Pressure Release Valve

2009-09-01T05:39:00.001+08:00

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2009-08-03T06:18:00.000+08:00

How many humans are killed by bovines?Via Marginal Revolution.

2009-08-03T06:14:00.003+08:00

Tourists in New York go to Apple Store?What is happening to this reality?

2009-07-31T11:28:00.003+08:00

I have read a blog post... whose I cannot recall.I have read a blog post... that said "Take a look at those Macs out there and see what they are running on, chances are its windows...".The blogger is perhaps correct and I would like to point out, yet again, that Apple cares little about what OS is running on its Macs as it makes almost all its profits on hardware sales... unlike, say, Microsoft.

2009-07-30T20:13:00.002+08:00

How shall I call this... stupid?Inane?Idiotic?Moronic?

Apple Gross Margins 58.4%

2009-07-30T06:35:00.003+08:00

Turley Muller informs us that Apple gross margin is, at an estimated, 58.4%'Dicilous. Utterly so.Consumer electronics firm are not supposed to possess such margins. What is Apple smoking? I want to smoke it too and, I suspect, just about everyone else.Via Apple 2.0 .

2009-07-28T11:38:00.001+08:00

Is the People's Republic of China manufacturing internet statistics?

Consider Apple the Follower...

2009-07-26T13:24:00.002+08:00

Apple is one of personal computing pioneer, one of the last surviving, in fact, along with Microsoft.Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, Radio Shack...But Apple made for a poor pioneer as it let IBM PC and Microsoft dominate personal computing.On the other hand...Apple was considered to be late in entering the personal digital music player market but it has now dominated that market.Apple was considered

2009-07-25T18:31:00.002+08:00

Jill and Kevin's Big DayAWESOME !Via Bynkii.

What is Palm thinking?

2009-07-25T04:19:00.004+08:00

Palm's Pre and webOS has come and received wide acclaim.Lauded for innovation and usability, even among fans of Apple.But why did Palm resort to underhanded subterfuge in syncing with Apple's iTunes? What manner of game does it want to play when it attempts to provoke Apple into a legal fight?Is Jon Rubenstein so enraged at Apple and Steve Jobs when his desires for Linux based iPhone was rejected

Hyperactive Table Tennis... of sorts

2009-07-24T06:21:00.001+08:00

Via Andrew Sullivan.

2009-07-24T06:13:00.002+08:00

Jon Stewart... most trusted journalist in America.Real American journalist no longer exist and Americans have to turn to a comedian for in-depth analysis of current events.And, by the way, that survey slighted, by exclusion, Stephen Colbert.

Jimmy Carter: "Losing my religion for equality"

2009-07-22T20:34:00.004+08:00

Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God.- Jimmy CarterLosing my religion for equality.Remarkable.... truly remarkable.

Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up

2009-07-22T05:55:00.002+08:00

HAHAHAHAHA...Via Andrew Sullivan.

Ireland declares blasphemy illegal

2009-07-21T06:09:00.003+08:00

But why? Perhaps it is to protect the embattled Irish Catholic Church from further revelations of child molestation and other satanic acts.And what maybe next on the agenda for parliamentary approval? Cutting the tongue of those found guilty of blasphemy?I wonder if the Irish have been referring secretly to muslim sharia law?Read more at Spiked-Online.Via Slashdot.

2009-07-21T01:01:00.003+08:00

30 years ago today, Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr made that one small step for man.But, as it turned out, mankind only made a small, puddling half-skip.

Science tattoos

2009-07-20T05:54:00.001+08:00

At Discover Magazine.Via Andrew Sullivan.

A WHAT... ?!?!

2009-07-19T18:40:00.003+08:00

Presenting...Foie Gras Jelly Donut

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

2009-07-18T12:26:00.003+08:00

A Great Reporter.CBS tribute.Yesterday I passed up buying his memoir, I shall return to the book shop to rectify that mistake.UPDATE : July 18, 2009 - I have purchased his autobiography.

2009-07-18T04:33:00.002+08:00

I have said: Apple's recent re-alignment of its notebook line saw the inclusion of a SD-card reader that is bootable.Now I am wondering if this is a presages the deletion of optical drives not only in notebooks but in all of their computers save, perhaps, the Mac Pro.Were this to happen in notebooks the benefit of all that space would accrue in a larger battery.PC World concurs.

2009-07-17T01:01:00.001+08:00

30 years ago today, Apollo 11 begins its journey to the moon.

2009-07-16T20:47:00.002+08:00

Nokia reports 66% drop in profit for 2Q 2009. Nokia reported a 96% drop operating income in 1Q 2009.So... does anyone recall what the pundits were saying what Apple is doing wrong with the iPhone?Anyone... ?

2009-07-13T06:02:00.002+08:00

"Swine Flu Kills Obese People Disproportionally".I am so dead.More at Bloomberg.

2009-07-11T06:48:00.005+08:00

You imbeciles!THIS is how you peel banana!It is ludicrous to think that monkeys know better.Via PZ Myers.

2009-07-10T11:20:00.003+08:00

c ∆ Ω h µ Ø G B ∑ m...?Science symbols and their meanings... and then some.Via Popular Science.

2009-07-09T06:15:00.002+08:00

Men? Who needs those drunk, belching, smelly brutes?

2009-07-09T06:04:00.001+08:00

Wall Street Prison Consultants.Via The Big Picture.

iPhone 3GS Hacked

2009-07-06T19:05:00.002+08:00

But what on earth for?MMS?Tethering?Video recording?Unconstrained pornographic viewing?

Top Gear

2009-07-05T05:52:00.003+08:00

Such a great car show.They do make the effort of filming artfully composed shots.Hosted by three silly mad men.

I want for christmas...

2009-07-04T07:02:00.003+08:00

Olympus E-P1 + Sigma APO 300-800 f5.6 EX DG HSM.You may include a tripod with Wimberly gymbal head, thank you.Olympus Matching Simulation.

2009-06-30T20:14:00.002+08:00

Electronic Quantum Processor + Graphene Magnetic Memory = 1 Terra Hertz, 1 Tera Byte iPhone Quantum in 2010!HA!

Science Daily: Can A Little Extra Weight Protect People From Early Death?

2009-06-30T20:04:00.002+08:00

Being overweight leads to longer life?Surely someone is jesting.But, on the other hand, going from obese to overweight certainly makes it an easier goal. All without making an effortNow, all I need is a little research showing procrastination causes weight loss.Via Slashdot.

2009-06-29T07:05:00.002+08:00

"An Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)."Nice photograph.Via Gizmodo.

2009-06-28T07:06:00.005+08:00

"The Descent into Credit Card Debt".If you think this is improbable for the Philippines since we are such poor poor poor unsophisticated third worlders then you do not use (or have not used) Citibank Philippines credit card and have not receive their calls encouraging you to: a) pay minimum amount; b) avail of cash advances; all at special low low rates offered only to you.Beware of bankers

"Why Do Chinese Save? Boys Want to Marry"

2009-06-27T06:26:00.002+08:00

Floyd Norris reports on a paper, by Shang-Jin Wei of Columbia University and Xiaobo Zhang of the International Food Policy Research Institute, suggesting the reason for China's high savings rate: more males than females.It also appears to explain other countries with notably high savings.Via Andrew Sullivan.

Asus EeeKeyboard

2009-06-26T06:22:00.003+08:00

Awkward name aside, this system-in-a-keyboard reminds me of an APL-system-in-a-keyboard that came out in the late 1980's.Damn... I must be old to remember that.That touchscreen in lieu of a numeric keypad/cursor keys is a good idea that makes it flexible and could eliminate the need for a mouse.

Insatiable Gadget Lust

2009-06-24T19:08:00.002+08:00

2009-06-24T05:00:00.002+08:00

Remember MySpace?I would wager that Robert Murdoch remembers.

MisoSoupDesign

2009-06-23T06:29:00.003+08:00

The W Lounge Chair is rather nice.MisoSoupDesign.

2009-06-21T20:01:00.003+08:00

There appears to be talk in Japan on abolishing paper currency to stimulate their economy.

The President of the United Nerd, Barack Obama

2009-06-21T12:28:00.004+08:00

Vulcan Salute. Twice.Rise brethren ! For our time has come !But...But...But... Conan the Barbarian?

Why The Economists Prosper while Newsweek and Time's Founder

2009-06-20T06:01:00.005+08:00

"... free-market right-center, if you want to be technical about it; with a dose of left-center social progressivism"That is exactly what I think of The Economists.Atlantic's Michael Hirschorn takes a look The Economists rising prominence.

2009-06-19T19:41:00.004+08:00

"Up" for Colby Curtin.Well done Pixar.Via John Gruber.

2009-06-18T11:51:00.003+08:00

Apple's recent re-alignment of its notebook line saw the inclusion of a SD-card reader that is bootable.Now I am wondering if this is a presages the deletion of optical drives not only in notebooks but in all of their computers save, perhaps, the Mac Pro.Were this to happen in notebooks the benefit of all that space would accrue in a larger battery.

2009-06-16T21:05:00.001+08:00

How long before Apple implodes from success?

Olympus E-P1

2009-06-16T18:42:00.003+08:00

Finally an affordable inter-changeable lens, digital rangefinder !It has HD 720p video recording ! It has image stabilization/vibration reduction ! It has HDR ! It has sensor dust cleaner ! Bravo Olympus !This is the camera Panasonic should have produced, and not the G1, had it bravely ignored consumer surveys !After years of longing after Epson RD-1 (soon to return as... RD-1Gx, whatever that

The hullabaloo in Iran

2009-06-15T12:11:00.003+08:00

I cannot help but think the same people chanting "Freedom" and " Down with the Dictator" also screamed for Israel's destruction and for Iran to build nuclear weapons.Please remember, the Iranian President does not wield the ultimate power and, apparently, neither does the ayatollahs.Where does the buck stops in Iran? Ask the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution.

Apple Store Design Update

2009-06-13T17:46:00.002+08:00

Very nice, very very nice.But, I do wonder... where is the toilet?

2009-06-12T10:47:00.001+08:00

Here is a look of what is inside Palm Pre's WebOS.

2009-06-11T21:36:00.000+08:00

Futurama returns to Comedy Central in 2010.Joy.

Oh to be a... COOK !

2009-06-11T19:03:00.002+08:00

An Australian submarine cook, apparently, earns more than an admiral.Counting overtime, bonuses, incentives and such.

2009-06-08T06:05:00.002+08:00

Latvian blonde bombshells march to alleviate recession pains.

2009-06-07T19:29:00.004+08:00

What I have since confirmed while screaming at the neanderthals that comprises BDO's call center: poor state of english in the Philippines.And still declining.

"7 Factors That Led to Crisis"

2009-06-05T06:14:00.001+08:00

A rather nice chart that graphically shows the factors leading to the recent economic meltdown in a time line.

The Stupid that is Microsoft

2009-06-05T06:09:00.002+08:00

Embarking on a campaign to rename 'netbooks' to 'low cost small notebook PC'.A rather painfully verbose roundabout circumlocution and surprising the word 'Microsoft' had not been included.

Unix at 40

2009-06-04T20:54:00.002+08:00

Computerworld celebrates Unix 40th anniversary.Have a look on Unix family tree and marvel at the mess of it all.

2009-06-03T20:01:00.000+08:00

Does anyone recall the last United States President who smoked?

The Evil that is Microsoft

2009-06-02T06:53:00.003+08:00

Microsoft surreptitiously installs Firefox add-ons that may open Firefox to the same dreaded vulnerabilities as the infamous Internet Explorer.Perhaps Microsoft desires to level the playing field.Via Slashdot.

2009-06-02T06:36:00.002+08:00

General Motors enters Chapter 11.Like some US airlines, it will the first of several.Zombie.

More on Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

2009-05-31T06:52:00.005+08:00

Science News has more on the man that recorded sound 20 years before Thomas Edison.You can listen to the uncorrected audio (read the article on the link above) on NPR.Previous post here.

2009-05-27T11:31:00.002+08:00

The Alphabet à la Star Wars.Via Daring Fireball.

2009-05-26T06:13:00.003+08:00

Jorge Colombo draws the cover for The New Yorker using Brushes app on the iPhone.

2009-05-25T06:10:00.000+08:00

Brazilian Storm Drain Art.

2009-05-24T06:01:00.000+08:00

Lego Architecture.Via Marginal Revolution.

Klingons! Rejoice!

2009-05-19T15:49:00.002+08:00

For salvation from software viruses is nigh at hand!Sophos has released native Klingonese version of their anti-virus software for the handful of PC QI'yaH Klingon users.Propaganda via Slashdot.

2009-05-19T07:01:00.001+08:00

Logos, the apparent and the hidden.Via Andrew Sullivan.

2009-05-16T06:54:00.002+08:00

It has come to my fickle attention that Bloggers are becoming more thorough, effective and credible journalists and Journalists, particularly of the newspaper type, are increasingly resorting to photocopying wiki and repeating 2nd-hand hearsay from anonymous sources.

2009-05-16T06:28:00.002+08:00

What is President Barack Obama's objective in Afghanistan?President Obama suddenly appoints Lieutenant General Stanley McChrystal, a man with a brutally bloody reputation in Iraq, rudely brushing aside General David D. McKiernan.Is President Obama unleashing that rabid dog of war McChrystal upon the hapless Taliban in the hopes of... what?A gore ridden success?Or, perhaps, a gore ridden failure

Globe Broadband DSL, Act II

2009-05-11T22:26:00.003+08:00

It has now been another week of 'network restoration' and network has definitely not been restored.Yet another epic failure, a perpetual reboot for Globe Broadband.

Has JJ Abrams Succeeded... ?

2009-05-11T12:09:00.004+08:00

Star Trek á la J J Abrams is definitely showing up in a lot of odd... places.Like in this Maureen Dowd column in New York Times. Included is an illustration of that vulcan, President Spockoboma:

NASA running out of Gas

2009-05-09T13:45:00.005+08:00

In NASAs case, the gas in question is Plutonium-238, used to power deep space probes like the legendary Voyagers and Pioneers and, currently, Cassini probe traipsing around Saturn and New Horizon (name is very much subject to change, as per NASA tradition) as it sashays its way to Pluto and Kuiper Belt.The unintended, though benign, consequence of nuclear test bans and nuclear arms reduction

2009-05-07T06:17:00.004+08:00

One would think Microsoft should have learned one tiny miniscule kernel of wisdom in the last two years when Apple was pilloried for real, or imagined, wrongs about Apple's iPhone and App Store, to avoid the said mistakes.But, no.

2009-05-07T06:08:00.001+08:00

Here is a nice, touching TV ad from an Argentine bank.Via Andrew Sullivan.

Dominick "Dom" DeLuise (August 1, 1933 – May 4, 2009)

2009-05-06T07:18:00.001+08:00

I enjoyed watching him as the sidekick to Burt Reynolds in Smokey and The Bandit.

Inc. Magazine Thinks B&H is just a darn neat place...

2009-05-06T06:34:00.004+08:00

Inc. Magazine plumbs the shallow depth of Circuit Shitty's... City's failure and contrasts it with the thriving B&H.Yes, I have made purchases at B&H and it is such a lovely place to shop even if I'm half way around world.

Population Shift... as usual

2009-05-05T06:08:00.003+08:00

In The World's New Numbers, Martin Walker points out to interesting changes in the ever shifting and changing demographic trends.Europe is aging, that hasn't change, but it appears it is no longer certain it is heading towards oblivion.Eastern immigrants to Western European countries are falling into the same pattern of reproduction as the women in their adopted home.Russian death rates are high,

Kansas State University: “The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins Within Nevada”

2009-05-04T06:05:00.003+08:00

Las Vegas Sun reports on what parts of Nevada (and the United States) commits most of which of the 'Seven Sins'.Via Andrew Sullivan, from Neatorama.

The Biscuit Tin

2009-05-03T05:07:00.002+08:00

That old ubiquitos biscuit tin is no longer made of tin nor any metal.Here in The Philippines, biscuit (or cracker) manufacturers (or industrial scale bakeries) have switched over to that material of the future: plastic.Several biscuit (or cracker) manufacturers (or industrial scale bakeries) have done so, some for several years now, though there are still some hold-outs among smaller biscuit (or

Human Penis

2009-04-30T19:42:00.001+08:00

Jesse Bering reports on evolutionary psychologist Gordon Gallup's research on the design of the human penis.

2009-04-30T07:06:00.001+08:00

René Maltête humorous photographs.Wonderful.Via The Online Photographer.

2009-04-30T01:00:00.001+08:00

1 damn year now.

MIchele Malkin

2009-04-29T14:44:00.003+08:00

Michele Malkin is one of the more vitriolic, idiotic, unbalanced conservative ring wing commentator, is of Filipino descent.

User versus Equipment

2009-04-29T11:14:00.004+08:00

It's the User, stupid.The Equipment is the tool manipulated by the User.The greater the User talent the greater the irrelevance of the Equipment.Chase Jarvis photographs using iPhone's accursed camera.

On Boy Names

2009-04-29T05:38:00.006+08:00

Reading a very British book, Strange Death of Tory England, it struck me, not for the first time, how some names have changed sex.For instance, being largely unread, I was confused to the sex of one Evelyn Waugh (it was but impossible to access Google from a used book though the same would be undoubtedly true with new books). And if you do not recognize the name Evelyn Waugh, woe be unto you but

Miss Piggy

2009-04-29T05:34:00.002+08:00

Miss Piggy appears to be the poster child for the H1N1 Swine Flue outbreak in Mexico and United States.

Jedi Religion

2009-04-27T19:00:00.004+08:00

390,000 individuals in England and Wales list their religion as "Jedi", In a 2001 census.14,000 "Jedis" (Jedii? Jedies?) are to be found in Scotland.I have the impression for a long, long time now that Jedi-ism was a intergalactic martial arts philosophy.My mistake.And, where there no worshippers professing belonging to the Church of Star Trek?

Beatrice “Bea” Arthur (May 13, 1922 - April 25, 2009)

2009-04-26T04:46:00.002+08:00

Another Golden Girl has gone.

2009-04-25T13:05:00.002+08:00

Matt Pressman on why something as American as Times and Newsweek can never be The Economist.Since we are on about The Economists, I would like to sincerely thank subscribers to its print edition, they make it possible for those of us unable to afford a subscription to continue reading that finely crafted magazine, typos and all.

2009-04-25T05:06:00.002+08:00

Beautiful, working replicas of cars, a fire engine, a rotary engine, an engine, a ship engine and a boat.

2009-04-23T21:09:00.001+08:00

Apple is plain stupid to have allowed the Baby Shaker iPhone app.

Those Expensive Running Shoes...

2009-04-21T21:09:00.004+08:00

... are useless?According to an article in UK's Daily Mail, modern expensive running shoes may provide little to no benefits and may be the cause of rising running related injuries.Injuries like stinky feet, *sniff*.Let us, therefore, cast off that evil manifestation of extravagantly predatory materialistic consumerism that binds our pretty pair of pieds in penury!via Slashdot.ADDENDUM: Popular

2009-04-21T11:55:00.003+08:00

Saturn as taken by Cassini-Huygens space probe in Boston Globe's Big Picture.Stupendous.Amazing.Breathtaking.

2009-04-20T20:45:00.002+08:00

Oracle purchases Sun for USD 9.50 per share, total of USD 7.4 billion.How the mighty have fallen.

Susan Boyle

2009-04-14T05:48:00.003+08:00

Susan Boyle on Britains got talent 2009 is aptly described, and I do agree, by Andrew Sullivan as 'homely matron".But, by all the freaking gods around this planet, she can sing.

On Biographies and Autobiographies

2009-04-12T16:23:00.002+08:00

Why do I have a feeling of participating in a mass literary voyeurism?

Samsung NX

2009-04-12T12:32:00.002+08:00

I do say I have been remiss at giving due notice to the interesting Samsung NX.

A Brief Glimpse of Area 51

2009-04-10T18:56:00.002+08:00

The United States' Central Intelligence Agency has seen it fit to begin declassifying Project Oxcart in 2007.Otherwise know as the Lockheed SR-71.An all to brief article has seen the light of day in LA Times.I am certain a number of writers and historian are descending upon the aging participants of Project Oxcart and I will definitely be partaking on the fruits of their labor. Via Gizmodo.

Blues

2009-04-10T07:02:00.003+08:00

No, not the emotion but the music.Delta Blues, in particular.One man and his acoustic guitar on a chair atop a wooden stage singing the Blues.No band, no back-up singers, no fancy light show.Just the man with an acoustic guitar and his music.

Stand By Me

2009-04-10T07:00:00.001+08:00

Stand By Me from David Johnson on Vimeo.Wonderful... very wonderful.Via Andrew Sullivan.

2009-04-04T21:44:00.004+08:00

I would dearly love to see this happen to those miserable buggers who never park properly.xkcd.