Being the informational leaky sieve that it is, America has blessed us with indictment documents of the 127 New York mobsters who were nicked on the good side of the weekend. The scale of this bust is huge – the largest ever, in fact. But the best thing about this new data is the sublime mafioso nicknames. Check them out after the jump.
Some frustrated Belgians put together an elaborate, televised prank to get back at unpopular phone company Mobistar by blocking off their office’s parking lot with a steel container that had a fake customer service number printed on it, and putting callers through the nine rings of customer service hell. Also the pranksters were inside the steel container.
Sky Sports’ coverage of football is first-rate. Not as good as SuperSport’s, but nonetheless it’s decent. However, Sky might consider changing their pundits, Richard Keys and Andy Gray, after the pair, under the impression their mics were off-air, ridiculed a female linesman for being, well, a woman. The audio is after the jump.
In a bizarre incident of love-gone-wrong, a 44-year-old New-Zealand woman arrived at an Auckland hospital suffering partial paralysis. After mulling it over for a while doctors concluded that the woman had in fact suffered a stroke, induced by a hickey over a major artery in her neck.
It’s Monday so why not watch this girl take in a cubic meter of helium and pass out? There’s a beautiful moment where it looks like she’s seeing visions but then things get out of hand and she connects with some furniture. Maybe she saw P Divvy, the original helium sucker, and just couldn’t take it. Maybe she’s just a lightweight. Don’t try this at home – go to the Spur.
Dubai’s ‘World’ Island Is Sinking – The islands were intended as the ultimate luxury possession, even for Dubai. But the World, the ambitiously-constructed archipelago of islands shaped like the countries of the globe, is sinking back into the sea, according to evidence cited before a property tribunal. Their sands are eroding and the navigational channels […]
Cricketing superstar and controversial bad boy, Herschelle Gibbs made it to the 2oceansvibe Studios prior to a sojourn to the UK for a spot of County Cricket. Interviewed by long time friend and 2oceansvibe DJ, DJ Sox, Herschelle spoke candidly about his much publicised biography, sporting regrets, the state of South African cricket, and girls […]
George Clooney travelled to Sudan recently to promote peace and love and things and came back with malaria. George becomes the first celebrity to contract malaria while on a cause. Angelina Jolie always makes sure she has repellent and Bob Geldof is said to have a fierce fetish for mosquito nets. This is George’s second bout of malaria. Twice bitten, once shy. Or is it the other way around?
I mean, obviously not all of them. And I’d be surprised if any of them were here. But still, there exist about 20 bus shelters in San Francisco with touch screens installed by Yahoo! The most surprising thing about that sentence is that Yahoo! is still doing things.
Do you stay at work longer and watch Goldfish LIVE-STREAMING on the web, from the roof of the Cape Royale Hotel? Or do you leave work early and watch them on the webcam from home? That is question that our non-winners will have to ask themselves, as we bring you live streaming footage of this […]
Okay, now a revelation: I have a degree in Information Science. So there, now you know. Here I leap out of the nerd closet and admit that I have a thing for cool tech projects and nothing I have ever seen is as cool as this. Just take a moment of your life to watch this video from Make Magazine and you’ll be amazed.
No jokes. Oh yes, there will be no Joker third time round either. Heath Ledger’s impossible-to-top performance and subsequent death last time around pretty much did it for the Joker. Which means there’s space for a new villain. A guy named Bane. Bane was born in a Caribbean prison where he hid a knife in his teddy bear. Bane is bad.
Following the success of last week’s Random Game, we bring you a new photograph, taken somewhere in the Western Cape. Just like last week’s game, the visual should give enough clues as to where it was taken. So go on, take a guess, where was this pic taken? Follow the link to find out.
Sometimes an octopus, a psychic german octopus to be specific, captures the imagination of the world. Paul was such a creature, successfully predicting the outcome of eight World Cup matches. Unfortunately little Paul passed away in his sleep last October, but fittingly a monument has been built in his honor, so our childrens children will never forget the clairvoyant mollusk.
In a story that I find both tragic and bizarre, 21 year old Marc Higgins from Bristol, Connecticut in the USA stabbed four people, killing one, for laughing at his farting.
Angry Birds Series Coming To TV – Appy days are here for obsessed “Angry Birds” fans jonesing for more of the insanely addictive game. Rovio, the Finnish company which created the mobile app, will produce an animated “Angry Birds” series for TV or the Web. “We have been looking at that for quite a while, […]
In an incredibly sad an somewhat surreal tale, the life of one Ms. Holli Tencza of Ocala, Florida has been ruined by a trigger happy neighbour and the stupidest criminal to grace God’s green earth.
Just before the soccer world cup we brought you a story about a deranged restaurant owner in Arizona serving up lion’s meat as a cute homage to SA. Now those yanks are at it again. This time in a different restaurant in the same carnivorous state. They just can’t keep their hands off our cats.
Let this be a cautionary tale to anyone contemplating joining a mind-altering cult, and subsequently opening fire and mortally wounding police officers. The buddies of the deceased will be pissed, and they’ll try really hard to find you, and when they do, they’re going to take the first chance they get to lawfully shoot you to sponge. Sometimes they skip straight to the shooting.
God, I hate this. Craig Rowin, this guy from the internet who used various Youtube videos to ask random rich people to send him one million dollars for no reason in particular, is now one million dollars richer. Understand that I am not so much congratulating Craig Rowans for milking the internet as I am muttering about not having done it first.
The American coffee giant Starbucks announced this week that customers with iPhone and Blackberry smartphones can now download an application to purchase their daily fix. The app will display a bar code that the barista can scan and voila, off you go. How much longer until cards are rendered obsolete?
Facebook has been hailed as one of the great tools in Human History. It’s brining people closer, creating lasting relationships and strengthening the ties between us. But it’s also created an ettiquette of its very own. In the past if you were cruelly and horribly broken up with the person in question could, with time, be hidden in the recesses of your damaged psyche. But no more!
Imagine that? Well it’s a very real thing, my friends. Goldfish are performing a DANGEROUSLY intimate gig on the roof of the Cape Royale hotel tomorrow (Friday) from 15h30 and all the 2oceansvibe brands are taking care of drinks. That’s right – we’re talking Jack Daniel’s, Corona, Jack Black, BOS iced tea, Boschendal bubby, De […]
The US, China state visit was always going to be a tricky affair. They speak different languages and good translators are so hard to find these days. Nevertheless, they met. Things were off to a good enough start but got testy when Obama straight up told the Chinese head of state they should do something about their human rights record. Whether he heard ‘human’ rights we’ll never know.
Cricketing superstar, and ocassionally outspoken bad boy, Herschelle Gibbs, will be gracing the 2oceansvibe Radio studios at the Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village tomorrow morning. What he’ll chat about is anyone’s guess, but there are a few hot topics buzzing around the cricketing community at the moment, and Herschelle has never been one not to speak […]
Police in Colombia have detained a pigeon that was allegedly transporting marijuana to a nearby prison. Apparently, some drug barons had strapped a package to its back and released the desperate little guy into the air, hoping that he would fly over the penitentiary wall into the open arms of some prisoners who were in much need of a spliff.
It’s weird to think that if you do the right thing between now and tomorrow, you might be playing with your brand new Netbook before the weekend – courtesy of MWEB and 2oceansvibe Radio! But it’s all up to you! The big question is, can you follow simple instructions? Ready? Here we go! How to […]
This is sort of cool and sort of awful. Jozi thieves have stripped about 400 ‘high-tech traffic lights’ of their sim cards, modems and GPS systems, using the sim cards to make unlimited free phone calls. It will cost about R8,8 million to replace these fancy, legitimately robot-like traffic lights. Regular GPS-free traffic lights are unaffected.
Venus Williams and ‘the Worst Outfit Ever Seen on a Tennis Court’ – If she thought fans would like her dress, Venus Williams was in Wonderland. The player said that her bright yellow, latticed outfit was inspired by Lewis Carroll’s character Alice. But as far as those watching the Australian Open were concerned, the fourth seed should have […]
I’m not sure how to feel about this. Scottish Spirits is testing out canned whiskey in South America on the grounds that outdoor drinkers would rather not have to lug a bottle of the stuff around. You also look like less of an insane drunk if you’re taking sips from a can instead of swigs from a bottle of scotch, so there’s that.