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Tech/Sci
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Cape Quarter Website Hacked
23 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
The Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village’s website was hacked this morning by someone using the cypher “Legacy123”. Legacy left a cheery little Christmas note for the Cape Quarter Website admins, and a link to an offensive security hacking forum, xtremeroot.net. The Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village is the home of 2oceansvibe Radio’s studios.
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Nic Marais On 2oceansvibe Radio Today
23 Dec 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Past KFM listeners can take a stroll down memory lane this morning as Seth Rotherham and Rich Hardiman find themselves on-air with none other than the former ‘voice of Cape Town’ – Nic Marais. We’ll also be chatting to Crazy White Boy about their music success, as well as Kate and La Muse about this […]
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Japanese Scientists Make Breakthrough In Genetic Science, Hope To Create Mickey Mouse
22 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Walt Disney will be clicking his heels in his grave. Japanese scientists have, by promoting the miscopying of DNA from mice to their progeny, randomly produced a mouse that sings very much like a bird. So what are we aiming for here? Mouse servants? Mouse message couriers? No, not even remotely.
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OMG! – It ALSO Plays Colour Videos…
20 Dec 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
I wanted to ease off telling you about all the amazing things my new MINI Countryman can do, as I didn’t want you to get MINI-lash. But damnit it’s hard to do that when a music video started playing on my iPhone (I had it on random) and it appeared on the dashboard. Come on […]
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Very, Very Cool Youtube Ad
17 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
I know – it’s December, you’ve got this big pseudo-Christian consumerist monolith being forced down every available orifice imploring you to spend more money on This New Shiny Thing, and maybe you’re a little sick of that right now. I understand that. But believe me when I say that this is a freaking awesome advert.
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Ha. Awesome Wikileaks Advertising In Pakistan.
16 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Pakistan’s relations with the U.S. were talked up pretty heavily in the latest Cablegate leaks; further, false leaks with heavy anti-Indian sentiment were spread around the country by major national newspapers. So it’s nice to see the Pakistani advertisers make the most of an awkward situation.
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Cablegate Comix
15 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Increasingly it seems like Assange is proving to be a bigger story than the cables he most recently to be released – HiLoBrow artist, Joe Alterio, tries to put that right with his series of illustrations paired with the more bizarre political activities revealed in the latest batch of Wikileak cables. Expect dirty dancing and ninja assassins.
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World Map According To Social Networks: Mind The Gap
13 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Artist Vincenzo Cosenza has redrawn the world map based on each nation’s preferred social networking site – ranging from the reasonably well-known Facebook and Orkut to the bizarrely unfamiliar (here) Draugiem – unless you’ve got some friends in Lativa you’ve not told us about.
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Wikileaks Founder And The Women Scorned
11 Dec 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Julius Assange has been arrested and denied bail. Incidentally, it’s the same jail which held Shrien Dewani before he was granted bail. Some of you will be aware that Assange has not been arrested for hacking the US government, but rather sex-related charges. Turns out our boy is a bit of a heartbreaker..
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Zeitgeist 2010: Google’s Year in Review
10 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Maybe it’s a little early to be getting nostalgic, the Google’s Zeitgeist 2010 has you ‘Re-live top events and moments from 2010 from around the globe through search, images, and video.’ South Africans can go ahead and skip to 2:05, though, because that’s where the important part of 2010 really starts.
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Beam Me Up, Sakkie
10 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Our Science and Technology minister didn’t mince her words announcing the arrival of SANSA (South African National Space Agency) yesterday using terms like “launch” and ”local scientific research sector” at free will. She even went so far as to say a decade from now South Africa would be a thriving space nation. Let’s look at some of the pros and cons of Mzansi in orbit.
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Amazon.com: The Face Of Hypocrisy
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We live in a world where business ethics trump their moral counterparts with ease, so perhaps we shouldn’t get too upset about this.
You may well remember that Amazon.com abandoned WikiLeaks after suffering less than subtle diplomatic pressure from the United States.
While disappointing, that kind of move was inevitable, perhaps even understandable. If the negative attention damaged the brand, Amazon has since committed public relations hara kiri. Cue global brandfail for Amazon.com in three, two, one…
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NMA Explains Assange’s Situation [VIDEO]
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Watch the video – it should bring you up to speed. Oh, animated Taiwanese news clips. You educate, you entertain, you sort of fail to make sense despite sticking to the facts. What can’t you do? Are you free for lunch some time? Coffee, maybe?
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Jayzus This 3G
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
If Vodafone based the design of their 3G modem on a device that takes up three USB ports unnecessarily they succeeded. On a grand scale. Is this 1998? Are we in the Stone Age? Behold, the great plastic death is reaping its harvest. This is the technological equivalent of the fat guy who takes up one and a half seats in economy class.
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The Future Is Creepy: Now With Prosthetic Tentacles!
09 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On the whole, I am a fan of living in the future; video-phone calls, makin’ sheep immortal, that whole schtick. Except every now and then, slightly disturbing developments crop up, and I’m forced to consider a future where this is much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and zombies. Case in point: you can replace missing arms with robot tentacles.
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Proverbial Wallets from John Kestner on Vimeo.
Robot Wallets
07 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Paying things with cards is weird for me. I mean obviously the convenience of having a plastic card that gets me stuff is great – I got to take advantage of the Threadless sale, for instance – but without that tangible sense of loss at having to fork over a wad of cash, there is the risk of going overboard is substantial. Folks at MIT have some ideas about that.
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WikiLeaks’ Assange Arrested In The UK
07 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, well, well. I guess we’ll be seeing that insurance policy of his sooner rather than later. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been nicked in London on charges of “sexual crimes”. The warrant was issued in Sweden. Look, sex, the Swedish, and foreign people almost always leads to confusion.
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Michael Jackson Posthumously Foils Media Pirates With Vuvuzelas [VIDEO]
07 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
No, I am not pushing it with that headline. This is for real. Chamona! Game Software developers, Ubi Soft, have introduced a novel (and thoroughly heart-warming) anti-piracy measure into the Nintendo DS version of Michael Jackson: The Experience – vuvuzelas. That’s right. Copy this game at your own aural risk.
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The Mophie ‘Juice Pack Plus’ for iPhone 4
03 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On the whole, I try and stay away from jokes that hinge on understanding two languages, because usually those jokes are goddamned awful and I mean hey, Leslie Nielsen died a few days ago, show a little class. That said, today is Friday, and there exists a product called the Mophie ‘Juice Pack Plus.’
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How Does Shazam Work?
30 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Many of you will be aware of the mobile application called Shazam, which allows your phone to identify nearly any song playing in close vicinity. Incredibly, we often get into deep chats about how Shazam works, never actually doing the obvious and asking Google. That’s why I’ve finally gone and done it – I’ve found […]
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Break Up For Summer
29 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember the days when you could get your best friend to break up with your boyfriend for you? Weren’t those days awesome? No guilt trips, no tears…Just a good clean break that didn’t even involve you. Well now there is a website that offers this service at a small cost.
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The Mypressi TWIST: Good, Mobile Coffee That You Deserve
24 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
You know those times when you’re cruising on your Vespa, hitting the road with particular destination in mind? Perhaps you’re poodling up a mountain – perhaps not. It’s a bright, sunny late afternoon, some might even call it dusk. Light is thrown across the city scape below, and a slightly chilly wind is up. You think to yourself, “I could use some coffee right now”. Well you wouldn’t be able to get any, right? Wrong. So wrong.
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2,500 Downloads Of 2oceansvibe Radio App, As iPad App Launches
24 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
In just six weeks, South Africa’s first mainstream online radio station has enjoyed over 2,500 downloads of its mobile streaming app. The app, which allows anyone with a smart phone (iPhone, Blackberry and Android) to listen to the radio station LIVE, has been rolled out to the iPad today. The latest update of the app […]
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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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The Phone Kerchief: Obey Phone Etiquette, Look Dapper Doing It
19 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here at 2oceansvibe, phone etiquette is paramount; if I hear a phone ringing and I think it might be mine, I reserve the right to lose my shit. Another thing we care about is being well-dressed, or at least pretending like we do; and now those two pleasures are combined in a single fancy product.
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At Last, A Reason To Want To Be An Astronaut
17 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA recently released a couple of photos taken from inside the International Space Station with the newly-fitted Cuppola module, which is a big ol’ window looking down on earth. The ISS is essentially a fancy glass bottomed-boat. With attractive astronaut ladies in it. I’m not even kidding, look at the photo after the jump.
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What Burns Faster – Android, WinPho 7 Or iPhone 4? [VIDEO]
16 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
I’ll be honest, it HAS been on my mind. I mean, everyone goes on about battery-life and camera quality and storage space and keyboard use and reception, when everyone is actually, consciously skirting around the real issue at hand – how do they handle on a braai grid? Which one dies first? What happens after that? All revealed after the jump!
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“Phone Calls Are For Emergencies” – TechCrunch
16 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
For something that started out as a ‘movement,’ has now manifested itself into an overwhelming crescendo of consensus. Random phone calls are OVER. In her article entitled, ‘The Phone Call Is Dead,’ Alexia Tsotsis from Tech Crunch touched on a few of the indisputable points that 2oceansvibe has been giving for the last few years.
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PleaseShutUp.com Joins The Revolution
15 Nov 2010 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
A genius new website has launched which seems to be in full support of a cause that 2oceansvibe has championed for many years. PleaseShutUp.com clearly and humorously outlines the grossly antisocial, selfish and ridiculous behaviour found in modern day society – that of making and receiving random unplanned and unexpected phone calls.
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The Social Media Sobriety Filter
15 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: drunk Facebooking ruins lives.
Thankfully the good people at Webroot Software have seen the urgent need to curb this scourge of humanity.
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