The blood has barely dried on the floor, and already Nandos is ripping the Lance Armstrong/Oprah Winfrey interview a new one

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In an astounding conflict of interest, a local online marketing company that charges its corporate clients to promote their products and services online, has been revealed to be behind a local website that may sell fake Twitter followers, Facebook fans, and YouTube views. Depending on the method used, buying Twitter followers, Facebook fans or YouTube [...]

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Reports have broken that a helicopter has crashed in Vauxhall, south London after striking a construction crane in the area. Vauxhall Bridge has been closed, and two vehicles are reportedly involved in the crash. Check out the latest tweets and twitpics from Londoners on the scene. Helicopter just hit a crane and crashed a few [...]

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In the spirit of getting your life administration jacked up to acceptable levels, we present four awesome cloud storage solutions, and their comparative strengths and weaknesses. For the sake of benchmarking value, we’ve taken the liberty of comparing what you’d get from each of these services for $9,99 a month.

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Ah yes, the Internet smiles upon us this day. Here is the Patrick Lambie underwear endorsement moment that we all knew could happen, and finally has. What are our favourite parts of this video? I’m glad you asked. We love: That he gives us just a little bit of skin. To tease. The way he [...]

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Shortly after recieving an Academy Award nomintaion, Searching For Sugarman nailed the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature, last night. The film spotlights the fasciniating life and times of American singer/songwriter, Sixto Rodriguez, who enjoyed widespread fame and adoration in apartheid (and present-day) South Africa, and utter failure in the United States. The narrative [...]

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Cape’s most prestigious horse racing event, L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate is one of the most stylish events on the South African calendar, and, while quadrupedal contenders will compete for the R1 million prize, race-goers will be looking to land the honours of Best Dressed and the Best Hat. Since the inaugural race in 1861, the event has followed [...]

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News broke on Wednesday of the imminent closure of Cinema Nouveau’s Cavendish Square theatre in Cape Town. What began as general expressions of disappointment morphed quickly into breathless online outrage, with calls to protest the closure of the cinema. And then the snark started. In no particular order, here are the nine funniest reactions to [...]

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Cyril Ramaphosa appeared on CNN’s Christiane Amanpour show last night, and gave a frank and wide ranging interview, covering a mix of subjects including the general state of South Africa and our prospects as a nation, a retrospective of the Lonmin Massacre, and the implications of President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla residence. The interview is excellent [...]

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The beloved tradition continues! That’s right, boys and girls, the annual 2oceansvibe Intern Hunt is underway! No experience is necessary. We’re looking for sharp minds, and fresh meat. Here are some questions you need to ask yourself: 1) Do want to witness the dawn of sexy, groundbreaking profitable publishing? 2) Do you want to have [...]

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Mark Shuttleworth took a few minutes out form patrolling the floor at the ongoing CES 2013 conference in the USA to demo the latest development edition of the Ubuntu OS for smartphone. Apart from a basic scroll through a a few sceen scopes, Shuttleworth painted a picture the one device/multi-screen functionality of the OS, which [...]

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It’s never too early to teach your kids the value of holding down an honest job. But dammit, is this foetus bringing home the bacon. Serial-adulterer and fame whore, Kim Kardashian is set to make an estimated $16 million from a combination of maternity product endorsements and reality TV production detailing the gestation of her [...]

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Look, don’t go into the city today. It’s a hot mess of confusing road closures and tangled pedestrian crossings for an extended period. All the details are below.

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Isn’t he in a jolly mood, that saucy old cad. The Associated Press report that the Pope has granted his former butler a Christmas pardon, forgiving him in person during a jailhouse meeting for stealing and leaking his private papers in one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times. Fifteen minutes after the meeting, [...]

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Enjoy this radical extended highlights vid of the final Friday Done Jack’s way at the Grand, which hosted over 100 lucky winners.

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So last week we pointed you in the direction of a rad new web series produced by the guys at Tropika as part of the lead-up to the Tropika Island of Treasure 5 show they air every year on SABC1. This is Kagiso’s Island of Treasure and, despite a few questionable directorial decisions here or [...]

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The Cape’s most prestigious horse racing event and one of South Africa’s most important calendar affairs, the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate will be held at Kenilworth Racecourse, Cape Town on January 12 2013, with equestrian contenders competing for the R1 million purse and race-goers looking to land best-dressed honours. It was 1861 when the legendary Queen’s [...]

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Oe, now here’s a treat. We’ve long been fans of the Westcliff suburb of Johannesburg, with it’s rose quartz outcrops and shady, solid jacaranda trees dotted about the sloping hillside. It’s a quiet area. It’s an expensive area. And this mini-mansion lives up to the reputation of the area, quietly killing it with a large [...]

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Professor Patrick Bouic was in the 2oceansvibe Radio studio yesterday on the Just Josie Show for the Buchulife Health Watch. He gave us some super hot tips for staying healthy, protecting our livers, and keeping the inches off during the silly season. Also in the podcast, find out what you should look out for in any restaurant meal, and [...]

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Twitter has launched Twitter Archive, which allows you to download every single one of your tweets, ever. A post on the company blog announced the decision this morning. It’s no secret: You make Twitter what it is. And if you tweet, you may have found yourself wanting to go back in time and explore your [...]

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When it comes to backing up, cloud storage is an option, but you can only use cloud storage for small backups. There isn’t a service on this green earth that can rival the space and portability of your averagely expensive external hard drive, right? Wrong.

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Eagles don’t snatch toddlers, right? Wrong. Check out this crazy video, filmed in a Montreal Park.

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Over 15% of respondents to a British online survey conducted BroadBandChoices.co.uk by admit that over-use of their smart phone while lying in bed is probably killing their sex life. Not ideal, but then again, if you own a smart phone and ever had someone in your bed, you’ve probably had to resist the urge to [...]

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Hot damn, now this is what we call mutually gratifying. Filmmaker Martin Scorsese will direct and produce an authorized HBO documentary on former US President and cigar connoisseur, Bill Clinton. Clinton (heretofore referred to as “Bubba”) has agreed to fully cooperate with Scorsese on the production — though studio execs aren’t saying whether the doccie will include details [...]

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