Know Your Signs

Wind Charging Your Phone

Suppose you live in Pagudpud where the wind never stops or you are a journalist meeting up with windbags day in and day out, make power of your situation with the mini-wind turbine. This portable thing can power your cellphone for 4 minutes talk time in 20 minutes of 19 mph wind. Here's more

Game N Watch

Hahaha. If I counted all the eggs I saved, I could have raised the protein level of all Filipinos at that time. My neighbor, on the other hand, stalled everyone one morning when she set the record for Octopus. Was in their restroom upon going to school and she can't stop. She was late. The whole family was pissed. But the only thing that was important was she set the record.

Power Saving

I chose this blogger typeface because it is power-saving. And as a friend said, it looks classic not like you na classic Nescafe. Anyway, San Francisco recently had a power outage day (voluntarily turning off your power for one hour especially at night) which they plan to do every week. Google sympathized by having this design for that day:

WiFi Shirt

How About the Rick Astley Virus Then?

Don't say I warned you. But then, there's no escaping Rick Astley!
Antidote at the comment page.

Myanmar and Dalai Lama

Support for the Myanmar dissidents would lead you instead to the Dalai Lama. But this is not His Holiness but a computer virus instead. You would get this from your email:

“Dear Friends & Colleagues,
Please find enclosed a message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama in support of the recent pro democracy demonstrations taking place in Burma. This is for your information and can be distributed as you see fit.

Best wishes,
Tenzin Taklha
Joint Secretary
Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama”

But when you open the attachment, you get a Trojan Horse.

Nokia

Another useless thing I learned but will make you win bar bets as well. The Nokia tone was taken from Spanish composer Francisco T´rrega's Gran Vals. Yes, it was chopped to a few bars and now we have the Nokia default tone which annoys almost everyone. This I learned while reading about villagers in India were able to fool wayward leopards by attaching cheap Nokia phones with the Nokia tone to annoy them. No, they have ring tones of cow mooing or goats bleating and the leopards would get attracted and fall on a net trap and they would be brought to the jungles anew. Eventually the leopards would wisen up and attack those holders of phones with Nokia tones. I think that is the lesson.

Printer

Computer ruined my otherwise beautiful handwriting (ask Pia) so I am now into rubber stamping everything I need to write. And with my meager rubber stamp collection, I need to go into rubber stamp art.

Huwag Maging Pirata sa Sariling Lupa

"Know a world where no users are pirates and software sharing is legal" invites Rick Bahague of the Computer Professionals' Union (CPU). CPU is spearheading the Philippine celebration of Software Freedom Day 2007 on Saturday, September 15 ( http://sfd.cp-union.org ). This year's celebration will be held at the ASTI Building in UP Diliman Campus.Students, local software developers, users and enthusiasts are expected to attend the celebration. Rep. Teddy Casino of Bayan Muna will be present to give updates on the status of FOSS Bill in the Philippine Congress. Bayan Muna filed the Bill last year with mixed reactions from the industry and local foss groups. "The government will continue to be dependent to proprietary and foreign software technologies unless it actively supports FOSS initiatives and give preference to the use of FOSS in institutions," Bahague added. "However, it will take a strong political will for countries to be independent in software technologies using FOSS. The case of Venezuela should be noted." The Charge d' affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Manuel Perez Iturbe will share their FOSS policies in their country. Software freedom day kits will be distributed to early participants and the media to introduce them to excellent softwares without the usual restrictions in licensing fees of proprietary software.
Software Freedom Day is a global event organized by more than 133 free and open source (foss) groups spread in more than 90 countries. The local celebration is participated by more than 10 groups including UP Linux Users' Group, UP ACM, International Open Source Network, local linux users' groups and peoples' organizations supported by local companies like Stratpoint Technologies, Q-linux Labs, Morph labs, and Promethost.com. The Advance Science and Technology Institute will be providing facilities for video streaming of the event and video casts of Davao celebrations. The Computer Professionals' Union is a group of volunteers advocating information technology for the people. CPU has developed free software for use of different peoples organization. It has recently released the human rights monitoring system at code.google.com.

Stephen Hawking Na-Lego

Free Wi-Fi in Manila

1. Alexa's Deli - H.V. dela Costa street, Salcedo Village,
2. Arnelli's Pizza, E. Rodriguez Sr. Ave. near St. Luke's Hospital
3. Baang Coffee in Tomas Morato, QC
4. Bellagio - Tomas Morato
5. Big Bert's Professional Auto
   
6. Burger King at SM North
7. Casa Xocolat, Katips
8. CCW (Coffee, Cakes & Waffles) Guijo corner Sacred Heart Street, Makati
   
9. Chef & Brewer in Emerald Avenue, Ortigas
10. Cafea in Bohol Avenue, Q.C. in Manila Peninsula
11. CCW Cafe - Guijo street, San Antonio Village, Makati
    
12. Coco Cabana Grill - Kalayaan Ave, near Grilla
13. Cravings - Katipunan Ave. QC
14. Country Style - Rufino, Makati
    
15. Diamond Hotel
    
16. Embassy Cafe - the Fort in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig
17. Jayjay's Inasal (Ortigas Home Depot along Julia Vargas Ave.)
    
18. Lia's Cakes - Commonwealth Avenue
    
19. Libreria - Tomas Morato, QC
    
20. Manila Pavilion Hotel lobby, United Nations Avenue, Manila
21. McDo Philcoa
22. Murphy's Irish Pub at V.A. Rufino cor. Esteban St. in Legazpi Village
23. Nitz Restaurant in Fairview, fronting FEU
24. Park Square 1 around Mobile One
25. Pier One
    
26. Podium Ground Floor
27. Read and Brew-Fairview
    
28. Robinsons Galleria East Wing
29. Robinson's Place Manila - Taste Buds
    
30. Robinsons Place Pioneer (Techlounge)
31. Rustan's in Alabang Town Center
32. Shangri La Makati Hotel lobby
    
33. Shell Maya - Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Makati City
34. Shell Station Magallanes
35. Starbucks Ashcreek along Ortigas ave Greenhills
    
36. Starbucks - Waltermart, Pasong Tamo
    
37. Tower Inn, Lobby, Pasay Rd. at Makati Ave.
38. Traders Hotel

Copyright Napkin

Lawyer Eric J. Heels must be so tired of explaining copyright to people that he made this Venn diagram on a napkin.

He said, "In the middle of the drawing are uses that are covered by copyright but uses that have been declared to be "fair use" by the law. So you can use copyrighted works without permission (to some extent) for:

* commentary
* parody
* limited educational use."
After making the drawing, he gave it to the waiter who gave it to the singer who turned out to be Pinoy and she sang the request. That is parody.

Typhoid, Aya and Tau Gamma

These are what you googled mostly last May. Imagine no politics in the searching and what's with tipos?

1. emo layout
2. rock star (CBS reality show)
3. red dragon
4. chicano
5. harrypotter
6. paris hilton
7. lucas grabeel
8. typhoid fever
9. de la hoya mayweather
10. xzibit
11. school rumble (japanese anime/manga)
12. markyctrigger (overlay generator)
13. aya medel
14. tristan (Filipino online community)
15. tau gamma phi logo

Compare this with the other countries and you see almost no similarities except with paris.

The Internet Periodic Table

Here's the elucidation.

The Six Stages of Emailing

Nora Ephron came out with this soon-to-be-classic on email fascination. Yes, it starts with infatuation. Download it while it's free.