Raul Lambino of Sigaw ng Bayan, a charter change (Cha-Cha) proponent, seems to be baselessly arguing that majority of the Filipino wants a sweeping structural changes (through Charter change) as against to SWS survey on June 26-28 that a solid majority of 67% of all Filipino adults will vote “no” on charter change. read more…

It’s called Wizmark. An interactive advertising device that goes with men to the restroom whenever mother nature calls on you…literally. It’s patented design allows it to sit right inside the average-sized urinal and despite being pissed on, it will still do its job and deliver ads both commercial and public service ads to you as you do you business inside the ‘john’.

If this device was meant as a advertising tool, I wonder if future models would become more high-tech and include a wireless internet connection allowing men to check their mail, read their RSS feeds and even blog while taking a piss. I also wonder that aside from public service ads or announcements, will targeted ads will be shown relevant to biochemical properties of the current ‘user’ so as to display ads about urinary, cardio-vascular and even reproductive health.

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The Northrail Project – much criticized – has caused the displacement of thousands of families. This has an unfortunate effect that no one seems to have commented on just yet: these families will be moving into new territorial jurisdictions where they aren’t registered to vote.

Thanks to some alert COMELEC officers, this problem has been spotted …

At the much bally-hooed Ombudsman hearing today, the only thing really worth noting was the absence of the petitioners. Kilosbayan was not there. Bantay Katarungan never even darkened the Ombudsman’s doorway, and Senator Pimentel sent a man who – despite his valiant efforts – was clearly in over his head. Abalos and the Commissioners, and some of the respondents as well, weren’t there in person, but they at least sent counsel – which (the press notwithstanding) is actually as good as being there themselves.

I shouldn’t be surprised, really. But it is disappointing, considering that this is an institution of democracy these petitioners are tearing down here. You’d think that at the very least, they could spare the effort of actually being there to witness the unfolding of this judicial murder they instigated.

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Kyle Macdonald had a very ambitious dream of trading this red paperclip for something bigger or better and keep trading until he gets a house of his own. He had no idea that he would achieve it a year later.

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This news really caught my attention,

NG debt up 3.3% to P3.996T as of April
By Des Ferriols
The Philippine Star 07/11/2006

The outstanding debt of the National Government (NG) went up by 3.3 percent to P3.996 trillion as of April this year from P3.867 trillion over the same period last year, the Bureau of Treasury (BTr) reported yesterday.

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I ask my students, now ok, so what nationality do you want to be? They want to be British or Canadians. Many want to be French. Now those seem to be a proud people. And they are. Or, they market themselves as such. The French are a proud people. But what most of us don’t realize is that this pride has taken hundreds of years in the making.

Back when I was still working for the Senate Committee on Energy, it was around the early half of 2005. The issue on the sale of Masinloc Power Plant in Zambales exploded when the winning bidder, YNN Pacific Consortium, was found out to be under-capitalize, no experience in power industry, incorporated only around 4 months before the bidding, and according to Joker Arroyo then, to specific office (the company staying in the listed address in SEC was a manpower services office). Read the entire entry …

Two hugely experienced and respected professionals in the Games industry – Simon Byron and Ste Curran will publish a book this Autumn 2006 entitled “GAME ON!: FROM PONG TO OBLIVION: THE GREATEST GAMES Of ALL TIME”.

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Zinedine Zidane lost his head and his luck.

Congratulations to Italy for winning the 2006 World Cup, its fourth, and first since 1982.

The Italians are Numero Uno after 910 matches throughout the world participated in by 194 nations.

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Dreamed of owning an iPod? I’m sure most of us did in some point in time. And for those who can’t afford it, it still is a dream. However, with the help of old CD’s and DVD’s you can make that dream come true.

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The number seven must be an unlucky number for North Korea. Its recent muscle flexing missile tests using seven shots have earned an almost universal condemnation across the world.

Even our City Mayor and Congress Representative expressed their stand.

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These details are from the translation of an article in a Finnish newspaper named ‘Ammennusatia’.

A geological group who drilled a hole about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the earth are saying that they heard human screams.

Screams have been heard from the condemned souls from earth’s deepest hole. Terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the evil powers of hell up to the earth’s surface

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Two students from the University of the Philippines (UP) – Diliman and a peasant organizer were abducted in Hagonoy, Bulacan last Monday.

Karen Empeño, a BA Sociology student of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy and a member of the League of Filipino Students-UP Diliman, Sherlyn Cadapan, an award-winning triathlete from the College of Human Kinetics (CHK) and a former representative to the University Student Council of UP Diliman, together with Manuel Merino, were abducted by suspected military men at around 2 a.m, July 26.

More on this at the youngradicals blog.

Amidst the rising cost of fuel in the world market and the implementation of EVAT that resulted to a tremendous increase of oil products such as gasoline, (http://philippineenergynews.blogspot.com/2006/05/oil-prices-up-by-p050.html), Energy Companies still have the opportunity to gain profit that is even more higher than the previous quarter of the year and getting higher and higher every year, while in contrast, the oil prices is also getting higher almost every less than a month. Shell Philippines, for example, declared last April that their net income for the first quarter of 2006 is greater that their record in 2005. They declared this during the time when the oil prices rose almost every week and while the price of oil in the world market was trending upward. read more..

PSP2.6 Users don’t give up hope yet there is still a very big chance for HOMEBREW

Full kernel mode access on firmware 2.50 and 2.60! Two programmers by the names of hitchhikr and Neural have released a proof-of-concept EBOOT which takes advantage of a new exploit discovered in Sony’s 2.50 and 2.60 firmware revisions.

What does this mean? Well it means all the lovely homebrew compatible with firmware version 1.50 only (Device Hook, DAX, iR Shell, etc…) will now be available on 2.50/2.60! Please note, this exploit does not exist in FW 2.0 and 2.01. And you will require Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories in order to execute this EBOOT.

The proof of concept simply creates a kernel memory dump in the root of your memory stick.

For additional reference:

[b]hitchhikr[/b] – The man who broke the kernel mode code. His website can be found here D’Man

Download the kernel dumper – The Proof Of Concept

From Pangasinan Blog:

Pangasinan radio, news, music and more now online!

Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan 1161 kHz DWCM can now be heard online through webcast/ audio streaming. The audio streaming was provided by Bitstop through its eradioportal.com website. To listen to Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan 1161 kHz (DWCM), Click Here.

Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan re-opened last June 20, Agew na Dagupan (Dagupan Day). The Official Journal of Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan is http://off-the-air.prepys.com .

I said it again and again and again, Real-Money Trading or RMT is here to stay, and the latest online gaming company to accept it is Level Up! Philippines. According to Sheila Paul, Chief Operating Officer of Level Up! Philippines,

The online game community has become so organic and so diverse that it would be hard to control people from going beyond the bounds of game rules. It’s not cheating anymore because everyone is doing it already and it’s becoming beneficial for everyone.”

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