Isn’t he in a jolly mood, that saucy old cad. The Associated Press report that the Pope has granted his former butler a Christmas pardon, forgiving him in person during a jailhouse meeting for stealing and leaking his private papers in one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times. Fifteen minutes after the meeting, […]
What’s worse that someone who thought the world was going to end last week? A tourist who thought the world was going to end. Tourists who flocked to Tikal, Guatemala the largest archeological site and urban centre of the Mayan civilisation for “end of the world” parties have damaged an ancient stone temple.
The Presidency has warned South Africans against rumours on social media that spread false information about Nelson Mandela’s health. Networks such as Twitter and Facebook have been flooded by speculation about Madiba’s health since he entered a Pretoria hospital 17 days ago for a recurrent lung infection.
Details surrounding Prince Harry’s first kill in Afghanistan have emerged. It is believed that he took the lives of Taliban militants when his unit’s Apache helicopter came to the rescue of another patrol unit under attack.
2012 has been one crazy year for social media! Facebook went public, Pinterest was named Best New Startup, Facebook bought Instagram, and Psy’s “Gangnam Style” became the most viewed YouTube video in history with more than one billion views so far!
South Africa’s most famous international model and current Victoria’s Secret angel, Candice Swanepoel, is in Cape Town. Just last night she posted this pic of her standing with her parents.
Enjoy this radical extended highlights vid of the final Friday Done Jack’s way at the Grand, which hosted over 100 lucky winners.
For as long as the internet has been around, memes have also existed. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to create a meme truly worthy of the world “viral”.
So last week we pointed you in the direction of a rad new web series produced by the guys at Tropika as part of the lead-up to the Tropika Island of Treasure 5 show they air every year on SABC1. This is Kagiso’s Island of Treasure and, despite a few questionable directorial decisions here or […]
With humanity’s climax about to be reached any minute now, horny New Yorkers are searching everywhere for that perfect spot and person to have sex with one final time.
An incredible 3,8 billion pixel photo has gone viral this week. It features a shot of Mount Everest – composed out of 400 individual photographs, taken by filmmaker/five-time Everest climber David Breashears.
Three-time Olympic runner Suzy Favor-Hamilton has been outed as having worked as a R5 000-an-hour “high class” call girl for the past year. The revelation was made yesterday on The Smoking Gun’s website.
Knowing Microsoft Word is not enough these days. Excel handles everything from complicated spreadsheets to the staff sick leave roster. If you or your staff don’t know your forat bar from your numbers formula, how simple is it to get everyone up to scratch for a mere R279 a shot?
Small French village is safe from apocalypse. Instagram reverses privacy policy. Students admit to faking eagle video. Facebook tests charging $1 a message. Apple’s pinch-and-zoom patent rejected. Zuma’s grip almost 100%. Anchorman 2 release date.
The Cape’s most prestigious horse racing event and one of South Africa’s most important calendar affairs, the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate will be held at Kenilworth Racecourse, Cape Town on January 12 2013, with equestrian contenders competing for the R1 million purse and race-goers looking to land best-dressed honours. It was 1861 when the legendary Queen’s […]
Oe, now here’s a treat. We’ve long been fans of the Westcliff suburb of Johannesburg, with it’s rose quartz outcrops and shady, solid jacaranda trees dotted about the sloping hillside. It’s a quiet area. It’s an expensive area. And this mini-mansion lives up to the reputation of the area, quietly killing it with a large […]
Professor Patrick Bouic was in the 2oceansvibe Radio studio yesterday on the Just Josie Show for the Buchulife Health Watch. He gave us some super hot tips for staying healthy, protecting our livers, and keeping the inches off during the silly season. Also in the podcast, find out what you should look out for in any restaurant meal, and […]
Twitter has launched Twitter Archive, which allows you to download every single one of your tweets, ever. A post on the company blog announced the decision this morning. It’s no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your […]
The past year has been an incredible one in terms of sporting events. But while watching athletes break records or pushing their bodies to the limit is always thrilling, its those micro-moments that make sports so fun to watch. And what better way to see spontaneous and awkward athlete reactions, or split-second failures, other than via GIF files?
Yes, you are indeed looking at a picture of Adolf Hitler at a Christmas party. It was taken on 18 December 1941 in Munich during World War II, at a time when the horrors of the Third Reich’s “final solution” grew ever clearer.
With only one day to go before we are all history, many are flocking to famous Mayan sites in Central America where they will await mankind’s doom.
The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers recently took an upgraded LS3 (Legged Squad Support System) robot out on a walk through the woods and hills of Fort Pickett, Virginia. This was the first test conducted on the LS3 after bolstering the autonomy functions for this R459m project – now in its fifth year.
When it comes to backing up, cloud storage is an option, but you can only use cloud storage for small backups. There isn’t a service on this green earth that can rival the space and portability of your averagely expensive external hard drive, right? Wrong.
Life of Pi is a breathtaking adventure drama from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee. Based on the book by Yann Martel, this beautiful film tells the story of Pi Patel, a young Indian boy whose survival at sea forms the basis for a spiritual journey of epic proportions.
Let’s face it, 2012 has been an incredible year for music and movies. From Psy’s Gangnam Style to Christopher Nolan’s Dark Night Rises, the future of pop culture has never looked brighter.
If there’s one thing Gauteng has taught us, it’s that its people seemingly have no problem squashing into tight, confined spaces. After all, it’s the most populous province and it’s roughly the same size as a Mini-convertible. So when a crowd of friends at UJ decided they could break the Bioplus World Champ Record by […]
Right on the water, Canelands Beach Club is a popular holiday and weekend getaway beach hotel boasting luxurious and elegant stays to all that visit. Imagine a two-night stay for two, including breakfast daily, a bottle of sparkling wine, a three-course dinner, a picnic basket and a 45-minute hot-stone massage each.
Following yesterday’s release of their annual Top 10 Photographs of the Year, TIME magazine has now also dropped a “2012: A Year of Deja Vu” gallery. In it, they have assembled a host of paired up images, each taken roughly a year apart, to reveal some uncanny similarities between them.
Eagles don’t snatch toddlers, right? Wrong. Check out this crazy video, filmed in a Montreal Park.
Sir John Gurdon, the British scientist who won this year’s Nobel prize for medicine, says that the progression to human cloning could happen within the next 50 years. It is also Gurdon’s work involving the cloning frogs in the 1950’s and 60’s that led to the later creation of Dolly the sheep by Edinburgh scientists in 1996.