-
Morning Headlines
-
Tuesday Morning Spice
21 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Breakdancing Gorilla Goes Viral – Nine-year-old Zola, one of eight Western lowland gorillas currently living at the Calgary Zoo in Canada, has become the latest Internet video star, thanks to a YouTube clip that shows him stomping and spinning, as if he were breakdancing. [dailymail] Michelle O’ Arrives In South Africa – US First Lady […]
-
Monday Morning Spice
20 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Surgeon Shits On David Cameron In Hospital [Video] – A senior surgeon interrupted a hospital visit by David Cameron and Nick Clegg to complain that the TV crews filming them were not observing strict hygiene rules.. David Nunn left the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister stunned with his angry outburst during the walkabout at […]
-
Friday Morning Spice
17 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Vancouver Riot ‘Kiss Photograph’ Goes Viral – Lying in the street and seemingly locked in a kiss as chaos erupts around them, a young couple appear oblivious to the charging crowds and baton-wielding riot police. The photograph, taken amid Vancouver’s hockey riots, has been tweeted around the world. But the photographer who took it is still […]
-
Wednesday Morning Spice
15 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Maid Speaks Out For The First Time – When it was revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger had a 13-year-old child with a trusted member of the family’s domestic staff, the world let out a collective gasp. The mother, housekeeper Mildred Baena, has since been in hiding and has now decided to set the record straight. [hellomagazine] […]
-
Tuesday Morning Spice
14 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Active Facebook Users In US & UK Declines – The United States lost nearly 6 million users, falling from 155.2 million at the start of May to 149.4 million at the end of it. This is the first time the country has lost users in the past year. Canada also fell significantly, by 1.52 million […]
-
Monday Morning Spice
13 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Netherlands To Ban The Only Reason You Went There In The First Place – The Netherlands plans to ban foreign visitors from pot shops in a move that opponents have labeled “tourism suicide.” Under the plan, the “coffee shops” that sell marijuana will become private clubs limited to adult Dutch citizens who have to show proof […]
-
Friday Morning Spice
10 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Happy Birthday, Prince Phillip! – The Queen’s husband, Prince Phillip, turns 90 today. We dig Phillip’s vibe, here at 2oceansvibe – in particular his long list of famous quotes an gaffes, which have kept us laughing our heads off for decades. Follow the link for 90 Prince Phillip quotes that will knock your socks off. […]
-
Thursday Morning Spice
09 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Barbie Is Destroying The Rainforests – Greenpeace said on Wednesday it had evidence that Barbie doll packaging comes from Indonesian rainforests, accusing toy manufacturers such as Mattel and Walt Disney Co of contributing to the country’s rapid deforestation. [reuters] Gaddafi Has An ‘Official Rape Policy’ – Investigators have evidence that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered […]
-
Wednesday Morning Spice
08 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Germany Is Officially The World’s Least Funny Country – Now an international poll appears to reinforce the humourless national stereotype after concluding that Germany is the least funny country in the world. More than 30,000 people in 15 countries were asked to rank the nations with the worst sense of humour and Germany came out on […]
-
Tuesday Morning Spice
07 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Apple Launches iCloud: Data In Forefront, Devices In Background – The long, strange trip that has been Apple’s implementation of cloud computing seems to have finally hit the road Monday with a full-throttled embrace of a paradigm one might not expect from a hardware manufacturer: Your computing life is merely enabled by the devices you […]
-
Monday Morning Spice
06 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
UN Declares Internet Access A Human Right – A United Nations report said Friday that disconnecting people from the internet is a human rights violation and against international law. The report railed against France and the United Kingdom, which have passed laws to remove accused copyright scofflaws from the internet. It also protested blocking internet access […]
-
Friday Morning Spice
03 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Groupon files for $750 million IPO – Groupon Inc. filed Thursday for a widely anticipated initial public offering in which the daily-deals service said it expects to raise as much as $750 million. The company said in its filing that it saw $644.7 million in revenue in the quarter that ended in March, compared with […]
-
Thursday Morning Spice
02 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Eight Million SA Cellphones To Be Switched Off – In November Cabinet approved a six-month extension of the deadline for operators to register their customers’ details including identity numbers and addresses. SA mobile operators MTN, Vodacom and Cell C now face the daunting prospect of switching off approximately eight million SIM cards at the end of […]
-
Wednesday Morning Spice
01 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Prince William Says FIFA Should Postpone Election – Prince William, who is president of the Football Association, last night dramatically intervened to back calls for football’s shamed governing body Fifa to postpone today’s presidential election in the wake of bribery allegations. He joined the organisation’s attempt to scupper the re-election of Sepp Blatter, the only candidate […]
-
Tuesday Morning Spice
31 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Silvio Berlusconi Sex Trial Resumes Today – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s trial on charges of having sex with an under-age prostitute resumes a day after his centre-right coalition suffered a crushing defeat in local elections. Berlusconi himself will not attend today’s court hearing, where his lawyers are expected to challenge the court’s right to hear […]
-
Monday Morning Spice
30 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Blatter Cleared As FIFA Suspends Hammam – Fifa will open a “full-blown” investigation into allegations that Mohamed bin Hammam and Jack Warner offered financial incentives to members of the Caribbean Football Union and has provisionally suspended them from all football activity. Sepp Blatter will not face an investigation into the allegations that he knew about the […]
-
Friday Morning Spice
27 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The Photo That Says It All – When DSK Met The Obamas – Some pictures say a thousand words. This one just says two: No Touching. Dominique Strauss-Kahn first met Barack and Michelle Obama at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh in 2009. For more retrospectively awkward photos of DSK and world leaders, check out this slideshow […]
-
Thursday Morning Spice
26 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Twitter Prepared To Hand Over User Data – Twitter yesterday said it was prepared to hand over information identifying tens of thousands of people who have used the social-networking website to break privacy injunctions. Experts had previously assumed that people who breached gagging orders on Twitter were protected from legal reprisals because the website is […]
-
Wednesday Morning Spice
25 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Cheers, old fruit! Obama Pays Tribute To ‘Enduring Bond’ – President Barack Obama last night paid tribute to the “enduring bond” between Britain and the US as he embraced the “special relationship” in a speech at Buckingham Palace. He spoke of the “rock solid foundation” of a friendship that “never rests”, stressing that Britain had […]
-
Tuesday Morning Spice
24 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Air France Pilot Wasn’t In The Cockpit: Black Box – Sources close to the investigative team have revealed that the recordings indicate that Marc Dubois, the aircraft’s 58-year-old pilot, was not in the cockpit at the time the trouble began. It is reportedly audible that Dubois rushed back into the cockpit. “He called instructions to […]
-
Monday Morning Spice
23 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
The Parlotones Take Best Music Video At SAMAs – Saturday night saw the 17th South African Music Awards take place at Johannesburg’s Montecasino. The Parlotones, Prime Circle, Locnville, Jax Panik, Kurt Darren and Die Antwoord were among the winners. [channel24] Arnold Has Two More Secret Kids – Randy Arnold Schwarzenegger has at least two more […]
-
Friday Morning Spice
20 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
They Lied, Hammerl IS Dead – A statement on Facebook by the family of Anton Hammerl, a 41-year-old South African freelance photographer who has been missing in Libya for more than a month, said the family learned Thursday that he had in fact been killed April 5 by the forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. [newyorktimes] […]
-
Thursday Morning Spice
19 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
Camps Bay Voting Station – a real pulse of the nation Local Government Elections – With just 131 071 votes counted by midnight on Wednesday, the ruling party had 55,76% of the vote for wards and the Democratic Alliance came in at 33,48%. The ANC had 71 847 votes cast so far and the DA had […]
-
Tuesday Morning Spice
17 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Save The Date: The World Ends Tomorrow – Behind thousands of “Judgement Day” billboards from rural highways to city skylines and a small army of volunteers that have traipsed across the country preaching May 21 as the beginning of the world’s destruction is a frail, 89-year-old California multimillionaire who runs one of the largest […]
-
Monday Morning Spice
16 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Stephen Hawking: “There Is No Heaven, It’s A Fairy Story” – A belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a “fairy story” for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said. In a dismissal that underlines his firm rejection of religious comforts, Britain’s most eminent scientist said there was nothing beyond the moment when […]
-
Friday Morning Spice
13 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Al Qaeda Threaten Barack Obama’s Grandmother – Security has been increased around the home of President Barack Obama’s step-grandmother in Kenya after an African al Qaeda branch issued a personal threat against her. Kenyan police told ABC News they are patrolling round the clock after Al Shabaab, the Somalia-based branch of al Qaeda, threatened the life […]
-
Thursday Morning Spice
12 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
Princess Beatrice To Auction Ridiculous Hat – Princess Beatrice’s hat will probably go down in history as one of the hallmarks of the royal wedding of Prince William and the former Kate Middleton. “She’s putting it up on EBay to auction it for UNICEF and for children in crisis,” her mother Sarah Ferguson told Oprah Winfrey […]
-
Wednesday Morning Spice
11 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Big Lebowski Cardigan Goes On Auction – As any fan of “The Big Lebowski” knows, “the Dude” had his own personal style. There’s the rug that tied the room together. White Russians, his cocktail of choice. And his distinctive sweater, a chunky-knit, zip-front cardigan. That very sweater worn by Bridges in the movie is going to […]
-
Tuesday Morning Spice
10 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Apple Replaces Google As World’s Most Valuable Brand – Apple is on a roll. Not content with becoming the biggest tech company in the world, the company has also ended Google’s four year reign as the world’s most valuable brand, according to a new study of global branding. And that’s not the only upset at […]
-
Monday Morning Spice
09 May 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Supermodel Pulls In $45 Million – Gisele tops the annual list with an estimated earnings of $45 million. Heidi Klum comes in at number 2 with an estimated earnings of $20 million and Kate Moss earned an estimated $13.5 million which places her in the number 3 spot. SA’s own Candice Swanepoel came 10th with […]
-
-
-
2oceansvibe Partners
-
-
