man Becomes Gay After Stroke
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Strokes can have massive effects on the body and mind, and are known to be occasionally transformative. Perhaps none more-so than the stroke experienced by Chris Birch during a rugby training incident in Wales. Birch,26, claims to have woken up after suffering a stroke feeling very different, and that the incident had turned him into a gay man. He was engaged to his girlfriend at the time.
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How To Make Egg Fried Rice Like A Boss [Video]
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all love egg-fried rice, but it is an incredibly tedious job for those who have to make it. But not for today’s addition to the 2oceansVibe Boss Hall of Fame. You’ll have to be patient, because the video starts out slowly. But believe me, its all worth it when you get to the part of the video where he dishes up the rice.
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Russian Police Discover 29 Dressed-Up Bodies In Historian’s Home
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Russian historian, Anatoly Moskvin, has been arrested after Russian police discovered 29 mummified bodies in his home. The remains were dressed in brightly-coloured clothes and arranged in doll-like poses, making up a “gruesome tableau.” Moskvin has been charged with desecration of graves, because it turns out being insanely creepy isn’t a crime in Russia.
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TEN$ION At The Top: Die Antwoord Drop Interscope
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Afrikaans zef rap sensation, Die Antwoord, have released a statement on their website indicating that they have parted ways with their record company, Interscope – and that’s putting it diplomatically.
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French Weekly Gets Firebombed For Satirizing Muhammad, Does It Again
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Charlie Hebdo, French satirical weekly, was firebombed a week ago, after the publication put a caricature of the prophet Muhammad on the cover of an issue criticising the rise of Sharia law in the Middle East post-Arab Spring. And their newest issue has a caricature of the prophet making out with Hebdo’s editor.
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Western Boulevard Renamed After Anti-Apartheid Activist, Helen Suzman [VIDEO]
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Cape Town has adopted a new name for Western Boulevard, choosing to honour late South African parliamentarian and anti-Apartheid activist, Helen Suzman by naming the busy thoroughfare after her.
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Bill Murray To Star In New Roosevelt Biopic
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Movie Hyde Park on Hudson is due for release next year, and is going to tell the story of Franklin D Roosevelt, the US president who was responsible for leading America through World War II and to economic recovery, and the only president to ever have been elected for more than two terms. And who better to play the part than Bill Murray?
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Asteroid Will Have Close Shave With Earth Tomorrow
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
An asteroid the length of four rugby fields will be speeding through Earth’s solar system tomorrow, at a closer proximity to us than the moon. Nothing of this magnitude has come nearly as close to colliding with our planet for 30 years. But rest assured the asteroid is not going to hit us. Not yet, anyway.
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Thousands Of Balloons Released Over Nairobi To Cheer Locals
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This afternoon, Nairobi commuters sitting in their cars on their way home from work will notice thousands of yellow balloons floating over the Kenyan capital city. The objective of the spectacle? Simply to put a smile on locals’ faces following two recent grenade attacks in Nairobi. Cool idea.
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Black Rhinos Transported Upside Down By Air [PICS]
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
The Black Rhino Range Expansion Project recently successfully transported 19 black rhinos 1 500 kilometres across South Africa. They did this by airlifting each rhino by its ankles before carrying it upside down! Read exactly why they do it this way, and see some amazing images of this process, after the jump.
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Conan O’Brien Presides Over Late Night Television’s First Gay Marriage
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Conan O’Brien returned to New York last week for the first time since his falling out with the NBC – not only to rub his recent success in his former employers’ collective faces, but also to preside over the first same-sex marriage performed on late-night television. Because I guess that’s worth making a big deal over.
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Re-make Monday: Lose Weight Now, Ask Jonah Hill How – 21 Jump Street
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Back in 2008, then super-size Superbad star, Jonah Hill, announced he was shopping a script around Hollywood for an updated film adaptation of 21 Jump Street. The final product is set to drop early next year, featuring an oddly puffy looking Channing Tatum, and an extremely less puffy Jonah Hill
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Batman Lookalike Catches Real-Life Pedophiles [Video]
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This is an absolute must-see! This guy deliberately creates fake profiles of underage girls online. He then enters chat rooms and look for pedophiles and invite them to meet in person. When they show up, he confronts them dressed as Batman. He also films the incident and puts the video up on the internet. Check out his first four “victims” inside.
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MINI Routes – Benmore to Hyde Park
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Seth dodges highly botoxed women in Jaguars, and shows you a short cut from Benmore to Hyde Park, without using Grayston Drive and Sandton Drive. Top secret information is leaked, where he shows you a zone that skips the infamous traffic lights onto William Nicol Drive.
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