SKIRMISHER

Petron’s Guimaras oil spill is God’s best gift to a Third World sty of a country.
Ninoy Aquino’s death-versary.
JB Lazarte’s creepy fiction about an obsessed stalker gets the judges’ thumbs-up.
Why WWE’s Ric Flair is still The Man.
The Japanese’s take on schoolgirl panties, product slogans.
Asians on a motherfucking plane.
“Whitney Houston, we have a problem.”
Man with three faces.
Bodily [...]

Google: Porn video and verb debacle, and the new Blogger.
Apple: Answering the sweatshop question, and discovering the Hack-a-Mac fiasco.
Firefox crop circle.
Korea, Korea: Crappy, gibberish.
Food: Edible origami, fatal hotdogs.
Fuck-ups: the Guimaras oil spill, the chocolate accident.
Stuff: The cellphone that wants to be cute but could not, and your good girl’s sperm catcher.
The Bush game, now enriched [...]

World naked gardening day.
Types of women to avoid, as men seem doomed in the future.
Why email can be devastating.
Korea’s World Cup fever.
Supervillains are the happiest folks on earth.
Riding shotgun.
Playing with light: shining concrete walls and becoming invisible.
Levi’s iPod-enabled denims.
Gayspeak.
Google’s ice cream.
Mel Gibson’s ringtone.
Snapshots: Apple’s take on Vista, baby shirts.
Technology: God’s “iPod,” Plexeraser, IBM PC’s birthday.
Humor: [...]

Pepe Alas asks the million-dollar question.
Autofiction.
People having casual sex with hummers.
Prettifying dog turd with George Bush’s angelic face.
Julius Babao asks “really smart” questions worth dying for.
More exploding laptops, a song from Zune, dressing up your laptop, and how wi-fi is like a girl spreading her legs to strangers.
All bets are on: Fidel Castro’s death date.
Ashlee [...]

On one hand, good things like thoughtful bikinis, a device that “writes” on water, Microsoft’s Zune, and the mighty Apple admitting to bad behavior. On the other, fireworks that think they’re batteries and another variation of the old fishy-toilet tank theme.
George Bush and the world of tomorrow.
Solving the energy problem in a big way.
Using the [...]

Killer Humor: Randy McFab “saves” the world from a nerve-gas farmer and a pious, Starbucks-loving “German.”
View from the floor: The churning personal truth from the Third World call center cubicle.
Jaded Fable: Protecting my no-ending books.
Technology: Google extends gadget contest, PowerPoint bleeds again, LG’s new teevee, cellphone-cum-dildo, handcrafted USB flash drives, how smarter machines might soon [...]

Killer humor: Zany American super merc Randy Mcfab “infiltrates” Klan central, and “interrogates” a suspect.” Also an Erap redux.
Jaded fable: Suicide and life’s supposed meaninglessness.
Technology: Robots to drag you home, and Bill’s murder plot against iPod.
Websites that made us look: Roster of dead MySpace members, Princess Leia fetish, and an 11-point denouncement of the web.
Films: [...]

True History: A different take on 4th of July, and why things we “know” about the Katipunan are fable.
Bullshit Meister: The most pimped boxer in the world, and a love letter for North Korea.
Trends: How deliciously earthy things beat God every day.
Technology: Robotic interaction.
Websites that made us look: Pleasuring yourself the “Catholic” way, and dolls [...]

Connections: Mary Magdalene seems a favorite underlying theme, from Rizal’s Noli to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code.
Jaded Fable: Grappling with the magnitude of a shitty situation.
Website that made us look: Hilarious Kitlers (or cats that look like Hitler).
Films: Terry Gilliam’s Good Omens, and the fish-smelling things in M. Night Shyamalan’s pockets.
Technology: Newspapers are dying, and [...]

Cutting the crap: A call center agent from the Third World calls a spade a spade.
Rizal and his little-known connections.
Technology: Making computers more “humane”, and the lure of OpenBSD.
Websites that made us look: Pretty bloggers, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, and the Square One for the creative.
Pop artifacts: ASH-friendly, ass-friendly, and another one for your woody.
Other [...]