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Iranian Actress Given 90 Lashes For Being In A Mildly Subversive Film
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
More specifically, Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was sentenced to 90 lashes for starring in “My Tehran For Sale,” a movie about how Iran mistreats its actresses. The actress was arrested for being in the film – which was never officially distributed in Iran – in July, and her sentence was handed down this weekend.
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Coldplay Record A Little Cape Town Souvenir
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
Cape Town Tourism chiefs are grinning from ear to ear this week as they smugly proclaimed that just after filling Greenpoint stadium last Wednesday night, UK alt rock sensation Coldplay applied to the City authorities to record a new music video in and around the Mother City, as well as in the Klein Karoo.
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Seattle’s Vigilante “Superhero” Arrested
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The city of Seattle is home to a prolific self-appointed, and self-styled, crime-fighter. In the manner of Batman (or teen superhero, Kickass), the man who calls himself Phoenix Jones wears a black and yellow mask and a muscle bodysuit, and actually has a side-kick called “Ghost”. Unfortunately, Phoenix was arrested on Sunday for assaulting several people with pepper spray.
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Fashion Designer Makes Clothes From Milk
11 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A young fashion designer from Germany has produced the first man-made synthetic fibre entirely without chemicals. And she did it with a staple you can find in your fridge — milk! The fabric is called QMilch, and is made from high concentrations of the milk protein, casein. The best part is that it looks and feels like silk but doesn’t smell.
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Hilarious French Cycling Flash Mob Prank [VIDEO]
10 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A French prankster, with the help of a flash mob, has created a fake Tour de France finish line. The target? Unsuspecting cyclists! They are suddenly greeted by a film crew and an enthusiastic mob which covers them with praise, trophies and bottled water.
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Google Opens Its First Retail Store In London
10 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
As part of its promotional campaign for the new Chrome operating system, Google has quietly opened up its first retail store in London, called the “Chrome Zone”. The store is Google’s first venture in realspace retail, using the location to sell its Chromebook computer line.
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America’s Unmanned Combat Drones Infected With Computer Virus
10 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well this can only end well. The US Air Force’s unmanned combat drones in the “Predator” and “Reaper” class have been infected with computer viruses that they can’t get rid of, in case you weren’t sufficiently terrified of the world when you woke up this morning.
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Japan Will Offer 10 000 Free Visits To Tourists
10 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 14 Comments
If the thought of waiting until the 2015 Rugby World Cup to visit Japan is less appealing right now, consider going there sooner, and for free, courtesy of the country’s tourism agency. The Japan Tourism Agency has announced it will fund airfares for 10 000 foreign travelers in an attempt to help the country’s plummeting tourism levels recover in the face of nuclear disaster.
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How To Ride A Bicycle Without A Front Wheel Like A Boss [VIDEO]
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Let me be clear: this is not a unicycle. This is a bicycle missing a front wheel. And my man here is riding this thing like there’s no tomorrow. On behalf of all here at 2oceansVibe, I’d like to welcome him to our Boss Hall of Fame.
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The Occupy Revolution Has Hit South Africa
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
It looks like the tides that swept up the Occupy Wall Street protest campaign – ongoing after three weeks – have broken national boundaries; ‘Operation Ubuntu’ has been set up to launch a simultaneous protests on the 15th of October in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Grahamstown, as part of the global Occupy Revolution campaign.
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Hillbilly Haircutters And Hell’s Granny: 2oceansVibe’s Bizarre Crime Round Up
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Here in South Africa, we suffer some of the worst excesses of violent crime. But don’t think for a minute that other countries are spared the onslaught of criminal masterminds.
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2011 Nobel Prize Round-Up (Update)
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s Nobel Prize Week! Which is when regular people get their egos crushed under the weight of the giants of literature, chemistry, physics, economics, and “peace”. Which sucks. But click through, and you can wow your friends with your knowledge of this year’s Nobel winners, and give that ego a little boost.
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Sorry Rugby Fans, It’s The End Of The World (Again)
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re planning to be around to watch the final of the Rugby World Cup this year, then can I suggest you get your sinner on toute suite- something light should do, because Harold Camping has returned with a new prediction for the start of the Rapture. In two weeks time, to be precise: October 21st, 2011. Sorry, rugby fans!
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Zimbabwean Deportations Start Again
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Refugee rights groups are not happy with the South African government right now, since it has quietly begun deporting Zimbabwean refugees again. The Zimbabwean Documentation Project (ZDP), which Home Affairs has been working on for two years, meant that Zim migrants have been shielded from deportation from this country for the last two years.
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Fake Biofuel Risk In KZN
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So, if you thought we had energy problems, there are now con artists selling fake ‘biofuel-producing plants’ in Kwa-Zulu Natal. That was the warning from the KZN provincial government today. The province has urged people to beware of buying alien plants from people claiming they will buy back the vegetation’s by-products to be used as fuel. They are lying.
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Sesame Street To Add A New, Poor, Muppet
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Because it’s important to learn about economic disparity from an early age, Sesame Street will introduce an indigent Muppet named Lily, who will educate Elmo and the rest about the millions of starving families in America during an hour-long special episode. The letter of the day will be H.
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“Occupy Wall-Street” Spin-Off Protests Spreading Across USA
06 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The New York protest movement, “Occupy Wall Street,” currently enjoying a crowd of 15 000 supporters, has inspired folk in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and other cities around the United States to join in on the fun/outcry. Some level of police violence is being seen in all cases, with Seattle police forcibly removing all “occupation” settlements.
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Few Surprises On Annual Football Rich List
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
FourFourTwo is a venerable British football mag, and each year their website runs a survey detailing the bottom line of England’s most popular sport. Here are some of the highlights from this year’s survey.
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India Has Launched The Cheapest Tablet Device In The World
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Can’t afford an iPad? Still confused about whether RIM is or isn’t discontinuing the BlackBerry tablet (er, or as a technology company generally)? You may be interested in the Aakash. It means ‘sky’ in Hindi – and it’s been launched today in India under the tagline “the cheapest tablet computer in the world”.
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Studying Klingon Helps People Cope With Dyslexia
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Klingon is a fictional language spoken by an alien warrior race in the Star Trek series – those guys that look like they have six-packs on their foreheads. But, according to Jonathan Brown from the UK, it also has some other uses. Although getting laid is not one of them, he does claim it can help people suffering from dyslexia.
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Disney Realises People Will Probably Pay To See Other Old Movies Too
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Disney’s 3D The Lion King reissue has been topping the box offices for the past two weeks, and netted them a cool $22,1 million over a weekend. So it’s not surprising that somebody in the studio realised that, hey, they have a bunch of other well-loved movies that they could probably re-release and make money with too.
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Adele To Wail Bond 23 Theme
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Soulful UK songstress, Adele is heading in to the studio to record the theme for the upcoming 23rd Bond film, according to reports from music industry insiders (read: pizza, flowers, and cocaine delivery people).
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Putin Wants To Put Together An Eurasian Union
05 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Russian Prime Minister and, let’s face it, soon-to-be-President-again, Vladimir Putin has made calls for a “Eurasian Union” as part of his presidential campaign platform. A Eurasian Union made of entirely of former Soviet Union states. Because it worked so well the last time that happened.
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Winning Free Stuff Is An Integral Part Of The Holiday
04 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I’m sure you have one in your family. There always seems to be one person, constantly claiming a myriad of small promotional prizes on a weekly basis. Do you know why they win? Because they enter competitions often.They’re the ones who are forever peeling the linings off the caps of soda bottles, mailing in bags […]
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Lost Your Job? There’s A Card For That
04 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s nice to know that whatever horrible, depressing situation life chucks at you, there is a bland, trite greeting card just desperate to leap off the rack at CNA and into your life to depress you even further.
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IRB Tells All Blacks They’re Not Needed At 2015 Rugby World Cup
04 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A hard line taken today by the International Rugby Board could see the All Blacks not competing in the next Rugby World Cup. In response to New Zealand’s warning last week that they would consider pulling out of the 2015 tournament, citing financial losses during this year’s World Cup, the IRB have shrugged and said, “everyone is replaceable”.
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First Lady Of Iceland Joins Debt Crisis Protestors [VIDEO]
04 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Dorrit Moussaieff – wife of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, Iceland’s president – made a dramatic gesture over the weekend by hopping a security fence to join in with a group of protesters hurling eggs and yoghurt at politicians, demanding that the government do more to help the lower-income bracket.
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Foreign Affairs FAIL: Dalai Lama Cancels SA Trip
04 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China-fearing bureaucrats at the Department of International Relations and Co-operation breathed a sigh of relief this morning when the Office of the Dalai Lama in Delhi, India announced that the Tibetan spiritual leader had cancelled his trip to South Africa due to not receiving a visa in time.
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How To Set Up A Vegetable Market Like A Boss [VIDEO]
04 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I know you’ve been craving a new video for our Boss Hall of Fame section. So have I. But the wait has been well worth it! This one involves a makeshift vegetable market and a fully operational train track. As they say, seeing is believing.
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Charly’s Bakery Gets Their Own Reality TV Show
03 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
If you live in Cape Town, chances are pretty good that you’d have come across a Charly’s Bakery creation. And things are about to get even sweeter! This famous bakery has now teamed up with Justin Bonello’s Cooked in Africa Films to film a brand-new reality show, starting on Saturday at 16h00 on SABC3: Charly’s Cake Angels. Details inside.
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