But not by Julian Assange. This American Life reports that the recipe was published as a photograph on page 28 of the Atlantic Journal-Constitution newspaper in 1979 as part of an inconspicuous historical piece on the Coca-Cola company, but the small size of the newspaper, the poor placement of the article and a complete lack of the World Wide Web meant that the historical leak went unnoticed. You can see it after the jump.
As you’re all well aware by now, it’s just not our prerogative here at 2oceansvibe to support brands that don’t follow the ethics and values that we uphold. Once again something unnecessary has been brought to our attention that we need to tell you about – “force field” insect repelling plugs for your home or flat.
The South African Film And Television Awards (SAFTAS) honours the top performers and creative minds behind all the locally made shows you see on our television screens. Yet, in an ironic turn of events not one of the local channels will air these awards on an actual television.
It’s that time of year again kids – that’s right, the WHO has released their saucy ‘Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health 2011’ – which means we get to find out if SA’s still a rock-out party country, or if we’ve gotten all lame and started taking our liver problems seriously.
The overwhelming flop that was Spider-Man 3 must have sparked serious hatred amongst die-hard fans of the comics. By all accounts it was one of the lamest movies ever produced, with as much caseoso as each of Christopher Reeves’ Superman films and 10 seasons of Smallville combined. That said, a reboot of Spider-Man is set for release next year and the title and promo-picture have been released.
This story is a couple of days old, but I really feel it’s worth telling.
In April 2009 a girl called Jemma Benjamin collapsed and died mere moments after kissing her new boyfriend, Daniel Ross. Follow link for more.
The increasingly-ubiquitous property group, Growthpoint Properties, has teamed up with the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) to purchase the V&A Waterfront – South Africa’s single most popular tourist destination from Dubai-based investment firm, Dubai World. Follow the link to see what they paid..
If you’re anything like me you’ll have a penchant for gut busting drum solos from rake-thin dudes who live for that little round chair. We’ve been treated to some geniuses down the years, but Rolling Stone readers (who last I checked knew their music) have picked their top ten of all time.
Weed, porn and political activism are just a few of the rumblings materialising from the infamous Chilean mining accident. Information sharing was tightly controlled by Chilean authorities for the duration of the saga, but New York Times journalist Jonathan Franklin was one of the privileged few considered to be on a need to know basis. He’s written a book on the matter.
South Africa’s own “Hof” tweeted yesterday that he dumped his U2 concert tickets in the Jukskei River, in protest of statements made by Bono regarding political songs. Bono has not yet responded. Apparently he is first figuring out who the hell Steve Hofmeyr is. Follow link for more..
If, for some reason you haven’t seen Wayne Rooney’s breathtaking goal against Manchester City from Saturday, here it is again, in all it’s magnificence and glory.
That headline just about says it all. Justin Bieber’s 3D documentary, ‘Never Say Never’, took $30.3 million in its opening weekend at the US box office. Apparently 60% of its audience were women under the age of 18. Surprising, that.
Just when our Australian friends thought that it was safe enough to come out and begin picking up their lives again, another potential deadly threat is poised to strike. This time it’s an aggressive avian, the Cassowary, which may take to wandering urban streets after being displaced by floodwaters.
I’m pretty sure Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa, the king of Bahrain, isn’t the only politician around the world whose anus must be clenching heavily after the whole Egypt thing. But he is the first one so far who has really gone out of his way to double check that all his peasants are still happily working the fields instead of marching towards his mansion.
Hoo ha. I try and avoid playing the ‘hey look something funny happened on the internet’ game with you guys too often, but it’s Monday and this bear unlocked some dude’s car door and “drank 4 beers, ate a bottle of mallox, and crapped all over the place.” That’s special.
Even for the insanity that is the Gaga fashion choice, arriving for the 2011 Grammy Awards in a giant shiny egg is still pretty weird. Lady Gaga was an hour early for her arrival on the red carpet, encased in a giant egg and was carried by four half-naked men.
Monday is the 14th; a time where school children everywhere will be giving each other crappy cards and wax-like chocolate hearts. And men everywhere will be desperately trying to buy the most expensive, yet insincere, gifts possible.
I work in sports broadcasting and I must have read the “Sportsman’s Handbook of Safe Responses to Interviews” a fair few times. This is officially the most honest sports interview I’ve read. So on this Friday afternoon treat yourself to a gander at Barcelona midfielder Xavi’s chinwag with the Guardian. Putadas, mama mias and putas.
So here’s something we don’t normally discuss, in general, but it’s actually really fascinating and I’m sure you, like me, wouldn’t have ever described flies mating quite like this: “They get up to the craziest stuff. Amazing genitalia.” Well, now London’s Natural History Museum has put it out there, so to speak.
Today is 21 years since Nelson Mandela walked from Victor Verster prison a free man. To mark the occasion, he is throwing a massive party this evening. BYOB.
What’s that in my pocket? Free music by Stepdog, Fulka and Fox Comet. This way please.
Well this seems like a good way to end the week/start the weekend. Beer-batter marshmallows. I don’t know how I feel about these things, taste-wise, but in terms of taking something awesome and then coating it in something else that’s awesome, beer marshmallows get my stamp of approval.
Since the 7th of February, when some random guy posted a comment on Dave Bing, the mayor of Detroit’s Twitter feed suggesting a statue of Robocop be erected in that city, the internet has been ablaze with ideas on how to achieve the feat.
What starts out as just another video of some bored dudes fighting on YouTube, suddenly escalates into something way more epic. How epic? I’m talking full tilt lightsaber epic. Once again proving that lightsabers are awesome, and that Star Wars fanboys are everywhere, even in the hood.
With statistics indicating that the average person only stands a ten percent chance of actually surviving an attack by a leopard, Pieta Ncube can consider himself a very lucky man. The 39 year old farm worker was attacked on his bicycle in the early hours of Tuesday morning, but used his bike as a weapon to ward it off.
The Clap-Off Bra from Randy Sarafan on Vimeo.
This is special. I mean, I would talk a little bit more about the basic premise of the thing, but it does pretty much exactly what it says on the tin: you clap, bra comes off. It’s not quite the snip-snap process of seduction I’d hoped for as a tiny-man child, but it’s close.
You might want to sit down for this. What follows is some shocking evidence clearly proving that the actor currently known as Keanu Reeves, is in fact, immortal.
Nokia is in a bad place right now. Ten years ago they led the cellular telephone market. In a time when the division of origin between hardware and software one one device was not concievable, Nokia led the pack with hardy engineering and familiar, easy to use operating systems. They’ve since suffered a catastrophic drop in sales and creativity. They’ve finally lost all points of market leadership that they used to hold. And their new CEO, Stephen Elop, has just given the whole company a literary ass-kicking. Check out his fire and brimstone company memo after the jump.
Ha. But no, seriously, they’re talking about this – the dudes and ladies who run Twitter are being courted by a couple of companies, Facebook and Google among them, who want to shell out the $10bn that the company is apparently worth. Predictably, a bunch of people are whining about this being the end of Twitter, etc.
Now I should clarify here, Norwegian kitesurfers in blouwberg are siesa. And by “siesa” I of course mean “an intoxicating mix of insanity, skill, and bravery”. Yesterday, Nick Jacobsen climbed up a crane on the deck of the now-permanently wrecked Seli I, with his kite and his board, and jumped off. Nuts.