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Frodo Baggins: I can’t do this Sam. Sam Gamgee: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how [...]

Sorry to my English-speaking visitors, you would never understand this sound clip — though maybe I’ll create a translation when I find the time. [Sound clip c/o Make Poverty History!] With everyone back in the Philippines complaining of PLDT’s incompetent DSL services, listening to this exchange between one of PLDT’s Call Center Agents has proven [...]

Back in December of last year, I wote: What I love about Neil Gaiman & Libba Bray is that they have willingly made themselves available to the fans by means of a simple online journal. It has benefitted them as much as it has made the fans extremely happy. Would Colfer follow suit? True enough, [...]

Websites like votefortheworst.com should NOT be condemned. In fact, people should even thank the webmaster and site staff for coming up with such a brilliant idea. Though sites like these are usually built for any or both of these reasons: (a) to communicate a certain idea, and/or (b) to get site traffic and earn money, [...]

Finally, the highly anticipated Stardust trailer premiered today on Yahoo! Movies. Neil Gaiman blogged about it just an hour ago. [the man beat me by more than an hour. Screw my English research project! ] I actually first saw the trailer a good two hours ago on Entertainment Tonight‘s featured upcoming films to watch out [...]

Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie. We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) and worked hard to deliver a safer browser that makes everyday tasks easier. When I first posted publicly about IE7, I wrote that we would go [...]

The first video is OkGo‘s famous treadmill dance featuring their song, “Here It Goes Again“. They performed their famous dance once again at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. But as Newsweek has put it, “Internet Killed the Video Star”. Be sure to check out both videos. OkGo, Better luck next time. /EDIT: Meh, YouTube [...]

SYDNEY (AFP)–Iconic Aussie wildlife daredevil Steve Irwin has died as he loved living: seeking out the world’s most dangerous and exotic creatures in their own domain. [more] He was one of those people that you would never expect to die, mainly because being “The Crocodile Hunter” is his job, and because you just don’t think [...]

Ok, watch and see this video. I’ve met a bunch of Americans who are like that. They don’t know what a Visa is for, and say “genetics” instead of generics. Some of them don’t even know that you’re supposed to remove the foil covering for suppositories, while some of them think that California is a [...]

I was finally able to rent Neil Gaiman’s Mirrormask, and I can say that it is definitely a great film! The whole film experience was very much like reading a graphic novel. The film’s art is reminiscent of illustrations in Gaiman’s earlier works such as The Sandman, and Coraline: dreamy, surreal, and fantastic. Mirrormask is [...]