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Morphthing
2007-10-17 07:50:00
For the narcissist in you. Get a decent frontal photo of your face, preferably your passport photo. Then go to Morph Thing. Do the customary register thingy, upload your photo, plot some morph points then go look for a matching celebrity photo in their database that's similar to the angle and general features of your face. Then morph! Presto, you can now live your Hollywood fantasies.My morphed photos of Antonio Banderas and Milo Ventimiglia (a.k.a. Peter Petrelli) are spot on. Kinda freaky, if you ask me. However I look effing gay as Ashton Kutcher, James Franco and Brad Pitt. But as George Clooney, Ethan Hawke and Tom Cruise, now those are the faces I can definitely live with. Morphed as Antonio Banderas and Milo Ventimiglia as Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise as Ashton Kutcher and James Franco as Ethan Hawke and George Clooney

Raul Midón on The Tonight Show. OMG.
2007-10-16 13:43:00
Just as I promised in my first post about Raul Midón, here's his awesome performance in The Tonight Show . This guy is absolutely amazing.
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Paris Syndrome: Exclusively Japanese
2007-10-16 11:53:00
I just love the Japanese . They're the weirdest, most creative, most bizarre people on Earth. Is it due to their mostly raw fish diet? Their rich codes and customs? Their love with anything electronic and mechanical?I don't know. But after reading about a purely Japanese psychiatric condition known as the Paris Syndrome , I am convinced, they came from another planet. They just weird me out.Also, read about the fascinating chronicles of a Japanese funeral, part of which has this account:When we entered the private room, a large tray was waiting for us in the middle of the room holding the ashes of the body. While all the flesh, the entire casket, flowers, and most other contents had burned down to fine ash, the skeletal structure of the body was still intact and warm (you could feel the heat radiating from the tray). Looking carefully in the ashes, one could identify small nails from the casket or pieces of the watch that was burned with the body... The representative then handed ou...

God is funny
2007-10-15 11:45:00
Why is it hard to imagine God having a sense of humor? Why should he (or she or it) be eternally placed on a pedestal and looked upon with awe and utmost reverence? While most people claim having a child-father relationship with The Almighty, that shouldn't be the case.Why? How many times have you poured your heart out to your dad? It's kinda awkward to talk to your dad without holding back anything, right?So, to the copywriter who wrote these ads for the Singapore Church Council, hats off. They're an entirely different take from the God we all came to know. The reverence is still there but from the tone of voice of these posters, you'd want to come face to face with God just to poke his mind.
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Schools kill creativity
2007-10-15 05:34:00
I've always looked at school as unnecessary since I was a toddler. Sesame Street was enough for me back then. I've always told my mom I needn't go to school since I know enough already. By the time I reached seven, school can no longer be postponed and my mom told me I had to start attending classes or else the police will come to our house and force me to go to school.So I found myself one morning in the presence of dozens of other kids listening to a teacher talk about shapes and the alphabet. Lo and behold I was the only one who correctly identified all the shapes and letters. Most of the kids who went to prep school couldn't even tell which is which.I glanced at my mom who was watching just outside the classroom window with that smug "I told you so" look. She perfectly understood what I was trying to tell her.Grade school and high school went by without much change on how I look at school--stifling, rule-laden and useless. I experienced some form of freedom in college. Being...
More About: Schools , Creativity , Kill

World Press Photo Winners
2007-10-11 11:24:00
I used to dream of becoming a photojournalist. Good thing I grew up be a timid, lazy dog who'd rather travel for pleasure than travel to hellish places on assignment. I simply don't know how I'll cope with death and devastation that photojournalists are so used to covering given that I am prone to being too emotional.Here are some of the most poignant images over the last 50 years that the World Press Photo Award has chosen as World Press Photo of the Year winners.Karamoja district, Uganda, April 1980. Starving boy and a missionary. Photo by Mike Wells, United Kingdom - Wells felt indignant that the same publication that sat on his picture for five months without publishing it, while people were dying, entered it into a competition. He was embarrassed to win as he never entered the competition himself, and was against winning prizes with pictures of people starving to death. Armero, Colombia, 16 November 1985. Twelve-year-old Omayra Sanchez trapped in the debris caused by the eru...
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On relationships and boxing
2007-10-11 05:50:00
In the movie The Break-Up, couple Gary (Vince Vaughn, The Wedding Crashers) and Brooke (Jennifer Aniston, Along Came Polly), have finally called it quits over irreconcilable yet petty differences.Although the film is a comedy, it manages to hit home on some important issues that face any couple. Foremost of which is pride. In the beginning of the film, everything wouldn't have been blown out of nuclear proportions if only Gary swallowed his pride and said a heartfelt sorry to Brooke.But no, pride got in the way and everything went downhill from there.It's not easy to gulp down one of the seven deadly sins as it could backfire quite painfully, as Brooke discovered when she mounted a last-ditch effort to patch things up.Now having gone boxing-crazy over the past week courtesy of Manny Pacquiao's win, I've managed to draw parallelisms between boxing and relationships.It's better to give than to receive. Same with throwing punches in a fight, it's better to just shower affection w...
More About: Relationships , Boxing

First touch: The iPod Touch
2007-10-10 05:41:00
So I actually fiddled with an iPod Touch last night over at the Mac store in Greenbelt. A shouting match soon ensued between my rational and irrational self.Irrational me : Buy it, buy it, buy it! Rational me : For a music, movie and photo storage device, it's only 16GB?! No way! Irrational me : But you have to admit, the touch screen's marvelous! Rational me : Touché. But still, no provision for an external memory card! Irrational me : It's Wifi! Rational me : Yeah, but you can't view flash-enabled websites! Irrational me : But you can check your email anywhere! Rational me : Yeah, but typing an email on it is cumbersome! Irrational me : Yeah, but the pinching and zooming out of photos... Rational me : Now that...that's really something. Irrational me : So buy it! You'll look cool with it! Rational me : I don't need to look cool. Irrational me : Sure, you do. Just look at you. Rational me : What are you implying? Irrational me : Dude, the Ipod Touch is your only chance at g...

Intelligence and building Stonehenge
2007-10-09 11:03:00
Isaac Asimov once asked, "What is intelligence, anyway?" And so he wrote an anecdotal essay pondering on the true meaning of being smart:When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn't mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP - kitchen police - as my highest duty.)All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too. Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests - people with intellectual bents similar to mine?For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored ...
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