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.

Tags: Philippines, Yugatech, netrepreneurs, interview

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