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Pinoy Top Blogs is Changing Hands

After several months of negotiations, I have finally agreed to sell the Pinoy Top Blogs project. It’s a decision that was very hard to make but I figured that the future of the project will be more secured with the new owners. Several thins prompted me to move into making this decision and I’d like to share that with all bloggers who are involved and been part of the project in the last 2 years. I have encountered, on numerous occasion, problems with the server. It was mostly a scaling issue as more and more bloggers join the site, server capacity is also affected. I’ve also indefinitely suspended the service in the past due to this recurring problem. I could no longer manage the site and have found less time to review submissions, monitor violating sites and suspending them as well as checking for daily spam comments. I’m way too far behind the backlogs. The software I used to run the site ( evoTopsites ) has not been updated for about 2 years now. I’ve been spending a considerabl...

Sister locked up and forgotten

A WOMAN was locked up and “lost” for 70 years after being wrongly accused of stealing 13p. Jean Gambell, 85, was “certified” indefinitely in 1937 over claims she had taken the cash while cleaning at a doctor’s surgery. The money was found — but Jean still spent 70 years in a maze of care institutions. She was “found” when brothers Alan, 66, and David, 63 — who thought she was dead — read a letter sent by a care home to their mother, who died 25 years ago. David said: “I was about to throw it in the bin when I saw a name in the corner — Jean Gambell. I rang and they said our sister was there.” The two brothers travelled from their homes in Liverpool to see Jean at the home in Macclesfield, Cheshire. Staff warned them she was deaf and may not remember them. David said: “We were very nervous. We wrote on a piece of card ‘Hello Jean, we’re your brothers’. But she took one look at us and said, ‘Hello Alan, hello David’ — and flung her arms around us.” He added: “Nowadays there are ...

The Newly Furnished Office... Ahhhh... Soothing...

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After months of setting up, everything is fully furnished now... The new office is somehow a soothing place to work... the color of the walls, furnitures and cabinets were chosen carefully in order for us to work in our comfort zone. Now, I don't think this is gonna be a place where OGRE live because I am sure FIONA the OGRE version will never gonna be in this office, ever. Her swampy beauty will never gonna suit on this simply luxurious atmosphere. Now FIONA back OFF!!!

Ten Things About Aparador ni Lisa and the ZTE

1. Sec. Romulo Neri is making waves without rocking the boat at all! After all the suspense and drum-beating about being "ready to lose his job" on account of appearing before the Senate to testify on the NBN ZTE contract, it was quite lame of him to remain tight-lipped on Gloria Arroyo's involvement in the deal. Sure, Neri dropped a big, stinky pooper right smack on Abalos' head. But he flew away from the heat he created afterwards, singing to the tune of "executive privilege". Not quite the hero. No wonder he still has his job intact! 2. Fleeting thought: Sen. Miriam has no business diverting the issue with theatrics and rascist remarks on how the "Chinese invented corruption". Especially when some Filipinos are developing it to such an appallingly sophisticated degree. 3. It's nice to see how the NBN ZTE controversy has generated a lot of inspired and lively blog entries. I has so much fun reading Ina's blow-by-blow account of the Senate...

Picture Perfect

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Coca-Cola Videogame Commercial

I like this Coke ads and here's the full version you miss in TV...

Pictures taken at just the right time

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Deep-Voiced Men Have More Kids | LiveScience

If you want to have lots of kids, look for a Barry White instead of a Justin Timberlake. Men with a deep voices have more offspring, a new study suggests. Previous studies conducted by David Feinberg of McMaster University in Canada have shown that women are more attracted to men with deeper voices, judging them to be older, healthier and more masculine than their higher-pitched rivals. Men, on the other hand, go for women with higher pitched voices because they find them more attractive, subordinate, feminine, healthier and younger-sounding.

Ducati Desmosedici RR: The duke of hazard - Telegraph

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The hype, the doubts, the cynicism, all are blown away the moment you press the starter. Price/availability: £42,000 on the road; six-month waiting list. Engine/transmission: 989cc, V-four-cylinder four-stroke with 16 valves; 197bhp at 13,800rpm, 85lb ft of torque at 10,500rpm. Six-speed gearbox, chain final drive. Performance: estimated top speed 195mph, average fuel consumption N/A. We like: Engine, looks, handling, feel, sound.

13 Great Slow Sync Flash Images

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Image by alexanderbot This week I’d like to feature a series of images that all use a fun and striking technique called Slow Sync Flash . This technique combines a slower than normal shutter speed combined with a flash during the exposure. Like the technique? Learn how to use Slow Sync Flash Here’s the next 12 Slow Sync Flash Images: Image by TruShu Image by BombDog Image by davedeluria Image by aumbody images Image by omeara.tim Image by sesshoku Image by Scott-5×5 Image by BURИBLUE Image by brtsergio Image by HolyHolySnappers Image by Russell Image by omeara.tim Got some Slow Sync Flash Images that You want to Share? - Add them to the Slow Sync Assignment in our Forums

Amazing Roads, Bridges and Tunnels

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Take a look at these amazing man-made structures. They're one of a kind... amazing, isn't it?

Abuser! keep away from them...

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Abuser! Well I think every child is vulnerable to any abuse, sexual, verbal, emotional, physical, name it a child is prone to that. I was once a child and I still can remember how our nieghbor sexually abused me. It really hunts me until this very day and everytime I think about it, I feel like I am very dirty and that is why I wanted to kill that person who did that to me but where can I find this person who sexually abuse me 20 years ago? He is nowhere to find and this trauma still hunts me until I am not satisfied that this person is suffering or die. My parents/family didn't know about this because I never told them, maybe if they read my blog then they will know. I think we should be watchful for our children, our love ones, so that they will not lead astray into the hands of evil/abuser. We can't be sure who they are... it can be your parents, your partners, your neighbors, your teachers, your boss... any person can be your abuser and be careful for they can strike any...

Web Urbanist » 7 Extreme Urban Sports Videos: From Biking and Blading to Building Jumping

It is one thing to watch amazing tricks or stunts performed in a closed venue for a captive audience. It is quite another to see unusual sports practiced in a busy and unpredictable urban setting. Here are some extreme city sports you aren’t likely to see in a sports stadium, starting with an incredible urban parachute landing under a bridge to a Paris city street-surfer in a full body suit covered in 31 roller wheels. Extreme Urban Parachuting: the initial camera shots are a little disorienting, but once this parachuter swoops under a bridge at a high landing speed the scene becomes frighteningly clear. And to prove it’s not a fake: watch for the follow-up shot from a above trailing his progress on the way down. Wow!!! that's breathtakingly stupid... He seems like attempting to have suicide... Extreme Street Rollerblading: watch as Paris resident Jean-Yves Blondeau takes on the streets, sidewalks and tunnels of Paris. Armed with 31 rollerballs and an armored body suit, ...

Tallest Buildings In Your Mind

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The tallest building from each U.S. State in one skyline in a universe where physical space and proportion have no meaning.. All the skyscrapers in the US put together... To see the full photo visit here .