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Archive for January 12, 2008

To the Girl Who Copied TMX

   I’m still not over the fact that a couple of years ago, drunken_angel of FilipinoFriendFinder copied the following entries from Original TMX: Snake Eyes, dated 25 April 2005, which is also found here; It’s Hard Enough, dated 23 February 2005, which is also found here; Accept Me For What I Am, dated 14 April [...]

Hot Cars

   The Lamborghini Countach is not exactly my favorite: it looks like something off one’s wildest imaginations watching a Bee Gees music video.  Like the Saleen S7 and the Lotus Elise, it’s best left on the walls of a teenager’s room.    The talk of the papers today are “hot” cars: smuggled European sportscars owned [...]

No More Free TV

   In a report by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) entitled “Wowowee and the Women of 200 P. de la Cruz St.” (PCIJ iREPORT, March-June 2006; this article is also accessible here), Sheila Coronel writes: The poor are a willing and captive audience of television.  In fact, poor people watch free television more, [...]

Game Addiction

   Yesterday’s episode of “Emergency” (I don’t have a meter-box installed on my TV, and nobody paid me to watch it) focused on “game addiction.”  The problem is that most gamers would either deny the existence of game addiction, or would say that they are not addicts.    I have to agree in part with [...]

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