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Check Out The Trailer For The New Ricky Gervais TV Show [VIDEO]
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It is decided. When I grow up I want to be Ricky Gervais – that funny guy who hosted the Emmy’s. He was also the creator (and star) of The Office and Extras. Anyway, he has a new TV show – Life’s Too Short – about to air in the UK. The plot appears to involve a dwarf. Several, actually. No, seriously! See trailer inside.
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The Future Is Awesome: Electronic Memory Expansion Is Coming Along Nicely
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers at the University of California have put together tiny robot brains that replicate the long term memory function in rats; using this, they could switch long-term memory on and off with a button. Which means ‘electronic memory’ and the possibility of knowing stuff without having to learn stuff is suddenly a real thing.
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Buy Now! Jesus Chair, Only $25 000
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A couple in Orange County, California, is selling a chair on eBay, with a starting bid of $25 000. But this isn’t any old chair. This is a special chair, a magical healing chair with the face of Jesus on it.
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This May Change Photography Forever
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Imagine never having to focus on what you’re photographing. You could just snap away knowing you could refocus the shots later. A new light-field camera will be launched this year by a company called Lytro, which will allow you to do just that. And it will mark a massive step forward in the evolution of photography as we know it.
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Nine-Year-Old Rory McIlroy Chips Golf Balls At A Washing Machine On Irish TV [VIDEO]
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sometimes talent is just so gobsmackingly obvious that you cannot prevent the inevitable from happening. This talent will rise to the top, similar to the best cut of steak at a braai – everyone will notice it and make a comment. The young lad made this appearance after winning the World Junior title in the under-10 division 12 years ago.
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Subscriptions Open For The Daily Maverick’s Tablet-Only Newspaper, iMaverick
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Daily Maverick has broken new ground in the publishing sphere by developing Africa’s first daily tablet-only newspaper, iMaverick. While the official launch of the newspaper is August 15, applications for subscription to the bundled newspaper/iPad2 offering have opened. Included in the cost of the monthly subscription is a daily edition of the newspaper, and […]
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J.K Rowling Releases ‘Pottermore’ To Take Up More Of Your Time & Money
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With the last film coming out soon, the Harry Potter franchise has almost been sucked dry of moneymaking potential. Almost. Because they’ve recently put up the super-secret-but-not-that-secret ‘Pottermore’ website, which seems to be promoting an upcoming treasure-hunt-type game where fans use online clues to find wands in the real world.
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M-Net Snags World’s Most Expensive TV Series Ever: Terra Nova [VIDEO]
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
M-Net announced yesterday that it has secured the broadcast rights to the most expensive TV series ever made: Steven Spielberg’s “Terra Nova”. And it looks like we won’t be too far behind the US in seeing it.
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The Naked News Is Not Porn Says The BCCSA
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I have watched “The Naked News” but once and I really do not understand why people kicked up such a fuss. It’s simply a crappy magazine show, but with ugly naked chicks presenting it (except for the nerdy girl, she’s beautiful). Thankfully the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCCSA) has said that the show is not degrading to women.
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This Smiling Dog Embodies “The Vibe” [PIC]
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Here at 2oceansvibe we are very much about the “vibe”. And this canine has it! If animals could read, I’m pretty sure this dog would be a regular visitor here. He has become the latest “awww cute, man!” thing on the internet due to his ability to crack a grin just like us humans. Day made!
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Miss USA Candidates Debate Teaching Evolution In School [VIDEO]
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Oh this is just mean. And yes, okay, by mean I probably mean amazing. Prior to the 60th annual Miss USA pageant, held last Sunday in Las Vegas, delegates were asked to field a couple of debate questions – like this one, where they share their views on teaching evolution in schools. Cruel.
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Jacob Zuma Needs A Holiday Too
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Public holiday weeks, like last week, are problematic. It’s a commonly accepted truth that human beings experience a normal five day working week (or four-and-a-half-day working week, if you’re sensible) to be far more excruciating after a week which incorporates a public holiday. And Jacob Zuma is no exception. He needs a break, and he needs it now.
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FBI’s Search For Hacking Group Takes Out Random, Unrelated Websites
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The cyber-war on cyber-terror now has innocent bystanders, apparently. In a hunt for LulzSec, the hacking group claiming responsibility for the compromise of huge amounts of Sony user accounts and for briefly taking the CIA website offline, the FBI raided DigitalOne’s data – finding nothing, but causing a bunch of unrelated websites to go offline.
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World Naked Bike Ride Takes Place “Gently” In Portland [NSFW PICS]
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
They say Portland, Oregon, in America has pretty much become the hipster capital of the world – the city where young people go to retire! The other night roughly 9 000 of them took part in a naked bike race to “ protest gently against fossil fuel dependence.” Pics of some of the bicycles inside– just check that you are alone in the office first.
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Former Tunisian President Sentenced To 35-Year Jail Sentence In Absentia
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Tunisian court found former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife guilty of theft and the illegal possession of large quantities of money and jewelry. He sentenced them to 35 years in jail, which is great and all, except Ben Ali and his wife are in Saudi Arabia, making extradition a little unlikely.
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Mahut Versus Isner: The Greatest Web Event Of All Time Was An Obscure Tennis Match
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And today is the rematch, three days short of one year since the now-famous encounter smashed tennis and online viewership records. Last year, on June 24, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played a First Round match at Wimbledon. That match lasted 11 hours and five minutes with a total of 183 games. The final score of the fifth and deciding set was Isner 70, Mahut 68. And that’s not even the extraordinary part.
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First Look At Tom Cruise As Rock Star In New Movie [PICS]
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Believe me, many things can be said about Tom Cruise and his weird ways. But the oke does have a knack for pulling off some really interesting movie roles. He is currently filming a rock version of “Mamma Mia”, called “Rock of Ages” – and yes, he’ll sing in it as well! Check out the first image of Tom as rocker Stacee Jaxx inside.
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How Your Father’s Music Indicates What You Listen To Today [Chart]
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In honour of Father’s Day yesterday, this nifty flowchart got put together acknowledging the influences that fathers have on our taste in music. The infographic handily predicts the kinds of music you’re liable to listen to based on what your dad was playing when you were growing up.
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South African Actress To Appear In New Season Of True Blood
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The fourth season of True Blood kicks off in America on Sunday night, and it has a South African cast member! No, they haven’t written the tokoloshe into the plot (yet). But they have created a “French-speaking supernatural” who will be played by our very own homegirl, Nondumiso Tembe! And it is not just a once-off appearance…
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Naked Russian Female Scientist Swims With Belugas In Sub-Zero Temperatures [PICS]
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Boy, those Russians are tough! Take this 36 year-old scientist for instance – swimming naked with Beluga whales in minus 1.5 degrees Celsius! Natalia Avseenko wants to explore the possibility of taming them before they are transported to dolphinariums around the world. Why naked? They do not like to be touched by artificial materials such as diving suits, duh!
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Go The F**K To Sleep, Read By Samuel L. Jackson
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re a parent, you’ll know the pain of trying to get children to sleep. It starts by having to give them copious glasses of water. Eventually, after the fifth bedtime story, you’ll end up pleading and begging. But now there’s a bedtime book for you called “Go the F**k to Sleep”, read by none other than Sam Jackson.
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Ass Foods Double Feature: Ass Cake & Ass Melting Moments
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
We’ve been covering the rise of Ass-Flavoured Products for a while now – and I think we’ve just found the first restaurant to start dealing in this surprisingly popular new flavour with their delightfully picant, ‘Ass Cake Sitdown.’ Please, click through & and be amazed.
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Apple Patents Technology That Lets Other People Turn Off Your Camera
17 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
And they’d been doing so well with the ‘not evil’ thing. Apple’s new patent is for software that would sense when people are trying to film concerts or events with their iPhone, then automatically disable the camera. It’d be nice to see a concert without a thousand iPhones blocking the way, but Big Brother much?
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Woman Calls 911 Because She Got the Wrong Chinese Food [VIDEO]
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There are people in this world who really do not have very important things to do with their time, as is proven by this woman who called 911 because the Chinese restaurant she was at got her order wrong.
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Interviewer’s Dalai Lama Joke Bombs With The Dalai Lama [VIDEO]
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Australian TV presenter, Karl Stefanovich found himself interviewing the Dalai Lama, as one does, and decided that the best thing to do would be to try that “the Dalai Lama walks into a pizza shop” joke. Take a look and see how well that worked out for him.
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A Man Wielding A Dead Weasel Is Arrested For Assault
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A man from Hoquiam Washington, carrying a dead weasel, burst into an apartment and assaulted the occupant. As the weasel-wielding attacker burst into the room, the victim said, “Why are you carrying a weasel?” to which the attacker replied, “It’s not a weasel, it’s a marten,” and then punched him in the nose and left the weasel behind. Of course.
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They’re Rolling Out Cheap New Meningitis Meds
15 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yay, science. A new vaccine for meningitis A – that disease killing thousands of people in the central African “meningitis belt” annually – has been released. Which is good, but even better is the fact that it’s way cheaper and more effective than whatever we were using before.
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Distillery Takes Relationship Between Wine And Housewives To The Next Level
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m not entirely sure if this is a good idea or a bad idea, but a range of wine packaged in perfume-bottle shaped containers has just been launched in Italy and Germany. The drink is specifically targeted at women and makes life for the non-connoisseur, but still fashionable person considerably easier, as there are only three flavours to choose from.
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They’re Planning The World’s First Womb Transplant
14 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eva Ottosson, 56, plans to donate her uterus to her 25-year-old daughter Sarah, who was born without one. This will be the second such procedure attempted, and, if successful, Sarah will carry a fetus in the same womb that once held her. The procedure could take place next spring, in Sweden.The procedure could take place next spring, in Sweden. Matryoshka dolls.
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Athol Fugard Receives Lifetime Achievement Award At Tony’s
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Another South African has scooped a Tony Award for 2011! Last month we told you about Cape Town’s Handspring Puppet Company winning a special award for their theatrical work, but it is Mr. Atholl Fugard who deserves the standing ovation. The 78-year-old theatre maker, with over 30 plays under his belt, walked away last night with a lifetime achievement award. Respect.
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