The Beatles iTunes gift card courtesy of @radj
I have been holding on to this for two days and keeping it in mint condition. I don't think I have the courage to scratch it in order to redeem the code. Should I?
Intel's new slogan - will.i.am inside
Celebrity tie-ups are nothing new. But this one is something to be considered as, well, odd. But Intel's VP and Chief Marketing Officer has her reasons.
will.i.am’s ideas actually could eventually affect Intel chips in some way. “It’s kind of a big green field we are going to go running through, and I wouldn’t want to put any limits on that,” she says.
An equally important reason for the collaboration, Conrad concedes, is to help create more of an emotional connection between computer users and Intel chips, which many people consider pieces of technology plumbing that they don’t need to think about. Brand ambassador, in other words, will be as important a role for will.i.am as technology innovator, she says.
Uhm, I don't know. I still could not see how the rapper can make silicon chips better in such a way that it would help it perform inside computers or mobile devices. So the article goes on to cite a will.i.am lightbulb moment.
“Why not have a smartphone that is your microphone?” he asks.
With such a pocket-sized tool, or a tablet computer, he imagines simultaneously performing and recording what he is seeing and hearing–in front of a dancing crowd, many of them also recording the event with smartphones. Then he could quickly upload the images and sounds so that people right after the concert, or people in other countries for that matter, could relive the experience.
That's an interesting idea. Really, it is. But then he goes on to say...
How to get from here to there? “The only way is with powerful chips,” will.i.am says.
Yeah. Sure. You're the Einstein, dude.
via blogs.wsj.com
The EDSA bus bomb blast. Meaningless (?)
The nation has become so accustomed to such events that apart from suffering some initial discomforts the public remains unperturbed by them. This morning, the peso opened four centavos up against the dollar. At the close of yesterday’s trading, the Philippine Stock Exchange index climbed 1.5% snapping a five day losing streak while the broader all ordinaries index rallied by 3.2%. #
Unlike the bomb blasts in Indonesia which claim the lives of hundreds of individuals at a time including foreign nationals, yesterday’s incident which regrettably has claimed the lives of five innocent civilians will hardly register a blip in the overall scheme of things. Travel warnings by foreign governments with respect to the Philippines have remained in place (despite the administration quibbling with them over whether these should cover the entire archipelago or be limited to pockets in the south), but is has not stopped the flow of tourists into the country (neither have they deterred flows into Indonesia for that matter). #
Today it is reported that the growth prospects of the country remain strong (similar incidents last year have hardly made a dent). The country appears to be better suited than its neighbors to weather the challenges associated with a rebounding global economy. The international news agencies hardly took notice of the bombing having the much larger explosion in Russia to contend with. #
On the whole, it is hard to imagine that any lasting impression or impact will be felt by either the polity or the economy from yesterday’s apparently terrorist attack. It leads one to think what had the perpetrators hoped to achieve by staging it. If sympathy to their cause is what they had hoped for, they are truly deluded. It is more likely that it will breed a sense of apathy with the broader public which have simply grown numb to such events. If it is fear they wish to sow, then again the opening bell of today’s financial markets will hardly manifest this. #
via propinoy.net
An unsettling argument. On the one hand, it tells a hard lesson to would-be terrorists that killing people just does not make the cut anymore. On the other hand, that hard lesson is at the expense of 5 human lives.
"In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3" is just one of those songs that's best seen/heard live
Kick-ass intro, epic Star-Wars-y lyrics, power chorus and an outro that's best seen/heard only if the crowd is singing it. This concert vid always gives me the goosebumps.
Coheed & Cambria is one of my favorite bands. Their hooks in their songs got me listening, but its the stories behind the songs that got me hooked.
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Ppip Cimafranca
I look forward to the day when all I need to make things happen is a mobile device, the cloud, some rock music and a foul mouth.
