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And what about yearly records? Transformers Revenge of the Fallen took 114 days to hit $402 million, becoming the highest grossing film of 2009 domestically. Avatar will surpass that figure in an estimated 20 days.
via James Cameron Is The First Director To Have Two $1 Billion Films: Avatar Passes $1 Billion Worldwide in Just 17 Days | /Film.
Is it wrong to feel comforted that Cameron beat Michael Bay’s Transformers Revenge of the Fallen?
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saw this vid in slashfilm blog!! I’m really excited!!
The most basic denominations were pound, shilling, and penny. The pound and shilling had the nicknames quid and bob respectively. The plural of “penny” is “pence.” The terms “quid” and “bob” are both singular and plural. A pound equaled 20 shillings and a shilling equaled 12 pence. Pound, shilling, and pence had the abbreviations “L”, “s”, and “d” which came from the Roman librae, solidi, and denarii.A florin was two shillings and a crown was five shillings. A guinea was 21 shillings. The reason a guinea was slightly more valuable than a pound had to do with precious metal exchange rates.A few more denominations were self-evident. For example, the half crown and sixpence were worth what you’d think.
via Currency in British literature — The Endeavour.
The National Disaster Coordinating Council released this update on the situation of the residents in evacuation centers:
The DSWD reported that a total of 10,080 families / 47,766 persons coming from 32 barangays in five (5) municipalities and three (3) cities in Albay were affected
As of January 02, 2009, twenty eight (28) evacuation centers are still open providing temporary shelter to the 9,470 families / 44,938 persons
UPDATE: 96 percent of evacuees have returned home already.
via Global Voices Online » Philippines: Life in evacuation centers.
In the spirit of Conrado de Quiros’ Eyes. Let us not look away from the hardships other people are in! Read the whole thing!
Hero cop in Baleno 9 sinking honoredBy Abigail KwokINQUIRER.netFirst Posted 10:01:00 01/04/2010Filed Under: Disasters general, Heroism, Police, Maritime AccidentsMANILA, Philippines—The Philippine National Police on Monday honored a young policeman who helped in the rescue of passengers of the ill-fated MV Baleno 9, which sunk off Batangas City on December 26.Police Officer 2 Mark Valliant Rey of the 405th regional mobile group was awarded the Medalya ng Kadakilaan PNP Heroism Medal during the flag-raising ceremony at Camp Crame for saving the lives of dozens of passengers of the ill-fated ferry.Rey was also on board the ill-fated ferry when it sank off Isla Verda in Batangas City Saturday night.Immediately, Rey assisted passengers in wearing life vests and boarding life craft.After waiting for almost an hour at sea, stranded passengers spotted the MV Baleno 5 a mile away from the site.
via Hero cop in Baleno 9 sinking honored – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos.
Voting machine source-code leak shows election-rigging subroutines?
Sequouia, a company that makes many of the electronic voting machines used in the US and elsewhere, has inadvertently leaked much of the secret source-code that powers its systems. The first cut at analysis shows what looks like illegal election-rigging code (“code that appears to control or at least influence the logical flow of the election”) in the source.
Sequoia blew it on a public records response. We (basically EDA) have election databases from Riverside County that Sequoia insisted on “redacting” first, for which we paid cold cash. They appear instead to have just vandalized the data as valid databases by stripping the MS-SQL header data off, assuming that would stop us cold.
They were wrong.
The Linux “strings” command was able to peel it apart. Nedit was able to digest 800meg text files. What was revealed was thousands of lines of MS-SQL source code that appears to control or at least influence the logical flow of the election, in violation of a bunch of clauses in the FEC voting system rulebook banning interpreted code, machine modified code and mandating hash checks of voting system code.
I've got it all organized for commentary and download in wiki form.
This is the first time we can legally study a voting system's innards without NDAs or court-ordered secrecy.
Sequoia Voting Systems hacks self in foot (via MeFi)
via Voting machine source-code leak shows election-rigging subroutines? Boing Boing.
To the chagrin of friends from IT to the Academe etc. I’ve always been optimistic in the computerization of elections in the Philippines. Articles like this gives me pause.
Happy New Year !!!!
I’ve never thought of Don Quixote as a geek. This framing of Nick Perlas as the geek suitor help me make the connection. This was a nice article, read the whole thing, tis really short. The funny thing is if we use his way of thinking what would Manny Villar be? the rich suitor? Eddie Villanueva would then be the suitor that speaks of spirituality and purity? Gibo would be the intelligent talented guy who doesn’t have much charm? Erap would be the Bad Boy?
What scares me with this is that my jaded ecxperience tells me that the nice guys finish last and ; It’s either the Bad Boy or The Rich Guys who get the girl.
I’m rambling. Once you get blogging into your system, you sometimes just have too. Okay vacation mode again!!!!!!!!
Think about Nick Perlas as the quintessential geek, neither flashy nor fancy.
The geek is plain. He is ordinary. He isn’t in it for the money or the honor or whatnut. He wants to solve problems that he is presented with. He is geek and like all geeks, a woman throws him into a recursive loop.
The geek is like that reliable knight who does Maria Clara’s will, and the perfect confidant. The geek is the guy who shields her as best he could and picks her up when she falls. He stands by her when no one does. But seduction is not in the geek’s repertoire.
And Nick Perlas the candidate is as exciting as the wrapping of bond paper.
Noynoy Aquino is the Trojan horse, the least expected and unlikely suitor/hero of the story who comes riding to save the day. He isn’t evil. He comes from a good background. He is not a genius and knows he cannot surpass his own parents’ success. In fact, of the list seeking her sweet approval he is the one best-shot Maria Clara has at happiness.
(And yes, how ironic since Mr. Aquino is a bachelor).
via Nick Perlas and the Missing Manual of Maria Clara.
I’m in cebu right now. Light posting if any at all.
FYI finally have a phone again.
My number is still 0915-765-9724.
I hope you could post in my wall ,
or private message me your contact info if you can!!!!
Winning ugly, but winning
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On Dec. 24, in an early morning vote, the United States Senate passed health-care reform. It was the first time the body had been in session on Christmas Eve since 1963. That's fitting, as it's arguably the most important piece of legislation the body has passed since 1963.
H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed with 60 votes, and though that sounds a razor-thin margin given the odd rules of the Senate, it is a landslide in the more normal context for major choices in American politics. The last time a president won with 60 percent of the vote, for instance, was when Lyndon Johnson trounced Barry Goldwater in 1964 [Correction: Nixon hit 60 percent in his reelection.]. Health-care reform passed the House with only 50.5 percent of the body voting for it. And the senators making up this morning's 60 votes actually represent closer to 65 percent of the population. Harry Reid has much to be proud of today.
For all the historic force of the vote — Ted Kennedy's widow, Vicki Kennedy, was in the chamber, as was the elderly John Dingell Jr., whose father introduced the first national health-care plan into the Congress almost a century ago — it has become difficult to write these milestone posts. Health-care reform, by this point, has had a lot of milestones. It has cleared five committees. It has come through the House of Representatives. It has been merged into a single bill in the Senate. It has passed through the Senate. No previous health-care reform bill has come anywhere near this far. But there are more milestones left to achieve: The House and Senate need to agree on a bill. That bill has to pass both chambers again. And then the president has to sign the legislation.
Passing legislation, it turns out, is a long and ugly process. God, is it ugly. The compromises, both with powerful special interests and decisive senators. The trimming of ambitions and the budget gimmicks and the worship of Congressional Budget Office scores. By the end, you're passing a compromise of a deal of a negotiation of a concession.
via Ezra Klein – Winning ugly, but winning.
Things to be happy about!!