I guess teenagers these days get bored more often. That, or they get too much Red Bulls. Either way, cow tipping is out.

Five Deer Park, N.Y. teens have been arrested since October for "fence plowing," the latest rage among certain Long Island youths, according to Suffolk County police. The concept is simple: Pick out a fence, run toward it at high speed, and launch yourself like a missile to plow through the wood.

They even videod themselves. Read here. The sheriff explains:

"They heard about it through other people who heard about and saw it on the Internet," Edwards told Newsday. "That's where they got the idea."

Personally, I think this show has something to do with it.

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Long week this. Plus, I've been fighting allergies since Monday. This made me feel a whole lot better.

Enjoy.

Tags: Weng+Weng, Filipino, Philippines, Impossible+Kid

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Blender Magazine's 50 Worst Artists article reads like a who's who in Odyssey's CD section.

Can't. Really. Agree. With. Every. Selection. Particularly, "Live" (#34) and "Paul Oakenfold" (#35), the latter very useful when at the gym. I agree with Richard Marx ("Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you."), Color Me Badd ("I wanna sex you up!"), Crash Test Dummies ("Mmmmmmmmmmm... bop!") and Celine Dion (#26 - only?). But Kenny G (#4) and Michael Bolton (#3) should have been tied for #1.

Meanwhile, Starship (#5) reminds me of a frat boy drinking game where an innumerable amount of kegs are laid out and someone spins "We Built This City" non-stop until all the kegs are finished.

At the end of the article, there's a nice little quiz to determine whether your band could be worse. My favorite question:

4 The name of your band is…
a) A favorite phrase from a William S. Burroughs novel.
b) An action verb, followed by an even number.
c) Indistinguishable from that of an accounting firm.

Red Tape Rocks! Read the article here.

Tags: music, Blender, Paul+Oakenfold, Color+Me+Badd, Crash+Test+Dummies, Celine+Dion, Kenny+G, Michael+Bolton, Starship

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I don't normally blog about food, especially *branded* food products. But a friend of mine pointed out to me how she'd gladly make me one of these cakes when I visit her, and, yes, with anything I want in it. It had to be pointed out that the best way to eat cake is with ice cream. And, possibly, vice versa.

The Betty Crocker ® Bake 'n Fill ™ Bake Set makes it easy to create beautiful and delicious filled cakes and desserts. Create unique desserts that everyone will love. Everyone will think you spent hours in the kitchen, but the Bake 'n Fill ™ is easy to use. Simply use a Betty Crocker ® cake mix or use your own ‘scratch’ recipe, then fill it with the filling of your choice.

I'm going to have chocolate pistachio with a layer of chocolate pudding. Yum!

Tags: Food, Betty+Crocker, ice+cream

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I just plugged in Meebo. It's that chatbox you see at the top righthand side of the page.

I've been using Meebo for a while now, as a chat service, to manage all my different IM accounts. I like it a lot. To extend its use, I figure I'd plug it onto my blog where I can chat with readers (like you). Meebo lets me see if someone's looking at the homepage and I can fire out a "Hello!" to that reader. You and I can chat (of course, the game there is figuring out who you are) and that could make for a nice treat. So watch that space. If I'm online, give me a holler, if I haven't hollered you yet.

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Looney Tunes for the weekend. This so brings me back. A dog named Mark Anthony!

And if you remember crying when you thought the kitten died, tell me about it.

Tags: Looney+Tunes, Feed+The+Kitty

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Daddy Warbucks tops Forbes Magazine's richest fictional character, having zoomed up the rankings to an estimated $36.2 billion net worth.

Best of the list:

1. Santa Claus, who would have topped the list, was removed from it because Forbes was bombarded with letters of outraged children insisting that Mr. Claus is real.

2. Lex Luther blows away billions trying to take over the world, and plummets down the rankings.

3. A spam entrepreneur from Nigeria and a videogame plumber makes the list as well.

4. Bruce Wayne and Lucius Malfoy all heir it out, the former being more astute with his investments.

5. Mr Monopoly and Tony Montana ("Say hello to my little friend!") make the list for real estate and cocaine.

6. And my favorite: Charles Montgomery Burns is worth an estimated $16.8 billion after announcing a "technology exchange" with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

Read here. The complete list is here.

Tags: Forbes+magazine, richest, Daddy+Warbucks, Santa+Claus, Lex+Luther, Charles+Burns

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Q&A with Chuvaness, known outside the blogsphere as Cecile Zamora, had an answer that almost made me drop and roll on the floor (it's about Kris Aquino, of course). What with Manolo Quezon, Abe Olandres, Bang and Blame and Jessica Zafra all game to fire out email answers for Bulletproofvest, could it be that there's nothing more entertaining than reading other people's words on my blog? Like eating off someone else's dinner plate. I like!

1. I saw you on TV with your bag collection. Do you have anything fake? How'd they get in?

At the risk of sounding mayabang, I have no fakes, except my FAKE bag by Bea Correa, a Dutch artist. She gave it to me after I interviewed her for the Star.

Here it is.

Also, I’ve always believed there is nothing worse than a fake LV, except for a genuine Secosana.

My note: And I really love those Susana bags you can get for P430 a pop at 168.

2. Bryanboy: good or bad for fashion? Why?

Good if he is your customer. Bryan was a customer of mine in Defect and recently at Store for all Seasons. I actually met him in Defect around 1998, he was the kid with credit card and the Jeremy Scott logomania bucket hat. He was 16 or 17 at that time.

3. Could you win Project Runway? Can you out chuva Michael Kors?

You know what I have never seen a full episode because the people remind me of annoying folks at Parsons (where I studied in the ‘90s). Some of those BFA students are so mayabang and feeling God.
Besides, only normal (commercial) designers win those and the Parsons Golden Thimble Award (with apologies to Marc Jacobs, my crush). So to answer your question, no.

My note: You'd have to cry on every episode to win that thing.

4. I usually wear a pair of jeans, a boy scout belt, a tee and a pair of trainers. I rotate three pairs of leather shoes, four sneakers, and I trim my nose hair. Queer Eye me.

Haha. Let me see your picture so I can see your hair, height and waistline and we’ll take it from there.
For starters, don’t wear leather shoes with jeans. I really hate that look.

My note: (Okay, I won't.)

5. I have to defer to you on this: does Arnold Clavio blip your gaydar? Take a minute.

LOL. You really crack me up.
Arnold Clavio can’t be gay because I don’t see any effort to look cute.
How do I put this delicately? He is not easy to look at.
But I do have a certain fondness for him because my first baby used to love that Arn-Arn muppet.

My note: He trips mine. I think it's how he always wears a jacket in this tropical country. Underneath the windbreaker and the glasses is a buffed superhero. And the Tancho pomade gigolo look just ices the cake.

6. Six parties anywhere, done or upcoming, that you want to or should have crashed.

I would’ve wanted to crash the Nicolas Ghesquiére dinner, but thank God I was invited last minute.
I really, really enjoyed that Motorola party where they “raffled off” 100 phones, Macau-style. (I was also invited and I won last minute.)

Honestly I don’t crash parties because I’ve always had this “hiya” thing where I don’t go if I’m not invited.

Besides, I really love staying home.

7. Five things you want to get rid of but can't. Why?

This is a trick question. Did you mean why I want to get rid of them, or why can’t I get rid of them?

Anyway the five things are:

Manila traffic
security guards
ugly bathrooms
my zits
my fear of flying

8. Pick a man and a woman, dead or alive, that you'd give your left eye and three fingers to dress. How and for what would you like to dress them for? (And, which three fingers would you give away?)

Forget the eye and fingers! Kainez.
I would love to make over TJ Trinidad because I crush him.
Kris has to stop wearing gowns in broad daylight. It is a misrepresentation to the masses, that rich people wear gowns all the time. Like that Lotlot de Leon movie where she lived in a mansion and had spaghetti bolognese and red hotdogs for breakfast. It is so wrong, ano ba. I am tired of seeing Kris Aquino’s halter tops and her number 7 eyebrows. But it’s hard to make her change her look. Remember when she wore Custo Barcelona every single day?

My note: Kris is over the top. I really think she's certifiably nuts.

9. The next big things in the Philippine fashion industry: one male model, one female and one designer.

Nobody! I do love Jon Mullally’s looks (even though I cannot converse with him).
Female models and designers are all slim pickins here, so I’ll pass.

10. What's in your refrigerator? Including the stuff you don't know about. Better yet, take a picture and annotate.

Mostly my Dutch husband’s since he loves food. Mine are the Japanese stuff, his are the healthy stuff.

The pictures are in here and here.

My note: Where are the film caps?

Bonus Question: Were you ever envious of Mich Dulce's PBB stint? I mean, she has a wikipedia entry and you don't.

No way! HAHAHAHA. As Ate Vi would say, “Been there, been that.”

I convinced Mich to join PBB so she can get her KSP fix. That’s what I actually told her and it was one of the times she took my advice. And now she hates it that she can’t cross the street without someone saying, “Meech, Meech, picture naman o.”

I can’t be in Big Brother because I can’t eat strange food and I’m scared of communal bathrooms. I have a problem with authority so I can’t do those stupid tasks. I really, really hate the voice of Big Brother.
And I don’t want to win Promac appliances.

As for the other thing, I don’t want to be in Wiki cause all your haters come out of the woodwork. Besides I could start my own Wiki if I wanted to no? I’m not that KSP.

Thanks to Chuvaness.

Tags: Chuvaness, Philippines, Kris+Aquino, Manila, Mich+Dulce, Cecile+Zamora

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After getting some truly unforgettable answers (Manolo Quezon challenges me to Trivial Pursuit. Jessica Zafra believes she'll write the next, great Filipino novel.) I've gone ahead and interviewed more bloggers here at Bulletproofvest. This week kicks off with 10 Questions with Yugatech, whose immense popularity proves that there are enough geeks online to make him the geekest of all.

1. If you weren't blogging professionally, what would you be doing? Bug fixing for a Forbes 500 company at 3 AM? Answering tech support calls at 4 AM?

I graduated BS Chemistry so I would have taken that job at Johnson & Johnson applying beauty lotion to pretty women all across Asia.

My note: Geek god of lotion! Okay, I'll stop now.

2. How many cease and desist orders have you received from the local telcos?

About 3 or 4 but who's counting?

3. You're the geek, right? Is there a way to rig my Friendster account to see if my ex-girlfriend's been viewing my profile and not give myself away?

I've been asked to do that many times in the past but unless you have a huge checkbook, there's nothing impossible a task. The right job at the right price.

4. Three things that don't have batteries or don't plug into a wall that you own AND love. Books, CDs and DVDs don't count.

I have a real samurai sword! I bought one after watching Kill Bill. Keeps the burglars away. Then there's the 5-year old billiard stick I wouldn't part with. Does the car that blogging bought qualify?

My note: Not suprised with the billiard stick. Every pinoy has one.

5. Five years from now, you'd be the country's youngest media mogul, and your advertising margins will be through the roof. What do you think about my prediction? Would you hire me?

It may be even sooner than you think. Send me your resume. I get tons of emails each day and I have no time answering each one of them. How does Electronic Communications Manager sound to you?

My note: I want dental, okay?

6. Do you have bad eating habits? Or, any bad habits in general? (Are you OC? Shock!)

Nobody would believe me whenever I say I normally eat just once a day. It's a huge meal though. I was a starving scholar at AdMU so I had to get used to one or two meals a day that's why I kept myself fit and toned. Now that I have the money to buy me 6 meals a day, I still eat just once or twice a day.

My note: Yeah, that's pretty bad. Think of what you could be doing if you weren't starving all the time.

7. For my peeps: because you're yugatech, do women find you hot? I think you should wear a cape everywhere you go. Ever had to fight off a fan?

Funny you ask that. Wasn't it you who pretended to be a kolehiyala who kept on sending me indecent email proposals?

My note: Yeah that was me in the hotpants.

8. The first 8 websites you look at when you get up in the morning (excluding yours).

Google.com/Adsense (does that count?), Digg, Netvibes, Inq7.net, TechCrunch, ShoeMoney.com, GigaOm.com, Google Blogoscoped. The rest all lined up neatly in my FeedDemon RSS reader.

9. What will the country's technological landscape look like 10 years from now? If you can, hypothesize on the government (more surveillance?), political (more informed voters?), education, workplace and personal levels.

Hopefully, we won't end up to be a country of just call center boys and girls. No offense here but I think we're more talented than answering phones with an American accent. I always try to stay away from issues on politics and governance as I feel it's just a waste of time and talent.

What I am really hoping for is a generation of Filipino netrepreneurs.

My note: "Netrepreneurs"? Is that a typo? Kidding aside, I saw a TV program asking random people on the street if they knew what "netrepreneurs" were. Answer: lambat-dealers.

10. If I had Php 10 million to invest on anything, where would you tell me to put it? Why?

Content is still king. The Philippine mobile industry has a lot of potential and delivering content directly to individuals via their cellphones will be more prevalent in the next couple of years. The mobile penetration is around 40% and it will continue to grow. Think of a popular online commodity or service and port that to the wider mobile phone market.

Bonus Question: What's Connie Veneracion like?

She can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Period.

Thanks to Abe for the interview.

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Had the opportunity to ask Jessica Zafra 10 questions for Bulletproofvest. Bang and Blame helped out:

1. I read your blog, but I haven't read anything you've published. Not a word. Does that suck? Why?

Not really. It deprives me of about ten bucks in book royalties, I'll live.

2. Were you able to catch Sting's performance with the Backstreet Boys at a VH1 special? (It was a male version of Divas Live). What do you think of Sting now?

What a hideous idea. Sounds like He-vas Live, the Has-Been Edition. Yes, I used to love Sting, but sometime in the mid-90s I suddenly realized what a pompous ass he is. I still listen to The Police though. I haven't had cable for three weeks because I forgot to pay my cable bill for four months—mostly because they didn't send it to me—and then I realized that not only can I live without cable (You can just get the entire season of the shows you like on DVD) but I can actually read more books. The only thing I really miss about cable is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I love Jon Stewart. And I love the old Even Steven segment with Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell. I would like to be the filling in an Even Steven sandwich. Jon would be the pickle.

3. In the movie of your life, who would you want to be director? Writer? Lead?

I was going to say Max Ophuls or Martin Scorsese, but my life isn't exactly a romantic tragedy or an urban crime epic. So I'm leaning towards David Lynch. A remake of Dune, with a girl in the lead.

4. Name eight songs to be included in the soundtrack to "Jessica Zafra: The Movie"

Just have Tom Waits score the damn thing and I'll be happy.

5. This is for my peeps: what's your favorite color?

Still black.

6. How much of your writing is influenced by Catholic nuns?

It's fun to offend Catholic nuns, but way too easy. I like Saint Theresa of Avila, though. She kicked ass.

7. Given enough resources, would you choose to live anywhere else other than Metro Manila? Why or why not?

Absolutely. Metro Manila just wears you down with its noise, stench, chaos. I want to live in Venice, or Paris, or New York where the chaos at least has purpose and where goddammit, people read. But I would have to visit Manila every three months or so to collect material to write about.

8. What's the funniest thing you've ever seen, heard or done? I want it to be really funny.

Don't people understand that The Departed is a comedy? I saw it five or six times, laughed my head off every time. Martin Scorsese is a genius. Among his achievements in this film: making DiCaprio credible as a man. He does it by looking like he doesn't know what the fuck is going on, because face it, that's what a man looks like.

9. Who will write "The Next Great Filipino Novel"?

Me. That's assuming The Great Filipino Novel has already been written. Unless you mean Noli and Fili.

10. In Metro Manila, pick and explain three places you'd rather be dead than be seen at.

I'm not bullshitting you, okay? No place. I figure that no matter how heinous the place is, I can always write about it. In fact the more grotesque it is, the better.

11. Bonus question: your favorite superhero/heroine.

Okay, when I was a kid my petit-bourgeois parents wouldn't let me read Tagalog komiks, so every chance I got I would sneak into other people's kitchens and read their maids' komiks. I remember this komiks about a guy who says Taktalaok and turns into a giant rooster who fights crime. A giant crime-fighting rooster, what a stupid idea. Then when he wants to turn back into a person he says Taktalaok backwards. I've forgotten what the title of the komiks was but it really made an impression on me.

I'm glad I asked the bonus question -- reminded me of Super Kat! Now, if only I can get Sheila Coronel to do this.

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This is what Manila needs. Like this. Right now.

Kizmeet.com is the only website entirely devoted to helping you find your “missed connections.” Kizmeet encounters can happen any place, any time. Maybe you chatted with someone at the market but never got their email address, or you exchanged glances across a crowded bar but were too shy to approach. Or perhaps you’re just curious whether anyone noticed you at the gym, while riding the bus or in your Psych class when you know you looked good!

The site is incredibly easy to use, and it’s all done anonymously. Kizmeet allows you to post and search postings within specific locations in your city, and you can search by the date the encounter occurred. Postings are organized by categories such as Bars, Clubs & Dining, Gyms, Coffee Shops and Markets & Shopping, upping the odds you’ll find a message intended for you. And, of course, you can reply to postings in a snap to see where it might lead…

Must. Propose. To. Client. Now.

Tags: Kizmeet, Web+2.0, Manila, Philippines

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The Magazine Publishers of America have announced the winners for Best Cover, along with Best News, Celebrity, Concept, Fashion, Service and Best Cover Line. Nice hi-res photos await, including The Economist's "Rocketman."

Tags: magazine, the+new+yorker, rolling+stone, the+economist, mpa

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From one author to another, I had a chance to do an email interview with B+B, author of "Pink Shoes," a somewhat intimidating survey of the postmodern intersection of anime and the British Arts and Crafts movement.

Nah, I haven't read the book. But here's the exclusive interview:

1. I haven't read your book. Is it any good?

Pink Shoes isn't going to be a classic novel, and no one will be forced to read it for their classes in 'Masterpieces of English Literature', which is ultimately a good thing, I think. It's the sort of thing you pick up when you want to be entertained and your cable's out. But I think I wrote it nicely, I agonized over it during the editing process, it made me laugh and...well, what I'm really trying to say is that I think its good, so you better take my word for it.

2. As a self-respecting adult male, why would I want to read "Pink Shoes"?

Pussy! Where is your copy of Hustler?! No self-respecting adult male would get within ten feet of a book that is a.) completely Pink and b.) revolves around a footwear fetish -- although if cutesy pink ballet shoes get your juices flowing, then I guess your thinly veiled attraction to my book is the least of your problems.

3. Your characters are all whiners. Are you a whiner?

Not so much a whiner as a whinee - you know, the chosen receptacle which receives the whines disguised as queries for advice and sister-solidarity-building share time.

4. If you could choose anyone to play your characters in a full-feature film, who would you choose? Why? What about to direct? Why?

I want M Night Shyalamanamanabadabing to direct the film so that there can be this anticlimactic oh-my-God-I-didn't-see-that-coming! twist ten minutes before the credits. Like, the characters are all part of a great cosmic experiment by a race of superior alien beings trying to determine if women really are from Venus. I want old-school 70s starlets from 'Temptation Island' to play the characters and Joey Gosengfiao to write the screenplay, so that when the plot gets boring they can start dancing seductively or barbecue the lone gay character.

5. What's the best way to read your book? Why?

There's a funny, witty, non-bitter way to answer this question (without referencing snotty CW majors *cough*book launch*cough*). I just haven't thought of it yet.

6. There's another book on the hopper. Is there going to be more sex? Oral? Anal?

The second book is about a fag hag with a defective gaydar, and the first sentence is "Mario has a Screaming Orgasm in one hand, a Blow Job in the other." What do you think?

7. What do you hope your readers get out of your first book? Will you tame their insecurities? What about the second one?

By the end of Pink Shoes I want women to realized that there is no problem that can't be solved by a well-deployed mini-skirt with appropriately matching footwear (never wear minis with high heels, as they will make you look slutty). Mostly, I just want my readers to stop wearing unflattering gaucho pants, prairie skirts, cullottes or those annoying knee-length bloomers. We're short enough, please.

8. Can you relate "Pink Shoes" to call centers and world peace?

Durr, I'm stumped. So! Aside from my lack of height, jiggling belly rolls, un-telegenic square face and uncooperative hair, here's another reason why I'll never win Miss Universe. Tangina kanina pa ako nakatitig sa tanong na ito wala ako maisip na isagot.

9. How come you're never online?

Blogger, YouTube, YM, Gmail and everything else that makes life worth living is blocked by my office's Nazi IT firewall.

10. How many pairs of shoes do you own?

Uh...about 20, I guess. I have three athletic shoes, four beach shoes, three flats (black, bronze and silver), two brown sandals, five pairs of black shoes in varying designs, and about four or five pairs that are broken or out of style that I'm hoping will make a comeback. No, I don't have pink shoes.

The book is available in National Bookstore.

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Yesterday I met David Sedaris. He read an excerpt from his book, saying the words "Jesus" and "fucked up" in one sentence. The signing was at the Shangri-la Mall, and that thrilled me to no end.

He also talked about a trip to Makati Cinema Square, liking it to an oncologist looking for a tumor. And, watching cockfighting live on TV the other night was a treat: "There was this one rooster whose both eyes were gouged out. The announcer says: "That was a costly mistake for Romeo!" I'd say!" He also saw a taping of Wowowee, remarking that it's very different from Jeopardy! where you know you've won $4,000 but here in this show you actually see the $4,000 and it's an armload of cash!

I blocked out all the hoopla around the signing, which featured a very bored crowd and an MC who was, sadly, not a hit. (Good reason to block it out!) Here's my best recollection:

David: Hi!

Me: Hi! David... Benito.

David: What did you say your name was?

Me: Benito, like the Italian fascist dictator.

David: [smiles] Oh, Benito.

Me: Just like "burrito."

David: [smiles] Right.

David: [seeing that my book was bought at The Strand] So you were in New York. What were you doing there?

Me: I was...

David: What do you do, Benito?

Me: I make heroin. Can't you smell the bleach?

David: [smiles]

Me: I'm a graphic designer. Spent some time in upstate New York too. I know you're from there.

David: What were you doing there?

Me: I went to school there, in Syracuse.

David: Oh, you went to my Dad's college. [He then writes, in "Naked" Benito, You went to my dad's school. - David Sedaris]

Me: [As David signs] You know how you thought Makati Cinema Square was like looking for a tumor? Well, go to Divisoria, it's the crotch of Manila. It's dank, hairy and smells like piss all the time.

David: [Quickly flipping to his notebook] Where was that? Di...

Me: Divisoria. D-I-V-I-S-O-R-I-A.

David: Thanks, I'll make sure.

David's Assistant: We're going to Chinatown tomorrow, so we'll go there too.

David: Great. [Turns to me] And what else?

Me: Try Nayon Pilipino. It's every landmark and tourist trap in the Philippines miniaturized. Like Legoland.

David: [Back at his notebook and writes "Nayon Philipino"] That's perfect.

David's Assistant: They closed it, I think.

David: Let me explain to you what I wrote. "Forza Italia" was Berlusconi's slogan, and now everytime Italians see it, they are completely disgusted by it. In fact, if it was written in a book, Italians would go out and replace that with a new one. [smiles]

Me: Okay, I get it. Thanks, David.

David: And, you know how when people here say they live near the airport. Well, they really do!

Me: Yup, they do. And even if I'm just 10 miles away from the airport. It takes me an hour to get there.

David: Thanks for the tips, Benito!

And I shook hands with him, instantly regretting not asking him out for a round or two. Pics to follow.

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Worship the Voltes.

And, Dyno, his full name is Mark Gordon.

Ippei Mine (Mark Gordon) is a rodeo champion. He was orphaned while still a young boy. His mother died trying to save him from a pack of wolves. After his mother's death, he grew bitter, aloof, but cool under crisis. He learned how to live in the streets and perform odd jobs. This kind of life strengthened his personality. Upon joining the rodeo, he learned to ride horses and how to use a whip. He found his greatest friend in a white stallion known as Alpha. The two, man and beast, became inseparable. He won two rodeo championship contests with Alpha as his horse. Then one day, The Earth International Defense Force asked Mark to join the team. When he refused, he was taken forcibly, so for the first time, Mark and Alpha where separated. Dr. Hamaguchi has Alpha brought to Big Falcon early in the series. Voiced by Kazuyuki Sogabe in the original Voltes V series.

Being orphaned, a somewhat consistent theme in Japanese anime, has a lot to do with World War II, particularly the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The underlying theme of course is finding strength despite the circumstances.

Mojo's back. Now, where's Jamie?

Tags: Voltes+V, Voltes, anime

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If you didn't read about and follow Kyle MacDonald's quest to swap his way up to a house (in just about so many places out there, especially mainstream media), then it's too late: he's done it.

A great anecdotal demonstration of the power of the internet to bring people together over a bunch of useless things.

(Honestly, when he got to a used Skidoo, I knew he was going to make it.)

Tags: One+Red+Paperclip, craigslist, swapping, internet

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I've been meaning to post on this area. Since I recommended Pandora to a bunch of friends (some of them behind firewalls; one's just plain stuck to Last.fm), I've been asked about what web apps and free software do I use the most -- and maybe they can find it useful too.

Well, there's Qumana, which is a great and free blog publisher. Works about as good as Ecto, but it's better because it's free.

There's the great time suck, Stumbleupon!, which is really the best way to find all sorts of stuff online. And, it sits on top of your Firefox browser, which is another nice piece. If you're not browsing with Firefox yet, then you're a sucker for Safari. Or, maybe you're browsing with Flock, which is yet to grow on me, but has a lot of potential. (If you can blog better with it, then it's got a real edge. Firefox has a blog plug-in right in the browser called Performancing (Iggy, take note), but it doesn't support MT so it's not for me.).

Adium lets me put all my messengers in one app. And if that doesn't work, there's Meebo (which might cut through firewalls).

There's Gmail, which allows you to POP check it from your desktop email app. And Tadalist, where I can quickly whip up a list, print it (or sync) and leave (and reuse) for next time.

Those of you who like portals, design your own at Pageflakes, or Netvibes. Best place to go networking: Linkedin, until Facebook launches for the Philippines.

P.S. Stock Xchng is a decent place for pegs -- all free.

Tags: Free, Qumana, Ecto, Stumbleupon, Firefox, Performancing, Flock, Adium, Meebo, Gmail, Tadalist, Pageflakes, Netvibes, Linkedin, Facebook, Stock+Xchng

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I'm peeing in my pants: David Sedaris is coming to a bookstore near me. Excited to no end! I'm getting my books signed.

He's often published in The New Yorker (Shouts and Murmurs). Read his stuff here. Sedaris often kicks off with an irresistably tasty setup that you're immediately hooked:

On the flight to Raleigh, I sneezed, and the cough drop I’d been sucking on shot from my mouth, ricocheted off my folded tray table, and landed, as I remember it, in the lap of the woman beside me, who was asleep and had her arms folded across her chest. I’m surprised that the force didn’t wake her—that’s how hard it hit—but all she did was flutter her eyelids and let out a tiny sigh, the kind you might hear from a baby.

Read "Turbulence" here.

Tags: David+Sedaris, Humorist, Essayist

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If you haven't discovered Pandora yet (imho, better than Last.fm), you're missing a lot. Based on the massive Music Genome Project, you enter the name of your favorite band (Guided By Voices?) and it will create a radio station for you that will play -- commercial free -- GBV tracks plus tracks that it thinks you will like based on your preference for Uncle Bob's music.

Pete Cashmore explains:

Pandora, you might remember, finds relationships between tracks by employing trained musicians to listen to them and note down key features - you seed the radio station with some tracks you like and it automatically plays songs with similar properties. This new service will provide a nice revenue stream for Pandora, and also gives users more access to the Genome data.

I entered Sun Kil Moon and I haven't heard a single track I didn't like. Stuff from Mike Furber, a band called Consonant, Joel Plaskett and Wilco.

Hours and hours of good tunes.

UPDATE: Thewilyfilipino just brought the new Mac beta verson of Last.fm to my attention. While it is better than it was before (standalone app also beats Pandora's in-browser form) I'm getting a lot of stalling from the Last.fm server and, unfortunately, forced to listen to a lot of OMD.

Technorati Tags: internet+radio, music, pandora

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Over at Wikipedia, there's an entry entitled "List of problems solved by MacGyver." Kill some time and relive the genius. Genius like:

In order to stop a pursuing Jeep, MacGyver builds a roadblock out of a fire extinguisher.

MacGyver creates a rocket-propelled flare out of bamboo, fertilizer, matches, a strip of cloth, a small tin can, a thin metal rod, a funnel, and a wooden spoon.

Of course, there are other things about MacGyver to think about.

Over the weekend I have been watching a lot of Macgyver. I haven't seen any episodes since I was a young girl but I've noticed something now that I overlooked before or simply didn't notice - Macgyver is a total manwhore.

Hence, the metaphor of the Swiss Army Knife.

Technorati Tags: MacGyver, TV technology

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After several days of “normal” bowel movements, I had another strange one this morning. Basically, it was a big spongy mass but was easily broken up into a long, mucus-like strand. While the entire stool wouldn’t hold together for a photo, I did manage to photograph a large piece of it:

Oh my god. NSFL (Not Safe for Lunch)

Continue reading "Colon Cleansing" »

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They performed it all live at the First Annual Net Popstar Competition

And, to memorialize their stardom:

A swell final project.

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22. Never talk to someone in the restroom unless you're doing the same thing—urinating, waiting in line or washing your hands.

24. After your sixth drink, do not look at yourself in the mirror. It will shake your confidence.

31. If you have been roommates with someone more than six months, you may drink all their beer, even if it's hidden, as long as you leave them one.

58. Fighting an extremely drunk person when you are sober is hilarious.

It's a lot like this website.

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And if you're feeling like an irreverent treat, try this epicurean fantasy.

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Tonight I learned yet another helpful life lesson from one of my patients. If you're on the street corner selling coke and you see the cops coming to bust you don't eat all your coke. Having been taught this valuable lesson I will now know better than to do this and wind up going to the ER in handcuffs, seizing uncontrollably, aspirating my vomit and doing all of this with a white powder moustache looking like and ad for "Got Coke?"

Now if that isn't funny:

#6 Never, ever leave flashlights, shampoo bottles, beer bottles or any long, circular object on the floor because someday you will fall on it and it will somehow, work its way up your rectum.

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About thirty more new buildings and features are en route, making sure that next Christmas' village will be superior. I promised to help out with the village layout, including adding more train tracks, roads and natural features such as hills and sloping landscapes. This includes a hospital and more shopping!

A very welcome stop in Los Banos by November. Bring the kids and the cameras.

The Chinese Restaurant, near City Hall.

Assorted Shops along the Rue du Monde (tentatively).

Detail from a rooftop.

Outside the Oak Leaf Farm people wait for a carriage.

Residential rooftops as the sun ascends.

Morning breaks.

The Grace Theater is the local Cinema Paradiso.

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But how I wish they were all Virgin Atlantic.

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Please watch it at least twice: these guys have definitely reached cult status, and that includes props for the guy in the back playing Counterstrike.

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The championship for RPS was recently concluded, commissioned by the World RPS Society (who else?).

If you don't know how to play it (good God!), here are some basic rules. For more advanced players, you can learn some mad skillz like The Crescendo, or the Avalanche (which is rock-rock-rock, of course). There's even an online trainer if you want to practice your RPS skills.

And, if that isn't enough education, check out the Official RPS Strategy Guide.

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Disappearing pink dots. (Proof that Lindsay Lohan isn't really thin?)

Some really cool pictures taken by people throwing their cameras in the air.

And, the ancient art of rock balancing.

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Frankly, I'm shocked. I'd much rather have Chris Nolan do it.

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Oh, please tell me this will happen, at least in my lifetime!

�We are in the planning stage right now, identifying locations where it would be viable to create the bike lanes,� said MMDA General Manager Robert Nacianceno. �The idea is to create lanes where people can both walk and bike to short distances, instead of taking their cars.�

Taking off from bike lanes established in Marikina City by MMDA Chair Bayani Fernando during his term as city mayor, the agency has created a technical committee to plan the project dubbed the �Foot and Pedal Ways Project.�

�It is important for people to have these lanes especially if they just want to go to nearby destinations like the grocery or market,� Nacianceno added.

�We could even place the lanes in the middle of roads, or add more lanes to existing roads. There could be 100 kilometers of bike lanes or more than that, depending on the findings of the technical working group,� he said.

I would love to support this project. 100 kilometers! Free brochure and website design! Bring it!

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From all over the world, updated daily (I hope), 417 papers (frontpage only) in jpg (via Flash) and pdf format.

Yun nga lang, walang Manila Bulletin!

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Gasp! This guy is really good. His chalk murals are in perspective (see the last two images) and at an angle they look amazingly real.

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This weekend's training ride reached a new milestone: 1,000 miles on my beloved bike. Of course, that's over 6 months, and half of that's really on a trainer.

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With 5 days to go, Alicia Keys and the Black Eyed Peas have joined Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Wonder and Jay-Z (and others) for the Philly version of Live8 -- all about 3 blocks away from where I live.

If any of you are coming down (or up), give me a holler and we'll hook up.

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The Shroud of Turin, held by its believers as a thermo-nuclear imprint of the Christ on what was suppossedly the cloth used to wrap him, is a fake. Here, in detail, is how scientists confirmed it, revealing the process that anyone who has any 15th century knowledge could replicate.

Now if they can only prove that Tom and Katie are fakes too.

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For every one legal mp3 download (and there's lots out there for free), there are, according to this estimate, 16 illegal ones. That seems like a small number, but the absolute values are staggering:

The Yankee Group's Michael Goodman puts the number of 'legal' DRM-encumbered downloads at 330 million last year - compared to 5 billion downloads from the P2P networks. So for every 'legal' purchase, there are 16 illegal downloads.

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Chris Wherry barely held off late runs by a pursuit led by Chris Horner and Danny Pate but the Health Net rider was not be challenged. The women's race ended in an even closer sprint.

Until you've seen a race, and rang a cowbell, you haven't lived. Pics do a better job.

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Are you sure you're the only one drinking from your cup?

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Fan sites are abuzz with messages that Apple Computer Inc. is fine-tuning an enhanced iPod with roughly 50 percent more storage and a color screen to display photos.

This could only mean one thing good for me (the future iPod owner): that the early generation ones, and the smaller ones could get cheaper.

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Ms. Lee's work pioneered crime scene investigation -- and showed noobs their mistakes in an exhibition called "The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death". They're at the office of the state examiner in Maryland. Pretty dollhouses, corpses, nooses and blood smears.

Article is in the NYTimes, free registration, yada yada.

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Scour the internet. You will not find a better hourly rate for performance ice cream eating anywhere in the contiguous United States as far as I am aware.

Here's the ad.

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Meanwhile, Johnny Depp is rumored to come in and play Lex Luthor with Scarlett Johansson as Lois Lane. Who will be the Man of Steel? Maybe a new unknown. They should give Kristin Kreuk a cameo just for the heck of it.

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Everything you know about anything (washing and folding clothes in particular) will change once you've seen this video.

Link thanks to Andrea Harner.

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This freeware game has been around for a very long time, and I've recently just uncovered it thanks to an entire afternoon of Pusoy Dos in pollen-coated Valley Forge and a phone call to my brother about it. In this Hong Kong version (called "Big Two") the suit rankings are a little different, but you'll get used to it. And you can re-order your cards easily by suit or by face value (and thus, by pairs or threes).

So, find that dead and useless Palm of yours and make it your new best friend.

Download it here (right-click and save as).

(If anyone knows who the author is, let me know and we can properly credit this wonderful person.)

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Regurgitating these laughs from last year. Incredibly funny.

Noisy doors.

You can't walk three feet in a starship without some door whooshing or screeching at you. My office building has automatic sliding doors. They're dead silent. If those doors went "wheet!" every time a person walked through them, about once a month some guy in accounting would snap and go on a shooting rampage. Sorry Scotty, the IEEE has revoked your membership until you learn to master WD-40.

Mwahahaha!!

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Never too late to innovate! Presenting Bananaguard.

I'm really into Skyhigh Blue, if you ask me. Quick question: what if you're packing "latundan" bananas?

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Yup, 1 Gig. More than a hundred times more than Yahoo or Hotmail. Plus, keyword email searching. Wow.

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Oh, boy!

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced the world’s highest capacity 3.5-inch ATA hard drive, the 400GB Deskstar 7K400. The new drive has been designed for audio video (AV) and ATA nearline environments, where large capacities and a lower per-gigabyte cost are key requirements. A new industry-standard AV feature set makes the drive well-suited for use in high-end digital video recorders (DVRs) that are designed to record substantial amounts of high-quality digital programming.

I know a few people who will be very happy. Link via Slashdot.

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Link via Memepool

I just couldn't grind that rock, okay? It was tougher than I thought it would be! There's nothing wrong with me!! Now NASA wants to run all these tests. When are they going to stop treating me like Spirit?! You'd think on a planet this big I could avoid living in Spirit's shadow, but nooooooo. It's just not fair!

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ee, I'm the kind of guy who would give his sister oodles of minutes on her pre-paid cellphone as a birthday gift, for example. Globe now has a method where you can share as little as 2 pesos of your own load and transfer that to someone who, well, doesn't have 2 bits left to make a call.

Puhretty interesting, although this is obviously creating more traffic in the already crowded Globe network. When I get home, I can pick up my dad's phone and text myself a load! He'll never know where it went! Cool!

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o what if I don't have an iPod, but it means a lot if I don't drink Pepsi. And, yes, I was in a conversation about this promo that claims that 1 in 3 bottles will have 99 cents worth of iTunes.

Now, hear this: there is a way to "never lose" Pepsi's iTunes giveaway. There are compelling diagrams.

Hold the bottle at an angle, and...


... look for the winning cap. If you see "again" then you're holding a loser.

I'm thinking of walking to Wawa to give it a spin.

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eing my homepage, I seldom miss any of these. Just in case you missed some, here they are.

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n the Tom, Dick and Rummy Department (that's Ridge, Cheney and Rumsfeld): Pictured above is the "Twin Cobra Fist", one of many martial arts defense techniques used by Sec. Donald Rumsfeld.

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Very very funny well-edited (and obviously copyright-infringing) Peanuts Vs. Outkast video. You must see this. Wait a while, they have a slow connection speed. Needs Quicktime.

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I want one! I want one! I want one! (Hey, it's a Benjamin Bratt episode!) Yummy!

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This site is currently under beta, and for some reason, we can get into their beta! Wait, so, everything is in HTML with that first link, huh? Well, feeling duped? Here's the beta link, choose your location (I chose Philly, will work for sure) and you will see one ground-breaking jaw-dropping accomplishment (ie. the envelope of Flash and XML). Wow. Just wow.

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Geez, these guys smoke it.

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Previously unbeknownst, now the ire of many a moneymaker, Photoshop CS will not allow you to open or import images of certain currencies. Pretty cool, and pretty paranoid too. (All right, it's pretty normal with this government.)

I wonder if it will eventually recognized pirated stock.

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But they did launch one. It'll carry roughly 1,000 songs in it's 4 GB disk for the same battery life. Comes in 5 colors.

UPDATE: Alpine is set to release a car stereo unit that allows you to connect your iPod and control it.

Once you connect your iPod to the stereo with a single cable, you can operate it with the receiver's buttons and view playlists, album, artist, and songs on the unit's display. The solution simultaneously charges the iPod's battery so that it's ready to go when you reach your destination.

And, if you snap one of these on, hey, you're all set (read: content distribution).

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Via GA: this stuff rocks.

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Via Memepool: The Programmer versus Serial Killer Quiz. (requires Flash)

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Loaded with upto 250 gig of hard disk space, you can do oodles on this thing.

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I had too much fun with this one: swiped from Metafilter, here's Guess the Name. I threw everything at it (Scrubs, Law and Order, MacGyver) and he got it all right. Except for Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.

Enjoy!!

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With a celebrity spokesperson in the form of Wile. E. Coyote, these guys must be filling up those order forms pretty quick.

Hey, mom. Can I get the ACME Jet Propelled Pogo Stick for Christmas?

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A must for every office. Instead of taking a coffeebreak, amp up the adrenaline with a round of Little Fighter! It's absolutely free and will bring you back to your Streetfighter days. Simple, three button attacks (with another four to control).

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Gollum wins Best Digital Performance in the recent MTV Movie Awards. Watch his acceptance video.

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Via GA, when was the last time GIF animation impressed you? Right after you see this stuff. (In Japanese; ust click and watch.)

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LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) - A movie stunt camp for kids opens in Liverpool in July, organizer Greg Powell said Wednesday. Powell has arranged stunt sequences on such films as the "Harry Potter (news - web sites)" series, "Mission Impossible" and "Lord of the Rings."

He said he wanted children to understand that the violence they saw in films was make-believe. "We're just showing them that filmmaking is not dangerous. It's safe. We teach them fight routines," he told Reuters. Paramedics would be on site at all times during the week-long camp which will cost $648.

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Via Geisha Asobi (my current-favorite-blog-of-the-week), here's a way to reconstruct the face of that punk you saw staring you down in the subway, or, that fourth grade teacher you hate for confiscating your water pistol, or, that gorilla that shoved you down the flight of stairs, or...

And, you can save the faces!

(This has Medical Detectives written all over it.)

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I wonder if there's free parking.

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This site has scale models of starships from Romulan Scouts, to Vorlon Fighters, to a Zentraedi Command Ship, to the Imperial Lambda Class Shuttle, to Boeing 747s compared side-by-side.

Way, way tight.

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Pretty darn cool.

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Maaaan, you guys make me proud. Your best issue is Ctrl + Alt + Del. Can I contribute? :-D

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As the Stock Market tanks, let your money reach the stars at HSX.

Buy shares of your favorite actors and their new movies and watch their values rise or fall based on their success. Stocks soar with a blockbuster opening at the box office and plummet with a bomb no one went to see.

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Maaaaan, this thing is the bomb. Hey, Z, you're my daddy.

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