Cisco have just come out with their annual Visual Networking Index, which is a pretty reliable source of internet traffic reporting. Global traffic will quadruple, by 2015, with Asia’s traffic generation overtaking North America. Which is cool, but less cool than the stuff they say about traffic in South Africa, which is after the jump.
Tired of having to mission to a parking lot to score some hash? Constantly fearing the wrath of the pigs? Scared of your Nigerian coke dealer? Now, according to Gawker, there’s a safe and easy way for you, the tech-savvy drug-aficionado, to source your drug of choice: online.
So Joshua Kaufman had his MacBook stolen in March. Which sucks – he reported the crime to the police, but they couldn’t help, due to lack of resources. Except Kaufman has the Hidden app on his MacBook, which lets him remotely stalk and photograph the thief – and put them online. Thanks, Internet.
Johannesburg is undoubtedly the economic centre of Africa. With this follows the allure of prosperity and the chance to better ones life through economic empowerment and social status. Now the only centre for asylum seekers and refugees in Joberg will be closed after local businesses won a court application against the Department of Home Affairs.
The Mother Of The Year title so far for 2011 has to go to this young lass from the UK. She just gave birth to a premature and underweight baby, who also endured carbon monoxide levels SIX TIMES higher than the level considered safe for a baby before birth. Why? Because mum smoked 3 500 cigarettes during pregnancy. Read her priceless reasoning behind it inside.
The Pentagon is due to publically release it’s first formal cyber strategy next month, and the understanding is that it’s going to be classifying some kinds of computer sabotage as acts of war; apparently, a serious enough computer attack could be interpreted as a “use of force” that would warrant physical retaliation.
Multiple news sources reported today that a senior Egyptian general has come forward to confirm that forced “virginity checks” had been performed on women arrested during demonstrations. This had previously been denied by military authorities, but general Amr Imam has not only confirmed but defended the practice as a protective measure for the women’s own good.
There comes a time in any man’s life when he is faced with a difficult moral decision. I was going to attempt to outwit The New York Post’s photograph, headline, and strapline on Tiger Woods, but I won’t. Instead I’ll present it as is, in all its symphonic brilliance. I’ll also give it the official 2oceansVibe stamp of approval for best Tiger Woods-related headline to date. It’s a pleasure.
The concept for a Marlboro cigarrette-swapping smartphone app has been making the rounds – the idea being that social smokers would be able to trade digital cigarettes for real ones using bump technology, and ‘hardcore smokers’ would be able to redeem the digital smokes for real ones once they’d accumulated enough.
Some people are calling this ‘tourism suicide’. The Dutch government has announced that by the end of the year, the marijuana-selling coffee shops for which the country is famous will be closed to foreigners.
You guys remember that shipwreck they found last year in the Baltic, with the 168 odd ancient-but-preserved bottles of champagne? Well I do. And they did. And now two of those fancy old champagne bottles are going on auction because why not?
Please save your ‘holla-caust’ comments for the end of the article. Hotel Stadt Hameln, a four-star hotel in northern Germany, has converted an on-site jail into a themed party location, sort of the way the Nazis converted the jail into a forced labour camp during World War II. Some people are angry about this.
A last moment try by Sibusiso Sithole won the South African sevens rugby team the Emirates Airline Edinburgh Sevens final yesterday. One commentator called it the greatest game he’s ever seen and many are calling it the greatest comeback since Lazarus
Sean Kingston knows what living the holiday is all about. The cuddly rapper has no problem with the good life, and he’s never appeared to be having anything less than a completely fabulous time. Until yesterday, when he crashed his jet ski into a bridge in Florida.
“But this is CYCLING!”, I hear you blurt, rusk crumbs embedding themselves in your computer screen. “You guys don’t LIKE cyclists!” That said, Danny MacAskill is no prawn. He’s a stylish, skilled athlete, and he makes the infrastructure of our beloved city look oh-so-fine.
Google Wallet and Google Offers launched yesterday, both of which sound supremely cool – PayPal’s grumblings (and lawsuits) about commercial espionage notwithstanding. Google Wallet lets users swipe their phones in lieu of credit cards, even allowing subscription to a new prepaid Google debit card; Google Offers looks to work like a virtual loyalty card.
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 […]
Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and one of the first investors in Facebook, gave 24 kids under 20 each $100,000 to drop out of school for two years to start a their own companies. Some even left universities like Harvard and Stanford! Thiel is doing this in order to “challenge the authority of the present and the familiar.” I can kind of respect that.
Hoo. While working their way through LAX airport, Kim Kardashian and her just-recently-announced fiance Kris Humphries made a point of flashing her new bling – you remember, that $2 million custom-designed, 20.5-carat Lorraine Schwartz engagement ring? It’s, um, it’s kind of hard to miss. Click through for our engagement ring photo gallery.
A user at reddit.com promised that he’d put up a billboard in response to Harold Camping’s failed billboard campaign that claimed the rapture was on its way. The billboard reads: “That was awkward”. Somewhat of an understatement I think.
So you thought CrackBerries were only cool in the eyes of business people addicted to their email? Think again. South Africa’s youth has voted BlackBerry the coolest brand in the country in the Sunday Times Generation Next 2011 Brand Survey Awards. That means BlackBerry trumps Apple, in spite of the latter’s beautifully designed and supposedly cooler iParaphernalia. And the reason? BBM and ‘free’ internet for the kids, obviously.
Lindsay William’s, co-host of the Morning Meeting on 2oceansVibe Radio, is a native son of England. You can imagine his outrage when he discovered that Denmark had implemented a ban on England’s most beloved foodstuff (after tea), Marmite. In typical Lindsay fashion, he called up the Consul General of Denmark in South Africa, live on air, to quizz him on the situation. Please enjoy the ensuing mirth, after the jump.
Heh. So apparently they’ve found skull of Saint Vitalis of Assisi, the patron saint of venereal diseases and, it’s going up for auction. Because what else would you do if you found it? Assisi won sainthood for performing miracles on those with bladder and genital disorders in 13th century Italy. Please buy his head.
The South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) has announced that we’ll be treated to a total lunar eclipse on the 15th of June. And apparently this one is rather special huzza!
Im sorry to harp on about it, but not everyone seems to have have fully grasped the Printwild.co.za article I pumped you with a few weeks ago. Or rather, you forgot the name. I keep getting SMSs from people asking “what is the name of the website which let’s you upload a file and pay […]
Ending a seven-year mission, NASA has decided to cut off communications with the Mars rover Spirit. Data was last received from Spirit in March 2010, and it hasn’t been heard from since – the thinking is that the rover was damaged during the martian winter when there wasn’t enough solar power for its survival heaters to run.
You, yes, YOU could win tickets for yourself and three of your friends to an incredible vibe, happening in Johannesburg on 27 May, and Cape Town on 28 May. To launch their epic new range of 5 Gum, Wrigley’s is putting on something quite special for the boys and girls of Johannesburg and Cape Town […]
Some places hold specials. Others hold special events. The EighteenHundred Grill Room is one such place, and what with it perched beneath my beloved residence, the Cape Royale Hotel, I’ve been known to nip in there more regularly than not. They’re laying on the special treatment this winter with a Tapas and Jazz series, happening […]
Manal al-Sharif, organizer in the Saudi Right-to-Drive campaign, was arrested on Sunday after posting a video of herself driving, while urging women to take part in a “drive-in” protest on June the 17th. Since then, the event’s Facebook page has been deleted, and a fake Sharif Twitter account has claimed that the campaign was off.
Not only do vuvuzelas make sporting matches sound like they’re being attended by giant, angry bees, but they also emit more germ-carrying particles than regular screaming; testing the amount of bacteria-sized particles emitted by a shout and by vuvuzela,researcher Ruth McNerney found the vuvuzelas a couple of hundred times more effective.