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• Yipee ::Gin Kings reach finals - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos June 28, 2009
  After a not so inspired start for Ginebra they get to the Finals! Hehe, must get tickets! With the victory, Ginebra, which secured an 18th championship appearance, became the first defending champion to return to the finals since Talk N’ Text pulled off the feat in the 2004-2005 Philippine Cup. via Gin Kings reach finals - INQUIRER.net, [...]
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• rePost: Brave To Pixar: Pixar grants girl’s dying wish with home viewing of ‘Up’ | pixar, up, movie, home, show, girl, cancer, die, huntington, beach - News - OCRegister.com June 19, 2009
  Pixar grants girl’s dying wish to see ‘Up’ Company sent DVD so Huntington Beach girl, 10, could watch it. By ANNIE BURRIS THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Comments 45 | Recommend 41 HUNTINGTON BEACH – Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie. From the minute Colby saw the previews to [. […]
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• rePost::The Future Is Here, It Is Just Not Easily Distributed (Iran Edition) June 17, 2009
  uthor Walter Jon Williams says that he has an unimportant problem toay: Angel Station: Watching My Uncompleted Novel Go Down in Flames: There is a scene just like this in the novel I’m working on. My whole novel is playing itself out before my very eyes. All its specialness and wonderfulness, coolness and invention is curling [...]
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• rePost:How To Disappear:FT.com / Magazine - First Person: Frank Ahearn June 16, 2009
  There are three key steps to disappearing. First, destroy old information about yourself. Call your video store or electricity company and replace your old, correct phone number with a new, invented one. Introduce spelling mistakes into your utility bills. Create a PO Box for your mail. Don’t use your credit cards and the like. Then, create [...]
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• True Fans::Offsetting Behaviour: Economics of Scalping: Trent Reznor edition June 16, 2009
  NIN gets 10% of the available seats for our own pre-sale. We won a tough (and I mean TOUGH) battle to get the best seats. We require you to sign up at our site (for free) to get tickets. We limit the amount you can buy, we print your name on the tickets and we [...]
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• rePost:Shame On You:Mayor sued over boys paid to play in briefs - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos June 16, 2009
  Mayor sued over boys paid to play in briefs By Thea Alberto INQUIRER.net First Posted 18:41:00 06/16/2009 Filed Under: Children, Sport, Crime, Graft & Corruption, Local authorities MANILA, Philippines—The mayor of a sleepy town in Bataan province had been charged with prostitution and lewd show for allegedly paying some 40 teenage boys to play basketba […]
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• Best Read:The Joy of Less - Happy Days Blog - NYTimes.com June 15, 2009
  I’m no Buddhist monk, and I can’t say I’m in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I’ve written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn’t want or [...]
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• Flip Shame–Op-Ed Columnist - Cum Laude in Evading Bandits - NYTimes.com June 15, 2009
  10. Don’t wear a nice watch, for that suggests a fat wallet and also makes a target. I learned that lesson on my first trip to the Philippines: a robber with a machete had just encountered a Japanese businessman with a Rolex — who now, alas, has only one hand. via Op-Ed Columnist - Cum Laude [...]
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• -Flip Pride ewan-The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg | Printer-friendly version June 15, 2009
  In the Philippines, people treated me like I was a rock star. After the camp was over, I spent two hours taking pictures and signing autographs. People were like, “Will you sign my laptop?” “Will you sign my badge?” “Will you sign my body part?” via The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg | Printer-friendly version.
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• Ted Talk: Elizabeth Gilbert On Nurturing Creativity June 11, 2009
  I liked this alot because I still haven’t developed that discipline in creation where you can force yourself to write/dance/code etc. It has to be from an overwhelming desire to do something. That’s my problem with work oft times, I pass mediocre (at least in my standards) whenever I have to code because of a [...]
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