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• What if Star Wars characters had Facebook?  #
• Dive Into HTML5 → Mark Pilgrim’s new “dive–into” installment is promising. #
• Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell → And you thought “playing on Facebook” was as literal as that. #
• Shakira: Did It Again (video) → Wow! #
• History of Fonts on the Ignite Show → Bram Pitoyo’s 5–minute talk at Ignite Portland 5. Great! #
• One Hundred Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do → Okay this is just the first fifty as the other half is coming next week, but everything on the list is quite spot on. I’ve learned a lot from it too! #
• Journey of a lifetime → Google’s Sergey Brin writes a personal note on his rarely updated blog, because October 25 marks a milestone in his (and his family’s) life. #
• LIFE Magazine @ Google Books → Read one of the most influential magazines of the past century, all the way back to its oldest entries. #
• A Voice for Change (video) → Sugarfree and Katwo for the VOICE for a Better Life Music Festival on 10.23.09 at the SM Mall of Asia. #
• Chuck Klosterman Repeats The Beatles → A funny way of looking at the Beatles. #
• Be lucky, it’s an easy skill to learn → “Those who think they’re unlucky should change their outlook and discover how to generate good fortune, says Richard Wiseman.” #
• 100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words → “For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content’s own words.” #
• The Big Picture: Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy) → We make it to the Boston Globe’s “The Big Picture,” albeit sadly. #
• Jordan’s night to remember turns petty → “No one’s laughing anymore. Once and for all, Michael: It’s over. You won.” #
• Spot → :( #
• The Big Picture: One year after Hurricane Ike → Before and after photos around the gulf of Texas which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Ike last year. Will and desire surely goes a long way towards recovery; if only we had that sort of spirit in the Philippines instead of political carnivals and a passion for wasting time on noontime shows and telenovelas… #
• Letters of Note: For the sake of humanity → This could’ve made a difference, but we’d never know. #
• He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died → Beautiful, though it will make you sad. #
• How to Make a Fish Trap in 30 Seconds → I gotta try this next time. #
• Wide Screen versus Full Screen (video) → What’s the deal with watching movies in widescreen as opposed to pan & scan like most movie channels do? #

• What’s great about the iPhone? → For everything, there’s an app for that. #
• Netflix Culture → How they do things right, the Netflix way. #
• Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple → “Chief executive of Apple Inc and owner of Jackling House changed the world and cheated death. So why the paranoia?” #

• Usain Bolt: 9.58sec (HD video) → Bolt’s world record run in the 100 meter dash in Berlin. #
• Critics that matter → Because you need not listen to every one of them. #
• The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging → One day I’ll put all these lessons to good use. Someday. #
• Ramen Profitable → “A startup’s destination is to grow really big; ramen profitability is a trick for not dying en route.” #
• Huxley was right and not Orwell. Seriously.  #
• No F1 comeback for Schumacher! → Sad, it would’ve helped the sport in many ways. #
• “Wow, you must have a really nice camera.” → My personal favorite. #
• Write When Inspired → Zeldman at his best: “You are writing for readers, a duty as sacred, in its way, as parenting. If you don’t believe the previous sentence, if you think writing is mainly about getting paid, I’m sorry you wasted your time reading this page, and I hope you find another way to earn a living soon.” #
• Eric Gamalinda on Cory Aquino → “If the Philippines never rose from the ‘long nightmare’ after she took over the presidency, we have no one to blame but ourselves. ” Aray. #
• Misunderstanding markup (jpg comics) → So HTML 5 really is the future! #
• ToneMatrix → “Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer.” Best use of Flash I’ve seen in quite a while. #
• A Tale of Two Kellys → What are the chance of finding someone with exactly the same name as yours? Now here’s a twist to this scenario. #
• What is the Black Swan Theory?  #

• Direk Audition Special (video) → You gotta see this. Now. #
• We Rent Movies, So Why Not College Textbooks? → The problem why this probably won’t fly here in the Philippines? Photocopiers. #
• Space Age Style: 20 Forgotten Photos from the Apollo 11 Mission  #
• Even Better Than The Real Thing → Crazy spoof that got a lot of people watching. No, it’s not better than the real thing. #
• Straight from Google: What You Need to Know → SEO for bloggers, as Matt Cutts would tell you. #
• Forbes 2009 Most Powerful Athletes – #57 Manny Pacquiao → Yes, the Pacman is right up there now with the top sportsmen on the planet. #
• King James left the playoffs as a loser → Which probably explains why he’ll never be like Michael Jordan, or any of the previous NBA legends. #
• Heaven & Hell → A different way at looking at them. #
• Get Out And Play → Wow! #
• How American Homeless Stay Wired → The meat is in the comments, though not the type you see in slashdot. You gotta read it. #
• Any profession is in constant, ever-changing negotiation with “Free vs Paid”  #
• Lights made from water bottles → An ingenious way of maximizing the sunlight and saving energy. #
• The Innovative Office → Here’s a nifty hack I’d love to do to my room for more storage space. #
• Save Ferris: Let Me In (video) → I never thought kittens could be cute enough for a good music video. I was wrong! #
• Taxes on book imports lifted → But of course there’s no need to investigate who’s responsible for the stupid taxes anyway. Or should we look into it? #
• Pictured: Stunning images of kingfishers in action → Amazing! #
• Dai Vernon’s Triumph tutorial → The trick that fooled Harry Houdini, demystified. #
• Luxury vs. premium → Much like buying Apple versus buying a Sony Vaio. #
• You’ve got to hate his job… → Long hours with no rests? It’s almost like hell. #
• 5 Great Men Who Built Their Careers on Plagiarism → Interesting. #
• Dispatches From Manila → We never fail to amuse ourselves with our brand of (stupid) comedy. I have to laugh about this, or else I’ll cry. #
• Smart denies owning patriotism campaign site  #
• The truth about akomismo.org → Advocacy? Maybe not. #
• Eva’s useful guide to Ubuntu 9.04 → It’s around the corner so this will come useful. #
• BlogBank taps Web advertising → Jayvee talks about the BlogBank on TV. Woohoo! #
• Reversing Your Email Composition → A better way of writing your emails. #
• Cooking Vegetables → “Excessive use of any of the controls we have available to us might demand immediate attention more effectively, but they seldom satisfy in the long run. Like perfectly cooked vegetables, the perfect print is neither overdone nor underdone, but just right.” #
• Twouble with Twitters → Because you gotta twit about everything? Think about it again. #
• Flutter: The New Twitter → A good mockumentary on the twitter culture. #
• Paid To Do It 72 Times → Now that really sucks. #
• Skype May Be The Biggest Winner From The Web 2.0 Era → One of them, surely. #
• Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet → But here in the Philippines, it’s actually getting bigger. We know. #
• Upholding the Standards of the PSHS System Petition → Pisay ka ba? Read and sign the petition, you know you should. #
• Chrome Experiments → A fun list of things you thought your browser couldn’t do. You can even use it with Firefox too! #
• PDN’s 30 2009 → New and emerging photographers in 2009. #
• Polymorph: Hacking Business Models → If this is how we’d run companies in the Philippines, sign me up full time! #
• Why forced change password policies are ridiculous → I agree, it’s almost always stupid. #
• 8 Harsh Truths that Will Improve Your Life → Some things you just have to accept. #
• How A Web Newspaper Should Be Built → Interesting. #
• Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street → Math is bad. Always was, always will be. #
• “Free Public WiFi”? → It’s a viral bug. #
• PROJECT: FRESH TAKE → A RockEd project with the mission to provide free graduation photo sessions for our public high schools. Support natin ‘to! #
• Beatles Complete on Ukulele → An ambitious project that aims to record all 185 original Beatles tracks on ukelele, featuring a different artist for every song. #
• Are the Creators of Twitter Living in the Last Dreamworld on Earth?  #
• Base System → Explaining the “Base System.” #
• Gary Granada Versus GMA Kapuso → Surely there is enough reason to believe that his work was used to produce the final arrangement. What do you think? #
• Security, Cryptography, and Encryption  #
• How one coffee shop used Twitter to double their clientele. What’s YOUR story? | Blog of Mr. Tweet  #
• 1981 primitive Internet report on KRON → This video you gotta see! #
• White House Unbuttons Formal Dress Code → What a dream boss! #
• The rich and the poor → … and how we see the world. #
• 8 ways to ruin your chances to retire → Now I’m worried. #
• Supreme Eraserheads scoop! → “Eraserheads: The Final Set” on March 7, 2009! #
• All Safe as US Airways Plane Crashes Into Hudson River in New York → Amazing pilot. What a miracle. #
• The Year 2038 Problem → January 19, 2038, at 7 seconds past 3:14 AM GMT. Fear. #
• JPG Magazine Says Goodbye → Sad to see a good thing come to an end. #
• Scene stealer: The aXXo files → Now who doesn’t know aXXo? #
• Shouting in the Datacenter → Shouting slows down your disks. #
• Police shoot, kill UW student in Nazi-era garb → “Friends dispute report that he pointed weapon at officers.” #
• Making vs. Taking → Think Cliquebooth and the rest. #
• 20 signs you don’t want that web design project → And don’t even try to think otherwise. #
• Official Fix for the Zune 30 Fail → Microsoft’s Zune 30 fails on 12:01 a.m. of December 31, 2008. All of them. Luckily, the bug lives for only a day. What a programming mess. #
• Tangina, may mga mayayayaman na naman kanina sa clubhouse nagsuntukan. → “Nanghina ako nung narinig kong umiiyak na yung binatilyo, gusto kong magsumbong sa Diyos, kay Allah, sa namatay kong ina. Paano ba ititigil ‘tong mga halimaw na ‘to?” #
• Dealing with Cancer… → I never imagined life could be so real so soon. #
• Why I created a WordPress theme framework  #
• Why Save Polaroid Film? → At the end of the day, it might simply, sadly be a hard business decision. #
• Lengthening short urls so that you don’t have to → Yes, just the opposite of URL shortening, used client-side. #
• What is viral marketing? → It’s not just what you think it is. Yes, you. #
• “I Am Not A Programmer”  #
• Hard Work is Dead. Call It ‘Work Ethic 2.0′ → “Hard work is dead. Are you paying attention?” #
• Two ways to deal with “no”  #
• Wear Good Shoes: Advice to young photographers  #
• 2008 Greek riots → One day, all it will need is the flick of a button… #
• WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” → WP 2.7 is finally here! #
• Inside the world’s most annoying economic crisis. → “The economy is still growing at a robust clip of around 8 percent year over year, but out-of-control inflation, estimated by independent analysts to be around 25 percent, has effectively devalued the currency, making it ironic that coins have become such an obsession.” #
• 10 mistakes new Linux administrators make → And you don’t want to commit even just one of them. #
• Herman Miller Embody Chair → Can’t Santa be real just this Christmas? I desperately want this. #
• What is a Photojournalist? → “Verbs.” #
• The IT Contract From Hell → Quite a long read, but I’m sure you’d enjoy it. #
• New MacBook Pros’s Glossy Screens: Complaints on the Rise → Are the glossy screens on the new MacBook and MacBook Pro really that bad? #
• We’ll Fill This Space, but First a Nap → EnergyPods for power naps at the office? I think that would be the time to go back to corporate life. #
• 12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean → Because snappy markup is a good thing. #
• Black Man Given Nation’s Worst Job → “It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can’t catch a break.” — The Onion doing what they do best. #
• The next President of the United States → In photos. #
• Obama’s victory caps struggles of previous generations → “He’s going to bring the freshness we need. We’ve just been bogged down so long. We need this shot in the arm.” #
• The world is too big for love to be real → “But I still do miss her.” Idol ko talaga si Jaemark. #
• Honda Fit’s concentrated strength still a hit → It seems the car locally known as the 2008 Honda Jazz is a welcome 2.0 version of the original. If only I could afford it. #
• This Cris Rios is a Thief! → It’s appalling that some people would steal photos from other photographers for whatever reasons. #
• Google Chrome Scroll Mouse Fix (Patch) → If you’re using Synaptics mousepad drivers and can’t scroll up when using Google Chrome, here’s the patch to fix this issue. #
• How I Make $2,000 Every Year Without Doing Very Much → A creative way of passively monetizing your content. #
• 10 Principles of the PHP Masters  #
• Maybe you can’t make money doing what you love → It could be the harsh reality for some of us. Ouch. #
• Top 5 Websites to Download Free fonts for both Windows and Mac  #
• Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets → Real live and updated data for your spreadsheets without the manual copy–and–paste burden. #
• Nine steps to Powerpoint magic  #
• Introduction to PHP Regex → One day I’ll learn to read regex like prose. One day. #

• 10 simple things you can do to improve your writing → Because we all need it. #
• Eraseyourheads – Hala Pack-up (spoof video) → Bitoy just had to spoof the Eraserheads, so he did it well and made everyone smile. #
• BDO, Metrobank, RCBC hit by Lehman collapse. Should we panic? → Is there a looming money crisis? Short answer, no. #
• I Spent 16 Years in Jail for a Crime I Didn’t Commit. Here’s What Should Be Done. → ” I went to jail as a teenager for a rape and murder I didn’t commit. Here are the reforms necessary to make sure it does not happen again.” #
• Manageable → “A WordPress plugin that allows for inline editing of the date, title, author, categories, tags, status and more on both posts and pages without leaving the “Manage” admin sections.” #
• Things Better Left Off Twitter: The Funeral Of A 3-Year-Old Boy  #
• Firefox to Embrace Porn With New Private Browsing Mode → Every great browser needs an invisible cheat. #
• What have we given up for security?  #
• Sandbox for Movable Type → It’s SixApart’s easiest solution to hop on someone else’s train. But then again, it guarantees great designs for the masses, and that’s what matters. #
• A Web OS? Are You Dense? → In a generalized kind of (twisted) way, it makes sense. #
• one fine week → Gang gets to talk to each of the e-heads and writes a story, all in one week. #
• Jorem’s Eraserheads Reunion Concert photos → Perhaps the most amazing photos of the e-heads reunion concert you’ll ever see! #

• And then there’s Haskell… → Programming jokes rarely get this racy! #
• Photo Tampering Throughout History  #
• How Captcha was foiled: Are you a man or a mouse? → “Captcha systems to stop automated posting have been ‘completely broken’ by spammers, experts say. So what’s the alternative?” #
• The Psychology of Credit Cards?  #
• Eraserheads reunion concert under new sponsor no longer free but better organized → For 1,500 pesos, we now don’t have to deal with the guilt of promoting smoking. #
• What is multitasking? → “Multitasking is the art of distracting yourself from two things you’d rather not be doing by doing them simultaneously.” #
• What Makes for a Good Blog? → “Good blogs make you want to start your own blog.” #
• How to REALLY get tickets for the Eraserheads Reunion Concert → Fritz shares “was-secret” info on how to watch the upcoming Eraserheads reunion concert. #
• The Five Percent Solution → “Who needs another chat client? You do.” #
• The need for greed → “Michael Phelps, the greatest swimmer of all time, eats 12,000 calories a day.” #
• 10 Best Application UIs of 2008 → “Many winners employ dashboards to give users a single overview of complex information and use lightboxes to ensure that users notice dialogs. Also, the Office 2007 ribbon showed surprisingly strong early adoption.” #
• What would you pay for freedom? → “Ricardo Acebedo, 71. Rest in Peace, free man. You will be missed.” #
• The Apple Mac Cost Misconception : Macs and Their Prices → Macs aren’t as expensive as we think they are as proven by this comparison. #
• PocketMod: The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer → Printable DIY paper organizers with various several page layouts to choose from. #
• Days with My Father → Can you bend the truth and still keep it real? Sometimes, we just have to. #
• Worker, Interrupted: The Cost of Task Switching  #

• Bait and switch → “When there is both pain and pleasure associated with your service, work extremely hard to separate them by time and geography.” #
• Straight from the horse’s mouth → Eraserheads reunion concert confirmed straight from Rayms! #
• Jason Calacanis retires from blogging  #
• Don’t let Mindanao be Balkanized → “Filipinos must be ready and willing to defend the integrity of our Republic.” #