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Business
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Radvertising: Stop-Motion Film Made With 350 000 Post-It Notes
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Melissa, a Brazilian footwear brand, is doing it right. They created this giant time-lapse video on the side of a building in SãoPaolo using Post-it notes as analog pixels. I’m not totally clear on why this would make me want to buy shoes, but whatever it looks amazing.
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NASA Launches Spacecraft To Jupiter
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just when we thought NASA was going to take a backseat and let privatisation take the wheel for a while, they squeeze out yet another project. It just happens to be one of the space agency’s most ambitious missions too, and will attempt to discover the secrets behind the largest planet in the solar system – Jupiter.
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Nandos Punishes Benni McCarthy
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s a thing of beauty. [Thanks, Mike!]
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Mpumalanga Traffic Cop Allegedly Beats Son’s Teachers, Gets A Warning
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
When two teachers entered Enock Sifundza’s home on Thursday morning to complain about his son’s behaviour at school, they probably didn’t expect to be held at gunpoint at beaten with a knobkerrie. But what might have shocked them most is that he was let off with a warning, pending an investigation and/or time to lose the docket.
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French Court Orders Probe Into IMF Head Christine Lagarde
04 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The International Monetary Fund has another scandal to deal with, although this time it’s a financial one. A French court has today ordered an investigation into the new IMF head, Christine Lagarde, and her role in a much-criticised $400 million arbitration deal in favour of a controversial tycoon. It concerns the mishandled sale of sportswear maker, Adidas, in the 1990’s.
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Former CIA Counterterrorism Director Warns Of Impending ‘Code War’
04 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Speaking at the Black Hat hacker’s conference in Vegas yesterday, former director of the CIA’s counterterrorism center Cofer Black voiced concerns about a future “code war” where hackers tamper with the technology that runs our day-to-day interactions. Then a fire alarm accidentally tripped, which was nice and thematic.
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Old Spice Duel Draws 22 Million YouTube Hits
04 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Recently 2oceansVibe told you about a certain duel that was going to happen live on YouTube, well kind of, between Isaiah Mustafa, the old Old Spice Guy, and Fabio Old Spices, the new Old Spice Guy. Isaiah defeated Fabio after some heated bathroom exchanges, but the real point of interest is that 22 million people have watched.
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Italy Approves Draft Law For Burqa Ban
03 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Italy has become the next European country to join the wave of nations banning women from wearing veils that cover their faces in public. An Italian parliamentary commission has approved a draft law prohibiting women from wearing a burqa, niqab or any other garment that covers the face in public places.
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We Live In The Future: GM’s Smartphone-Controlled Pod Cars
02 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
GM’s Electric Networked-Vehicle (EN-V), the pod-shaped hands-free electric vehicle unveiled last year, is set for release soon. Confined to metropolitan areas, we should be able to live out our Jetsons inspired fantasies a little sooner than we’d planned, once GPS technology catches up a little.
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How Much Is That Robo-Seal In The Window?
02 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The future is officially nuts. It’s getting to a point where stuff like this probably won’t shock you anymore. It should. Be shocked. These robo-seals, called ‘Paro’, not only bring comfort to recovering Japanese tsunami patients, they also sing, clap, and even take part in the residents daily exercise routines.
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Greece Starts €50 Billion Privatisation Drive
02 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s time to dust off the old cheque book and keep an eye on what’s happening in Greece. You may just find something you want to purchase as Greek officials begin appointing advisers for the country’s ambitious privatisation drive, and what is one of the most ambitious asset-selling campaigns in modern history.
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Foxconn Increases Reliance On Robots For Manufacturing
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Because robots can’t get depressed over awful working conditions and commit suicide, you see. Also we don’t have a robot union yet, so Foxconn (the guys who manufacture the iPhone and iPad) won’t need to worry about the slowly increasing factory worker wages in Taiwan, which are driving overhead costs upwards throughout the fancy-technology-making-industry.
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United States Debt, Visualised
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
See those tiny blocks? Each one of those is $100 million. Absolutely no spice. And that is what the United States’ debt will look like in $100 bills by Christmas this year. Click through to see the depressing, and amazing progression of how many $100 bills it takes to make a $15 trillion pile of […]
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Jozi To Get Recycling Laws
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 5 Comments
If all goes according to plan, it won’t be long before residents in Jozi face fines for improperly managing their waste. While the move will definitely result in a fair amount of complaining, it’s arguable that recycling has been happening around the world for ages. In fact, it should be a habit and duty for all of us.
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“Billionaire” Lamba Says He Was Set Up
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Investigative journalist, Jacques Pauw, has written a fascinating expose about the man who once claimed to be South Africa’s youngest billionaire, Mandla Lamba. In the article Mandla and Pauw have a heart to heart, in Diepsloot prison.
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Los Angeles Television Presenter Shot With BB Gun Live On Air [VIDEO]
01 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
What was obviously an awesome idea at the time, hasn’t ended up working out quite so well for two teenagers from Los Angeles. In the old days, one could probably get away with an old prank like this, but not with modern policing unfortunately.
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Mugabe Spends $20 Million On Travel In Six Months
29 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A daily newspaper in Zimbabwe has revealed that Robert Mugabe has spent an excessive amount of money on foreign travel in the last six months, totalling $20 million. And we’re not talking Zimbabwean Dollars here, this is US currency. He has now reportedly surpassed his $15 million travel budget for the year, but that’s probably irrelevant to him.
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Zuma’s Chief Justice Decision Declared Unconstitutional
29 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I wrote yesterday about how depressed I was about the apparent lack of the rule of law in our fair land. Well today I am feeling a little better. The reason: The constitutional court has said that President Jacob Zuma’s decision to extend Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo’s term of office is unconstitutional.
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Real Life Sat-Nav Racing Game Grips Britain As Drivers Attempt To Beat The Clock
29 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The idea behind the game is pretty straight forward: you must beat your satellite navigational system’s estimated time of arrival. I’m quite sure this has crossed some of our minds a few times but apparently some seven million British drivers are actually partaking in the potentially lethal new craze.
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Some British Communities Become “Shariah Controlled Zone’s”
28 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
Bigoted members of British society must be speedily wringing their hands and tensely furrowing their eyebrows in anger that this has happened. While not quite the same as the Name Your Hood campaign, Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Shariah law enforcement zones have been set up.
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Russians In Bikinis Patriotically Wash Cars For Vladimir Putin [VIDEO]
28 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
There are two aspects to this video. The first is very obvious: girls chose to wash Russian-made cars in bikinis for Vladimir Putin, as the headline suggests. And the other is the awkward on air moment between the two television news presenters that happens after they cover the story.
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TuksFM Nazi Gaff Causes Flurry On Twitter
27 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 14 Comments
The blog of the TuksFM Bang Bang Breakfast Show on the University of Pretoria’s student radio station, TuksFM is trending on Twitter for all the wrong reasons. Spicy pics after the jump.
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Frolicking In The Snow [VIDEO]
27 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
As you are well aware, the last few days have been somewhat of a nightmare for the many who’ve been stuck in cars along the N3 and Van Reenen’s pass. We are simply not used to snow and were certainly not prepared. But it wasn’t all doom and gloom, as this video illustrates.
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Piers Morgan Might Have Been Fibbing About His Phone Hacking Knowledge
27 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Piers Morgan might have been speaking nonsense when he made the modest claim that all he knew of phone hacking was that someone once told him that it was possible. The embattled CNN host, who has spent a fair amount of time defending his knowledge on hacking lately, appears to have forgotten about a 2009 interview.
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It’s Final Voting Time For The First Two Cape Town Neighbourhoods!
27 Jul 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The most exciting neighbourhood creation concept to hit South Africa, NameYourHood, is in full swing. The first two neighbourhoods under the microscope enjoyed over 400 names submitted over the last month. The NameYourHood panel painstakingly whittled that list down to 10 names per neighbourhood and now it’s time to vote! The final name chosen for […]
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IMF Gets Tough On US And Europe, Over Debt Crisis
27 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Speaking in New York yesterday, the former French finance minister and now new IMF head, Christine Lagarde, warned that despite the positive response in the financial markets to bailouts, fresh turmoil could easily boil over if debt crises aren’t properly managed now. She also really wants the Republicans and Democrats in Washington to stop squabbling so much.
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Old Spice Guy Vs Fabio, Mano-A-Mano, Live Tonight [VIDEO]
26 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Where are you going to be at 18h00 this evening? I know what I’m going to be doing – and let’s be honest about this – you know what you should be doing too, right? Something awesome might happen. The Old Spice Guy has accepted Fabio’s challenge and they will have some sort of bathroom face-off, live, on YouTube.
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Fake Apple Stores Are A Global Industry
26 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Chinese officials have ordered two of the five fake stores already located in the south-western city of Kunming to suspend business while they’re investigated, a local government website said on Monday. But, it’s since emerged that similar fakes exist in countries from Croatia to Venezuela.
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Candice Boucher Does Not Do Nudity In SA – Capisce?
25 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Nudity does not suit model Candice Boucher’s image in South Africa. No-one in SA will ever see Candice strip off, capisce? (Apart from the thousands of South Africans who saw this nude photo shoot online when she was US Playboy’s April cover girl last year, I suppose).
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James Murdoch’s Busy Week Ahead
25 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The younger Murdoch’s credibility was tested last week, after he told a parliamentary committee that he was not aware of evidence that eavesdropping at the News of the World went beyond a jailed rogue reporter. At least three former top executives, including a former editor, have pointed fingers back at James. What happens next is critical to his future.
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