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England Says No To Super Rugby
10 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
After the earthquake that hit New-Zealand last month the Canterbury Crusaders have been left without a home venue, as it’s in pretty bad shape. So the Crusaders asked the Sharks if they’d be keen to play the game in London instead.
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Looks Like Our Ancestors Were Into Hallucinogenics
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Aside from hunting, interbreeding and kicking back in caves, looks like our ancestors were totally into hallucinogenics. Researchers have been analysing cave paintings in Spain, and have come to the conclusion that our long lost relatives weren’t adverse to dabbling with ‘magic mushrooms’ from time to time.
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‘Nitrogen Funerals:’ The Eco-Friendly Way To Deal With Death
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Wow. Okay. So a Swedish company wants to make burials more eco-friendly by freezing dead people in liquid nitrogen, using sound waves to shatter the ice before drawing all the moisture out of the remains with a vacuum. Because the Swedish word for ‘eco-friendly’ also means ‘traumatic’ and ‘awesome.’
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Intruder Calls 911 As He’s Afraid The Owner’s Got A Gun
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Fearing for his life, Mr. Timothy James Chapek locked himself in the bathroom of a house he’d broken into and dialed 911. He told the operator that he had broken into the house and that he was afraid that the owner may have a gun.
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National Geographic Finds The Average Human
09 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So hey, congrats to all you non-male, non-Chinese folks who were worried about looking average! Because according to a decade’s worth of research by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing for National Geographic, a 28-year-old Han Chinese male is the mean. Numbers, explanation after the jump.
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Benassi Remakes The ‘Satisfaction’ Video For Equal Pay
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In support of Equal Payday, which seeks to address the disparity between male and female salaries around the world, Benny Benassi has remade the sexy-construction-outfits video for ‘Satisfaction’ to mark International Women’s Day. It’s a little bit amazing. Satisfaction came out in 2002, by the way.
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Space Shuttle Discovery, The Final Frontier [VIDEO]
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
To commemorate the occasion NASA held a competition to determine which two songs will be played during Discovery’s last mission.
The theme From Star Trek was chosen and William Shatner, who as you know played Captain James Tiberius Kirk in the original series, did a special voice-over.
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New Footage Surfaces of 9/11 [VIDEO]
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
This new footage, which has just been leaked, shows an NYPD helicopter’s perspective of the event. The video was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act as part of an investigation into 9/11. Interestingly, actual footage of either of the towers collapsing has been removed. Do I smell a conspiracy?
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Facebook Introduces Suicide Support System
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Due to the growing occurrence of ‘Facebook suicides’ a help system has been put in place, which allows users concerned about potentially suicidal friends to report the activity to Facebook, which will trigger a hotline response reaching out to the depressed party.
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HIV High
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In what has got to be an all-time low for human nature, people in the township of Umlazi in KwaZulu Natal have to live in fear of being robbed of their anti-retroviral drugs. According to a BBC report, gangs in the settlement are mugging people for their ARVs, which they then use to lace joints, apparently to increase their high.
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This Danish Professor Has A Robot Clone, For Some Reason
07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I mean don’t get me wrong, I’d want a robot clone too, it’s just not totally clear why Henrik Scharfe, professor at Aalborg University, actually got one assembled by the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute in Japan. It’s ostensibly the first android with a beard, though, so yay science.
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National Geographic Recreates Flying House From Movie Up!
07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
How is this for Monday awesomeness? That flying house from Up! has been recreated and all it took was three hundred weather balloons full of helium. The house floated about three kilometers into the air for about an hour. More pics inside.
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Monday Morning Radvertising: Red Bull Street Art View
07 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Brazilian ad agency Loducca has put together a collection of geo-tagged street art from Google Street View for Red Bull. The site is sweetly designed, with decent Cape Town representation. How exactly this is going to sell Red Bell any caffeinated beverages is beyond me, but whatever.
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Biff’s New Chick
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Everyone knows that cricket players only play cricket to enable their true passion in life: the scoring of chicks. Cricket players are even better at scoring chicks than rugby players: Fact!
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Divorce At The Click Of A Button
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just when you thought the institution of marriage couldn’t become more of a joke, now you can get out of one at the price of dinner and a movie. Thanks to the internet, you can now file for divorce without having to log out of your latest quest on World Of Warcraft. What a pleasure.
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Brazilian Police Nab Cyclist-Smasher
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Yesterday,social cyclists taking part in a Critical Mass event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, we’re struck and injured by a vehicle accelerating through the crowd of cyclists. How no one was killed in the process is mystifying, and the only bright spot on this whole affair. Police have arrested a suspect.
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Beijing Is Tracking All Mobile Phone User’s Movements
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
They can do that now. By ‘they’ I mean ‘those with money and de facto power,’ obviously, not specifically the heads of the PRC – but I mean government scrutiny of human movement is being implemented on a huge, huge scale. It’s called the Information Platform of Real-time Citizen Movement – which sounds like a good and reasonable platform.
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Best Judge Ever Writes Off A £20,000 Credit Card Debt
04 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Most of us have been hounded by debt collectors at some point in our lives, but I doubt anyone has ever had their debt scrapped because of it. Yet a judge in Britain set aside a debt of over R200,000 in an effort to reprimand collectors for “torturing” their customer.
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Crowd Of Social Brazilian Cycles Run Over By Lunatic [PG13 VIDEO]
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 15 Comments
Long-time 2oceansvibe readers will be aware of our mild allergy to offensive cyclists – you know, the chaps who cruise in to cafes on Saturday morning, sweat gushing from their epidermis, balls cupped by spandex, which are at eye level as they walk in. But we never said anyone should drive at full speed into a crowd of cyclists.
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Google Earth A Revolutionary Tool – The Photos That Sparked Protests in Bahrain
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the age of information, nothing can be kept in the dark anymore. These are the so called controversial Google Earth photos that initially set off Bahraini protests of inequality back in 2006. And when you see them, you’ll know why.
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The Pinncale Of Culinary Technology: Cheese & Scallion Rocketships
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well, I’m pretty proud of that headline. Cornell University and the French Culinary Institute have developed a food printer that runs off puree and spits out sculptures – like rocketships made of gouda and scallions. And now we can have coconut sans awful coconut texture.
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Pope Says The Jews Didn’t Do It
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a dramatic turnaround, Pope Benedict XVI said sorry for all the years that the Catholic Church has been blaming the death of Jesus on the Jews.
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Jimmy Manyi: No One But The BMF And ANCYL Are Behind Him On This One
03 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you haven’t heard yet, government spokesman, Jimmy Manyi said recently that he thinks that there is an oversupply of coloured folk in the Western Cape, and that perhaps it is best if they’d shift around a bit. He made the remarks on kykNET last year when he said: “So this over-concentration of coloureds in the Western Cape is not working for them.”
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Anne Hathaway is Your New Catwoman
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In case you guys were worried that you wouldn’t be seeing Anne Hathaway in vinyl leather anytime soon, fear not: Hathaway has confirmed that she’s been cast as Selina Kyle in The Dark Night Rises, the third in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. Please don’t talk about Halle Berry.
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Chimpanzee Meat Latest Addition To Black Market
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Here’s a fact about that hamburger patty on your Maccy D’s burger: it does not come from a singular cow named Bessie. Instead, the likelihood of her meat, along with 20 other of her friends all ground up together and pressed into a patty is pretty strong. There’s also the possibility that the butcher might have used chimp meat.
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Iran Says London Logo Is Racist, Needs Redesign
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Well here’s some sport’s news from those kooky guys in fun-lovin’ Iran. The world’s craziest government has now decided that the 2012 London Olympic Games logo is racist.
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Giant Cave Discovered On The Moon
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You read that headline and thought, why should I care? Well I’ll tell you why, cause giant holes in the moon are a big deal, especially since they present an amazing real-estate opportunity.
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Do You Find Illegal Downloads Morally OK?
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A Danish study has found that 70% of us find downloading files illegally from the net to be morally okay. No shit, hey? But here’s the twist: the same study, conducted a decade ago, had the same results.I somehow don’t think those gritty, hyper-cool ads telling us that downloading a movie is as bad as stealing a handbag helped.
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants To Sell Your Private Info…Again
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The Facebook programmers are busily working away on new features that give third-party developers and external websites the ability to access users’ home addresses and cellphone numbers. Now isn’t that charming?
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Anonymous’ Hack Scandal Forces Head of HBGary’s Resignation
02 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Anonymous, the online sort-of-anarchic sort-of-activist group, forced Aaron Barr, head of HBGary Federal, the massive American tech security company, to resign. Which is sort of a huge deal in the way that Charlie Sheen isn’t. Even though I love everything that Charlie Sheen touches.
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