30 August 2006

S&M Philippine Style

Domina Jane of San Francisco and Los Angeles
Mistress of fetish/BDSM/Disciplinary Arts.
Guest lecturer at The Living Room for September
Unit 24, North Syquia, 1991 MH del Pilar.
September 1, 2006
9:00pm to 11:00pm

A dominatrix in the Philippines...

And she's going to do a lecture...

Quick! Gather up those whips and chains!

Oh... it's by reservation so click the link and get going! This is an order!

Fight Club Was Really A Film About Calvin and Hobbes…


Metaphilm has a really cool piece on how Fight Club is really a film about Calvin and Hobbes where Ed Norton portrays a grown-up version of Calvin and Brad Pitt plays his imaginary pal Hobbes, reincarnated as Tyler Durden.

I posted about this years ago. But in light of it being Farked!, i decided to repost it...

KARATE KID BULLY TOPS 'MOVIE DICKS' POLL

KARATE KID bully BILLY ZABKA has topped a poll of 'movie dicks' in a new GQ magazine survey. The champion wrestler played blond JOHNNY LAWRENCE in the cult 1984 martial arts movie, and has beaten out WEDDING CRASHERS' jock ZACHARY LODGE and NATIONAL LAMPOON'S ANIMAL HOUSE character GREG MARMALADE to top the GQ poll.

Funny though, I always thought that the guy was played by James Spader!

17 August 2006

This may be old news for you...

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a web album application which automatically labels images by recognizing persons, objects and places? Or imagine Google Images searching not just for keywords contained in the HTML page... but also for keywords extracted from images themselves.

Google seems to have slowed down on it's acquisition run but when they do, they really target the cool stuff.

12 August 2006

How to Hold a Successful Garage Sale


Looking for a great way to get rid of your household clutter and make some extra cash at the same time? A garage sale or yard sale may be just the ticket. Garage sales are easy to plan and manage, and they can turn large, unwieldy old lamps and dishes into smaller, more manageable piles of cash....

This is becoming a trend here in the Philippines. Except of course, some filipino garage sales sell stuff that US based relatives sent them that they haven't used. I have bought a small trampoline, two Simply Red albums and some of those beady courtain thingys. Nothing really Philippine made...

03 August 2006

How to Cheat a Polygraph Test (Lie Detector)

"...Remember that the polygrapher is not your friend. The polygrapher may try to convince you that he or she is on your side and will help you out if you’ll just be truthful. This is deception; don’t buy it..."

In the Philippines, I hear that lie detectors go off the scale whenever the machines approace government offices.

02 August 2006

Ledger's Joker to take on Batman




Brokeback Mountain star Heath Ledger will play The Joker in the next Batman film, titled The Dark Knight, film studio Warner Brothers has announced.

The Australian actor reprises the role memorably played by Jack Nicholson in 1989's Batman film.


Will the Joker now attempt to kiss The Batman?

Will The Batman sport rubber nipples?

How will the Philippine audience react?

Well from Gay Cowboy to Happy Clown, the possibilities are endless. I wonder if he'll bring some wonderful toys.

Microsoft ships "Vista Industrial Design Toolkit" to PC manufacturers


...the kit basically describes Microsoft's vision of what a "Vista PC" should look like. The look features "accelerated curves" and "purposeful contrast," among other qualities. "We want people to fall in love with their PCs, not to simply use them to be productive and successful," reads the enclosed booklet. "We want PCs to be objects of pure desire..."


I wonder how long after the official launch before pirated copies and software cracks of Vista will spring up here in the Philippines.

The real question in my mind is whether it's worth switching from Windows XP to Windows Vista. I mean, I am already content with Windows XP as my operating system. Not to mention the countless PCs here in the Philippines that are still using Windows 98.