The mini-conference aims to inquire upon the feasibility and development of private initiatives to contribute in the Philippine educational or learning system, as alternative else collaborating actors in this matter. — Philippine Commons 23 April 2008 830-900 :: Registration 900-915 :: Invocation...

Does the image below rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise? It depends whether you are using the left-side or the right-side of your brain. What’s cool is you can tell your brain to change the dancer’s rotation and it will. Found via Kaye’s blog Share This

[via Matterr] If I may add, “Java leads to suffering”. Share This

Last December I wrote an essay on how to solve the quality and shortage problems in public textbooks as a starting point for a project. After a number of suggestions from friends, we decided to call the project “Bayanihan Books”. “Bayanihan” is originally a Filipino tradition...

The Arellano University School of Law have launched (and I could say with a bang!) last January 14 the Philippine version of the Creative Commons license. So why should there be a Philippine version? The law varies from country to country and it is important that we use a Creative Commons license adopted...

“Lance Armstrong was an exceptional one-day athlete who became an endurance champion after the removal of one testicle.” — Endocrinologist Craig Atwood via NewScientist, July 2007 I wonder if other athletes are pondering of doing the same thing. Share This

Your neighbor thinks you are a bum. Your landlord becomes worried. One day, our landlord asked my wife if I already have a job. She’s most likely worried about the rent. Your relatives think you’re a call-center agent. Every time my wife tells them I am asleep because I was working ’till...

Southeastern College, based in Pasay City, Philippines is suing Microsoft and (its local arm) for 100 million pesos ($2.4 million) for piracy of a locally developed manual on how to use Microsoft Office. If there is one thing that Microsoft should be happy about is that this proves we believe in intellectual...

Update:This post has been moved to the Bayanihan Books Project website. If you want to leave a comment, please follow this link. Every start of the school year, our adviser hands out textbooks for the entire class. She would call our names one by one and instruct us to pick a number of books from a ...

Can you see the arrow between ‘E’ and ‘x’? Now that you see it, I bet you would always notice it every time you see a FedEx truck. The arrow makes sense as a symbol for a delivery company that is always on the go. However, it is pointing away from its destination [...]