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First Footage Of Previously Unknown Amazon Tribe [VIDEO]
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You’ve got to see this with your own two eyes. The existence of a previously ‘unknown’ group of indigenous Brazilian people has just been confirmed, and the footage is fascinating.
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Michael Jackson’s Thriller Jacket Sells For $1.8 Million At Auction
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The infamous red leather jacket worn by the deceased king of pop, Michael Jackson, in his renowned Thriller video, has sold this weekend at an auction in California, for $1.8 million. That is a cool R12.4 million at today’s exchange rate. The jacket also boasts Jackson’s signature on the one sleeve.
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Now There’s A Company Specializing In Finding Your Embarrassing Facebook Photos
27 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Social Intelligence, a company approved a week ago by the Federal Trade Commission, is one that uses deep-search tools to do background checks on other companies’ potential employees. These guys could find your MySpace account, they’re that thorough. And if your deep-search profile doesn’t look good, you don’t get hired.
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Anderson Cooper Mocks Doug Hutchison Marrying A 16-Year-Old [VIDEO]
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Anderson Cooper is your classic American television news presenter. He could’ve been an old guy with grey hair doing expensive wrist watch adverts, but he’s not. Instead, he’s one of CNN’s better journalists and his confidence grew exponentially after he went to report on the Egyptian revolution. His social commentary is also getting funnier too.
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Dyeing Your Pets To Look Like Wild Animals Is Now A Thing In China [PICS]
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Chinese are being weird again. But since they gave us paper, the compass, and dominoes, perhaps we should let this one slide. The latest craze over there involves dyeing their pets to look like wild animals such as pandas and tigers. See pics inside.
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The World’s Most Elaborate Lego-Based Prank [VIDEO]
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So the employees at Legoland California decided to pull a prank on general manager Peter Rochetti, by replacing his Volvo XC60 with a life-sized replica made of these Lego bricks they just had lying around. 201,076 bricks, in fact. It’s hard working at Legoland.
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Intriguing Photos Of New York City Life
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Photographer Peter Funch has created a series of unusual images capturing New York City life. One of them depicts a full city street where every single person is yawning. Others show a Big Apple populated, seemingly, only by young children. On your Friday afternoon, have a look at these.
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Woman Dies Of Heart Attack At Own Funeral
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s bizarre enough when a person is declared dead for whatever reason, but then somehow miraculously wakes up from this death to surprise everyone. Obviously, it isn’t the kind of thing that happens very often. Now, a Russian woman has had a heart attack at her own funeral upon waking up and seeing the mourners that were attending it.
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Taiwanese Food-Blogger Jailed For A Bad Noodle Review
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Wonderful. A Taiwanese court ruled this week that a female food-blogger’s claim that a local restaurant’s beef noodles “were too salty” justified 30 days in detention, and two years of probation. Even better, she has to pay 200,000 Taiwenese dollars (about 50K ZAR) in compensation to the restaurant.
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Michelle Obama Departs Cape Town
24 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, has departed Cape Town at around 08h45 this morning, after touring the Mother City as part of a broader visit to South Africa.
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Greek Dog Protesting Since 2008 [VIDEO]
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
We’ve been following the developments of the Greek financial crisis closely here at 2oceansvibe. What’s more is that dogs have been absolutely killing it this year and so we bring you, Loukanikos, who has hated Greece’s austerity measures, corrupt politicians, and the plight of the Greek people since 2008.
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Airline Pilot Mistakenly Rants To Other Crews: Calls Flight Attendants Gays, Grannies & Grandes
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The pilot probably already knows this, but now we know too. He will have to go and warm his own chicken or beef whenever he flies now. He was having a go at flight attendants, and referred to them as a “continuous stream of gays and grannies and grandes,” according to a transcript of the March 25 flight over Texas.
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The Future Is Awesome: Electronic Memory Expansion Is Coming Along Nicely
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers at the University of California have put together tiny robot brains that replicate the long term memory function in rats; using this, they could switch long-term memory on and off with a button. Which means ‘electronic memory’ and the possibility of knowing stuff without having to learn stuff is suddenly a real thing.
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Buy Now! Jesus Chair, Only $25 000
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A couple in Orange County, California, is selling a chair on eBay, with a starting bid of $25 000. But this isn’t any old chair. This is a special chair, a magical healing chair with the face of Jesus on it.
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Nine-Year-Old Rory McIlroy Chips Golf Balls At A Washing Machine On Irish TV [VIDEO]
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Sometimes talent is just so gobsmackingly obvious that you cannot prevent the inevitable from happening. This talent will rise to the top, similar to the best cut of steak at a braai – everyone will notice it and make a comment. The young lad made this appearance after winning the World Junior title in the under-10 division 12 years ago.
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J.K Rowling Releases ‘Pottermore’ To Take Up More Of Your Time & Money
23 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With the last film coming out soon, the Harry Potter franchise has almost been sucked dry of moneymaking potential. Almost. Because they’ve recently put up the super-secret-but-not-that-secret ‘Pottermore’ website, which seems to be promoting an upcoming treasure-hunt-type game where fans use online clues to find wands in the real world.
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We Say Crocodile. Drug Addicts Say Krokodil – Enter Russia’s New Designer Drug
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Americans put them in pies, Africans make them into bags and now, Russians turn into them. The drug, a mixture of codeine, petrol and paint thinners, is injected and actually turns your skin scaly and green like that of a crocodile. It also bursts blood vessels and results in amputation. Dodgy.
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Hell Yeah America! Watch a Porsche Take 10 000 Bullets For Charity
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Where on this magnificent earth can you participate in a charity day that involves firing whatever large gun you happen to own at a relatively new Porsche 911? The US of A, that’s where. Massachusetts to be precise. Two videos and pictures of the carnage after the jump.
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Miss USA Candidates Debate Teaching Evolution In School [VIDEO]
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Oh this is just mean. And yes, okay, by mean I probably mean amazing. Prior to the 60th annual Miss USA pageant, held last Sunday in Las Vegas, delegates were asked to field a couple of debate questions – like this one, where they share their views on teaching evolution in schools. Cruel.
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FBI’s Search For Hacking Group Takes Out Random, Unrelated Websites
22 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The cyber-war on cyber-terror now has innocent bystanders, apparently. In a hunt for LulzSec, the hacking group claiming responsibility for the compromise of huge amounts of Sony user accounts and for briefly taking the CIA website offline, the FBI raided DigitalOne’s data – finding nothing, but causing a bunch of unrelated websites to go offline.
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LOST Star Doug Hutchinson, 51, Marries 16-Year-Old
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
I’ve seen some pretty crazy shit in my time, but this is seriously messed up. Actor Doug Hutchinson, aged 51, of “Lost” and “Green Mile” fame, has married his 16-year-old girlfriend, Courtney Alexis Stodden in Las Vegas last month.
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Deep-Fried Cherry Kool-Aid Balls: What Does Your Heart Attack Taste Like?
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you don’t know what Kool-Aid is, it’s the American equivalent of Oros, only with a shit ton of sugar and an abundance of magical E numbers. If the American Heart Association had hitmen, the guy who invented this snack would be at the top of their list. But really, he loves deep-frying so much that you can actually see the excitement in his eyes.
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Child Found Wearing Eight Kilogram Suicide Bomb Vest
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A nine-year-old girl has been found with an eight kilogram suicide vest strapped to her body in Pakistan’s troubled north-west region. The Pakistani police said they detained the schoolgirl on Monday after learning she was allegedly told to blow up a police checkpoint, which wasn’t far from where they stopped her.
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World Naked Bike Ride Takes Place “Gently” In Portland [NSFW PICS]
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
They say Portland, Oregon, in America has pretty much become the hipster capital of the world – the city where young people go to retire! The other night roughly 9 000 of them took part in a naked bike race to “ protest gently against fossil fuel dependence.” Pics of some of the bicycles inside– just check that you are alone in the office first.
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Former Tunisian President Sentenced To 35-Year Jail Sentence In Absentia
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Tunisian court found former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his wife guilty of theft and the illegal possession of large quantities of money and jewelry. He sentenced them to 35 years in jail, which is great and all, except Ben Ali and his wife are in Saudi Arabia, making extradition a little unlikely.
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Mahut Versus Isner: The Greatest Web Event Of All Time Was An Obscure Tennis Match
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And today is the rematch, three days short of one year since the now-famous encounter smashed tennis and online viewership records. Last year, on June 24, John Isner and Nicolas Mahut played a First Round match at Wimbledon. That match lasted 11 hours and five minutes with a total of 183 games. The final score of the fifth and deciding set was Isner 70, Mahut 68. And that’s not even the extraordinary part.
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The Hawks Will Investigate New Arms Deal Claims
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ah, the arms deal. It’s like the ANC’s bastard child that won’t go away. The government said it should be dropped, as there wasn’t enough evidence to any investigate further. That was until Saab revealed that they’d paid brides of about 24 million Rand. Now it seems that the Hawks are finally going to take another look at the torrid affair.
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Vancouver Riot ‘Kissing Couple’ Revealed
21 Jun 2011 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
One of the the internet’s most recent ‘memes’ – a photograph of a couple kissing on the ground in and amongst the recent riots in Vancouver – has finally found clarity. Turns out the woman in the picture had been injured and her boyfriend gave her a kiss to calm her down. Follow the link to […]
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Greece Prepares To Sell Off Airports, Highways, Parts Of The Mediterranean
21 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
You may by now be aware that Greece is in some deep financial trouble at the moment. Pretty much everyone knows a Greek too, so we should spare a moment for all Greeks, as Greece prepares to sell off airports, highways, state-owned companies and prime sections of Mediterranean real estate.
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Shrek Virus Invades Pretty People Dating Website – Yes, It’s Actually Called A Shrek Virus
20 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A dating website that grants only beautiful people acceptance, has had to apologise to 30 000 ugly people for being mistakenly allowed onto the website database. This is what managing director, Greg Hodge had to say when I caught up with him, on his high horse…
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