Taken from the iamninoy website:

Twenty-five years ago, a man named Ninoy Aquino fought
nobly for a cause he believed in. He was a man who believed
in heroism, in justice, in freedom, and he committed his life
to upholding these values in a manner he thought would be
for the greater good.

This man Ninoy lived bravely. And in his conviction and courage,
he died a hero.

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It seems like a lot of Philippine banks are into rebranding lately, in a Web 2.0-ish fashion. There’s UCPB, BDO, UnionBank, Metrobank and now Bank of the Philippine Islands or BPI.

The rebranding, in my opinion, is a success. They managed to make the font look up-to-date without loosing the class of the old logo.

Lately I’m really loving the font they used. It is very modern and sleek. The problem is, I don’t know the name of the font. Whoever correctly identifies the font wins a cookie.

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Ever been in one of those days where you desperately needed a vagina and none could be found? Now you can actually make your own and carry it anywhere you want!

Pornogami FTW.

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Five days after the opening of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the Philippines is still at the bottom of the pit with a grand total of 0 medals! This is a HUGE improvement over the 2004 Olympics in Athens where we managed to bag 9 medals (2 silvers and 7 bronze)! I feel ecstatic already.

When an office mate of mine told me that whoever gets the first gold medal in the 2008 Olympics was going to get 5 million pesos, a house and lot, and a car, I thought hey, that’s a good thing. No problem, right? Now all we have to do is get that gold medal.

Image and statistics courtesy of Yahoo!

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Kom In I Garderoben is cool a Swedish site that will automatically generate an MTV-like video from any music file. The site is preloaded with a bunch of sample tunes, but you can actually upload your own MP3 file and watch as the video plays to its beat.

It’s very neat stuff, though it gets boring after a few minutes of repetition. I’m not really sure what this site is all about though, I wish I could understand Swedish

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Got this in my mailbox today entitled “Prospective living in the Philippines”. Some truly hit home while some are mere exaggerations. You be the judge.

1. Every street has a basketball court.
2. Even doctors, lawyers and engineers are unemployed.
3. Doctors study to become nurses for employment abroad.
4. Students pay more money than they will earn afterwards.
5. School is considered the second home and the mall considered the third.
6. Call-center employees earn more money than teachers and nurses.
7. Everyone has his personal ghost story and superstition.
8. Mountains like Makiling and Banahaw are considered holy places.
9. Everything can be forged.
10. All kinds of animals are edible.
11. Starbucks coffee is more  expensive than gas.
12. Driving 4 kms can take as much as four hours.
13. Flyovers bring you from the freeway to the side streets.
14. Crossing the street involves running for your dear life.
15. The personal computer is mainly used for games and Friendster.
16. Where colonial mentality is dishonestly denied!
17. Where 4 a.m. is not even considered bedtime yet.
18. People can pay to defy the law.
19. Everything and everyone is spoofed.
20. Where even the poverty-stricken get to wear Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger (peke)!
21. The honking of car horns is a way of life.
22. Being called a bum is never offensive.
23. Floodwaters take up more than 90 percent of the streets during the rainy season.
24. Where everyone has a relative abroad who keeps  them alive.
25. Where wearing your national colors make you baduy.
26. Where even the poverty-stricken have the latest cell phones. (GSM-galing sa magnanakaw)
27. Where insurance does not work.
28. Where water can only be classified as tap and dirty.
29. Clean water is for sale (35 pesos per gallon).
30. Where the government makes the people pray for miracles. (Amen to that!)
31. Where University of the Philippines is where all the weird people go.
32. Ateneo is where all the nerds go.
33. La Salle is where all the Chinese go.
34. College of Saint Benilde is where all the stupid Chinese go and;
35. University of Asia and the Pacific is where all the irrelevantly rich people go.
36. Fast food is a diet meal.
37. Traffic signs are merely suggestions, not regulations.
38. Where being mugged is normal and It happens to everyone.
39. Rodents are normal house pets.
40. The definition of traffic is the ‘non-movement’ of vehicles.
41. Where the fighter planes of the 1940s are used for military engagements, and;
42. The new fighter planes are displayed in museums.
43. Where cigarettes and alcohol are a necessity, and where the lottery is a commodity.
44. Where soap operas tell the realities of life and where the news provides the drama.
45. Where actors make the rules and where politicians provide the entertainment.
46. People can get away with stealing trillions of pesos but not a thousand.
47. Where being an hour late is still considered punctual (Grabe talaga ‘to!)
48. Where the squatters have more to complain (even if they do not pay their tax) - than those employed and have their tax automatically deducted from their salaries.
49. And where everyone wants to leave the country!

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Found some very nice designer country logos. Check them out (Click on the thumbnail below):

The original post is in Spanish(?), so I don’t really know who to to give credit to. No Philippines in the list, though

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It’s Super Saiyan Sonic!!!

(HINT: it’s near the end of the trailer)

What a way to start the day.

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Just stumbled upon SoundManager 2, a JavaScript library that handles sound playback, something that has been missing in JavaScript, which leads developers to resort to Flash instead.

From the website:

SoundManager 2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It’s a Javascript library which wraps and extends Flash’s sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to Javascript.

The description basically states that SoundManager still uses Flash for playback, which is a bit heavy and still not a native solution, but a workaround is a workaround. Kudos to Scott Schiller on the awesome work!

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It seems that Google wants a piece of the VR (virtual reality) revenue pie oh so famously milked to its bare skin and bones by Second Life, by introducing the new Google Lively (beta, of course!)

From the website meta-description:

Chat and hangout with your friends in rooms you design and customize your avatar. Experience another dimension of the web with Lively by Google.

Lively’s features include the following:

• Create your own virtual space

  Chat and interact with your friends in rooms you design

• Express yourself

  Customize your avatar and stream personal photos and video

• Add your room to your site

  Invite your friends to chat and help decorate

Google may have has also embraced the popular torrent based distribution method by providing a 450kb download, which is what I believe to be a torrent downloader. Note that this is just my unconfirmed hunch. After all, the mighty Google has all the bandwidth in the world to spare, and then some.

Of course, creating an account is easy as 1-2-3. If you already have a GMail account, all you have to do is sign in to the Google Lively website and it’s activated.
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