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EXCLUSIVE: 2oceansVibe Speaks To Racist ‘Model’ Tshidi Thamana’s Ex-Agent
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
By now, many people within South Africa’s news-following public are familiar with the recent burst of racism that took place on South Africa’s twittersphere involving a model and a “model”. Mistakes were made, but the backlash and long-term effects from a social and mainstream media clamouring may have devastating consequences on the individuals involved. Things begin to go pearshaped when the media is inaccurate with information that disperses frantically when a news story of this nature breaks.
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Your Mom Wants A Holiday – Win Her A Safari
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 161 Comments
COMPETITION CLOSED: NO SUBSEQUENT ENTRIES WILL BE CONSIDERED. CONGRATULATIONS TO BRANDON LUDLOW! HIS COMMENT WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED AS THE WINNING ENTRY. Did you know that Mother’s Day is around the corner? It’s this coming Sunday. The woman who bore you – the one who transported you into the world – the person who you owe […]
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Hello, Future: Move Files Across Devices With A Swipe [VIDEO]
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
People over at MIT have developed a piece of open-source software that lets you drag files from your phone to your computer or tablet or whatever with a swipe of a finger. It’s simple and clever and looks like the future – and it works. They’re calling it Swÿp. Take a look at the demo after the jump.
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Move Over Bioplus: Chinese Students Cram For Exams With IV Drips Attached [PICS]
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China is abuzz at the moment with pictures allegedly uploaded by a student at a high school in Hubei Province where learners are given amino acids on IV drips to help them study, while they study!. The photos were uploaded to one of China’s many Twitter-like micro-blogging sites, and we’ve got a full gallery, and the official explanation, after the jump!
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Mango’s First Wi-Fi Flight Is Happening Today
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Today sees the launch of Mango’s first flight featuring in-flight broadband. This is great news for business travelers, or anyone with a laptop or iPad, really. Click “continue reading” to find out what we know, as well as how this whole thing works.
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Unaired Clip Of The Beastie Boys Performing On Chappelle’s Show [VIDEO]
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Following the death of Beastie Boys band member, Adam “MC” Yauch, one of the co-creators of Chapelle’s Show has released previously unseen footage of the band performing “The New Style,” a song from their debut album, on the show in 2004. The show’s co-creator and host Dave Chappelle performs with them for a bit.
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AFCON: “Cape Town Did Not Meet Criteria For Hosting”
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
African Cup of Nations Local Organising Committee head, Mvuzo Mbebe, told reporters yesterday that Cape Town had not been selected as a host city for the upcoming AFCON because it “did not meet the criteria for hosting,” but did not elaborate quite where the Mother City fell short. Mayor De Lille has different ideas however…
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Apple’s Wealth Visualised, They Have A Lot [INFOGRAPHIC]
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Earlier this month, Apple was briefly the most valuable company in the world, and their cash in hand value currently stands at $76,2 billion. You could literally buy anything with that and still have enough change to buy some more anything. Still struggling? Click through for a look at the National Post’s lovely, informative and aptly named More Money Than God infographic.
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Oh Look, Another Racist SA Model Goes Off On Twitter! [PICS + Twitter Feed]
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
Just as Twitter was cooling off from last Friday’s Jessica Leandra furore, another South African model (and also actress, apparently) called Tshidi Thamana (@tshditee) set the infernos of South African outrage blazing once more with a tweet she fired off in response to the Leandra debacle this weekend. But the biggest question on our lips is, who the hell is Tshidi Thamana?
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Global Marijuana March Takes Place In Cape Town Over Weekend [PICS & VIDEO]
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Global Marijuana March is a yearly event embracing cannabis culture as a personal lifestyle choice. Around 700 different cities worldwide, including Cape Town, have signed up since 1999. This highly anticipated celebration took place over the weekend. How did Capetonian dagga supporters celebrate? Find out inside.
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Amanda Palmer Is Crowdsourcing Her New Album [VIDEO]
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You guys have heard of Kickstarter – that site that lets people pitch their projects for funding to the internet at large, and which has led to new apps, art projects, and a Robocop statue in Detroit. All of which stopped mattering when Amanda Palmer raised $500 000 in four days on the platform – with 24 days of funding remaining.
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ANC MP: “Homosexuality Occurs When Certain Rituals Are Not Done”
07 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Divisive comments on same-sex relationships and homosexuality by ANC MP and Head of the Congress of Traditional Leaders, Patekile Holomisa have drawn criticism from defenders of same-sex equality and caused the ANC caucus in Parliament to issue a statement distancing itself from Holomisa’s words.
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Jessica Leandra Makes Daily Mail Front Page
05 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
Wow, this story (which 2oceansvibe broke) is really doing the rounds. For those of you who aren’t aware, The British Daily Mail’s online news site is the World’s number one news website, with over 5 million unique readers a day. To make the front page is quite a big deal – usually for all the […]
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DA Condemns Jessica Leandra’s Racist Tweets
04 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 6 Comments
Jessica Leandra isn’t going to have the best of weekends this weekend. Although, given her apparent ignorance, she might be none the wiser. Not only has most of SA’s twitterverse punished her online and FHM stripped her of her title, the Democratic Alliance has stepped in as well! Wowsers! Check it out – this just […]
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Harry Wins Invisibility, Watch His Fantastically Weird Online Video
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last year Stimorol rolled out a series of ads to promote their Infinity range, in the TV spots gum-chewers were caught in an infinite loop of increasingly bizarre situations. In their latest radvertising venture we’re taken to even more bizarre heights, featuring an anthro-dog, a bouncer in a tie-dyed one piece and a creepy man in a polo-neck.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn Faces Gang Rape Charges
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, along with three other Frenchmen, have been accused of gang rape. Judges in charge of the investigation into a prostitution ring involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn now face two options: dismiss the new allegations, or bring charges of gang rape against them. It’s likely that the charges will stick.
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Leandra Latest: Jessica Takes To Her Website To Apologise
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 13 Comments
With her name trending on Twitter, and most of the major news outlets having picked up the story, Jessica Leandra is having a pretty crap Friday thus far. Last night she tweeted a little bigotry that she may regret for a lot longer than it took her to respond to the backlash on her website. Her full apology, after the jump, but is it enough?
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Facebook Filed Its IPO Yesterday
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mark Zuckerberg officially filed its IPO with Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday afternoon, announcing its intention to sell 337 million shares at between $28 and $35 a pop – in the biggest Internet stock offering since Google went public in 2004. They’ll be going roadshow for the next two weeks to let big investors see what they’re buying.
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Tweet All About It! FHM Model Jessica Leandra Drops K-Bomb In Spar [PICS]
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 67 Comments
You cannot make this stuff up. FHM model and self-described “glamorous blonde of Mediterranean nationality, born and bred in South Africa” dropped a K-bomb on another shopper during altercation in Spar last night, and then took to Twitter with her bile. More of Jessica’s online foolishness, after the jump!
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SA Air Force Officer Sparks Military Outrage By Wearing Pink Slippers To The Shops
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
When you’re a student, popping out to the shops in your slippers is not a crime. In some sleepy SA beach towns, it’s positively de rigueur. But when you’re in military uniform, this is a big fat no-no. Lt-Col Ruth Ndayi has the SA Air Force up in arms about a photo taken of her wearing pink slippers to a Pretoria shopping mall, while dressed in military regalia.
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The New iPad Is Available At DigiCape, Right Now
04 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Step right up, boys and girls! The New iPad is out, and you can get it at our Apple retailer of choice, DigiCape. Why should you get one? We thought you might ask, so we made this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_tw7bb09kM Wham. Now that you’ve made your choice, click here to find a branch near you. Or shop […]
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The Expendables 2 Trailer Released [VIDEO]
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Because what last year’s homage to excessive, overblown action movies needed most of all was a sequel. Starring even more overhauled action heroes – like Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and, at a guess, more slow-motion explosions and weapon puns, it looks like something you guys should probably watch.
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Iron Maiden’s Frontman Opens Aviation Business In Wales
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
See, this is what happens when you’re a rock star who fails to die young: you end up doing something in aviation, or in Wales. Or, if you’re Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, I guess you do both, and depress everybody who remembers when you were still cool.
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Highline sensation from Pierre Chauffour on Vimeo.
Daredevils Traverse A Slack-Line 700m From The Ground, Across A Ravine [VIDEO]
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is ridiculous, watch as these clearly insane people calmly cross a ravine, on a rope, 700m from the ground! It’s terrifying, logic-defying, awe-inspiring and incredible all at the same time, and once you start watching there’s no way you can stop. Click through for the video.
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It’s Official: Table Mountain Confirmed As Fifth Of Seven New Wonders Of Nature
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Remember last year when Table Mountain was voted in as one of the seven new “wonders of nature” after an extensive international voting competition run by the Swiss New7Wonders Foundation? Well an international audit has just confirmed the award, making the title official, but what does this mean for Slaapstad and our tourism industry?
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Sharlto Copley To Star In Spike Lee’s Oldboy Remake
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Director Spike Lee has cast Sharlto Copley as the key villain in his remake of Oldboy, Park Chan-wook’s brutal thriller about a businessman who, after being kidnapped on his daughter’s birthday, hardens himself for revenge during his years of imprisonment. Lee had initially offered the roles to Christian Bale, Clive Owen, and Colin Firth.
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Japan’s “The Cove” Town Plans To Build A Dolphin Park In The Cove
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The town of Taiji in Japan, made infamous by award-winning documentary “The Cove”, plans to repair its reputation by building a sea life park in the self-same cove where annually hundreds of dolphins and whales are herded, captured and slaughtered by local fishermen. More on this seaside slaughter after the jump. Images might disturb some readers.
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Check Out The First Pics From This Year’s AfrikaBurn [PICS]
03 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
2oceansviber, Vincent Raffray, made it back from this year’s AfrikaBurn in one piece. And he brought gifts! Check out his stunning photographs, and hear what he has to say about the festival, after the jump!
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Hello Kitty Brand Gets Its Own Airline [PICS]
02 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’ve wondered what it would be like to travel inside the brain of a Japanese schoolgirl, then now is your chance. Taiwan-based Eva Airlines, and Sanrio, the company that owns the Hello Kitty brand, collaborated to launch a Hello Kitty-themed aircraft. See all the pink cuteness inside.
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Catholic Outcry Over Tutu’s US University Visit
02 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Archbishop Tutu is set to deliver a commencement address at a Catholic university in the States this month, but his visit has drawn the ire of several Catholic groups who claim the Arch’s views are not a good fit for the institution that invited him. They have some petitions going, the University has yet to speak out, and we’ve got the full skinny on their righteous campaigning to stop the Arch, after the jump!
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