Month: January 2011
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And our second winner is…
Happy weekend! OK so here we go — I LOLED at most of the entries till about 2:00AM and decided to call it a night before I did a last glance this morning. Great entries — especially the cheezy ones (paging entries of ‘Shiela’)! Also, sayang ang entry ni Third — he has something going,…
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Last Flash Fiction Contest for a Nokia X3
Hi guys! I’ll announce the winner of the previous mini-contest later as I’m still going through the entries. But I already wanted to start the thread for the final contest which culminates tomorrow night. Again, we’re giving away the final Nokia X3! Our first winner (Marlon = “Messie”) was kind enough to send in a…
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Nokia X3 Flash Fiction Mini Contest Part II: Romantic Comedy
RULES 1. The deadline for ROMANTIC COMEDY flash fiction is at 11:59PM of Friday and the third will end 11:59PM of Sunday. 2. The contest is FLASH FICTION. If you don’t know what it is, this is the type of creative fiction which you can do with as little words as possible. The limit is…
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And the winner of the first Nokia X3 phone is …
There’s something utterly creepy about reading flash fiction horror entries past midnight. Especially the entries that say “I’m going to take the X3 away from you while you sleep.” HAHA! Anyway, here goes. First of all, I’d like to give special mention to “Jerry” who submitted a horror entry that made me LOL: ano ang…
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Worse than a needle in a haystack
This article first appeared UNO Magazine’s December-January ’11 issue Pygmy seahorse by Jan Acosta What does it really take to shoot underwater photos? “Are the pygmies still there?†The spotter nods, implying something that Jan and the rest of the group already know. At about 80 ft deep, there is a white fan coral about…
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Alamid Cafe Xpress inside ROX: My photos suck, but their coffee is amazing
Alamid Cafe Xpress is located inside R.O.X. in Bonifacio High Street There are a number of hobbies that can really hook you. For me, there’s the diving and then coffee. You all know about the former. So let’s talk about the latter. Pulling shots is addicting. I’m addicted. I blame the trance-like whirling sounds of…
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FLASH FICTION CONTEST: Giving away 3 Nokia X3 Phones
UPDATE: Please see rules. I failed to include the limit of characters. Hello! New year, new contest! And this January, we are starting with Nokia. Nikka Abes of Nokia Philippines has ordered three Nokia X3 Touch and Type phones. SRP is PHP 8,999. The Xseries is the revamped XpressMusic line of Nokia, perhaps the line…
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The broadband cap is a human rights issue. Capping it stunts progress.
Here you go: 1. The best way to look at the broadband cap issue is not from a technology perspective but from the perspective of human rights. Before the printing press was invented, the struggle between English and the French / Latin languages was tipped when most of the learned clergy died during the bubonic…
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Hands on with the Leapfrog Tag Reading System
Walk into a toy store today and you’ll be gladly pleased with how geeky some companies have taken toy making. Especially the educational ones. As Ananya (3 1/3 yrs) seemed to be getting good results with a Vtec learning tool that helps you identify numbers and letters, I wanted to take it a step further…
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Book Recommendations: Metatropolis / Metatropolis Cascadia
In 2008, a handful of science fiction writers released a collaborative project in audio format, read by the cast of Battlestar Galactica. The product was a shared fiction series called Metatropolis where each author wrote a story based on a future world which they brought to life. The print version was released in 2009. In…
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