Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have done the unthinkable. They’ve captured video at the speed of light, or, one trillion frames per second.
Here’s some excellent news for everyone counting their annual leave days for the Christmas break. President Zuma may declare Tuesday 27 December a public holiday this year.
Steal Banksy from Art Series Hotels on Vimeo.
The Melbourne-based Art Series Hotel chain is holding an art-stealing competition, starting this Thursday. For the next month, a signed print of Banksy’s “No Ball Games,” worth ZAR 125 500, will be hidden in different locations throughout the chain’s hotels. If people can find and steal it without getting caught, they get to keep it.
Are you a killer sales person? Apart from the copious quantities of commision that you rake in every month, when was the last time you felt truly celebrated? To highlight the hard work done by you and your sales colleagues, Groupon South Africa and 2oceansvibe are hosting the Sales Master 2012 awards. The awards will […]
By now you must have heard of Nobanda Nolubabalo, the 23 year-old South African who was arrested in Bangkok on Monday. She is accused of being a drug mule and was allegedly carrying 1.5kg of cocaine, hidden in her dreadlocks. Photos of customs officers searching her hair have since appeared online. See them after the jump.
Space probe Voyager 1 is about to do what no man made object has done in our history. It is about to burst through the outer reaches of our Solar System, almost 11 billion miles from the Sun.
South African Student Nabbed For Drug Trafficking – On the day a South African woman was executed in China for smuggling drugs, a young Johannesburg student was arrested in Thailand for allegedly trying to smuggle cocaine hidden in her dreadlocks into the country. Follow link to see how she hid it. [Daily Dispatch] James Murdoch […]
Critics adored the adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s sprawling fantasy epic, Game Of Thrones, and so did audiences around the world. So, imagine the frenzy when HBO dropped this little number on YouTube.
The sirens go off, the lights flash, you blink in disbelief as you try to comprehend what has just happened – you’ve won the slots jackpot at a casino! Your mental shopping list is already on its third page when an elegantly dressed gentleman taps you on the shoulder to inform you it was a system glitch.
Regis McKenna has very kindly donated rare vintage footage of Steve Jobs giving a presentation in the early 1980’s to the Computer History Museum. It shows Jobs discussing the early history of Apple, and speaking in his usual inspiring manner.
Last night Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton, made her debut as a reporter on NBC. Yes, I know it’s weird to think that Bill and Hilary actually have a child, but she’s pretty good.
True to the pledge it made back in July to digitally archive images of the parts of Japan affected by the March earthquake and tsunami, Google has uploaded imagery of post-earthquake Fukushima to Street View. They’ve also set up a ‘Build the Memory’ website which compares before-and-after shots of the affected towns.
Pockets Warhol is white-capped capuchin monkey. He has been given that name because he uses his tail, hands, feet, and of course, a brush, to daub canvases with his own unique artistic paintings. Pockets has become a money-spinning machine for bosses at at Story Book Farm, a primate sanctuary in Canada, with his paintings selling for as much as R3 500 each. See examples of his work after the jump.
The Love Magazine website has put together an advent calendar, which features a number of supermodels dancing around in next to nothing. Believe it or not the website is proving quite popular. We managed to find the one they did with the pride of South Africa, Candice Swanepoel. It’s really rad and she also takes […]
Internet meme vultures, Know Your Meme, recently posted their favourite ten online memes of 2011. Here we present the crème de la crème of wasting time on the internet.
Australia’s military is becoming notorious for its culture of drinking and sexism. Which is probably not much fun if you’re a woman. A senior naval officer has just been convicted of no fewer than seven counts of indecency without consent. He’d been engaging in some pretty questionable behaviour in the workplace, including spanking a female sailor’s bare buttocks to “test her discipline and compliance”.
Southern Alps Session from CHoE on Vimeo.
Meet the Freebord, a cool skateboard that completely changes the way you ride. It’s a little bit longboard, a little bit snowboard, and a whole lot of awesome. Check out a video after the jump.
Santacon is a thing that happens in San Francisco every year; people dress up as Santa Claus and get very drunk. Public nudity is also legal in SF. So it makes sense for this year’s Santacon to have been an attempt at setting a Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of naked Santas ever.
Two male African penguins recently made worldwide headlines after it appeared the two might be gay. As it turns out, Toronto Zoo’s gay penguins were not really gay after all. A female has come between them, and they have officially been split up.
It’s been over a month since we last chatted about the lottery jackpot being over R1 billion. Regulars will know the reason for that – 2oceansvibe only gets excited about the overseas lottery jackpots when they roll over enough times to give us a Billion Rand or higher jackpot. And that’s exactly what has happened […]
This clip, taken last year, is believed to have been filmed at the Olympic Game Farm in Washington. It features a huge Kodiak bear waving back at sightseers and has quickly become a hit on the internet. Viewers are particularly delighted by his cheery demeanour. I love how he gives that, “OH IT’S YOU!” look before waving back.
Obama Wants His Toy Plane Back – President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States has asked Iran to return a U.S. drone aircraft that Iran claims it recently brought down in Iranian territory. “We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” Obama said in a news conference. [cnn] New Castro Interview […]
We’re at an interesting juncture with regards to media and, in particular, radio in South Africa. Advertisers have been blowing a load of money on radio for years, hoping that the “shotgun approach” will get the message across to mainstream FM’s listeners. The listenership figures they are working with, are produced by way of the […]
That’s according to Karlien Breytenbach (pictured), who went to school with the Oscar winner. She says that Charlize Theron is a liar and her recent statements about being bullied at school are false. On the contrary, apparently, “She was never bullied. She’s the one who bullied the other children.” Follow the link for more insight […]
The respective returns of J.R. Ewing and Jesse Metcalf! What’s not to love?
No matter how passive and opposed to violence you might be, there are times when you just want to hit something (or someone) to relieve some stress. Sadly this is not always appropriate behaviour in civilised society. Thankfully Old Spice has provided the perfect digital alternative.
Police in Britain will soon be testing a shoulder-mounted laser that is capable of emitting a blinding wall of light from up to 500 metres away. It’s hoped the laser will help repel rioters and other troublemakers in an effort to prevent a repeat of the rioting that took place there earlier this year.
If someone walks onto Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and starts shooting a gun, he won’t be taken that seriously. And that’s what happened on Friday in Hollywood when people mistook a lone gunman for an actor – thinking that it was surely a film being made. According to Masslive: A broken heart may have fueled […]
Welcome to Avonmouth in Bristol, home to Europe’s largest alcohol warehouse. The warehouse stores 9,5 million gallons of wine. That’s enough to fill 15 Olympic-sized swimming pools. No spice.
I was grabbing a couple poached eggs at Cecconi’s with The Big H just off Saville Row – Mayfair – this weekend. We spotted a new white Range Rover Evoque struggling to park opposite us. The driver was a Brazilian woman and, after a few attempts, her companion jumped out to help direct her. What […]