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Miscellany of questions and information tidbits on day-to-day interaction with technology
A car is a special part of our lives. A car is our home during the many hours we spend on the road over our lifetime. We give it almost as much care as we give ourselves. We look to our cars with pride as it glistens in the sun after time spent lovingly washing…
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According to a certain Twitter user who goes by the handle @MGVtrb (formerly using the user ID “@mgviterbo” (now defunct)), journalists should refrain from tweeting their opinions on Twitter and should only tweet “news”. This was in a tweet she issued today… To reporters who use their accounts to tweet news, please be ethical enough…
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I switched my entire household’s telecommunication needs to Telstra back in 2007. Today we enjoy about 300 GB of home internet data piped in by cable (not DSL) that is channeled to all our computing and home entertainment devices using a WiFI router provided as part of the package. We also have several mobile devices…
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So here I am ladies and gentlemen, doing another alternative media article, this time centering on the comic book Supergod. Now before I continue, let me first say that I have nothing against local comics in the Philippines and I do find some of them, such as a few one-shot gems in Halimaw comics to be quite good actually. Indeed,…
Conspiracy theories will continue to be among the most hotly debated of topics not only online, but offline as well (where they originated). Many new theories been put forward, such as the secret cabal of the world now including the supposed Skull and Bones fraternity of George Bush and others. The Tianjin explosion in China…
The rendezvous of deep space probe New Horizons and Pluto is an achievement few people can grasp. It is like shooting a golf ball in mid air with a rifle from a hundred miles away — only harder! Five billion kilometres over nine and a half years to hit a planetoid a lot smaller than…
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It was fun seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger again as the badass Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Series 800 Terminator sent back in time to meet Sarah Connor. This time Connor is played by Emilia Clarke, Mother of Dragons in Game of Thrones now, here, mother of hero John Connor in Terminator Genisys the latest in the machina apocalypse…
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My first exposure to Dystopian science fiction was, strangely enough, an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In this particular episode, the heroes in half-shells find themselves in a future ruled with tyranny by the series’ main villain Shredder. I don’t remember all the details but, as a kid at the time and having no real understanding…
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