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Obama and Bin Laden Doppelgangers Hang Out
13 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ananias Rodrigues da Silva, the Brazilian Barack Obama lookalike, stopped by São Paulo to pay a visit to Francisco Fernandes – a bar owner who has been repeatedly harassed for his resemblance to Osama bin Laden. The two had a couple of shots and posed for photographs. It’s pretty great.
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Capitec Introduces Sunday Banking
12 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Some years ago I made my way over to mud island, London specifically, and one thing I always appreciated was not having to rush to the bank on a Saturday morning just because that was the way things were. This is surely good for banking in South Africa and a giant leap toward getting Saturday mornings back.
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Angry Birds Let Loose On Chrome
12 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hooray! I hear you say at the great news that Rovio, creator of the extremely addictive “Angry Birds”, has decided to release a version for Google Chrome. Peter Vesterbacka of Finnish software firm Rovio, made the announcement at a Google developers conference yesterday.
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Man Keeps Alligator To Score Chicks
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Men have tried all sorts of ways to score chicks, including buying puppies and borrowing babies. But recently a Chicago man thought he had an idea that would trump them all: keep an alligator.
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Purple Hearts Release First Video – Shot In Single Take
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Videophiles will appreciate the release of the Purple Hearts’ first music video, which was shot in a single take. Gen Akal doubled as the director, and editor of the video, with Tim Henny acting as DP. Between them they managed to capture almost two and a half minutes of uninterrupted footage over the 200 metre route. The entirety of the video was shot on foot, concluding with an elevated shot from a cherry picker. Check out the video after the jump!
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Facebook Apps Have Been Leaking Private Data To Advertisers For Years
11 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Surprise! Security firm Symantec yesterday reported that a hole in the Facebook security system allowed third-parties like advertisers access to user accounts and private data – and that this hole has been in place for the past four years, since Facebook first started offering apps to its users.
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RIP ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ Actress Dana Wynter
10 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, we seem to be running out of classy damsels nowadays. Dana Wynter, 1950’s starlet, best known for starring as the token distressed heroine in low-budget science-fiction film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” died May 5 of congestive heart failure in Ojai, California. She was 79.
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Ernie Els Eases Into Hall Of Fame
10 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The man with the effortless swing, and who is otherwise referred to as the “Big Easy”, has been inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. The ceremony included a tribute to another hall of famer, Spain’s Seve Ballesteros, who passed away Saturday after being diagnosed with a brain tumour three years ago.
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World’s First Zombie-Proof House
09 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Maybe some out there think that the whole “zombie” thing has become a bit passé, but they are, of course, wrong. Now the whole “vampire” thing, that’s passé. That is why when I saw this house, I felt obliged to share it with you, the good readers of 2oceansvibe. Welcome to the world’s first zombie-proof house, a cube of concrete that closes in on itself.
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Paul McCartney Is Getting Married. Again, Again.
09 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So hey, third time lucky and all. Paul McCartney, 69, is taking another shot at that whole ‘marriage’ thing with New York socialite Nancy Shevell, 51 – there’s still a nice two-decade gap there, so Paul still gets high fives, but it’s not a creepy two-decade gap. The two met at the Hamptons in ’07.
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Happy Birthday, Coca Cola! [VIDEO]
09 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
CocaCola turns 125 today, friends. “Nothing refreshes like CocaCola!”.
Indeed, except for cocaine, which put the Coca in CocaCola for the first thirty-odd years of production. Now you know.
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Win Herschelle Gibbs’ 438 Man Of The Match Medal
09 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South African cricketing legend and loyal 2oceansvibe pundit, Herschelle Gibbs, has finally made the announcement about how you can win his man of the match medal he received for his magnificent 175 runs from 111 balls in the infamous one day international match between South Africa and Australia. The one where we scored 438. Details after the jump.
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It’s Friday: Here’s A Giant Water Balloon Exploding In Slow-Motion [VIDEO]
06 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You guys like water balloons, right? Look outside, of course you do. And slow-motion things are pretty swell. And it’s Friday. So click through, start your weekend right. Seriously though, this isn’t so much a bursting water balloon as an exploding water bed. They’re called red giants.
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Brazil Legalizes Same-Sex Civil Unions
06 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Brazil’s Supreme Court last night ruled unanimously that civil unions between same-sex couples were to be allowed – which is a big deal, what with Brazil being home to the world’s largest Roman Catholic population and all. The vote stopped short, however, of legalizing gay marriage.
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US Woman Wakes Up From Surgery With A British Accent
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This story, although bizarre, doesn’t belong in the tabloids; it’s real. Believe me. When Karen Butler, of Newport, Oregon had oral surgery about a year and a half ago, nothing much changed, other than the fact that she looked a bit like a chipmunk from the swelling, and that she had acquired a thick new British accent.
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Last Living World War I Combat Veteran Dies
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Claude Stanley Choules, the last surviving World War I combat veteran, passed away today, aged 110, in a Perth nursing home. Choules joined the Royal Navy at the age of 15, starting a military career that spanned 41 years, across both world wars. He is survived by his three children.
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Juggling – It’s A Thug Life [VIDEO]
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Meet Jacob Sharpe. He’s an MIT Engineering graduate, and professional circus performer. Also, he likes rap music, squash courts, and minimal couture. We’re not entirely sure where the pink shorts come in. They are quite small, but then, we do have a proud tradition in South Africa of athletes wearing kortbroek (here’s to you, Naas), so maybe we can get behind that.
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Pixar Auctioning Off Props & Sketches For Japan Relief
05 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The nice thing about Pixar is that all of its movies make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Charity helps people AND makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. With this in mind, Lee Unkrich, Pixar director, is letting you enjoy the indulgence of both, by auctioning off Pixar stuff for Japan aid.
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‘StolenCameraFinder’: Finding Stolen Cameras With Embedded Serial Codes
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yay, future. If you’ve had a digital camera stolen, you can upload a photo taken with the missing camera to StolenCameraFinder.com and it’ll use the serial number embedded in the image to search for matching photos online – meaning you can find the douche who took your stuff.
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The Annual Cafe Caprice “2-For-1 Burger Special” Has Just Begun!
04 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
It’s easily one of Cape town’s most famous winter specials. Almost as famous as their Sunday nights, the Cafe Caprice 2-for-1 burger special is loved by locals and foreigners alike! I’m going tomorrow night and I strongly advise you get in there soon. Once the momentum gets going you’ll struggle to get a table throughout […]
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Wednesday Radvertising: ‘Poolball’ [VIDEO]
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Man, Budweiser really wants you to drink their beer. I’m not going to, but I appreciate the effort they’re putting into the European re-branding initiative – like with this 7-meter Astroturf pool table, with built in fridge, that they put together for playing ‘poolball’ on. Take a look! It’s pretty rad.
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The 2oceansvibe Jack Friday Table Mountain Experience
04 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Alright, boys and girls. Brace yourselves. Over a month ago, 2oceansvibe and Jack Daniels combined forces to bring you Jack Friday. Jack Friday is the logical culmination of 2oceansvibe’s ongoing efforts to have Friday afternoon working hours abolished. (Read the extensive history at your own leisure, here.) So what did we do? We staged a […]
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Manchester Art Installation Shows Your Brain’s Reaction To Cocktails
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hemingway drank cocktails. I’m just saying that now so that any concerns about masculinity and ‘girly drinks’ are shelved from the get-go. Multimedia artist Marcos Lutyens has set up an installation that projects arsty scans from EEG headsets worn by people drinking Absolut vodka, and if boozey brain-waves isn’t art then I don’t know what is.
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Jack Friday Strikes Back – Spend This Friday On A Luxury Yacht
03 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This coming Friday afternoon (6 May) you could be working – or you could be chilling with four of your friends on a yacht, moored off Clifton 4th Beach, with great food, great drink, and great music – in absolute comfort.
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Hey Guys, TomTom Is Sharing Your Data Too
29 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And you thought it was just Apple and Google! Gosh. TomTom has admitted that its satellite navigation devices can track users and report to third parties about how fast they’re going – like the police, for instance. Your TomTom is a speed camera now.Yay future.
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Antje Traue Cast As Villain In Superman Reboot
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
German actress Antje Traue has been cast as ‘Faora,’ villainous accomplice to the no-less-ridiculous-sounding Zod in the Zack Snyder-directed Superman reboot. Since we’re now assured at least one slow-motion high-definition Traue scene, the reboot might be worth looking at, Snyder notwithstanding.
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Lauren Beukes Wins Arthur C. Clarke Award
28 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South African author Lauren Beukes’ novel Zoo City has won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award, awarded to the best science fiction novel of the year published in the UK. This is a sort of huge deal – past winners of the award include Kuzuo Ishiguro, Iain M Banks, and China Mieville.
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SpaceX Plans To Put Humans On Mars In the Next 10 to 20 Years
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
SpaceX – the guys who last year became the first to launch a private spaceship into orbit and bring it home – are planning on sending humans to Mars within 10 to 20 years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview with CEO Elon Musk. These guys have an X in their name, so we should take them seriously.
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Seen This? The Karoo Monster
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Don’t you just love a good small town monster story? If any of you drove through the Karoo over the Easter weekend, you may have been lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the shape-shifting creature which has reportedly been terrorising the town of Steytlerville since the end of March.
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The Vagipenis. Take A look!
26 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
When Cleo Australia decided to name their 50 most eligible bachelors, they thought that it would be a good idea to have a man standing next to two hot women, with his bulging tackle only contained by a pair of gold pants. The only problem is that what was created was a “vagipenis”.
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