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Environment
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A Full Week Of ‘Lake-Lake’
03 Feb 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Regular 2oceansvibers will be aware of the term ‘Lake-Lake,’ which is a game the Radlantic Ocean plays from time to time. What it does is it pretends to be a lake – ie. dead still. The photo above was taken this morning from The Safe House (using our iPhone 4 from Digicape and photos stitched […]
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Someone Is Selling ‘Thera-Putic Herbal Weed’ On The M63
03 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
My god, but I love this town. An entirely trustworthy-looking cardboard sign appeared on the M63 over the weekend, advertising ‘THERAPutic Herbal Weed’ which I haven’t called because chances are that the entirely whimsical sign will be made weird and uncomfortable by calling that number.
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They’re Churning Up The Karoo For Gas
02 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Karoo is seeing a lot of action lately. Just the other day the semi-arid wonderland saw off some cult defectives now every major gas company with a drill wants a piece. Companies are lining up to upend most of the Karoo in search of shale gas. Shale gas is the latest “it” gas in the energy game and the Karoo has a lot of it.
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Advanced Crow Tool Use – Researchers Surprised
01 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Birds have often attained legendary status amongst their two legged admirers and achieved such feats as drug smuggling and speeds greater than broadband. Now New Caledonian Crows have stepped it up a notch and proven their tool knowledge is possibly a way to beat the I-only-like-shiny-things stereotype they have always been stuck with.
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Shinmoedake: Yeah, But Eyjafjallajökull Did It First
01 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hey, remember the whole thunder/ice/volcano scenario in Iceland that cancelled a couple of European flights? Well a similar sort of deal went down in Japan on Sunday, between the Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures. Insert your own joke about Japan copying the west. Awesome photos follow.
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“Waiter There’s A Shark In My Soup”
25 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Right, now I’m not really one for social activism, but I have a problem with insecure men with erectile dysfunction killing everything to “get it up”. I’m sure you, like me, despise those who kill rhinos simply to get at the horn, to help the horns of insecure men with erectile dysfunction.
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Monday Education: Whales Have Threesomes
24 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well I don’t know about you, but I think marine biology just got slightly more interesting. A 2005 paper observing a menage a trois coupling between right whales recently appeared online, with photos that are NSFW but only if your boss knows what you’re looking at or has a working knowledge of whale genitalia.
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Another Reason Not To Emigrate [VIDEO]
24 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yes, our little country has its issues, but before we all start whinging like the DA on a slow day at parliament, lets just take a moment. It’s Monday, but things could be worse, at least we will never wake up to weather like this…
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Too Much Helium WILL Make You Pass Out [VIDEO]
24 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s Monday so why not watch this girl take in a cubic meter of helium and pass out? There’s a beautiful moment where it looks like she’s seeing visions but then things get out of hand and she connects with some furniture. Maybe she saw P Divvy, the original helium sucker, and just couldn’t take it. Maybe she’s just a lightweight. Don’t try this at home – go to the Spur.
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Paul The Octopus Lives On
21 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sometimes an octopus, a psychic german octopus to be specific, captures the imagination of the world. Paul was such a creature, successfully predicting the outcome of eight World Cup matches. Unfortunately little Paul passed away in his sleep last October, but fittingly a monument has been built in his honor, so our childrens children will never forget the clairvoyant mollusk.
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They’re STILL Chowing Our Lions In Arizona
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just before the soccer world cup we brought you a story about a deranged restaurant owner in Arizona serving up lion’s meat as a cute homage to SA. Now those yanks are at it again. This time in a different restaurant in the same carnivorous state. They just can’t keep their hands off our cats.
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Are Pigeons The Drug Mules Of Tomorrow?
20 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Police in Colombia have detained a pigeon that was allegedly transporting marijuana to a nearby prison. Apparently, some drug barons had strapped a package to its back and released the desperate little guy into the air, hoping that he would fly over the penitentiary wall into the open arms of some prisoners who were in much need of a spliff.
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Eskom Thanks SA And Themselves For Energy Savings – But Mostly Themselves
17 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Eskom said South Africa saved 1800 megawatts over the last six years. Apparently that’s enough energy to power Durban. The energy powerhouse hastened to add that this saving was due to energy efficient lighting. And not just any lights – the lights rolled out by them from 2004 to 2010.
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Sex Toy River Rafters Rescued In Melbourne
17 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s good to see our antipodean friends still have a sense of humour after all the flooding and disaster that’s hit them. An enterprising couple looked out their bedroom window yesterday, saw the river was coming down hectically and decided to go for a joy ride on blow up dolls when the plan, well, blew up in their faces.
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That, Is An Ex-Parrot
14 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
750 African Grey parrots perished on a 1Time airlines flight from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport to Durban’s King Shaka Airport on Christmas Eve. The parrots had been captured in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and were transported to South Africa for resale as pets in the second stage of a three-part transaction of a larger group of parrots.
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Australian Flooding In A Global Context
13 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
While the floods in Australia are devastating, there are a number of natural disasters unfolding on a significantly larger human and geographic scale – and we don’t seem to give a damn.
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Australian Floods – So Much For A Water-Scarce Country [VIDEO]
11 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here we have a video of a small creek in an obscure part of Queensland, Australia, transforming from a benign trickle into a hellish monster comprised chiefly of speed, water, mud, and cars from this office’s parking lot. The footage is intense, but the awesome Australian accents are pretty distracting.
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There Aren’t Really Any Good Puns About Green Rivers In Canada [VIDEO]
10 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I know, I was surprised too. Some dudes in Canada decided to hurl a couple of bottles of flouroscein into the Goldstream River, turning the whole thing bright flouro green. Way to one-up the Old Testament, Canada. I thought you guys were supposed to be nice.
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More Dead Animals – Is This It?
06 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Look, we all knew it was coming. The end of the world might be the original case of not if, but when. The Apocalypse is here, guys. They even made a movie about it with a typo reading 2012 where it should have said 2011.
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It’s Like This For A While
05 Jan 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Look, make no mistake, it’s bloody hot. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard Capetonians deliver the classic, “Fuck it’s hot hey?” Indeed it is, and the lack of wind makes it even hotter. Not that we’re complaining – this is fine, especially after that 10 day hurricane we had in December! Judging […]
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My Genes Were Drunk
23 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You also bump into things, talk loud, take swipes at lamp shades and smash your fist through tempered glass when you’re drunk? Well, it’s not because we were simply raised that way. It’s not even the liquor. It’s Drunk Gene.
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A Dry Niagra Falls
22 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
These photographs were shot in 1969, and were uncovered in some inocuous storage unit just last week. They’re a pretty fascinating documentary of a brief period in 1969 when the United States Army Engineer Corps dammed up the falls slightly upstream. It was the first time in thousands of years that the falls had run dry.
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Kim Kardashian Thinks We’re “Totally Tubular”
20 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Kim and sis Khloe were stranded in Cape Town on the weekend and tweeted about it throughout their ordeal. There were talk of peeing, cries for help and a surreal tubular reference.
A Christmas reunion on someone’s dad’s side hanged in the balance as sad faces flew all over the place. It was a wild, wild ride. -
Merry Titmas
15 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
My, was I surprised by the results when I typed “christmas tree” “tits” into Google Images. There’s one with a guy stealing a tree, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears next to what could be a Christmas tree or just some tree and a card that says, ‘Merry Titmas’. Listen to me rambling on. Why don’t I just show you.
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Crazy Animals [VIDEO]
15 Dec 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
We take a break in our schedule to give you a classic compilation of animals being hysterical. It’s so easy for us, as humans, to mock animals – we’re just so much more advanced than them. I mean, who came up with TV? And you don’t see them driving around in cars, right? God, they’re so thick! No internet for them either!
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Tommy Lee Demands SeaWorld Stop ‘Interfering’ With Killer Whales Using Cow Parts
10 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
God, some headlines just write themselves. Happy Friday, by the way. PETA member and Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has angrily written SeaWorld protesting their apparent use of killer whale Tilikum as a “chief sperm bank,” collecting ‘deposits’ with “a cow’s vagina filled with hot water.” What happened, Tommy Lee? You used to not be crazy.
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Hail Storm In Krugersdorp [Mind-Blowing Video]
02 Dec 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 5 Comments
South Africa has it’s fair share of crazy weather conditions. Hell, right here in Cape Town we could be having a braai in Camps Bay watching the sunset, while Newlands is enjoying a monsoon and closing the curtains at 5pm. But I have a feeling only a few of you have ever experienced a hail storm this severe. Follow the link.
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Is This Your Dog?
30 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
On the VERY rare occasion, we do tend to these kind of requests and I stress that it should not be seen as any kind of precedent for future ‘Lost Dog’ notices. This is in fact exactly the opposite – a dog has been FOUND and the people who have it are trying to find the owner. I’ll give three EuroMillions lottery tickets to the first person who wraps this up. Click link for details and please respond in the comments section.
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Inventor Crossing UAE In Solar-Powered Wheelchair To Prove Some Kind Of Point
23 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Inventor Haidar Taleb is hitting two birds with one stone, sort of, by crossing all seven United Arab Emirates in a solar powered wheelchair to promote the use of renewable energy and raise awareness about causes for disabilities. Also, he’s going alone. And you can’t drink in most of the Emirates. And it’ll take 11 days. Road trip!
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Win Tickets To The End Of The Line
22 Oct 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The End Of The Line is this year’s most vaunted environmental documentary. Brought to South Africa by Investec, the internationally-acclaimed film is a stark and uncompromising look at our systematic pillaging of our oceans, the effects of which will hit us harder and sooner than we anticipated. 2oceansvibe Radio will be chatting to the film’s producer and author of the book by the same name, Charles Clover, as well as giving away ten tickets to the film. Details after the jump.
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