tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-315274822011-11-27T22:10:16.536-08:00The age of the living robot is upon us, and all it takes to turn a living rat into a radio-controlled automaton are three electrodes carefully placed in the animal's brain. -- New Science, May 1, 2002howimadeamillionpesoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08957290362016019241noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31527482.post-63833891302414426692008-01-16T00:16:00.001-08:002008-01-17T10:01:26.176-08:00

EVERYTHING came in flashes. So, that was how it felt. The last things I remembered were being held and propped up by two men, so I'd stand properly on a weighing scale -- or was it an X-ray plate? Blackout. A man trying to stick an IUD needle into my vein. Blackout. Being rolled into a bed like a sack of potatoes. Blackout. Hearing noises of people quarreling. Blackout. Someone sticking a tube

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I GO to Mercury Drug each week, and each time I see these faces, queuing in front of the counter with a look that is both hesitant and indignant but ultimately resigned and begging for some small comfort they know will never come from the pharmacist staring them down. They stand there, holding a piece of paper in one hand and a worn-down purse (they may as well use a plastic bag) in the other,

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I WAS scrolling through my phone’s contact list, and I was surprised to find at least 12 names there that I don’t recognize. I absolutely have no idea how they got there and who those people are and how have they figured into my life.There’s this name, Rommel Bolesa, for instance, that I can only guess must’ve been a driver from a car rental firm my old employer once hired for an out-of-town gig

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IT is one of those big pre-election pitches that are as predictable as the sunrise but whose impact has been as vague and ambiguous as the boundaries that divide life and death.On Sunday, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines extolled in a pastoral letter its faithful flock to do whatever they can to prevent cheating and fraud in the mid-term elections this May, where 17,000

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IT is one of those big pre-election pitches that are as predictable as the sunrise but whose impact has been as vague and ambiguous as the boundaries that divide life and death.On Sunday, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines extolled in a pastoral letter its faithful flock to do whatever they can to prevent cheating and fraud in the mid-term elections this May, where 17,000

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YOU can feel it in the air: the mid-term elections. The crackdown on opposition bailiwicks, a continuous barrage of news releases about how life is so much better now, a parade of the government’s achievements in the war on terror, the dirt-digging and mudslinging.On the ground, politicians are much kinder now, more charitable. Ask, and you shall receive. They are much-more approachable; they

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PARA sa isang motoristang naipit sa trapiko, nakakairita naman talaga ang makakita ng isang convoy ng mga pribadong sasakyan na, sa tulong ng ilang police escorts, ay nagsusumiksik at nambabraso ng iba pang mga sasakyan gayong napakasikip na nga ng kalsada.Higit nga bang mahalaga ang oras ng kung sino mang Ponsyo Pilatong kumukumpas sa isang convoy kung ihahambing sa panahon nating mga hoi polloi

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Does anyone else find it funny that people who make much more money than we do are appealing to us not to deprive them of their income? You have the nerve to charge me P450 for a CD that is being sold on the street for P60 and you expect my sympathy?The campaign against pirated software, CD's, VCD's, audio and cassettes, would have us believe that piracy is our problem. Really? How is shelling

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You are a modern-day slave. There is no scope for personal fulfillment. You work for a pay-check at the end of the month. Full stop.It's pointless to try to change the system. Opposing it simply makes it stronger.What you do is pointless. You can be replaced ...by any cretin sitting next to you. So work as little as possible and spend time (not too much, if you can help it) cultivating your

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Tungkol sa kung anu-ano lang ang blog kong ito, 'sing walang saysay ng Joey de Leon-Rene Requiestas classic na 'Super Mouse and the Roborats.' Isa itong tambakan ng mga kaisipan, kahit ano'ng kaisipan -- malaswa, subersibo, pulitikal, religious, baduy, cool -- pero karamiha'y tungkol sa mga bagay-bagay na interesado ako. Musika. Sex. Literature. Pagkamuhi sa whole corporate bullshit na

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