Category: Media

Singer Leah Navarro and the intellectual bankruptcy of Philippine society

June 14, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

Interesting insight into how the mind of a die-hard celebrity “activist” works. Attempts to discuss ideas simply fly over some people’s heads because of a seeming inability to lift the level of discourse from political people and events to the stratosphere of world-class thinking where ideas are the primary currency of discourse. Evidence of this…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics, Society

Newsflash! ‘Devout’ Christian ‘coerced’ to get naked on ‘Pinoy Big Brother’!

June 10, 2014June 10, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

So the popular reality show Pinoy Big Brother is now the centre of some kind of controversy surrounding allegations that “housemate” Jayme Jalandoni (reportedly “a devout Christian”) in a recent episode was “coerced” into posing nude along with several other contestants. Understandably, Senator Pia Cayetano ought to be upset. After all she is “a staunch…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Senator Bong Revilla’s privilege speech to end all privilege speeches!

June 9, 2014 benign0 24 Comments

Senator Bong Revilla’s delivered his privilege speech on the 9th June 2014 as charges related to his alleged involvement in the pork barrel “scam” were being laid against him by the Department of Justice. It opened with an appeal to Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III to lend him an audience whilst he expressed…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics, Society

How idiopreneurship can stem the flow of talented people abandoning the Philippines

June 6, 2014June 6, 2014 benign0 24 Comments

Much has been said about how the appalling work conditions, low pay, and stifling congestion in the Philippines is driving away its most talented workers. But what seems to be the biggest put-off for the greatest Filipino minds is the intellectual bankruptcy that prevails in Philippine society. Much has also been said about technology being…

Crime, Development, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society, Technology

A Simple Life is not necessarily a Virtuous Life

June 5, 2014 ChinoF 14 Comments

I’ve just had another profound epiphany for myself, in my musings on the problems of the Philippines. It is the realization that a simple life is not necessarily a virtuous life. A person with a simple life is not necessarily a good person; he can be a bad one too. The “simple life” is a…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Slender Man: A fearsome product of memetic evolution in its purest form

June 4, 2014 benign0 4 Comments

The case of the stabbing of a 12-year-old girl by two of her friends in Wisconsin has gripped America over the last couple days. The crime is made particularly resonant not only by the age of the victim and perpetrators but by the source of the motive — a demon-like creature called Slender Man that…

Crime, Culture, Media, Society, Tech Talk

Gwyneth Paltrow versus online haters like Cindy McCain

June 3, 2014 Ilda 27 Comments

Hollywood actress and founder of online lifestyle site Goop.com Gwyneth Paltrow has been receiving some flak for her statements made during a recent tech forum where she was one of the guest speakers. Not that this is the first time she has been the subject of controversy after stating her opinion about something, but this…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Back in the 1970s Swiss watchmakers were panicked silly by digital watches

May 30, 2014 benign0 2 Comments

Smartwatches seem to be the next big thing techo investors and marketers are counting on to “disrupt” the market. But unlike the late Steve Jobs’ iPod, iPhone and iPad, and even his and Woz’s Apple II and the original smiling Macintosh computer, the smartwatch was something already dreamed up by Gene Roddenberry (creator of Star…

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