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Apple no longer focused on ‘green’ products for now

July 10, 2012 benign0 1 Comment

Apparently, the new MacBook Pro featuring the new high-resolution “retina” display has signalled the end of Apple’s commitment to “green” products. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will be pulling out products erstwhile rated as environmentally-friendly by the Green Electronics Council using their Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). EPEAT criteria requires products to…

Environment, Tech Talk

Understanding the BS in being a ‘breakout nation’

July 9, 2012 benign0 6 Comments

In its most recent rah-rah story about how the government of President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III has so far been the heroic beacon of progress as was “promised” during the campaign, “social news network” site Rappler.com has quoted Ruchir Sharma, head of Emerging Market Equities and Global Macro at Morgan Stanley Investment Management who,…

Development, Economy, Government, Media, Money Talks

Carlos Celdran tells China to kiss Filipino ass over Spratlys and Scarborough row

July 9, 2012 benign0 65 Comments

A friend of mine shared the following graphic apparently making the rounds on Facebook. It was posted on the Carlos Celdran page along with the caption “Love this map. Northwest Philippines. Haha. Kiss our 98 million asses, China. #China â€” with John Joey Ramos, Jason Alinsunurin, Jojo Garcia Dula, Michael Judd Rico and Emil Yap.”…

Culture, Economy, Government, Society

MMDA is living on a prayer instead of thinking about solving EDSA’s traffic problems

July 7, 2012June 19, 2013 Ilda 48 Comments

It seems Filipino public servants are incapable of thinking outside the square when it comes to addressing the problems that plague the nation. Most of them rely on prayer to solve issues rather than apply science and technology — an approach that could actually yield permanent solutions. Take the case of the Chairman for Metro…

Civics, Culture, Development, Government, Religion, Society

Why is Rappler CEO Maria Ressa’s Twitter account ‘protected’?

July 7, 2012May 2, 2018 benign0 20 Comments

Look whose Twitter account is set at “Protected”. Ms Maria Ressa who is CEO of “social news network” Rappler.com has set her Twitter profile so that “Only confirmed followers have access to [her] Tweets and complete profile,” and so one needs to “Click the ‘Follow’ button to send a follow request.” Ressa is a self-described…

Lifestyle, Media, Society, Tech Talk

Noynoy Aquino Vampire Hunter

July 6, 2012May 15, 2014 Gogs 41 Comments

“We’ll have a kid Or maybe we’ll rent one He’s got to be straight We don’t want a bent one He’ll drink his baby brew From a big brass cup Someday he may be president If things loosen up” Love Story by Randy Newman With the release this blockbuster season of…

Culture, Media, Politics

MMDA EDSA blessing: Did the holy water evaporate before it hit the pavement?

July 6, 2012 benign0 16 Comments

I see these poignant prayers on Twitter every now and then. “God willing it won’t be traffic [sic] on Edsa today”. I’m pretty sure such prayers are uttered at least once per 1.3 person per day by the average EDSA motorist. That translates to hundreds of thousands of such prayer said each year in beseeching…

Culture, Government, Religion, Society

Teenagers and sexting: should we be alarmed?

July 6, 2012 benign0 11 Comments

According to a study published in the July issue of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 28 percent of surveyed adolescents in the United States have engaged in ‘sexting’. Sexting is the practice of taking suggestive pictures of one’s self and sending it digitally — usually by mobile phone multi-media messaging services (MMS) — to another party’s…

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