It’s back! After its initial launch almost a decade ago, the grandaddy of social networks, MySpace, is set to make a comeback with a completely redesigned site and new interface which they’ve previewed in a brand new teaser video. The new site looks great and, as one would expect, is promising to be the next big thing, yet I foresee one slight problem: does anyone care?
With 11 rollovers and a jackpot now estimated at $200 million (R1.69 billion), you should dare to dream and enter before the Wednesday draw date! Click here to buy tickets like we have.
The iPhone 5 isn’t due for release in the Netherlands until Friday, but that didn’t stop Dutch website iPhone5.nl getting their paws on one before everyone else. Bestowed with this great honour, what better way to celebrate other than by gluing it to the sidewalk and secretly videotaping everyone who thinks they’ve just made the find of the century?
Well, this isn’t good news for Greece, especially as they have to reduce that budget deficit before they can get the next tranche of cash that has been promised to them.
A group of activists recently gatecrashed the retirement dinner of former HMRC boss, Dave Hartnett. They gained entrance to the event by pretending to be representatives from Vodafone and Goldman Sachs. Watch them present him with a fake award for his services to “corporate tax avoidance”. What makes it even funnier is the fact that it took a while before people realised they were being punked.
Ivo Vegter was on the Premier Show on 2oceansvibe Radio on Friday to talk about his new book, Extreme Environment. Click through for the interview about one of the most controversial books of 2012.
A few days ago Green Day was performing at the I Heart Radio Festival in Las Vegas. Everything was going swimmingly until their 45 minute set was cut in half to give Usher and Rihanna more time to perform, the band’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, was not impressed.
It’s time to start getting a little worried, gang. Soon that Saturday morning English breakfast is going to be missing its most vital ingredient, and your bacon and egg roll will become nothing more than just an egg roll. It’s coming – the porkpocalypse.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt today said that Google has not yet submitted a new Google Maps application to Apple.
During an interview on one of America’s biggest talk shows, The View, Barack Obama did an awesome job of securing female voters for the upcoming US elections. He was accompanied by his wife, Michelle. The episode will air today, and sees him flirt with his other half, bestowing gifts upon the hosts, and quipping: “I’ve been told I’m just eye candy here.”
Malema will not appear in court today. Miners continue strike despite threats. Apple IPhone 5 Misses Estimates as 5 Million Units Sold. Mxit cuts deal to buy Motribe.
Every now and then I get sent some wine. I never tire of this. Even if the wine is insipid, badly labeled, and I have to get my panga out of storage to hack through the multi-layered coating of bubble wrap I am happy. I love free shit. I don’t care that I will probably chuck it away soon after opening; it’s the pure and simple joy of opening something that you know you didn’t pay for but is yours. This feeling lasts but a fleeting moment, but oh, it is sweet.
Adriaan Basson, the assistant editor at City Press, announced a little while ago on Twitter that he had learnt that an arrest warrant for Julius Malema has been issued.
I found this 1.5l bottle of Jack in Provence. Anyone see this in SA?
Apple’s iOS 6 and new in-house maps app have only been around a couple of days, but that hasn’t stopped people making some interesting new discoveries while using the map feature.
I once saw soccer hooligans throw a scooter onto the pitch. This, however, takes it to a shocking new level! A live explosive was thrown onto the pitch yesterday during an Asian Champions League quarterfinal match in Iran. This footage shows midfielder, Adel Kolahkaj, spot the object during a break in play. Without realising it is about to explode, he picks it up and tosses it to the side of the field. Watch what happens next, inside.
After a 35 day battle with weather, Geoff Mackley, Bradley Ambrose and Nathan Berg finally became the first people ever to get within 30m of Marum Volcano’s infamous lava lake on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu. The resulting footage culminated in what has aptly been titled, “The Most Incredible Volcano Video of ALL Time,” and it doesn’t disappoint.
Following the landmark decision made in Australia recently, South Africa is looking to implement a similar strategy of reducing cigarette packets to nothing more than a box with text. This is part of government’s new plan to bring South Africa’s smoking regulations in line with “international best practice.”
Before we get started, just a quick recap. You know how your iPhone knows which restaurant you are at when you use Foursquare? Well, as it turns out, the same technology can also be used to find other people in your nearby vicinity who are just as horny as you. Grindr is a gay app that allows you to see photos of other lustful users, arranged from closest to furthest from you. If you like what you see, you send the guy a message. If he likes what he sees, you organise a meeting place and get down to business. Sorry straight people, there isn’t an app for you yet.
Today on the 2oceansvibe Premier Show, you’ve got the chance to win one of three rad House of Marley headphones. Click through for your chance to get involved!
Yesterday, the SAPS released the latest Crime Statistics Overview and, although it might not always seem like it, crime is on a steady downward trend.
Some Apple employees in French stores have voted to strike today, making sure they get maximum impact by timing their walkout to coincide with the French launch of the iPhone 5.
It’s been a subject that’s as old as time – let us smoke our weed, because it has medicinal properties. Scientists at a US medical center in California have provided new credence to this claim, discovering a compound derived from the plant which stops the metastases of many kinds of aggressive cancer.
‘Hateful film’ stays. ANC can’t be hijacked by ‘tenderpreneurs’. Crime stats a mixed bag with only 2% overall fall. Somalia: Blasts Kill at Least 14. Kallis set to be another Rice?
With summer knocking at the door, what better way is there to enjoy the best season than residing in a home that dedicates itself to entertaining? When you’ve left the beach, obviously.
2oceansvibe’s sports columnist, Sean Wilson, considers what lies ahead for the Proteas in the T20 World Cup that’s currently underway. And the c-word. That c-word.
We all had a good laugh a couple of weeks ago when we read the story of the old lady who tried to restore a famous 19th-century artwork, and ruined it by turning Jesus into a cross between a monkey and a chimpanzee.
In order to keep them from “ruining the experience for visitors”, organisers of the annual temple fair in Nanchang, China, have ordered beggars to stay in purposely built cages. Those beggars not willing to comply with this are simply banished from the city by officials. The zoo-like structures are so small that adults are unable to stand up inside them. Have a look in the gallery below for more detailed images.
WARNING: Graphic content. Yesterday morning, the Citizen newspaper decided to run a front page image of the bomb blast that killed eight South Africans in Afghanistan, but they manipulated the image. The image depicted above is the image that the Citizen ran on their front page. However, the image had been digitally manipulated, despite concerns […]
“Does a man have only one life? Yes. One wife? Occasionally. One wine? Preposterous.” That’s how Paso Robles’s Wine Man begins his argument promoting the enjoyment of wine in all its varieties, kicking off what is probably the best ad for wine I’ve ever seen.