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Religious Police Force Forbids Lesbian Couple From Living In Same Village
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Constitutional rights don’t hold much water with the Islamic police in Indonesia’s Aceh province. The province’s religious police force have forcibly separated a lesbian couple and warned the two women they could be beheaded under Islamic law. Homsexuality is legal in the rest of Indonesia.
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Bizarre Pictures From Inside Gaddafi’s Main Lair
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, while the rebels overran Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli, they also got their first taste of how their defunct dictatorial leader lived. While some chose to cruise around in the colonel’s preferred mode of transport: the golf cart, others had a good look-and-loot of Gaddafi’s personal residence’s. There’s a merry-go-round and even glass casings around his deceased daughter’s stuff.
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New Video: OK Go Do ‘The Muppet Show Theme’ [VIDEO]
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
OK Go did a rendition of the theme song from The Muppet Show in their Green Album. Now they’ve made a video; it’s sort of like all of their other music videos, except it features Muppets. I don’t like suggesting that something going viral is a foregone conclusion, but this thing going viral is a foregone conclusion.
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Chinese Propaganda Video Accidentally Reveals Cyber Attack Against US.
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Screenshots from a Chinese military propaganda video uploaded to YouTube last month reveal a cyberwarfare app designed to make attacks look like they’re coming from any IP address. In the video, the Chinese government can be seen sending attacks from an IP address belonging to the University of Alabama.
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Recreate The Royal Wedding In The Privacy Of Your Own Basement
25 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In news that is completely normal and not creepy in the slightest, hundreds of ‘Royalists’ are descending on London stores desperate to snatch up doll replicas of Britain’s latest royal two-some- HRH Prince William and Kate Middleton.
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Gaddafi Wants London Embassy Back, Instructs Essex Law Firm
24 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The colonel just. won’t. give. up. The funny thing about this instruction is that there is a very strong chance Gaddafi won’t actually see its outcome. He recently decided that victory or martyrdom are his only options, and with rebels teaming all over Tripoli, the October postponement is a long time from now.
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Stuntman Ascends Germany’s Highest Mountain Via Cable Car Cable [VIDEO]
24 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
46-year-old Swiss stuntman Freddy Nock is a bigger bad-ass than you are. And he proved it by tight-rope walking. He scaled Germany’s highest mountain — the Zugspitze, which stands 2962 metres above sea level — by walking along its kilometer-long cable car cable. Without a balancing pole.
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Wikileaks Releases New Batch Of Diplomatic Cables
24 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Wikileaks is parceling out another bunch of diplomatic cables today, in case we’d forgotten about Julian Assange amidst all the other hubbub. Expect people to largely ignore the allegations of internal corruption and the details of John McCain’s conversations with that Gadaffi chap, and focus on the whole rape trial thing.
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Mercedes Gave This Kid A Free Bionic Hand
23 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
14-year-old Matthew James’ left arm only developed to the wrist. Which is why Matthew sent a letter to the Mercedes F1 team, offering them free advertising space on a new £35,000 (ZAR 414 000) robot hand if they would pay for it. Which worked out pretty okay, because now has a custom i-LIMB Pulse hand from Touch Bionics.
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Time-Lapse Of The 9/11 Memorial Construction [VIDEO]
23 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The National September 11 Memorial is due to open in two weeks, on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks of 2001. The memorial has been under construction for the past seven years; click through for a time-lapse condensation of the construction process. Go on, make your day a little more poignant.
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Boy, 12, Is Crowned Britain’s Youngest Drag Queen [PICS]
22 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Redvers Stoke, also known as Naughty Nora, recently won a prestigious annual drag queen competition in his home village in Britain. Dressed in a bra, a tight pink slinky dress, a wig, and towering heels he belted out versions of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” and a string of Dolly Parton hits. In the process he competed (and won) against men almost three times his age. Fierce!
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This 13-Year-Old Designed A New Solar Array After Looking At Some Trees
22 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
What did you do today? New York elementary school student Aidan Dwyer has designed and constructed a solar array based on the Fibonacci sequence that stores and generates energy between 20% and 50% more effectively than existing setups. He got the idea after noticing growth patterns in oak trees.
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Our Dear Leader Kim Jong Il Visits Russia, Probably Wants Help
22 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Our Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, has caught a train to Russia and will meet and attend an energy summit with President Dmitry Medvedev later this week. The summit is expected to focus on energy cooperation and nuclear disarmament, no spice. But, Our Dear Leader is probably also after a business opportunity that will make money out of South Korea.
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Goldman Sachs Getting Rid Of Potted Plants To Lower Overheads
22 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This makes total sense. Apparently the upkeep of plants in Goldman Sachs’ London offices are costing the bank tens of thousands of pounds per annum, which is why the head offices have ordered many of the plants to be removed. It’s nice to see that these guys can make the big sacrifices when they have to.
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New Film Starring Meryl Streep Portrays Lady Margaret Thatcher As “Granny Going Mad”
22 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A new film that seeks to portray the life of Lady Margaret Thatcher has a fair amount of people hot under the collar. Directed by Mamma Mia! director, Phyllida Lloyd, the film shows Lady Thatcher constantly hallucinating, under the impression that her husband, who died in 2003, is still alive, while she herself appears to be going senile.
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Google Street View Boats And Tricycles Start Mapping The Amazon Rainforest
19 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Google has begun to map parts of the Amazon and Rio Negro Rivers, as well as small areas of northwestern Brazil, in an attempt to capture panoramic images of the remote region and its communities for the world to see. Google enlisted the help of locals and will use camera-equipped tricycles as well as boats to capture the imagery.
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New Icelandic Video For Bon Iver’s “Holocene” [VIDEO]
19 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Bon Iver does nice music, and Bon Iver does nice music videos. It’s Friday, it’s raining, you really ought to be at the bar by now anyway, so take a look at their latest offering. Be prepared for big ol’ Icelandic vistas, volcanic terrain, and some kid doing stuff that may or may not pertain to the song lyrics.
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Here We Go Again, Could Gold Hit $1 900 By The End Of The Day?
19 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
European banks tumbled for the third day in a row, led by Lloyds Banking Group and Commerzbank AG, on concerns that firms will struggle to fund themselves and increase earnings as the region’s sovereign debt crisis strangles economic growth. Basically, it’s a case of just about everything taking on for the team.
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Star Wars Coins Count As Real Money In Niue
19 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sure, why not. Tiny South Pacific island nation Niue will be accepting coins minted with the faces of Star Wars characters as legal tender, because if you’re a tiny South Pacific island nation there’s really only so much you can do to keep things exciting.
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Abercrombie And Fitch Shares Drop Nine Percent Day After Jersey Shore Jab
18 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, 2oceansVibe reported that clothing retailer, Abercrombie and Fitch, had decided it no longer wanted its clothing to be associated with members of The Jersey Shore cast, especially Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino. Coincidentally, the very next day of trading after the announcement, Abercrombie shares shed nearly 10 percent at one stage.
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‘Mankini’ Is In The Oxford English Dictionary Now.
18 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And today was going so well. The mankini, popularized by Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat. Because that’s what we want 2011 to be known for; the year that we introduced torso-spanning banana hammocks into our day-to-day vocabulary. Other words that are now acceptable to use include ‘sexting,’ ‘retweet,’ and ‘cyberbullying.’ See also, ‘apocalypse.’
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Injured Motorcyclist Dies After Being Driven Over By Ambulance
18 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This sounds like a scene from one of the Final Destination movies! Michael Colley, a motorcyclist from the UK, was knocked out after coming off his Suzuki GSXR. Two motorists saw this, got out of their vehicle and tried to stop an ambulance that coincidently happened to drive past. Yes, that very same ambulance from my story headline.
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Ugandan Police Spray Dye At Opposition Protestors [PICS]
18 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bravo. Anti-riot police used tear gas and water canons (loaded with dyed water) to disperse supporters of the opposition party in the outskirts of Kampala yesterday. The group had gathered to mourn people killed during demonstrations earlier this year.
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‘Flash Mob’ Robs 7/11 In Less Than A Minute [VIDEO]
17 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
And suddenly the real use of online flash-mobs becomes clear: stealing junk from convenience stores. Yesterday, a group of about 28 ‘young people,’ believed to have coordinated online, cleaned out a Maryland convenience store in under a a minute.The police have attempted online identification, but no arrests have been made.
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It’s The Teenage Exorcist Girl Squad! No, Really… [VIDEO]
17 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Meet the Teenage Exorcist Girl Squad: a crack team of five girls from Arizona, USA, who are adept at the laying on of hands, and the booting out of demons. They’ve worked all over the world, are about to get their own reality show, and are just a phone call away…
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Unprecedented US Hot Dog Wars Are Taking Things To The Next Level
17 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Normally hot dog stories are about who shoves the most hot dogs down their gullet. This one is different. It’s hot dog maker versus hot dog maker in a US federal district court, as each claims their product is better than their competitor’s. It’s Kraft Foods versus Sara Lee Corporation. It’s a $1,6 billion sausage product war.
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Australian Collar Bomb Suspect Named And Arrested
17 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember that story from Australia a while ago about the guy who strapped a fake bomb to a schoolgirl’s neck? They caught him on Monday in his home in America following a short but intensive investigation spanning two continents. Turns out he literally flew from America to Australia and back again to execute this prank. No, seriously. There is no spice here.
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Billionaire Funding Construction Of Artificial, Libertarian Islands
17 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Don’t worry, the artificial libertarian islands will have better names than that. Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and early Facebook investor, has given $1.25 million to an initiative to build libertarian island states in international waters. Because that’s what you do when you’rea 43-year-old gay libertarian with money to kill, I guess.
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Dave Chappelle’s First Interview In Five Years [VIDEO]
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
You guys remember Dave Chappelle, right? The comedian. He was sort of a big deal. Then he burnt out on the Chappelle’s Show and disappeared for about five years, staying almost entirely away from the press, until he turned up on San Francisco’s WiLD 94.9 for a morning interview yesterday. Give it a whirl.
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English Man Arrested For Planning Water-Fight With BBM
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A 20-year-old man in Essex has been charged with “encouraging or assisting in the commission of an offence” because he used Blackberry Messenger to invite people to a public water fight. Whether this means British cops can now wiretap the Blackberry messaging network is unclear, but either way: great job, democracy.
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