Planking Craze: Risk Taking and Attention Deficit in the Wired World

    Fun, fun, fun. It is awesome at first to see someone planking, lying facedown with a stiff body on something and taking the risk a step higher. This phenomenon is a new craze among younger people, and those amused would also like to try – for fun’s sake and the thrill of the [...]

Subliminaly Obvious Ads in Movies

Hermes Birkin, Louise Vitton, Lenovo, Mac Ipad, Pontiac, Ferrari, Chevrolet, Mercedes Benz, Lacoste are just some of the products with obvious subliminal advertising intent in having exposure in the Transformers 3 movie.  To some movie goers and Transformers the other product brands may not be well so obvious more than the popular car brands and models that transform into Autobots. [...]

Blogging, Etiquette and Integrity

I have to admit I am a newbie in blogging, I haven’t even identified myself yet to be a member of the Philippine blogosphere.  Though I am having good reviews, reposts and increasing readership. I guess, everyone is new to blogging as the medium is a recent innovation from the last decade. A blog or [...]

Beyond Contraception or Abortion: Passing RH Bill 4424

Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion on the passing of the said bill. But it pays to be informed before expressing a strong opinion. This informed decision will have to consider looking at the issue in its various angles, ruling out what the bill is not and establishing what it is really for, [...]

Critical Reading and the Speed of False Knowledge in Scampaigns

In this digital world, everyone is a member of a networked community. Each one is connected and has access to information through the Internet and mobile communication. The rate of information transfer is too fast than our capacity to rationalize on the information we receive, and in most cases we react instantly without even going over [...]

Star Rangers, Voltes V and the Marcos Regime

Many readers have recently visited my blog where I tagged Star Rangers.  Originally this was GoRangers That earlier Tokusatsi had a hit in the late 70′s in the Philippines. Although we did not have our own television then, I was able to see some of them from my neigbor.  It was the predecessor of Bioman [...]

What the New Year Means to this World and to Me

We have a lot of traditions that make our culture rich. Most of these have no logical reasons but simple demonstrations of our beliefs. Robert Kohl and Gary Weaver’s model of culture iceberg illustrate that behavior, language, traditions and customs are visibly manifested as our surface culture, but their underlying explanations are beneath the obvious — [...]

Tracking Santa

There is a Christmas Spirit in that big, fat, white-bearded, old man in red suit. The medieval saint who gave gifts have been a long standing icon resonant in every child and child once imagination. His travel at Christmas eve around the globe to answer every child’s Christmas wish is probably the grandest story that humanity [...]

Regrettable Invasion of Memories on FB

I have no idea how this advocacy on Facebook started. But there was a campaign that took over the profile pictures of  its users. The campaign ends today. I was surprised last night that most of my friends have changed their profile pictures with cartoon characters from their childhood. I thought “what’s going with the [...]

Feminism and Pornography

There is not just one standpoint of feminism as it has many strands (Freedman, 2001). Hence, there is no feminism but feminisms. This considers the multiple perspectives of feminism drawn from various era of the movement and its differing philosophical and political views. But there is something unitary and convergent in these perspectives, that is [...]