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• Charity Gamboa and Rudolph Carrera are now friends   5 days, 18 hours ago

• Charity Gamboa and Malcolm Lawrence are now friends   5 days, 18 hours ago

• Malcolm Lawrence created a new blog:   1 week, 4 days ago

• Rudolph Carrera wrote a new blog post: Creepy Vintage Ads   1 week, 4 days ago
  

  msbeeee posts what has to be some of the creepiest adverts ever seen. Ew.

• Charity Gamboa wrote a new blog post: Jon Schmidt’s “Love Story” and “Viva La Vida” - touching rendition but copyright violation?   1 week, 4 days ago
  

  I have heard about this rendition that Jon Schmidt did with Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” from the movie “Romeo + Juliet” (well starring Clare Danes and Leonardo di Caprio) and “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay.  It was a superb rendition! It relaxes you - sort of calming.  I remembered attending my nephew’s piano recital last [...]

• Charity Gamboa wrote a new blog post: Wolfram Alpha versus Google?   1 week, 4 days ago
  

  I  sent a posting recently to the ISOC PH mailing list - just sort of an observation I had while trying out Wolfram Alpha.I tried it and just spontaneously typed weather information in my city. To my surprise, it gave me a “Wolfram|Alpha isn’t sure what to do with your input..”  According to the BBC [...]

• Charity Gamboa created a new blog: Charity’s Unicorn Glade   1 week, 4 days ago

• Rudolph Carrera wrote a new blog post: Worker cooked to death at soup factory   2 weeks ago
  

  And they have the nerve to put a picture of soup being served?!  There goes my appetite…

• Rudolph Carrera wrote a new blog post: To prevent faux pas in foreign countries, do a little studying   2 weeks ago
  

  As a busy traveler and a history and culture buff, I’ve prided myself on making deep preparations for trips overseas, and it has paid handsome dividends.  Zach Dunkin at Indystar.com writes on how one can avoid some of the faux-pauses that less-experiences travelers endure.

• Rudolph Carrera wrote a new blog post: ‘Evil’ China sex park torn down: state media   2 weeks, 1 day ago
  

  And to think they call Americans prudes, hah!

  HT: Breitbart.

• Rudolph Carrera wrote a new blog post: Amazon Opens Kindle to Bloggers   2 weeks, 3 days ago
  

  My dear blogging compatriots, this news comes as a treat! Kindle will be opening up their machines to instantly download RSS feeds from your favorite blogs, so it may behoove you to submit your links (or just do what I do and read it for vanity’s sake!). HT: MediaBistro.

• James Schwartz wrote a new blog post: Puzzles (PRIDE 2009 Mix)   2 weeks, 4 days ago
  

  by James Schwartz
  Ahoy! I’ve been called a loose cannon.
  TKO! Yet here I am standing.

  Through our carnage and through our calm.

  I hear one voice in storm and Psalm.

  　

  Sacred scrolls of henna fonts.

  A Global Era Renaissance.

  Connected consciousness. WE ARE ONE!

  Longfellow in Levis: the day is done.

  　

  Of queer quills and pink ink.

  A pretty boy poet to make you [...]

• Rudolph Carrera wrote a new blog post: A planetarium in your pocket   2 weeks, 5 days ago
  

  For you science geeks out there, Google has come out with yet another toy for us to play with. Read more about Google’s Sky Map here.

• Cindy Taylor and Bonnee Klein Gilligan are now friends   2 weeks, 6 days ago

• Rudolph Carrera wrote a new blog post: Mother’s Day   3 weeks, 2 days ago
  

  I am blessed (though I’m sure every child says this), with the best Mother on Earth.  She has had to put up with the crazy visions of her son, and she managed to give me the support only a knowing Mom can give her nutty offspring.

  In honor of all Moms everywhere, here’s a slice of [...]

• James Schwartz wrote a new blog post: Puzzles   3 weeks, 3 days ago
  

  by James Schwartz

   

  Holy! Hark hatred from ordained voice.

  Homophobia is an ornate choice.

  Chance encounters in the V.I.P. pew.

  Sunday exile is nothing new.

  　

  Superiority in str8 sexuality.

  Queers bashed sating pack mentality.

  No desire in my sleepless night.

  But for the mere minutes before flight.

  　

  In every nation hate holds sway.

  Charmed in a waltz of the cobra’s ballet.

  Hate is a serpent spawned [...]

• Rudolph Carrera wrote a new blog post: Venetia Phair, the woman named Pluto, has died   3 weeks, 3 days ago
  

  The lady responsible for giving the planet, as well as the Disney character, its name, has passed away.  She was 90 years old.

• Ayodele B. Smart updated the “Base” information on their profile   3 weeks, 3 days ago

• Ayodele B. Smart and Malcolm Lawrence are now friends   3 weeks, 3 days ago

• Ayodele B. Smart created a new blog:   3 weeks, 3 days ago