Our usual thanks and bowing and scraping goes out to all you crazy 2oceansvibers out there who seem to be joining and multiplying by the day! Google Analytics has confirmed that between 1 January 2011 and 31 July 2011, 2oceansvibe received 1,109,969 visits, made up of 563,280 unique visitors and resulting in 2,379,820 page impressions. […]
I had a dinner party last night at my penthouse at the Cape Royale Hotel, and I must just say that the star of the show (besides the Jack Daniel’s, Corona beer, Boschendal bubbly and La Fee absinthe) was “The World In Vogue” coffee table book I bought for La Muse a while ago. It’s […]
Steven Morris hosts the first episode of “Rugby Vibe” – our soon to be weekly show, covering the world of rugby. This week Steve discusses the Tri-Nations, the World Cup and the Currie Cup. Special guest on the show is SA’s own England World Cup winning centre, Stuart Abbott MBE.
The British actor more commonly known as Mr Bean has crashed his purple McLaren F1. The R7.5 million supercar spun several times, smashed into a tree and ploughed into a road sign before catching fire on the opposite side of the road. This isn’t the first time he’s had an incident while driving his purple passion either.
Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on when it comes to pirating music, you have to respect the guys from Blink-182. For their latest single, they used several unauthorized fan clips that appeared on YouTube to make a music video for their latest single.
I think it’s incredibly easy to forget that we are living through one of the great technological revolutions in human history. And the car is of course well and truly part of that revolution. Yesterday I sampled what might be one of the most advanced cars on the road today, and to be honest, I’m not sold.
Melissa, a Brazilian footwear brand, is doing it right. They created this giant time-lapse video on the side of a building in SãoPaolo using Post-it notes as analog pixels. I’m not totally clear on why this would make me want to buy shoes, but whatever it looks amazing.
We purposely didn’t mention The TBG in that headline. As snow AND The TBG is a bit too much to handle at one time. But now that I’ve eased you into it, it kind of makes sense. Someone was trying to test The TBG and they untio him, “Can you make it rain?” That’s when […]
South Africa has a very real child labour problem. Did you know that? And particularly in the North West province, Cosatu said today. This follows a shocking incident in June where an underage boy named Molefe Mogale lost his hand while operating a machine on the farm where he was employed in Rustenburg. He’s14 years old – and now he only has one hand.
Just when we thought NASA was going to take a backseat and let privatisation take the wheel for a while, they squeeze out yet another project. It just happens to be one of the space agency’s most ambitious missions too, and will attempt to discover the secrets behind the largest planet in the solar system – Jupiter.
“Boom.” Of course, there can only be one reason for this unusual meteorological blessing: The TBG is on the Mountain. Coincidence? I think not. Come on. Don’t be silly. [Headline image source:tablemountain]
A study done in Britain has revealed that 19h00 on August 6 is the hour and day that people feel most content over there. They deduce this is the moment that the British people will literally smile collectively. No spice.
We all have our lapses of judgment. But some of us make such horrendously poor decisions that one simply has to ask, “What were they on?”. Every week we bring you three contenders in what can only be described as a battle of small wits. So, with great pleasure we present this week’s three La […]
It’s a thing of beauty. [Thanks, Mike!]
Aleksandr Pylyshenko, a Ukrainian artist who owns a private zoo in the city of Vasilyevka, plans on living in an enclosure with Katya and Samson, his lions, for five weeks to raise money to improve the zoo’s living conditions and to increase awareness of underfunded private Ukrainian zoos. So that makes sense.
When two teachers entered Enock Sifundza’s home on Thursday morning to complain about his son’s behaviour at school, they probably didn’t expect to be held at gunpoint at beaten with a knobkerrie. But what might have shocked them most is that he was let off with a warning, pending an investigation and/or time to lose the docket.
The SABC Stinks – The Media Workers Association of South Africa (Mwasa), one of the unions representing SABC workers, now claim that traumatised workers in the SABC’s rented offices in Nelspruit can’t cope with the foul smell of the you-know-what odours they have to endure. For weeks Mwasa has claimed – and continues to – […]
Her untimely death shocked millions of people, but as proof that every cloud has a silver lining, a duet between Amy Whinehouse and Jazz Legend Tony Bennett is to be released as a charity single. All royalties from the pop classic Body and Soul, are to go to an organisation set up by Amy’s father, curbing youth drug use.
The International Monetary Fund has another scandal to deal with, although this time it’s a financial one. A French court has today ordered an investigation into the new IMF head, Christine Lagarde, and her role in a much-criticised $400 million arbitration deal in favour of a controversial tycoon. It concerns the mishandled sale of sportswear maker, Adidas, in the 1990’s.
A newborn baby girl who doctors declared dead after being delivered was moments from her burial when she awoke and started crying at a Brazilian funeral home. She was immediately rushed back to the hospital placed in an intensive care unit, but sadly passed away for real shortly afterwards.
Listen up, the game is WIDE open! Tomorrow afternoon, you and your office could be working. OR! You could be: DRINKING JACK DANIELS AND COCKTAILS EATING CARAMEL POPCORN EATING GOURMET MISS K HOT DOGS Watching True Grit (starring Jeff Bridges) in total, private comfort at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. ALL for free, and […]
Speaking at the Black Hat hacker’s conference in Vegas yesterday, former director of the CIA’s counterterrorism center Cofer Black voiced concerns about a future “code war” where hackers tamper with the technology that runs our day-to-day interactions. Then a fire alarm accidentally tripped, which was nice and thematic.
COMPETITION NOW CLOSED: Congratulations to our winner, Dean Kruyer! His entry was randomly selected by computer from the group of correct entries. Sanbona Lodge is an experience not be missed out on. Combining the splendor of the Cape wilderness with international standards of comfort and service, a stay at Sanbona is a memeroable experience. Which […]
Hannah Rhind, daugher of Cape Town businessman Philip Rhind, was the target of a petrol bomb thrown at her father’s Clifton house earlier this year. We know this because her name was on the bomb. And in a rather embarrassing turn of events for Shumsheer Singh Ghumman, that little personalised touch also led to the speedy identification of him as the perpetrator.
Recently 2oceansVibe told you about a certain duel that was going to happen live on YouTube, well kind of, between Isaiah Mustafa, the old Old Spice Guy, and Fabio Old Spices, the new Old Spice Guy. Isaiah defeated Fabio after some heated bathroom exchanges, but the real point of interest is that 22 million people have watched.
Due to popular demand, we will be dusting off some of the biggest hits from the past and giving our newer readers a taste of yesteryear. Kicking off with this absolute beaut of a woman, spotted at Cavendish Square some time ago.. So I was leaving Cavendish Square on Friday after a thoroughly enjoyable Chunky […]
Spoil the lady in your life.. by treating her to a breakfast at Boschendal overlooking the valley of Franschhoek. August is the month to spoil all Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Grandmothers, Friends, Wives, and Girlfriends! Spoil the woman in your life this August, with a bottle of Boschendal Bubbly and upload a picture onto facebook. The […]
Hugh Hefner has had a tough time recently with his fiancé first dumping him, and then telling the press how bad he is in bed. So he did what any 85 year-old would do by throwing a party with a group of girls six decades younger than him. Only then did things get silly when they started planking – pics inside.
Police have confirmed that the device attached to terrified Australian schoolgirl Madeleine Pulver was not a bomb, just a tremendously elaborate hoax. The device, attached to the girl by a masked intruder in her parent’s home, “gave the appearance of a legitimate improvised explosive device.”
R3.5 Billion Of Cocaine Found On Luxury Yacht – Biggest Ever – A haul of cocaine with a street value of up to £300m has been found hidden inside a luxury yacht in Southampton, the UK Border Agency has said. Officials found 1.2 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a secret compartment in the £1m yacht two […]