A Pinoy Blog About Nothing

First they were cloning sheep, now for some reason, they've made cats glow in the dark. Suggested further studies after glow in the dark cats: 1. Dogs with volume-controlled barks. Get a chihuahua, make it sound like great dane. 2. Explosive roaches (so you can take care of other roaches). 3. iTunes compatible canaries. 4. Solar-power conductive lizards. 5. Diurnal gerbils (so they'd stop running in that stupid wheel at night).

Found these interesting tidbits of search patterns from the Philippines on Google's Zeitgeist page. Interesting that most of items searched were about entertainers and about entertainment (why Phantom of the Opera? Are they putting up a show there?). I mean it shouldn't be a surprise really. I was wondering if people just go directly to their known sources and their bookmarks for their non-entertainment information. This snapshot was ...

Happy May Day! Strange thing as I was checking my desktop (21:38 PST). I pulled up the Digg feed and this is all I saw (click for a bigger pic but you get the gist with the cropped one): This is apparently the community's response the perceived censorship of Digg's administrators/editors. The removal of posts containing a controversial string of code which would supposedly crack the encoding of high ...

"Workers distracted by email and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers, new research has claimed." That explains a....what was I saying?

So Internet god Google and sneaker pimps Nike decide to launch a social networking site to go up against MySpace, Friendster and Facebook. The Internet + Overpriced Sneakers = Techno Savvy Health Nuts. Must be their way of weeding out couch potatoes, pale-skinned goth emos and snarky sleep-deprived GaM3rz right? Unfortunately, very much like how Coca-Cola in Chinese translates to "Bite the Wax Tadpole", Google and Nike's offspring ...

First the Walkman Phone the owners of which have been raving about it, now this. Currently lusting after this beauty - the SE K790/K800. I'm stuck with my first and hopefully last Nokia because my current provider didn't have that great a selection of phones when we switched (Razr? Puhleease.) I was thinking of getting a P910 but that's a bit of, ahem, overkill. And so, Sony-Ericsson decided ...

If you haven't downloaded it yet, you should. Some of the new features I like are the drag and drop browser tabs and clear private information using keyboard shortcuts.