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.XXX Approved As Porn Domain Code
22 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At last, a way to find pornography on the internet. You guys are reading the words ‘porn’ and ‘xxx’ and getting really excited, but believe me when I tell you that this is almost 99% technology news. Pornography is sort of besides the point here, so to speak. But click through, anyway.
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Google Launches ‘Umbono,’ Cape Town Based Startup Funder
22 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Google has set up the first of its startup-funding offices in Cape Town, under the ‘Umbuno’ flagship. “Umbono” is isiZulu for ‘vision’ or ‘idea’. Google also showed that it knows how to make a girl feel special, saying it chose Cape Town because the city is in “the process of positioning itself as a hub for innovation and technology”.
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Tragic End For Public Holiday Hike On Table Mountain
22 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One of the greatest pleasures Cape Town has to offer is free access to jaw-droppingly beautiful mountain walks. But please take care in the wild, kids. A tragic accident took place yesterday on a Table Mountain trail, resulting in a lethal fall for a local hiker.
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Simon Pegg & Nick Frost Play Star Wars
18 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m in two minds about this – on the one hand, we have Nick Frost & Simon Pegg, who are hilarious, attempting to re-enact a scene from Star Wars, which is awesome. But on the other hand this is just sort of blatant advertising for Paul, their new Seth-Rogen-starring film.
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Of Course We Need A Mandela-Themed Fashion Line
18 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh boy. The Nelson Mandela Foundation, which is apparently under some financial stress, is launching a Mandela-themed designer line, dubbed the 46664 Apparel line. Shwe-shwe material and brightly-coloured golf shirts feature prominently, because that’s what Mandela’s about.
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EU Trying To Enforce Enhanced Privacy From Facebook
17 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The European Union is attempting to establish the “right to be forgotten online,” as a legislative response to embarrassing old data – risque photographs, stupid statuses – that refuse to disappear. The proposed bit of legislation would enforce higher privacy settings and offer greater user control.
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Disgrunted Customer Hires People To Destroy His Lamborghini [VIDEO]
17 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
This hurts me somewhere deep inside. A customer disgusted by the poor service at Lamborghini China service station responded to the situation by hiring a mob with sledgehammers to tear into his Lamborghini Gallardo L140 – this, apparently, to draw attention to poor customer service.
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Times Square Video Screen Hack
16 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This has been generating some online discussion – a video of a dude hijacking billboards in Times Square using an iPhone 4, a transmitter, a balloon and some tape, like a geeky MacGyver. The feeling at the moment is that this is a publicity stunt, but if so it’s an awesome-looking stunt.
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Microsoft Kills The Zune; Techies Everywhere Need New Thing To Mock
16 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At long last, Microsoft has taken their iPod-but-worse MP3 player, the Zune, out behind the shed with a shotgun. Microsoft announced that they would stop making new versions of the music/video player due to “tepid demand.”
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Snake Robots Deployed In Japanese Rescue Missions
15 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Rescue robots have been deployed in the parts of of Japan worst affected by the massive earthquake and tsunamis that struck Friday. Robiticist Satoshi Tadoko is apparently leading a team from Tohoku Universityen route to Sendai with ‘a snakelike robot that can wriggle into debris to hunt for people.’
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Friday’s Jackpot Is R1 Billion
15 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
That woke you up, didn’t it? That’s right, friends – Friday’s Euromillions Lottery jackpot is R1 Billion (EUR 105 Million). These are my numbers – wish me luck: I’ve included a video of the Boeing Business Jet – which you will buy for your mates or your family to cruise around the world – once […]
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About Those Guys Who Think They Found Atlantis
14 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A team of researchers led by professor Richard Freund of the University of Hartford claim to have found Atlantis in Doñana, north of Cadiz, Spain. What makes this hack discovery different is the multi-ringed layout of the site, which fits the account offered by Plato, apparently.
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Zach Galifianakis’s Monologue On SNL [VIDEO]
14 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You’re all going to want to take a good look at this. Oh, Zach Galifianakis. Why can’t all chubby-hairy people be like you? Granted, the monologue is mostly spent doing regular awesome Galifianakis stand-up, but it’s very, very good stand-up. Your morning will be better for it. Go on.
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Life-Size, Promotional Clay Chevrolet Orlando
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
News is depressing today, so let’s look at this. GM commissioned the construction of a life-size replica of their Chevrolet Orlando, soon to be launched in the UK; they used about 1000kg of clay to build it over a course of two weeks. It’ll be on display in Essex for a couple more days.
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Four SA Dollar Billionaires On Forbes Wealthiest List
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It’s one thing to be a billionaire in say, Zimbabwean dollars. It’s quite another to be a billionaire in US dollars. The 2011 Forbes list of wealthiest people, released this week, includes four South African US dollar billionaires out of a total of 14 Africans on the rich list. Here’s the line-up of our wealthiest locals…
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Only One Week Left To Register For UCT Digital Photography Course: Get 10% Off With 2oceansvibe!
11 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The response to the initial recruitment drive was phenomenal. It seems quite a lot of peeps out there want to learn how to use their cameras on manual mode. And so you should! Just to recap, the “University of Cape Town (UCT) Digital Photography Course.”is part of the famous GetSmarter courses you’ve been hearing about. […]
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Facebook Causes 20% Of American Divorces
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, I mean not totally – it’s the evidence found on Facebook as grounds for the dissolution of marriage which causes 20% of all divorce cases in the US, but still. Big number. Increasingly, social networking sites form the primary source of evidence in custody battles and divorce proceedings, so heads up.
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‘Nitrogen Funerals:’ The Eco-Friendly Way To Deal With Death
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Wow. Okay. So a Swedish company wants to make burials more eco-friendly by freezing dead people in liquid nitrogen, using sound waves to shatter the ice before drawing all the moisture out of the remains with a vacuum. Because the Swedish word for ‘eco-friendly’ also means ‘traumatic’ and ‘awesome.’
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READ THIS: The Cape Town Friday Rule – A Reminder
09 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 6 Comments
Almost four and a half years ago a penned an angry missive in an effort to educate the tiny percentage of the population who didn’t know already that ‘work’ related activity on Friday afternoons in Cape Town (should be everywhere) does not happen. Let’s repeat that that for those of your whose minds are exploding at this point. Together now. Breathe in, and hold it, and… “Work does not happen on Friday afternoons in Cape Town.” Click through for an important announcement.
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National Geographic Finds The Average Human
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So hey, congrats to all you non-male, non-Chinese folks who were worried about looking average! Because according to a decade’s worth of research by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing for National Geographic, a 28-year-old Han Chinese male is the mean. Numbers, explanation after the jump.
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Benassi Remakes The ‘Satisfaction’ Video For Equal Pay
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In support of Equal Payday, which seeks to address the disparity between male and female salaries around the world, Benny Benassi has remade the sexy-construction-outfits video for ‘Satisfaction’ to mark International Women’s Day. It’s a little bit amazing. Satisfaction came out in 2002, by the way.
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Exclusive 2oceansvibe Interview – Battle: Los Angeles Director
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
2oceansvibe caught up with the director of the biggest forthcoming sci-fi film of the year, Battle: Los Angeles. Jonathan Liebesman is a born and bred Joburg boy making big waves in Hollywood, and an avid Proteas fan. With subject matter ranging from film research and alien weaponry, to comparisons with contemporary director Christopher Nolan and […]
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Facebook Introduces Suicide Support System
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Due to the growing occurrence of ‘Facebook suicides’ a help system has been put in place, which allows users concerned about potentially suicidal friends to report the activity to Facebook, which will trigger a hotline response reaching out to the depressed party.
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James Bond In Drag For International Women’s Day [VIDEO]
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
British actor Daniel Craig has appeared in drag for a video ad to mark International Women’s Day, which is celebrated today, 8 March. During the video Craig, renowned for his role as womanising spy James Bond, is educated on the state of women’s rights around the world by none other than Dame Judi Dench.
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This Danish Professor Has A Robot Clone, For Some Reason
07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I mean don’t get me wrong, I’d want a robot clone too, it’s just not totally clear why Henrik Scharfe, professor at Aalborg University, actually got one assembled by the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute in Japan. It’s ostensibly the first android with a beard, though, so yay science.
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Monday Morning Radvertising: Red Bull Street Art View
07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Brazilian ad agency Loducca has put together a collection of geo-tagged street art from Google Street View for Red Bull. The site is sweetly designed, with decent Cape Town representation. How exactly this is going to sell Red Bell any caffeinated beverages is beyond me, but whatever.
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Caprice Beach Volleyball 2011 – As Can Be Expected
07 Mar 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
I’m not going to pretend that the Caprice Beach Volleyball Tournament was packed with revolting-looking people and everyone was bored. As much as I don’t want you to feel bad if you didn’t make it, IT WAS EPIC. Well done to the Savages who took the glory! I got that pic of the girl from […]
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Take A Look At Old Spice: Behind The Scent [VIDEO]
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I love Isaiah Mustafa. You love Isaiah Mustafa. But the honeymoon is over, Isaiah, and it’s only right that you show us a little more than your honey-glazed eyes or perfect teeth. Take us behind the curtain; show us how you make the magic happen, commercially.
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Beijing Is Tracking All Mobile Phone User’s Movements
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
They can do that now. By ‘they’ I mean ‘those with money and de facto power,’ obviously, not specifically the heads of the PRC – but I mean government scrutiny of human movement is being implemented on a huge, huge scale. It’s called the Information Platform of Real-time Citizen Movement – which sounds like a good and reasonable platform.
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The Pinncale Of Culinary Technology: Cheese & Scallion Rocketships
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, I’m pretty proud of that headline. Cornell University and the French Culinary Institute have developed a food printer that runs off puree and spits out sculptures – like rocketships made of gouda and scallions. And now we can have coconut sans awful coconut texture.
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