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Today’s Jack Friday Winner Is…
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We were blown away with the ferocity of the competitions in this week’s Jack Friday giveaway, so much so that there are a few honourable mentions, namely @wickedjon, who has the best boardroom chair we’ve ever seen. And then of course, @thelawry stunned us with his cunning use of technology to a) show us that he’s […]
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Holiday Murray And The First iPad Taxijam Ever [VIDEO]
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Taxijam.tv involves filming well-known local bands playing a song inside, well, a taxi. Normally this involves a set of instruments as well, but for the first time ever a band has performed an song entirely composed on iPads. LIVE in the taxi! Big-ups to the boys from Holiday Murray for pulling this one off. See their nifty achievement inside.
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Chinese Zoo Does ‘Tiger Escape Drill’ Using A Tigger Costume
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chengdu Zoo in Sichuan ran a tiger-escape drill a couple of days ago, so that people would know what to do in case one broke out of its enclosure. For maximum realism, security guards were given real guns, and the ‘tiger’ was a dude in a Tigger costume. You know, From Winnie the Pooh.
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The La Fee Absinthe-Minded Moment Of The Week
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La […]
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Global Commission On Drug Policy: We Should Legalize ‘Em.
03 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Global Commission on Drug Policy has released a report stating that the ‘war on drugs’ has failed. Like Dame Judi Dench and Sting, the 19-member panel – which includes Sir Richard Branson, Kofi Annan and former leaders of Brazil and Mexico – is urging for the decriminalization of drugs. The USA is not amused.
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How To Pack A Shopping Bag Like A Boss [VIDEO]
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There is a certain type of man that will always be destined to stand out of the crowd. The kind of guy that will pretty much OWN everything he does – whether he is the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, or a bag packer in a shop like my man right here in this video. He is most certainly living the holiday.
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Playboy SA Editor Resigns After Just Three Issues
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Loyal 2oceansVibers will know that it was barely three months ago when the lovely Tracy McGregor joined The Morning Meeting, in studio, to tell all about gracing the inaugural cover of Playboy SA (sneak peak here). No reasons have been made public yet, but yesterday the magazine’s editor Peter Piegl announced his resignation on twitter.
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Chinese Hackers Used Fake Gmail Site To Steal Activist Data
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google announced on Tuesday that they’d been they target of a phishing scam originating in Jinan, China, aimed at the accounts of Chinese activists and senior officials in the U.S. Victims were sent fake emails with links to a fake Gmail site, which harvested the usernames and passwords of anyone trying to log in.
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South Africa’s Projected Internet Traffic, 2011-2015
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Cisco have just come out with their annual Visual Networking Index, which is a pretty reliable source of internet traffic reporting. Global traffic will quadruple, by 2015, with Asia’s traffic generation overtaking North America. Which is cool, but less cool than the stuff they say about traffic in South Africa, which is after the jump.
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Tumblr Follows The Life Of An Unknowing Macbook Thief
01 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
So Joshua Kaufman had his MacBook stolen in March. Which sucks – he reported the crime to the police, but they couldn’t help, due to lack of resources. Except Kaufman has the Hidden app on his MacBook, which lets him remotely stalk and photograph the thief – and put them online. Thanks, Internet.
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Pentagon Says Certain Hacks Constitute ‘Acts of War’
01 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Pentagon is due to publically release it’s first formal cyber strategy next month, and the understanding is that it’s going to be classifying some kinds of computer sabotage as acts of war; apparently, a serious enough computer attack could be interpreted as a “use of force” that would warrant physical retaliation.
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“Virginity Checks” Forced On Female Protesters By Military In Egypt
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Multiple news sources reported today that a senior Egyptian general has come forward to confirm that forced “virginity checks” had been performed on women arrested during demonstrations. This had previously been denied by military authorities, but general Amr Imam has not only confirmed but defended the practice as a protective measure for the women’s own good.
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Punny Tiger Woods Headline: The New York Post Is Quite Naughty [PIC]
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There comes a time in any man’s life when he is faced with a difficult moral decision. I was going to attempt to outwit The New York Post’s photograph, headline, and strapline on Tiger Woods, but I won’t. Instead I’ll present it as is, in all its symphonic brilliance. I’ll also give it the official 2oceansVibe stamp of approval for best Tiger Woods-related headline to date. It’s a pleasure.
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Smartphone Cigarette Sharing: Marlboro ‘Bump A Smoke’ App
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The concept for a Marlboro cigarrette-swapping smartphone app has been making the rounds – the idea being that social smokers would be able to trade digital cigarettes for real ones using bump technology, and ‘hardcore smokers’ would be able to redeem the digital smokes for real ones once they’d accumulated enough.
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Holland Becomes A Lot Less Dope For Tourists
31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Some people are calling this ‘tourism suicide’. The Dutch government has announced that by the end of the year, the marijuana-selling coffee shops for which the country is famous will be closed to foreigners.
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200-Year-Old Shipwreck Champagne On Auction
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You guys remember that shipwreck they found last year in the Baltic, with the 168 odd ancient-but-preserved bottles of champagne? Well I do. And they did. And now two of those fancy old champagne bottles are going on auction because why not?
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German Hotel Holding Parties In Former Nazi Work Camps
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Please save your ‘holla-caust’ comments for the end of the article. Hotel Stadt Hameln, a four-star hotel in northern Germany, has converted an on-site jail into a themed party location, sort of the way the Nazis converted the jail into a forced labour camp during World War II. Some people are angry about this.
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Sean Kingston Hospitalised After Crashing Jet Ski
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Sean Kingston knows what living the holiday is all about. The cuddly rapper has no problem with the good life, and he’s never appeared to be having anything less than a completely fabulous time. Until yesterday, when he crashed his jet ski into a bridge in Florida.
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Google Has A Shiny New Mobile Payment Service
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google Wallet and Google Offers launched yesterday, both of which sound supremely cool – PayPal’s grumblings (and lawsuits) about commercial espionage notwithstanding. Google Wallet lets users swipe their phones in lieu of credit cards, even allowing subscription to a new prepaid Google debit card; Google Offers looks to work like a virtual loyalty card.
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The La Fee Absinthe-Minded Moment Of The Week
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La […]
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Take A Look At Kim Kardashian’s $2 Million Engagement Ring
27 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Hoo. While working their way through LAX airport, Kim Kardashian and her just-recently-announced fiance Kris Humphries made a point of flashing her new bling – you remember, that $2 million custom-designed, 20.5-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring? It’s, um, it’s kind of hard to miss. Click through for our engagement ring photo gallery.
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You Can Buy The Patron Saint Of Venereal Disease’s Head
26 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Heh. So apparently they’ve found skull of Saint Vitalis of Assisi, the patron saint of venereal diseases and, it’s going up for auction. Because what else would you do if you found it? Assisi won sainthood for performing miracles on those with bladder and genital disorders in 13th century Italy. Please buy his head.
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The 2oceansvibe ‘Situation Room’ Gets The Canvas Treatment
26 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Im sorry to harp on about it, but not everyone seems to have have fully grasped the Printwild.co.za article I pumped you with a few weeks ago. Or rather, you forgot the name. I keep getting SMSs from people asking “what is the name of the website which let’s you upload a file and pay […]
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They Shut Down The Mars Rover
26 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Ending a seven-year mission, NASA has decided to cut off communications with the Mars rover Spirit. Data was last received from Spirit in March 2010, and it hasn’t been heard from since – the thinking is that the rover was damaged during the martian winter when there wasn’t enough solar power for its survival heaters to run.
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Saudi Authorities Censor Protest Coverage
25 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Manal al-Sharif, organizer in the Saudi Right-to-Drive campaign, was arrested on Sunday after posting a video of herself driving, while urging women to take part in a “drive-in” protest on June the 17th. Since then, the event’s Facebook page has been deleted, and a fake Sharif Twitter account has claimed that the campaign was off.
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It Turns Out Vuvuzelas Are Also Really Good At Spreading Germs
25 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not only do vuvuzelas make sporting matches sound like they’re being attended by giant, angry bees, but they also emit more germ-carrying particles than regular screaming; testing the amount of bacteria-sized particles emitted by a shout and by vuvuzela,researcher Ruth McNerney found the vuvuzelas a couple of hundred times more effective.
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Awesome Footage Of Grimsvötn Eruption [VIDEO]
24 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hell. Yes. Filmmaker Jon Gustafsson caught footage of the Grimsvötn eruption – the one that closed all those Icelandic airports and grounded all those planes – from the apparent safey of an Icelandic military helicopter. It looks pretty cool. And I’m very excited to have written that sentence.
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Obamas Greeted By Queen At Buckingham Palace [Video]
24 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Barack and Michelle Obama received the royal-est of welcomes today in London, when they visited Buckingham Palace to meet with Prince William and new wife, Duchess Catherine. The Obamas were greeted by the Queen and Prince Philip, then enjoyed a short display of pomp and ceremony by the palace guards. Here’s a little video of how that went down.
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Tuesday Morning Radvertising: Chubby Dudes In Amsterdam Sell Ad Space
24 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Dutch advertising company Interbest gets snaps for their bid to sell ad space on highway billboards. They displayed a chubby, hairy, dude, with an article of clothing removed every day – above the tagline, ‘The sooner you advertise here, the better.’ I know fat jokes aren’t classy, but these just worked.
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Pope Benedict Chats To Astronauts On The ISS
23 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Why? Because Pope Benedict XVI can do what he wants, I guess. He spent about twenty minutes video chatting with the crew of the International Space Station and the U.S shuttle Endeavour, conveying well-wishes for Gabrielle Gifford’s husband, and generally just shooting the breeze.
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