Harold Hackett doesn’t use Facebook, LinkedIn or any of the vast array of dating platforms to make friends – he goes the Castaway route by tossing messages sealed in bottles into the surf near his home on Prince Edward Island, Canada. And it works.
You probably remember watching Absolutely Fabulous – the show about two drunk, over the top, excessively crazy bitches. It may be the very place Amy Winehouse got the inspiration for the beehive, and possibly her bad behaviour as well. BBC Films has now jumped on board, and a film is on the way.
Strokes can have massive effects on the body and mind, and are known to be occasionally transformative. Perhaps none more-so than the stroke experienced by Chris Birch during a rugby training incident in Wales. Birch,26, claims to have woken up after suffering a stroke feeling very different, and that the incident had turned him into a gay man. He was engaged to his girlfriend at the time.
In a continuation of its world domination, China Central Television, which produces the ruling Communist party’s news shows and other propaganda, is planning to broadcast English-language programming from the heart of the US capital of Washington DC. It has also built a studio facility in Nairobi, and plans to open a broadcasting centre in Europe too.
Silvio Berlusconi To Resign – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has confirmed that he would stand down after a new budget law is approved in parliament. “After the approval of this finance law, which has amendments for everything which Europe has asked of us and which the Eurogroup has requested, I will resign, to allow the […]
A 37-year-old Pakistani national is due to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court later this week on charges of contravening the telecommunications act. He was apprehended while seated and looking shady in his car, following an anonymous tip-off. He had 4 000 Pre-Rica’d SIM cards in the car, and police found thousands more after searching his home.
We all love egg-fried rice, but it is an incredibly tedious job for those who have to make it. But not for today’s addition to the 2oceansVibe Boss Hall of Fame. You’ll have to be patient, because the video starts out slowly. But believe me, its all worth it when you get to the part of the video where he dishes up the rice.
Russian historian, Anatoly Moskvin, has been arrested after Russian police discovered 29 mummified bodies in his home. The remains were dressed in brightly-coloured clothes and arranged in doll-like poses, making up a “gruesome tableau.” Moskvin has been charged with desecration of graves, because it turns out being insanely creepy isn’t a crime in Russia.
Afrikaans zef rap sensation, Die Antwoord, have released a statement on their website indicating that they have parted ways with their record company, Interscope – and that’s putting it diplomatically.
American mother and pillar of the criminally insane community, Wendy Werkit, identified a gap in the junk food market and took a leap of faith. “Why has no one thought of this yet”, she thought, as she put the finishing touches on her Facebook ad. “Fifty dollars isn’t bad for a ‘pox’ infected sucker”, she thought, as her brain fell out of her ass.
Ever since the first teaser trailer of The Dark Knight Rises hit the internet in July, fans have been scouring the online landscape looking for more sneak peeks to satisfy their insatiable desires for more bat-related awesomeness. Over the past weekend some lucky followers got exactly what they were hoping for.
As you know, Tiger Woods’ former caddie Steve Williams was recently asked why he had celebrated Adam Scott’s Bridgestone Invitational win in August so enthusiastically. When he replied that it was because his aim was to shove it up Tiger’s “black arsehole”, he was apparently not being racist. Woods himself forgave Williams by saying it was “just a comment he shouldn’t have made.”
Charlie Hebdo, French satirical weekly, was firebombed a week ago, after the publication put a caricature of the prophet Muhammad on the cover of an issue criticising the rise of Sharia law in the Middle East post-Arab Spring. And their newest issue has a caricature of the prophet making out with Hebdo’s editor.
Cape Town has adopted a new name for Western Boulevard, choosing to honour late South African parliamentarian and anti-Apartheid activist, Helen Suzman by naming the busy thoroughfare after her.
The Movie Hyde Park on Hudson is due for release next year, and is going to tell the story of Franklin D Roosevelt, the US president who was responsible for leading America through World War II and to economic recovery, and the only president to ever have been elected for more than two terms. And who better to play the part than Bill Murray?
An asteroid the length of four rugby fields will be speeding through Earth’s solar system tomorrow, at a closer proximity to us than the moon. Nothing of this magnitude has come nearly as close to colliding with our planet for 30 years. But rest assured the asteroid is not going to hit us. Not yet, anyway.
Doctor Is Guilty Of Michael Jackson’s Death – Michael Jackson, among the most famous performers in pop music history, spent his final days in a sleep-deprived haze of medication and misery until finally succumbing to a fatal dose of potent drugs provided by the private physician he had hired to act as his personal pharmaceutical […]
This afternoon, Nairobi commuters sitting in their cars on their way home from work will notice thousands of yellow balloons floating over the Kenyan capital city. The objective of the spectacle? Simply to put a smile on locals’ faces following two recent grenade attacks in Nairobi. Cool idea.
The Black Rhino Range Expansion Project recently successfully transported 19 black rhinos 1 500 kilometres across South Africa. They did this by airlifting each rhino by its ankles before carrying it upside down! Read exactly why they do it this way, and see some amazing images of this process, after the jump.
Conan O’Brien returned to New York last week for the first time since his falling out with the NBC – not only to rub his recent success in his former employers’ collective faces, but also to preside over the first same-sex marriage performed on late-night television. Because I guess that’s worth making a big deal over.
Back in 2008, then super-size Superbad star, Jonah Hill, announced he was shopping a script around Hollywood for an updated film adaptation of 21 Jump Street. The final product is set to drop early next year, featuring an oddly puffy looking Channing Tatum, and an extremely less puffy Jonah Hill
Cosmetic surgery, beauty products and other aesthetic enhancements have made it possible to change just about every aspect of your appearance, for better or worse. Now you can add permanent eye-colour change to your to-do list.
Looks like the only bottles in da club for Lil Weezy will be the ones filled with mineral water. Following his recent conviction for drug possession, the rapper isn’t allowed to consume alcohol or associate with anyone knowingly engaged in narcotics – good luck. Let’s see if he can last longer than (Camps Bay) “twenty minutes my broda”.
This is an absolute must-see! This guy deliberately creates fake profiles of underage girls online. He then enters chat rooms and look for pedophiles and invite them to meet in person. When they show up, he confronts them dressed as Batman. He also films the incident and puts the video up on the internet. Check out his first four “victims” inside.
Seth dodges highly botoxed women in Jaguars, and shows you a short cut from Benmore to Hyde Park, without using Grayston Drive and Sandton Drive. Top secret information is leaked, where he shows you a zone that skips the infamous traffic lights onto William Nicol Drive.
A report released by U.S. intelligence agencies claims that Chinese and Russian hackers, hired by their governments, have been stealing classified data from American government organizations. Assumptions like this have been made before, but this is the first time such a report to Congress has pointed the finger squarely at China and Russia.
Walter Isaacson weaves a full and often revealing tale that brings Steve Jobs to life through interviews with the late Apple visionary and those in his inner circle.* The most anticipated book of the year is available available to buy. And what better Christmas present for all your Mac friends and tech-minded family! The Guardian […]
Last week, a 30 year old man from Preston in the north of England was jailed for life for the brutal murder of his Thai wife, Pornpilai Srisroy. Her only crime: she had the audacity to destroy his extensive collection of Star Wars memorabilia following a fight.
You might have caught the article in yesterday Sunday Times newspaper about Jacob Zuma getting a new jet. In fact he and the deputy president are getting TWO new jets, which come to a total of R1,6 Billion. That’s R800 million per jet! We did some snooping around and managed to get some photographs (and […]
Everybody has bad days. Nothing goes your way. Everyone has the wrong opinion. The lane you’re driving is always the slowest moving. And then there are days when you find yourself in a 34 car pileup. Pictures after the jump.