Beep if this is familiar...

...'coz he signs your freakin' paycheck/contract.

PFFT.

I'm not feeling up to it right now, but some time soon I'm gonna write something more substantial on this.

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What's Web 2.0?

It won't tell you what it is exactly.

But it does explain how it has changed the way we learn, discover, communicate and share.

I suggest letting the video stream completely before you start playing so you get the complete message without interruptions.

Just another affirmation that nerds DO rule the world.

The Photosynth demo should speak for itself.

But just in case the point eludes you, this technology basically grabs any photo on the Internet (any webpage or on image hosting sites like Flickr & Photobucket) of a particular subject and links them together to create a virtually seamless image of the subject.

Another neat part about it is that it is resolution-irrelevant; whether the image is taken with a DSLR or a low-res camera, you'll still be able to see the ant that crawls on the wall of the Notre Dame cathedral.

Yet another example of how technology and the Internet lends new meaning to the phrase collective knowledge.

Exciting times indeed.

The One Million Peso Dessert

This, my friends, is the 'Frrozen Haute Chocolate’ and it costs a one million eighty-seven thousand four hundred sixty-two pesos and fifty centavos


or to put it more simply: $25,000.

I know what you're thinking.

#1: Where is this made?
At the Serendipity-3 Restaurant in the Upper East side of Manhattan.

#2: What's it made of?
"It's a fine blend of 28 cocoas, including 14 of the most expensive and exotic from all around the world.... complemented by a small box of Knipschildt chocolate truffles which sell for £1,300 (115,804.77 PHP) per lb."

The dessert is adorned with 5 grams of edible 23-karat gold and is dished up in a goblet lined with edible gold. The base of the goblet is an 18-karat gold bracelet with 1 carat of white diamonds. (Not edible) The dessert is eaten with a gold spoon decorated with white and chocolate-colored diamonds, which can also be taken home. (Also not edible)

Interestingly enough, this is the uber-souped-up-value-added-upgraded-pimped-out version of the 'Frrozen Hot Chocolate' which sells for a WHOPPING $8.50 (PhP 369.75).

#3: So why make it?
In not so many words: Because they can.
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But wait, HERE'S THE BEST PART:

Almost a week after the unveiling of the decadent treat, this comes up.

As the great Morpheus once said: "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony."

He got a free iPhone! And you can too!

Very clever guy. And he shares how he did it in this article.

His name is Dave and I'm soooooo crushing on him right now.

Charis listened.

I've always had them in my playlist but up until a few days ago, I haven't really heard them.
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Last Sunday night when 'Kabayan' was pouring over Baguio, I found myself stuck in my room playing Bejeweled 2 on my PDA. Having no other form of entertainment I decided to play mp3s on the device randomly selecting the closing theme of the movie 'The Untouchables' (a copy of which is posted in my music section). The idea was to let the music drone in the background while playing the game as I've done so often in the past.

Maybe it was because there was really nothing much else to do; perhaps it was because the music was written by one of moviedom's greatest composers; or simply that I was in a highly emotional state, but for some reason, even at the first few strains of the score, I was compelled to stop playing the game, put the device down, stare at the ceiling and just lay there.

While it may have been said a million times over in a million different ways, it just blows my mind how truly gifted artists can string such beautiful sounds together - music that moves you so much so that at the end of the score you were misty-eyed and couldn't tell why.

And so in that chilly, dimly lit room and for the first time in a long, long while, I listened again to music.