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Bad Cellphone Reception? It Could Be The Sun’s Fault
16 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Bad cellphone reception and weak signal strength might be caused by the sun, according to new research. Solar flares emanating from the sun could be to blame for telecommunications customers’ slow internet, signal reception issues and GPS problems, thus taking some the pressure off the network providers, for now.
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Oh Hey, Google’s Buying Motorola
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
And for the first time in years I actually have a reason to want a Motorola. Google today agreed to acquire the handset division of Motorola, Motorola Mobility, for $12.5 billion (around 90 billion ZAR). It’s always nice to have money lying around for these little impulse buys.
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Make Way For Afghanistan’s “The Office”
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The BBC is reporting that Afghanistan premiered their first ever satirical comedy television show last week, titled ‘The Ministry’. The show draws its origins from the multi-award winning British series ‘The Office’ that has been re-invented in over four countries world-wide, most famously in the USA where the misanthropic office manager was played by funny man Steve Carell. Read this story..
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Just So You’re Aware, Horsemaning Is The New Planking
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Surprisingly, the act of posing for photographs as if you have been beheaded was actually popularised just over 90 years ago. Horsemaning, so named after the Headless Horseman (a character from folk the story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) seems to be making a comeback.
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One Thousand Dogs Rescued From Being Eaten In Thailand [VIDEO]
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
About 1000 Thai dogs – destined to be cooked and eaten in Vietnam – escaped a gruesome fate when they were rescued by police before the weekend. As you’ll see from the video, they were stuffed into tiny cages, stacked high in scores of crates. Even though the story has a happy ending, please be warned that the visuals are very disturbing.
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These Guys Made A Robot Bird [VIDEO]
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
They made a robot seagull. It flies by flapping its robot seagull wings. I mean yes this is a huge breakthrough in terms of flight engineering, but even if that’s not your jam, you’re going to want to take a look at the awesome two-metre wide flying robot on display at TEDGlobal.
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Levi’s Drops Advert In The UK Depicting Riot Scene [VIDEO]
15 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Trying to get your brand to tap into certain subcultures’ wallets is hard at the best of times. Increasingly, brands are pushing the limits of message delivery, but Levi’s certainly couldn’t have predicted that their new advertisement featuring scenes from protests resembling the London riots would cause such a stir.
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Warren Buffett And Donald Trump Are Loving The Turbulent World Markets
12 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
World financial markets might be in turmoil and investors might be discarding shares at any opportunity, but, there is always the exception to the rule. Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are just two of these exceptions to the rule. The two financial moguls are actually having a good old time of things at the moment.
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Scary Photos Of London Rioters Posing With Their Weapons [PICS]
12 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Josh Cole is a photographer from London with a strong background in the hip hop, parkour, and street culture. He returned to some of his old haunts following the riots over the last couple of days. Here are some rather disturbing pics of rioters he met, and the kind of weapons they aren’t afraid to use on whoever stands in their way.
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We Live In The Future: Electronic Temporary Tattoos
12 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I know temporary tattoos are usually pretty lame, but the ones they’re making over at the University of Illinois are looking pretty rad. Because unlike regular temporary tattoos that fade within two days and look like awful birthmarks, these guys come with diagnostic sensors, LEDs, wireless antennas, and solar cells for power. Take that, Kinder Surprise.
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Chinese Rail Company Issues Massive Bullet Train Recall
12 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The second largest train maker in China will recall 54 bullet trains which are used on the new impressive Beijing-Shanghai line for safety reasons, the company said today. The recall of the high-speed trains by China CNR Corp Limited comes three weeks after 40 people were killed in a high-speed rail crash.
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Heavy Construction Equipment And Swimming Pools: Together At Last [VIDEO]
12 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
You’ve probably wondered about this yourself. What would happen if you had access to a backhoe, and a swimming pool, and weren’t constrained by issues like the law, or those stupid labels saying ‘do not operate heavy machinery while intoxicated’? Well you don’t have to wonder anymore; these Hungarian folks have the answer.
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Honeymoon Over? Weekend Divorce Package Now On Offer For Dutch Couples
11 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
For Dutchman Jim Halfens, wasting time on lengthy divorce proceedings is simply not what life’s all about. He recently opened a hotel in Amsterdam that caters for couples looking for a speedy divorce by offering a convenient weekend marriage dissolution package.
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Europe’s Economy Goes To Hell
11 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It’s becoming a case of “your guess is as good as the next guy’s” in world financial markets now. Share prices are fluctuating like unseasonal temperatures and nobody can really predict what might happen next. French markets rallied earlier, but as soon as they did, rumours that BNP Paribas may face another €500 million loss on Greek debt surfaced.
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They’ve Invented A Date-Rape-Detecting-Straw
11 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Two Israeli scientists say they have developed a sensor that can accurately detect date-rape drugs in drinks 100 percent of the time – a tiny, drink-stirrer-looking device that, when dipped into your appletini or other refreshing beverage, can detect the presence of dissolved drugs. Nice job, science.
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Hong Kong Securities Exchange Hacked, Partly Suspends Trading
11 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Not even security exchanges are immune to hackers these days. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, the world’s biggest security exchange operator by market value, suspended trading yesterday for companies including HSBC. This came after its website was hacked in what’s been described as a hack with malicious intent at a critical time.
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Meet Virgin Galactic’s First Astronaut
11 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Dave MacKay, 53-year-old British pilot, will be the first captain of Virgin Galactic‘s commercial space fleet, taking up the role first with the maiden voyage of SpaceShipTwo, scheduled for 2013. MacKay has over 30 years of regular flying experience, but like pretty much everybody, he’s wanted to fly spaceships since he was a kid.
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London Rioter FAILS Trying To Throw An Umbrella [VIDEO]
10 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Angry youths are taking over the streets of London. But rioting is a profession rather best left to the professionals. The guy featured in this video hopefully learned a valuable lesson: if you can’t even throw an umbrella properly at the bobbies then you should rather go back to being on the dole. Because that move was well embarrassing, innit?
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Crowdsourcing London’s Riot Clean-Up
10 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
There is something encouraging coming out of the past three days of rioting and looting, even if it is a remote silver lining: the online mobilization of volunteer clean-up operations, mostly organized via Twitter and Facebook. By this time yesterday, #riotcleanup, was the second-highest trending topic worldwide.
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That Amazonian Tribe That Was Contacted For The First Time This Year Has Been Attacked
10 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Earlier this year 2oceansVibe reported about a tribe in western Brazil, living some 50 kilometres from the Peruvian border, that had until then, not been contacted by modern man. Sadly the tribe has gone missing after drug traffickers overran Brazilian guards posted to protect the area around which the tribe was living.
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German Nationalist Punked By ‘Trojan T-Shirt’
10 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Souveneir t-shirts handed out at a rock festival in Gera, eastern Germany, were decorated with skulls, right-wing flags and the words “hardcore rebels,” to appeal to the vaguely neo-Nazi crowd the festival attracts. Except when the shirts got washed, the douchey decorations faded, replaced with anti-extremist slogans.
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“Swallowable Parfum” Makes Your Skin Emit Perfume
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Australian artist and ‘body architect’ Lucy McRae, in collaboration with Harvard biologist Sheref Mansy, is releasing these little digestible capsules that make human skin emit perfume scents. Which is nice and futuristic, I think. And by futuristic I mean I have no idea how this thing works.
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Upmarket Nudist Resort To Open In The Cape
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
I’m quite sure this new resort won’t pull the usual folk that hang out in Sandy Bay. They have their vibe. This resort will have its vibe. Anyway, a report in the Weekend Argus has said that so far, Somerset West residents (where the resort will be situated) have expressed mixed reactions, but a summer 2011 opening is definitely on.
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Zimbabwe Torture Camp Exposed
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
“There was a lot of screaming.” The BBC is reporting that Zimbabwean police and military are recruiting civilians to illegally dig for diamonds for them. The report also mention a torture camp, run by Zimbabwe’s security forces, operating in the country’s rich Marange diamond fields.
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Banksy Does Some Rupert Murdoch Art
08 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Banksy’s put up some new art on his site because all the other well-known people were speaking out about the NewsCorp. hacking scandal, and Banksy didn’t want to be left behind. Which is nice! Because honestly I’d almost forgotten about Murdoch. Way to be relevant, Banksy.
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Rowan Atkinson Crashes His McLaren F1, Again [PICS]
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
The British actor more commonly known as Mr Bean has crashed his purple McLaren F1. The R7.5 million supercar spun several times, smashed into a tree and ploughed into a road sign before catching fire on the opposite side of the road. This isn’t the first time he’s had an incident while driving his purple passion either.
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Radvertising: Stop-Motion Film Made With 350 000 Post-It Notes
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Melissa, a Brazilian footwear brand, is doing it right. They created this giant time-lapse video on the side of a building in SãoPaolo using Post-it notes as analog pixels. I’m not totally clear on why this would make me want to buy shoes, but whatever it looks amazing.
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NASA Launches Spacecraft To Jupiter
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just when we thought NASA was going to take a backseat and let privatisation take the wheel for a while, they squeeze out yet another project. It just happens to be one of the space agency’s most ambitious missions too, and will attempt to discover the secrets behind the largest planet in the solar system – Jupiter.
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Tomorrow Evening Is The Happiest Time Of The Year In Britain
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A study done in Britain has revealed that 19h00 on August 6 is the hour and day that people feel most content over there. They deduce this is the moment that the British people will literally smile collectively. No spice.
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Artist To Live In Enclosure With Lions For Five Weeks
05 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Aleksandr Pylyshenko, a Ukrainian artist who owns a private zoo in the city of Vasilyevka, plans on living in an enclosure with Katya and Samson, his lions, for five weeks to raise money to improve the zoo’s living conditions and to increase awareness of underfunded private Ukrainian zoos. So that makes sense.
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