BMW Shape-shifting Car

June 13th, 2008 - Motoring

Most cars today have different structures; but the most common is having a frame, and then this frame holds the others parts and “skin” of the car (which are usually made of steel, carbon fiber, aluminum, or even plastic or fiber glass). But BMW has a new approach: fabric.

It’s alive!

What is Link Baiting?

June 13th, 2008 - Tech & Online

Akin to fishing, Link Baiting is the process of baiting online visitors to place links on an element within a website. The bait can be in the form of content or any other exciting feature that can attract web users.

Based on the principle of viral marketing, this link building technique has become exceedingly popular in [...]

Design Similarities

June 11th, 2008 - AV

The Club (video game), Street Kings (movie) and The Shield (TV series) — what do they all have in common?

Coincidence or not?

RoadRunner!

June 10th, 2008 - Tech & Online
road runner

RoadRunner, the world’s fastest supercomputer:

The ‘Roadrunner’ machine was developed at the Los Alamos Laboratory and uses AMD Opteron chips and the Cell processors found in PlayStation games consoles.

The Los Alamos machine uses 7,000 multi-core Opteron processors and parses the data to 12,960 enhanced Cell processors using 57 miles of fibre-optic cabling. The device consumes three [...]

Places places

June 8th, 2008 - Lounge

A quick post about places with odd names, and lots of “Manila.”

Yeah, the City of Manila is the capital of the Philippines, and Metro Manila is the metropolitan area while Mega Manila includes Metro Manila plus nearby towns and cities such as Laguna.

However, in the USA alone, the name Manila is overused. There are two [...]

Google Is Home To Everyone

June 6th, 2008 - Tech & Online

When the word Internet comes to your mind, the first thing you would think of is probably Google. This fast gained a reputation for being the best search engine on the Internet. Though this is the most popular feature that the company has, they power a lot of other sites. This would include sites such [...]

Next wave of machines

June 5th, 2008 - Business & Finance, Tech & Online

Traditionally, computers become faster and more powerful as time goes by. The latest and greatest are expensive while predecessors get cheaper. Conversely, there’s a budding market for light-weight, low-cost and energy-efficient machines.

New chips like Intel’s Atom and Nvidia’s Tegra are shaping the development of PCs from the Eee Box desktop to the emerging category of [...]

5-Gigapixel Milky Way

June 4th, 2008 - Lounge, Tech & Online

“This is the highest-resolution, largest, most sensitive infrared picture ever taken of our Milky Way,” said Sean Carey of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. Carey is lead investigator for one of two teams responsible for the new picture. “Where previous surveys saw a single source of light, we [...]

Transformers 2

June 3rd, 2008 - AV

Filming for Transformers 2 started this week, here’s some pics of the set/filming…

As some of you may know, the first three days of this week are when a part of the filming process for the movie Transformers 2 will happen, right here in my town of good ol’ B-Town :D Since I live about 10 [...]

Final Gear is looking for sponsors!

June 2nd, 2008 - Motoring

From their blog:

That’s right, once again we’ll be competing in The 24 Hours of LeMons, an endurance race featuring lemon cars costing $500 or less.

As far as ads and stuff on the cars;
$15 name on car; 2×5 spot,
$25 customized logo up to 4×7
$35 6×10 (bias them rectangular for “logos”)
$50 gets a logo/print you designed [...]

The four sins of advertising

June 2nd, 2008 - Business & Finance

Advertising is a very precise science. It finds its bases in many different fields including copywriting, psychology and even math. In recent decades, we have observed a slow but steady beautification of advertising.

For marketing experts this can work. For less savvy advertisers, it is a huge pitfall that draws attention away from the much more [...]

2008 NBA Finals – Lakers vs. Celtics

June 1st, 2008 - Lounge

The Lakers are back in the Finals. This is their first time to return to The NBA Finals since 2004.

From the days of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird to today’s Ray Allen, Sam Cassell, Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Derek Fisher and Pau Gasol; seeing Lakers vs. Celtics bout is just like the old [...]

An All New and Open PhilWeavers Network

May 31st, 2008 - Tech & Online

The PhilWeavers Network has changed to a new format.

Greetings Fellow Filipino Web Designers, Employers and Job Posters,

PhilWeavers (PW) is an online global network of Filipino Web Designers. Currently there are more than 400 active Filipino members based in a number of countries, that share common concerns, commitments, and standards. Through the years we have endeavored [...]