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Cape Town’s Caveau Restaurant Makes New York Times BestSeller Book
07 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
I remember a couple years ago The Muse and I were entertaining an Oscar-winning movie star in Cape Town. I specified the Oscar-winning part for you to understand that she has probably had experience with top service and food. So she and her boyfriend were 100% down to earth and we did some cool things, […]
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Google Announces ‘Google Play,’ Cloud-Based Media Hub
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Another alternative to Apple’s iCloud popped up this week, with Google has announcing that it will be combining the Android Market, Google Music and the Google eBookstore into a new cloud-based service called Google Play, allowing users to access all of their media across all of their Android devices.
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The ANC Is Gunning For A Provincial Re-Shuffle, Watch Out Western Cape!
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Recently, the ANC released a wad of discussion documents that will lead the various policy discussions at its upcoming National Electoral Conference this year. One of them outlines a startling plan to reshuffle and re-organise South Africa’s provinces to “ensure more functionality, economic viability and racial/ethnic integration”. So what exactly does that mean?
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Convicted Former Matie Reveals Gruesome Rape And Murder Details
06 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Yesterday, 2oceansVibe reported that ex-Matie student, Jacobus Eksteen, was sentenced to thirty years in jail for the kidnapping, rape and murder of his friend’s little sister, Erin Van Rensburg in June 2009. Now court documents from his sentencing at the Western Cape High Court yesterday have revealed the shocking and sickening plans Eksteen laid to entrap, rape and ultimately kill the 20-year old.
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Giraffe Headbutts Pretoria Vet
06 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Our local wildlife can be very… independent minded. A giraffe and a baboon have made separate headlines today for their remarkably free-thinking behaviour.
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DARPA’s New Military Robot Can Run Faster Than You [VIDEO]
06 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oh, good, more things from the future to terrify me. Boston Dynamics, a Pentagon contractor, has broken the speed record for legged robots, with a new four-legged creation – the Cheetah, which can run at 29 kilometres an hour, far outpacing the 20 km/h record set by MIT in 1989.
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Watch The Simpsons Take On Game Of Thrones [VIDEO]
06 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Watch as two of TV’s hottest properties mash up in a glorious homage of one opening sequence to another!
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Sri Lankan Man Dies During Record Attempt For Longest Time Buried Alive
06 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m not quite sure if this is ironic, or just plain unfortunate. I’m going to settle with a little bit of both. A Sri Lankan man made the attempt at the record for being buried alive the longest, but emerged a dead man. The important question: Did he break the record?
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Tuesday Morning Spice
06 Mar 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Michael Jackson’s Entire Music Back Catalogue Stolen By Hackers – Michael Jackson’s back catalogue has allegedly been stolen from Sony Music by hackers, it has emerged. More than 50,000 music files, most of which were by the late pop legend, are said to have been illegally downloaded. [guardian] Publishers Take On News Monitors Over Royalties – A […]
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Brutal Road Rage Caught On CCTV In South Africa [N5FW VIDEO]
05 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 37 Comments
A taxi driver (of all people) recently got upset at someone jaywalking across the street. Nearby CCTV footage show the driver deliberately bumping into the pedestrian twice – eventually crushing the guy’s leg under the wheel! The motorist then gets out of the taxi and kicks the helpless victim in the face. Be warned: this video is not for sensitive viewers.
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Former Matie Gets Thirty Years For Murder Of 20-Year Old Erin Van Rensburg
05 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Former Stellenbosch University student, Jacobus Johannes Eksteen, has received a sentence of thirty years for the kidnap, rape and murder of fellow student, Erin Van Rensburg nearly three years ago in June, 2009.
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Two Separate Protests Rock Cape Town Communities Today
05 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s Demonstration Monday, folks. Two protests, complete with some dramatic tire burning, blockaded roads and accusations of corruption, have occurred in different areas of Cape Town since this morning.
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iPad 3 Specifications Spotted In The Wild
05 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s less than a week to go until the iPad 3 is unveiled, so everybody and their grandma is throwing out thoughts about what the new toy can do. Concrete stats are emerging though – Apple employees have been browsing the web with their personal iPad 3’s, turning up details about the new tablet on website server logs.
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“SpeechJammer” Can Literally Make People Shut Up [VIDEO]
05 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Everyone has, at one time or another, wished desperately for a real life mute button. Whether it’s a nagging partner or an annoying boss, sometimes life would just be easier if you could simply hit a button and make it all go away. Now, thanks to some clever Japanese researchers, you can!
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Jislaaik, Bru! Check Out Shit South Africans Say [VIDEO]
05 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
An internet meme that is pretty popular at the moment is the whole “shit so-and-so says”. Last week Nicky Felbert-Lazarus from Mercury Productions uploaded “Shit South Africans Say” onto YouTube, and it has since raked up more than 100 000 views. Jislaaik! See it after the jump just now – we smaak it stukkend!
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Trike Drifters Make Three-Wheeled Vehicles Sort Of Cool Again [VIDEO]
02 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Tricycles are pretty lame, and Tokyo Drift was a terrible movie, so it makes sense that bringing the two concepts together produces something unbelievably awesome. Click through to watch a montage of grown men drifting through the streets of New Zealand on customized trikes.
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Tim Burton Finally Reboots Frankenweenie! [VIDEO]
02 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tim Burton has finally rebooted his classic 1984 stop motion short “Frankenweenie” into a full length animated feature. If you’re a Burton fan, then come October, this will be a must see. We’ve got the first trailer, after the jump!
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Google’s Unified Privacy Policy Takes Effect Today [VIDEO]
02 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google’s new privacy policy – the one allowing the company to combine data from all of its sites into a single profile – officially takes effect today. The new policy collapses 70 separate policy documents from various Google services into a single unit – which also happens to make it easier for Google to know things about you.
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SA Man Seeks “Midget” On Gumtree To Exact Revenge On Ex
02 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Hell hath no fury like some idiot on Gumtree scorned it seems, because this ad was posted a few days ago on the site by a jilted boyfriend seeking a little person to exact revenge on the heartless harpy who broke his heart. No, really.
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Blind Surfer Barrels, Amazes The Pros [VIDEO]
02 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Surfing is an activity that engages all five senses, but sight is probably a pretty important one. You need to be able to see when to duck under a wave when you’re paddling out, or when to drop in on a wave to surf it. Or do you? Incredible video – click below.
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New Gorillaz Music Video (Featuring Andre 3000) Goes Viral [VIDEO]
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The music video for “DoYaThing” — the new collaboration between the Gorillaz, Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy – dropped yesterday, as part of Converse’s ongoing “3 Artists, 1 Song” campaign. The promo track was released along with the limited edition Chuck Taylor All Star Gorillaz Collection, which is on sale now.
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Fish Hoek To Get A Trial Shark Net
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Environmental planning authorities in sleepy Fish Hoek on the False Bay coast are reconsidering the installation of an exclusion net across the bay adjacent to the town, to try stave off the regular loitering of Great White sharks near the popular beach front.
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Elephants Protect Female In Labour From Prowling Predators [PICS]
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
These pictures were taken in February at the Amboseli National Park in Kenya. An elephant was giving birth when a group of lions and hyenas mistook her newborn for a potential breakfast. But watch as the rest of the herd comes to the female’s aid by huddling around her until she delivers her calf.
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Nando’s Predicts Julius Malema’s Fate Three Months Before The Fact
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last night saw the expulsion of Julius Malema, along with some of his brothers-in-arms, from the ANC. Now might be a good time to sit back and reflect on this prophetic Nando’s poster, released in November last year, that now rings truer than ever. The headline reads: “Juju, you’ve been served.” While the body copy […]
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Eric Schmidt: UN Treaty A “Disaster” For The Internet
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The internet’s under attack again! This time by a United Nations treaty aimed at online regulation. Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, warned strongly against the suggested measures: “Do not give that up easily. You will regret it. You will hate it, because all that freedom, all that flexibility, you’ll find it shipped away.”
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The Latest Avengers Trailer Is A Whole Lot Of Superhero Awesomeness [VIDEO]
01 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For those of you who don’t know yet, The Avengers movie is fast-approaching and it’s set blow all other superhero movies out of the water. Featuring stars like Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson and Chris Evans, portraying heroes Iron Man, The Hulk, Black Widow, Nick Fury and Captain America, respectively. Dangit!
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25 Arrested In Global “Anonymous” Crackdown
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
25 people have been arrested for alleged ties to hacktivist movement Anonymous in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain in the joint ‘Operation Unmask,’ which I’m sure has nothing to do with the INTERPOL website being taken down yesterday and everything to do with attacks against websites in Columbia and Chile dating from the middle of 2011.
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Iraq Releases Official War Death Toll, But Figures Differ
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Iraqi government has released official figures for the number of deaths during the period between 2004 and 2011, but there are disputes as to the accuracy of their claims.
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Music Video By Capetonian Dog Has Everybody Talking [VIDEO]
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 10 Comments
Capetonian Dave Meinert was recently asked to look after a mate’s dog for the weekend. Apparently that included strapping a camera to the pet’s back and making a music video for local electro-hero Johnny Neon. And boy, are we glad he did that! See the video that has had everyone talking for the last week – after the jump.
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TED Talks: Check Out Youtube’s Kevin Allocca On Why Online Videos Go Viral [VIDEO]
29 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You can do a lot worse on the internet these days than watching the odd TED talk online. Here’s a particularly worthy one, in my opinion, as Kevin Alloca from Youtube discusses the dynamics of how and why videos go viral.
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