Wallstreetfighter.com: 11 Interesting Pictures That Look Photo Shopped But Aren’t View the pictures here.

I easily get miffed by all the advertisements in websites, particularly in online newspapers, many of them flash-based that takes forever to load. Online newspapers will hate me for this but there’s a way to read their stuff without getting bombarded by ads: use their mobile versions.

If you have multiple email accounts, checking them individually can be a drag. Fortunately, since I started using mainly Gmail, Google’s free web-based email service, I could forward all my, uh, forwardable emails — most of them from other Gmail accounts — to my main Gmail email and check all of them in one account.
But [...]

By Ninotchka Rosca

Making leche flan was a skill I picked up over two decades ago in Honolulu, Hawaii, where the potluck was common practice. My sister gave me a round aluminum pan (cost $0.70 in Chinatown), some instructions and let me loose. Years later, having done with the chores of another marriage, I threw the [...]

Lifehack: Of all the things people cite as the reason they don’t start or finish something—write that book, lose the weight, build the business, or invent the widget—time lands squarely at the top of the list every time. What clients say time and again (sorry) is that becoming conscious about how they use every hour [...]

Cracked.com: So you’re an inventor, and you’ve just created a product that actually sucks quite a bit more than the ones people are already using. How do you sell it? Why, by creating a cornball TV ad that portrays everyday tasks as being next to impossible without your product. As we’ll see, the results range [...]

RedBook: There comes a time in every man’s life when he discovers the value of hiding the grosser parts of his nature. He starts reciting the sweet nothings you long to hear: “No, honey, I play golf for the exercise.” “No, honey, I think you’re a great driver.” “No, honey, I wasn’t looking at that [...]

FoxNEWS.com: As research confirms time and time again, good sex in a healthy, stable, monogamous relationship can only better our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being. Sex, in this context, offers us tons of benefits, most of which aren’t touted nearly enough. Full story

Danny Arao has a collection of interesting, often hilarious, signs he and his wife Joy collected during their travels. Check it out here.

Damon Darlin, writing in The New York Times, marvels at the fact that he has been able to survive a month without using Microsoft Word, that de rigueur word-processing software that comes with most PCs.
I’m going to top his claim: I have not used Microsoft Word for about five months now.

Damon Darlin, writing in The New York Times, marvels at the fact that he has been able to survive a month without using Microsoft Word, that de rigueur word-processing software that comes with most PCs.
I’m going to top his claim: I have not used Microsoft Word for about five months now.
My disaffection with Microsoft [...]

Stacy (Mental Floss): I like movie endings that are unexpected. After doing a little research, though, I realized that maybe fairy tales and I are a perfect match: those Disney endings where the prince and the princess end up blissfully married don’t really happen in the original stories. To make sure kids go home happy, not horrified, Disney usually has to alter the endings. Read on for the original endings to a couple of Disney classics (and some more obscure tales). Read the story

By Ninotchka Rosca
Holiday and year-end greetings to everyone.
The last month has been difficult, what with the deluge of emails, text and video messages, letters and phone calls, asking how a woman’s organization could contend with closed-doorism threatening the very reason for which 500 women were engaged in political activism. In the midst of this was [...]

By Carlos H. Conde
For one whole year, I was stuck with Bayantel’s DSL service. It gave me frequent, almost regular, headaches — mainly slow and intermittent connection. I was paying good money for Bayantel’s rather expensive service (1,699 pesos for a 784 kpbs connection). I couldn’t wait, as you can imagine, for the one-year lock-in [...]

By Ninotchka Rosca

NEW YORK — A 12-year-old girl hangs herself (allegedly) and suddenly, she is the face of a city, a province, an island, an archipelago, a country. Her death is followed by screams and yowls of denial: she couldn’t have killed herself just because she was poor; she had been abused (perhaps), raped (perhaps), [...]

The most pernicious and the most grievous of political sexism is that which disallows women the right to effect historical signification, which has led, through 7,000 years, to the loss of women’s history and social amnesia regarding women’s ability to effect social change.

How Green Is My iPhone? Apple’s Steve Jobs failed to deliver on his promise, Greenpeace says.
In a report released today, Greenpeace Philippines disclosed that tests made by the group on the iPhone determined that the popular device contains hazardous chemicals and materials. “Apple could have demonstrated that it is a true industry leader with a [...]