The Blokes On The Couch have finalised the commentary schedule for the World Cup and we can confirm that the following games will enjoy live streaming commentary on 2oceansvibe Radio – listen online there or download your mobile streaming app (iPhone/Blackberry/Android) at www.2ov.fm. Times are SA times… Sat 10 Sept 10:30am Argentina vs England Sun […]
So they say this kind of thing is “new”, but I think what they really mean is that it’s “new” to public knowledge. It uses thermal imaging technology, something that’s been around for a while already, and it just seems impossible to believe that “scientists” wouldn’t have thought of it before.
Just how big will the biggest airport in the world be? Daxing airport is expected to handle 120 to 200 million passengers a year. That’s about three times the capacity of Heathrow’s current annual passenger flow. It will occupy a total of 54 square kilometers and boast nine runways. That’s almost Mark Wahlberg size!
New oil leakage has been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, near the BP well that burst 15 months ago; the oil currently covers an area about seven kilometres long and 50 metres wide. It’s not clear if the oil is coming from the reservoir itself, or if’s been trapped in last year’s damaged rigging.
Vodacom Challenges The Spirit Of the Consumer Protection Act – Vodacom’s decision to slow down the speed at which BlackBerry users access the internet if they have used more than a 100 megabytes of data a month could be in breach of the “spirit” of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), analysts say. [mail&guardian] DA Believes […]
Hipsters get way too much credit these days. I don’t mean that in a good way. Hipsters – especially those of a South African persuasion – deserve all the deep-seated hatred that comes their way. What I mean is that they are credited with far more social traction than they actually possess. They just aren’t that big of a deal. I’m far more forgiving of emos than I am of hipsters.
More than 1 000 gingers held a massive confidence-boosting weekend in Breda, Holland, to celebrate International Redhead Day this last weekend. News reports coming out of the area have been slow because national news agencies were weighing up whether or not such distressing information would serve the public interest.
As far as extreme sports go this is far from ‘just another jump’. Not only did it take these guys ten years to get a permit to pull this off, but they will be joined by Timeslive photographer, Marianne Schwankhart. Oh, and the mountain they’re about to jump off of, is 5895m high. If you’ve only done Lion’s Head, start hyperventilating now.
Most of you would have seen our office furniture in the new hit online series called ‘The Compound.” You can watch the weekly episodes on 2oceansvibe TV here. You will notice that the chair I “drive” is the Herman Miller Aeron chair. We chatted about it before here – it’s known as the most comfortable […]
Really not exaggerating in that headline. Two days ago, blogger Shoshana Hebshi, a self-described “half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife,” found herself cuffed and thrown off a Frontier Airlines flight and strip-searched – because she was seated next to two Indian guys she didn’t know, and another passenger had found that suspicious.
If you missed episode 1 of this groundbreaking online comedy series starring Rob Van Vuuren, then you should click here for that. For the rest of you who have become hooked on this unprecedented high-quality production, click the video below! In this episode we meet a woman who speaks to her dead husband. Dr. Watts […]
As you know, here at 2oceansVibe we celebrate guys and girls who are able to transform everyday tasks into something spectacular. Take this oke for instance – in all honesty, how exciting can pouring tea in a restaurant be? But this boss has developed it into a fine-tuned, multi-tasked, balancing act. Well done!
Screw climate change, we’ve found a new home. Well, I mean that’s my attitude whenever astronomers says they’ve found new planets within the “Goldiclocks zone” of core temperature – like the one European astronomers announced yesterday, the catchy-sounding HD85512b, which fits life support parameters, and is a little over three times the size of Earth.
Hollywood’s pathological lack of imagination/lust for audience dollars gathers force as it continues to pilfer the back catalogue of fan favourite flicks. This time not to re-make, or reboot, but to re-D into 3D. Reports have emerged that both Top Gun and Titanic are to receive the 3D treatment and be re-released to audiences around the world as early as next year.
The utter tragedy that is rhino poaching hit hardest within South Africa’s wildlife conservation community over the weekend. A top Kwa-Zulu Natal game ranger was killed accidentally by colleagues during an anti-poaching operative on Saturday. The incident, which took place at the Umfolozi Game Reserve in Zululand, has been described as the most devastating event in the history of conservation.
European stocks have bounced back slightly (well, leveled, more than anything) on news that China and Italy are in discussions about “significant” purchases of Italian bonds and investments in strategic companies. Greece will probably get that next round of funding, but Europe still needs to approve it. Here are some interesting numbers if Greece does go bang.
A 130kg man has sued a popular American fast-food giant, because the sitting booths in their restaurants are apparently “too small”. He is claiming that the uncomfortable booths violate the civil rights of fat people. In all fairness, this guy probably has a point. It is, after all, guys like him that spend the most money there.
Julius Malema Owes Afriforum R400,000 – In addition to facing disciplinary charges for bringing the ANC into disrepute and causing a struggle song to be banned, embattled ANC Youth League president Julius Malema will have to fork out about R400000 to advocacy group Afriforum. [timeslive] Djokivik Takes Nadal – Novak Djokovic confirmed his status as […]
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There are reports of a blast at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule, in the Gard region – with further claims that there is a risk of radioactive leakage. The explosion followed a fire in a radioactive waste storage sight, killing one person and injuring three more.
In a recent ruling by Judge Colin Lamont, “Dubula Ibhunu”, also known as “shoot the boer”, has been deemed hate speech. Lamont, who is presiding over Julius Malema’s hate speech trial, also made it clear that the Equality Act was put in place to protect all groups in a country, and in this case, more specifically, minorities. Sorry JuJu. Not.
Vodacom has popped a cap in the bandwidth of Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) subscribers who exceed a monthly data limit of 100mb – cutting the speeds from 3G to 2G. Vodacom claims that this should only affect around 5% of the user base, as the rest are all using the service “fairly”.
How about I give you a short cut from Brightwater Commons in Johannesburg, to Fourways? Without using Malibonge Drive? Pretty handy for skipping highway traffic and roadblock traffic, I think you’ll find. Check it out, my boet! Remember you can get to 2oceansvibe TV anytime by going to 2ov.tv or 2oceansvibe.tv
This really has nothing to do with making your pet cat fluorescent so that you can see it in the dark and not stand on it when you get up to go the toilet at night. It has, however, everything to do with the similarities between human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV).
StoryCorps is an American non-profit organization that records and shares stories of average Americans. With the tenth anniversary of September 11th this weekend, they have released three animated shorts documenting the stories of four people who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center. It left a very teary-eyed writer this side.
If people keep telling you that drinking alone is a sign of alcoholism, then you either need to drink less, or find a way to make sure that there are people to drink with all the time. The geniuses behind the social network app ‘Let’s Drink Tonight’ figured the latter choice made more sense too.
A 2oceansViber, Brandon M, sent in this email. Hi Seth I am currently working as an engineer on a 38m superyacht called Shooting Star. She is brand new, built by Danish Yachts and is currently operating as a showboat for the yard and is for sale for €18 500 00. She’s fully carbon fibre and […]
Footloose is an odd creature in the world of 1980s dance-saves-the-world feature films. It never hit the dizzy heights of fan or critical acclaim that Dirty Dancing did, and now, twenty seven years later, a re-make appears. But does it have that Bacon sizzle?
A DA councillor has reported 5fm morning DJ Gareth Cliff to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA). The councillor, Tex Collins, was outraged at a sexist comment which he claims Gareth made to a female interviewee on air.
Reports coming out of the East and Europe this morning paint a dismal picture for Greece. The Euro had already slipped to a 10 year low against the Yen and a six month low against the dollar in overnight trading. Bloomberg thinks Germany might give up on Greece because a Greek default is probably inevitable.