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Horse Rescued After Falling Off 15M Cliff [VIDEO]
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I love the fact that we still live in a world where people care enough to do something like this. A horse recently fell down a 15m rocky cliff in Wales. It survived the fall only to find itself trapped by rough seas. This video details the rescue operation by two lifeboat crews who just happened to pass by as the incident took place.
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Video Of Moroccan Protestors Setting Themselves On Fire Emerges
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We reported earlier today on the protests currently happening in Morocco. Protestors are dissatisfied at the lack of jobs in the country, particularly for university graduates – resorting to self-immolation. Associated Press has now procured a cellphone video that has captured the entire thing – from dousing themselves to catching fire. Full video after the jump.
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News International: We Were Hacking Email Too
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Obviously. The credibility of Rupert Murdoch’s News International has been thrown into further disarray as the media giant finally admitted in the High Court that it had also illegally been accessing emails. This follows the emergence of some 36 hacking settlements yesterday.
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‘Apple In Education’ Launches New Digital Educational Tools
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As part of their ‘reinvention of the textbook,’ Apple yesterday unveiled three new applications for use in the digital educational under their Apple in Education program: iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. The tools are designed to allow for interactive textbooks, digital textbook creation, and open-access educational resources from top universities, respectively.
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Hacker Group Anonymous Takes Down Major Websites
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday the popular file-sharing site, MegaUpload was taken down by the US government. In response, hackers aligned with the global cyber-collective known as Anonymous took down at least six prominent websites, including those of the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group.
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Iraq Wants Saddam’s Ass Back
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A British man has been arrested and questioned by UK police regarding his involvement in the alleged theft of a fragment of a statue of Saddam Hussein from Iraq in 2003, more specifically its ass.
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Moroccan Men Set Themselves Alight In Unemployment Protest
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you know what self-immolation is? It’s the rather rare practice of setting oneself on fire to show how strongly you feel about something. Go figure. In the Middle East and North Africa though, it’s become more commonplace ever since a Tunisian vegetable seller did it to protest police harrassment, evoking an uprising at the end of 2010.
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Costa Cruises Executive Brands Passengers Sensationalist
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A Costa Cruises executive, and a woman with an obviously cold heart, has brandished her colleagues the “true heroes” of the Costa Concordia disaster. She also accused the passengers of “sensationalism” in a letter in which she discussed the tragedy that saw the Costa Concordia cruise ship capsize off the coast of Italy.
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News Corp Involved In Hacking Cover-Up
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A short while ago, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company agreed to pay damages to 36 high-profile victims of tabloid phone-hacking. On top of this, News Corp has acknowledged to victims that executives covered up the scale of the unlawful activity by destroying evidence and lying to investigators.
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George Lucas Retires, Star Wars Fans Everywhere Breathe Sighs Of Relief
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Following criticism over pretty much everything he’s done in the past decades, Star Wars creator/destroyer George Lucas announced his planned retirement in a recent interview with the New York Times – adding, “Why would I make any more when everybody yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?”
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Sorry SA, Skoonheid Misses Out On Oscar Shot
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Though it did well on the festival circuit, South Africa’s “Skoonheid” has missed out on a nomination for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards. Unfortunate, but what films did make the shortlist, and which is the favourite tipped to win the gong?
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Brazilian Police Equipped With Facial Recognition Glasses For 2014
19 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is sort of like Robocop! Brazilian police forces are testing out glasses fitted out with cameras linked to a central computer network that stores a database of criminal suspects’ faces, so that they’ll be able to arrest people during the 2014 World Cup without having to ask them their names.
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Google Blacked Out For SOPA Too
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Google has joined Wikipedia, BoingBoing and a number of other popular websites in the SOPA protest – not just by ‘blacking out’ their logo, which is cute but largely ineffective, but by putting together a comprehensive and informative infographic on the SOPA bill and piracy, along with access lines for voters to contact members of Congress through.
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Uproar Over Planned German Reprint Of ‘Mein Kampf’
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Controversy is raging on both sides of the Atlantic over a British publisher’s plan to reprint Adolf Hitler’s anti-semitic manifesto, Mein Kampf, in German for the first time since the end of the Second World War.
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Wearing Headphones Could Kill You
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re anything like me, going even a few minutes without music can seem like torture. However as it turns out, a few minutes without music blaring in your ears could actually save your life.
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Wikipedia Still Accessible, Just Hit ‘Esc’ Key
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Wikipedia joined a number of other websites by going offline for 24 hours in an attempt to protest against proposed anti-piracy laws in the US. Users see a black screen and a political statement: “Imagine a world without free knowledge,” but if you really need to access the website, just hit the ‘Esc’ key when you land on your desired Wikipedia page.
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Israeli Hackers Take Down Saudi Stock Exchange
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In retaliation against Saudi Arabian hacker 0xOmar, who leaked the credit card details of 15 000 Israeli nationals and took down a secondary Tel Aviv stock exchange site last week, Israeli hackers calling themselves the #IDF-team have targeted stock exchanges in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates yesterday.
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White House Locked Down After Smoke Bomb
18 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The White House was forced to be locked down for over an hour last night when protestors from the “Occupy DC” movement lobbed a smoke over the wall. The group consisted of about 1500 protestors, from all across America. Nobody was allowed to leave the property.
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Conspiracy Theory: USA Could Have Caused Russia’s Mars Probe Failure
17 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Foreign interference from the USA could have been behind the $165 million failure that was the Phobos-Grunt probe to Mars by Russia. This is the opinion of Russian space agency Roscosmos, which is investigating the most recent disaster in what has been a series of “major space mishaps” for the nation.
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Mbeki Questions Twitter’s Social Usefulness, Twitter Flips Out A Little
17 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Following his opening address for the International Knowledge Conference at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, former president, Thabo Mbeki voiced some concerns about Twitter as “a great conveyor of reliable knowledge,” pointing to Gaddafi’s overthrow as a consequence of “false knowledge,” rather than the social media. Mbeki immediately started trending on Twitter.
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Elton John’s Husband Punishes Madonna Following Golden Globes Win [VIDEO]
17 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Which set of global music artistes are locked in a post-awards death match following a trophy shocker that saw one win best original song for her “Masterpiece”, and saw her rival scowl so deeply, his face appeared to eat itself?
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Samsung’s New “Smart Window” [VIDEO]
16 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There have been plenty of tech announcements over the past few days, what with the Consumer Electronics Show going on in Las Vegas, each one claiming to be more exciting than the last – which gets tedious. So I mean it when I say that, Samsung’s new “Smart Window” is the most exciting thing to come out of CES 2012.
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Jimmy Fallon Does Bowie Impression – Rips Off Tim Tebow [VIDEO]
16 Jan 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Just to fill you in on who Tim Tebow is, he is God’s current gift to American Football. And I mean that in more ways than one. In particular, he is a highly-religious man and often thanks God in interviews for his performance as quarterback for the Denver Broncos. That is quite normal amongst successful public […]
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NY Investment Banker Has Crazy Post-Date Email Breakdown – Again
16 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
First dates are a minefield of social etiquette, and one misstep can bring disaster. Not one to let sleeping dogs lie, NY investment banker, Mike, let his luckless lady know- in excruciating detail – how you let a guy down easy. You can read Mike’s full 1600 word lunatic ramble or consult our handy 2oceansVibe Quicknotes version which summarises the main points of this lunacy for your convenience.
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North Korea To Punish Mourners Who Were “Insincere”
16 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Last month, we saw footage of North Koreans weeping hysterically over the death of Kim Jong Il. Shockingly, it now turns out some of those people were just faking it! As punishment, authorities are handing down six months in a labor-training camp to all those who participated, but “didn’t cry and didn’t seem genuine.”
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UK Student Faces Extradition To USA For Copyright Infringement
16 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A UK judge ruled this week that Richard O’Dwyer, an English university student, can be extradited to the United States to face charges of copyright infringement – O’Dwyer being the former administrator of TVShack, a website that linked to pirated content. This sets a dangerous legal precedent for anybody who does anything fun on the internet.
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Taxi Rank: New Mobile Web App For Cape Town
13 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Taxi Rank is a newly-launched web app that lets folks in Cape Town order cabs online or via smartphones – which isn’t in itself especially new or useful. What is pretty neat is that, once pick-up and drop-off points are specified, the service also provides estimated quotes by Cape Town’s various taxi companies, organized by price.
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Dictator Forced To Eat Nando’s At ANC’s Centenary Celebrations
12 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Not everything went according to plan at the ANC’s centenary celebrations over the weekend. Dictator, and Ugandan President, Yuweri Museveni, had to get his security guards to buy him some grilled chicken from Nando’s because there was no food at his accommodation.
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New Swiss Army Knife Features 1Tb Flash Drive
12 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Victorinox, manufacturers of the iconic Swiss Army Knife, as well as a host of other sharp shiny things, have unveiled their latest range of all-in-one utility tools, which now include a solid state flash drive of up to 1 terabyte capacity! Sweet!
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The Internet, As Bad As Cocaine
12 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A recent study by Chinese experts has found that internet addiction affects your brain in the much the same way that cocaine, and other drugs, does.
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