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Democracy For Realsies: Iceland Is Crowdsourcing Its Constitution
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Hot damn but I love the future. Iceland is drawing up a new constitution, in the wake of the country’s commercial banks collapsing. Which is news, but not news-news; the interesting part is how the former vikings are going about the process – they’re crowdsourcing the draft online, with links to Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts.
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Diver To Look For Osama’s Corpse
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A scuba diver in California says he’s going fishing for the catch of the century. He plans to recover the body of the world’s fourth baddest man ever (behind Hitler, Stalin and Judas Iscariot).
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Kick-Ass 72-Year-Old Woman Kills Robber
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 6 Comments
A 72-year-old woman, living on her own in St. Francis Bay, killed an intruder early Sunday morning after she had been tied up, threatened and shoved in a cupboard. I am entirely unashamed to say that I think this woman is awesome and should be awarded the Victoria Cross and The Congressional Medal of Honor.
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13-Year-Old Cricketer Takes Double Hat-Trick In Game
13 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I once played in a game where a friend of mine got eight wickets. I thought that was pretty impressive, but Josh Fox, a 13-year-old Cambridgeshire schoolboy from Chatteris in England is even more impressive. Young Josh managed to take two hat-tricks in one game and they happened in successive overs too.
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Street Artist In Stockholm Creates Bottomless Pit Illusion [VIDEO]
10 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Perspective-based art is usually a little lame – ‘look, guys, I’m holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa!’ – but this dude pulls it off. Erik Johannson, Stockholm street artist, set up this bottomless pit illusion called ‘Mind Your Step’ in Sergels torg, and let passers-by play around with it. It’s cool.
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Listen To The New Bon Iver Record
10 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You guys dig Bon Iver, right? They did ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’ back in 2007, and they’re releasing their new album a little later this month. But because Bon Iver loves you, you can stream the new tracks for free over here. Click through, children.
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The One And Only Time You’ll See The Space Shuttle Docked To The Space Station [VIDEO]
10 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This footage of the Space Shuttle Endeavour docked to the International Space Station is breathtaking, not only for the sheer beauty of the sight, but because it will be the first and last time you’ll have the opportunity to see it.
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Go Ahead, Search Me
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Random security checks are commonplace in the states. Surely these people are eventually going to get tired of having full body pat-downs while, say, shopping for discounted Caesar salads at their local Costco, you say. Well, the guys at 4th Amendment Wear are definitely bored with the American security tyranny.
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Radvertising: Slow Motion Beer Advertising Is The Best Kind [VIDEO]
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Look, I don’t like to court contradiction, least of all on the web, but I think I may have accidentally lied to you guys yesterday. I told you that this beer advertisement was the best beer ad that there ever was, and I meant it. I did. But then the internet showed me this.
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Richard Dreyfus Gives Stirring Rendition Of The iTunes End User License Agreement
09 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tech site cnet is having an important Reporters’ Roundtable discussion on a topic that affects us all: Why are end user license agreements and terms of service so incredible long and virtually indecipherable? Academy Award winner, Richard Dreyfus, helps to illustrate this point, by performing the iTunes EULA.
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3D-Printed Bikinis Are A Thing Now
08 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yay, science. The guys over at Continuum fashion have made the world’s first ready-to-wear, completely 3D printed bikini. It’s called the N12, and it’s pretty cool. Above and beyond it being a sexy-looking bikini, the whole thing is made up of 3D printed pieces that snap together like lego.
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Quite Possibly The Best Beer Commercial That There Ever Was [VIDEO]
08 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
moonage3, who uploaded this advert by Hahn Brewery, called it the ‘Most EPIC beer commercial EVER.’ Now, the word ‘epic’ is getting a little stale, and nobody likes too many letters in upper case, but just this once I’m in agreement with moonage3. Please. Let Hahn Brewery show you how they put awesome in a bottle.
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Amazing Photos Of Puyehue Volcano Erupting in Chile
07 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There’s a lot of that volcano business going down at the moment. Over 3,500 people have been evacuated from the area surrounding the Chilean volcano Puyehue, active for the first time in 50 years. Volcanic ash, stirred up by the activity, has spread across the border into Argentina, shutting down businesses and airports.
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Burgeoning Jet-Pack Industry Overcomes Product Adoption Problem [VIDEO]
07 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Jet-packs are a big deal for us. We’ve talked about “the jet-pack issue” before, and you should bend your ears to listen. The term “jet-pack issue” could easily be substituted for a term like “the freedom issue”, or “the liberation from the constraints of our bodies issue”. The latest development is that a feasible jet-pack […]
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The Brothers Streep On 2oceansVibe Radio
07 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Acclaimed comedy group, The Brothers Streep, made an appearance on The Mark Bayly Show on 2oceansVibe Radio yesterday afternoon, which is a significant upgrade from their appearance on BBC’s Graham Norton show (that’s a joke). In between gulps of wine and pieces of chocolate, Simon and Dylan managed to crack out excellent acoustic renditions of […]
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Patient (Pretty Much) Cured Of Aids
07 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A man who suffered from both Leukaemia and HIV seems to have been cured of HIV, after he received a unique type of bone marrow transplant.
Seriously. Check it out…
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More Photos Of Formerly Depressed Superhero Grandmother
06 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You guys remember photographer Sacha Goldberger and his depressed grandmother, right? He took photos of her dressed as a superhero to cure her depression. And it seemed to work! Which is why Goldberger and Mamika have released another round of pretty rad faux-superhero photographs. There’s a superdog now, too.
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Richard Dawkins, And Others, To Open New British University
06 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, along with 13 other professors is planning to open a new university in London at the end of next year. All of the professors will teach and their aim is to offer the “highest-quality” education to “gifted” students. For those hoping to obtain anything other than a BA – sorry. They are only offering humanities degrees.
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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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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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The iPhone: “You Can’t Make Phone Calls, But You Can’t Get Cancer.” [VIDEO]
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There has been a plethora of articles across the net relating to the World Health Organisation’s latest report on cellphones and their possible link to cancer. If you don’t look slightly deeper than the headlines you’d think that you’re literally frying your brain. So, should you ignore this video by Funny or Die as pure fiction? Yes, probably.
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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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How To Buy Any Drug Imaginable
02 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Tired of having to mission to a parking lot to score some hash? Constantly fearing the wrath of the pigs? Scared of your Nigerian coke dealer? Now, according to Gawker, there’s a safe and easy way for you, the tech-savvy drug-aficionado, to source your drug of choice: online.
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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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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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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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Blitzbokke Win Edinburgh Sevens In Greatest Comeback Victory Ever
30 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A last moment try by Sibusiso Sithole won the South African sevens rugby team the Emirates Airline Edinburgh Sevens final yesterday. One commentator called it the greatest game he’s ever seen and many are calling it the greatest comeback since Lazarus
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