I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist
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Archive for January, 2010

The Top Facebook Fiends

face­book this, face­book that — it’s always some­thing about freakin’ face­book! although i think it’s by far one of the most bril­liant inven­tions on the net, i also some­times refer to it as the ‘home­wreck­ing site.’
face­book = a place where friend­ships start and end, rela­tion­ships begin and shat­ter… a com­mu­nity where shar­ing is a must and […]

College in America

is col­lege really worth it? well, if you’ re going for a ‘nor­mal’ major (eng­lish lit., mass com., psy­chol­ogy, sci­ence, engi­neer­ing, busi­ness, law…) then yes! but if you’re plan­ning to take 5 or 6 years to grad­u­ate with a bachelor’s degree in bowl­ing indus­try man­age­ment, then i would take a good, hard look at onlineeducation’s […]

The Fresh Prince of the Darkside Pranks Christian TV Show

talk God’, a chris­t­ian tv show in england, seems to be the tar­get of a bored email prankster. you’d think the tv host would fig­ure it out — after all, who on earth hasn’t seen the ‘fresh prince of bel air?’

See Through Face Piercing! WTF?

i don’t even know what cat­e­gory to place this post under! is it art? it’s def­i­nitely enter­tain­ing, yet pretty weird and wacky. and if this was a story about some for­got­ten tribe in the ama­zon some­where, it would be kul­ture! either or — what the f##k was this girl thinking?

[image credit: zanypickle.com]
[sources: boing­bo­ing, trendhunter]

Customer Service? Hell No!

ever had to deal with the night­mare that is cus­tomer ser­vice? well, i assure you i have — and a few times! for the record — if you’re gonna’ put me on hold for 10 min­utes (that actu­ally feel like days) with crappy back­ground music that stops every minute giv­ing you hope that an actual […]

The Long Awaited Apple iPad is Finally Here!

it’s real and it’s here! if you’ve opened a paper, a mag­a­zine, the inter­net or sim­ply been  breath­ing the last few months — then you’ve heard about the 2nd com­ing in the tech­nol­ogy  world. what we thought at one point could be called the ‘islate’ is in fact the ‘ipad’ — apple’s newest gad­get. the […]

Sleep Talkin’ Man — Blog Out Loud Funny!

while read­ing one of my favorite blogs, mash­able — a well known and highly regarded social media guide, i came across a post they pub­lished a few days ago called, “sleep talkin’ man is a viral sen­sa­tion”. the arti­cle directs you to a blog enti­tled, “sleep talkin’ man”, which is indeed, as the mash­able author, brenna […]

Bangladeshi Rape Victim Receives 101 Lashes for Becoming Pregnant!

a 16 year old girl was lashed 101 times after vil­lage elders decided that was the suit­able pun­ish­ment for becom­ing preg­nant out­side mar­riage — on the other hand, the 20 year old rapist was par­doned with a pat on the back!
human rights activists say that the girl was too ashamed to report the rape and was […]

Cebu Dancing Inmates Perform Michael Jackson’s ‘This is It’

the ‘cebu provin­cial deten­tion and reha­bil­i­ta­tion center’s’ danc­ing inmates have once again moon­walked their way to fame with their new inter­net video fea­tur­ing their lat­est dance rou­tine. the four minute clip shows jackson’s chore­o­g­ra­pher, travis payne, with dancers daniel cele­bre and dres reid, lead­ing the 1,200 fil­ipino inmates to the king of pop’s, ‘this is it’.
sony […]

Sony’s Dash — A Personal Pocket-sized Internet Viewer

ear­lier this month, at the con­sumer elec­tron­ics show (ces) in las vegas, sony revealed their new touch­screen pocket device for surf­ing the web — oth­er­wise known as dash. it looks like just about every­one is try­ing to com­pete with apple’s upcom­ing tablet — rumored to be launched tomor­row at a press event under the name ‘islate’. although […]

The Biggest Bankruptcies in History

one of the biggest calami­ties of the reces­sion — which con­tin­ues today — was the fall of some of the world’s great­est and highly regarded com­pa­nies. from lehman broth­ers (at one time the 4th largest invest­ment firm on wall street) to united air­lines (one of the major air­line car­ri­ers of the united states); the high […]

Ethiopian Airlines Plane Crashes into Mediterranean Sea

ethiopian air­lines flight 409 (boe­ing 737–800) headed towards adis ababa plunged into the mediter­ranean only min­utes after take-off from beirut’s air­port. lebanese offi­cials reported that the air­craft dis­ap­peared from radar screens 5 min­utes after take-off from beirut’s rafik hariri inter­na­tional air­port dur­ing stormy weather. eyewitnesses say they say a ‘ball of fire’ in the sky.
all 90 pas­sen­gers on […]

Is Facebook Watching You?

is  face­book watch­ing me? does the social net­work­ing giant know about every pro­file i visit, every image i view, every pri­vate mes­sage i send, every per­son i poke…? can employ­ees access anyone’s account? i’m sure that every sin­gle one of you on face­book (mean­ing all 350 mil­lion of you) has won­dered at one point or another, […]

The 5 Most Watched Videos on YouTube in 2009

the offi­cial youtube blog’ released for the first time last month, their top rank­ing videos of 2009.
note: to reach these num­bers, youtube ‘aggre­gated views across mul­ti­ple ver­sions of the same video’ — mean­ing — they com­bined the total view counts.
#5 — evian roller babies (27+ mil­lion views)
evian kicked some seri­ous h2o ass with this com­mer­cial.
#4. new moon movie […]

Ashton Kutcher’s ‘A+ Video of the Day’ on Twitter

ash­ton kutcher (@aplusk) — who in case you don’t know has the biggest num­ber of fol­low­ers on twit­ter — well over 4 mil­lion — does this thing where he tweets a great video — he refers to it as the ‘a+ video of the day’. i just came across one and thought it was worth […]

NBC Pulls Conan O’Brien’s Devious ‘Bugatti Veyron Mouse’ Sketch Off the Net

looks like nbc knows how to punch back when it’s being taunted. the almighty pea­cock pulled the web clips from conan’s ridicu­lously expen­sive ‘bugatti vey­ron’ sketch off nbc.com and hulu. the move was made to avoid pay­ing extrav­a­gant roy­alty fees when o’brien decided to play ‘sat­is­fac­tion’ from the rolling stones.
the soon to be gone “tonight show’ […]

How To Piss People Off!

i stum­bled across a pretty funny post called ‘how to tick peo­ple off’ by joe craw­ford from artlung. it’s a list of things that peo­ple do to annoy the hell out of you — some funny, some not! i thought it would be nice to repub­lish it here as some of them do ring true […]

America, One Nation Under God?!

here’s an orig­i­nal pic­to­graph (aka info­graphic) from www.good.is of reli­gious fig­ures sit­ting in a bar — each rep­re­sent­ing their respec­tive com­mu­nity in amer­ica. notice the bar graphs on the back of each chair.
to view the full size ver­sion of this image, click here.

Big Names on Twitter

it seems that every­where you turn, twit­ter is fly­ing around some­where! tweet this, retweet that, fol­low her, dm me, let’s tweetup, what’s trend­ing, #hash­tag, bla bla bla… all this ‘twingo’ (twit­ter lingo) talk has got my head spin­ning faster than a ten speed ‘twicy­cle’! it seems that pretty much any­body and every­body is tweet­ing these […]

$500 Bill Leads Police to $66 Million Worth of Fake Cash

don’t you just love it when you hear about dum­b­ass coun­ter­feit­ers? seri­ous advice to all crooks, coun­ter­feit­ers and co. — please research the cur­rency and value of the money you wish to copy, clean, cut…whatever! i would hope that by now every­body and their mother knows that the largest u.s. bill in wide cir­cu­la­tion today […]

Make Secure Donations to Haiti Earthquake Victims

in light of the recent cat­a­stro­phe, i could not but men­tion a few trusted sites where you can go and donate directly to help earthquake-rattled haiti. nat­ural dis­as­ters are not new to us, as we saw with hur­ri­cane kat­rina, the mamoth tsunami in thai­land and many more. it is how fast we act, how selflessly […]

Fart Facts

i’m always up for learn­ing new things — even if it’s ran­dom crap! and if that means adding a lit­tle bit of harm­less ‘rude and crude’ sub­jects and images to this blog — so be it!  this par­tic­u­lar post takes a look at the facts about farts; why peo­ple do it, what causes them to […]

Smartphone Faceoff — Nexus One vs. IPhone

google’s new htc-made, android-based, nexus one, has cre­ated quite a stir in the mobile world. but most of all it’s given the almighty iphone a run for its’ money! in the ongo­ing debate of which smart­phone is bet­ter, cooler, faster… here’ are 6 fea­tures that the google phone has which the iphone doesn’t.

it’s unlocked — […]

Hanging in Mid Air

johan lor­beer is a ger­man street per­former who’s become famous in the last few years because of his ‘still life’ pub­lic per­for­mances. the video below is from one of his hot acts called tarzan. it’s beyond me why he chose that name  for it, cause i’ve never seen tarzan per­form this trick. he may just […]

CV’s Worth Looking At

many, if not most of you, know what it’s like to send your resume (cv) to hun­dreds of inter­na­tional hr depart­ments in hopes that some­one will actu­ally get to yours and take the time to look at it. after all, you spent quite a bit of hours fix­ing and spic­ing it up — all those […]

 
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