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We are now able to reap the benefits of the Internet. But it would always be a good idea to keep in mind how the Internet began and see how its humble beginnings have influenced our lives today. It created a new advertising media, it created new sets of jobs which I think I wouldn’t get if no Internet is available, and many other innovations like accessing maps or calling long distance phone numbers.

10 Things You Should Know About the Internet

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One possible solution to offsetting the high cost of gas in the United States is what a new advertising medium coined as drivertising, where car owners agree to place ads on their cars. The amount of free gas is based on how willing an owner is going to let his or her car be painted with ads. For example, if you are willing to place ads on side doors, you are earn $50 dollars a month. If you’re fine with your car’s back painted with these ads you earn $99. If you are desperate for gas dollars, you can earn $299 per month if you allow ads to cover your whole car.

Have you heard of the name Randy Pausch? If not yet then you should watch his highly inspiring talks about life, time management and many other topics. He is a human-computer interaction professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer. He who devoted much of his last months sharing his thoughts. It was then appropriate that the title of his book is The Last Lecture.

Pausch delivered the lecture, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007, a month after being told he had three to six months to live because his cancer had returned.

For all grunge rock followers of the 90s the photo is a symbol of the golden age of such music genre. For those who don’t know, it’s the cover of Nevermind, one of Nirvana’s several music albums. Nirvana is the grunge band formed in late 1980s in Washington State, USA fronted by Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl. Cobain committed suicide in 1994 and Grohl eventually found the band Foo Fighters.

Now, back to the album. It must have been close to two decades since it was taken and many would wonder who the kid was and where is he (you can tell it’s a he in the picture) now.

Ever found your colleague in the office drinking his/her morning coffee using your cup? I had that experience in the past and I thought it was not a good feeling.

I want to use my own cup because I don’t like to use disposable ones apart from dealing with hygienic issues.

A possible solution: Lock Cup. It’s a ceramic cup conceived by Israeli designer Efrat Gommeh that comes custom-fitted with its own key making it possible only for the key-holder to fill it up with his/her favorite coffee concoction.

With prices of gasoline in the Philippines more expensive than in the United States, car dealers are becoming more challenged on how they persuade someone to buy a car.

According to Bob Martin’s estimate:

Regular unleaded gasoline is now being sold at P 60 per liter. That works out to $5.16 per gallon. Based on news reports I’ve been seeing, I guess that we’re about $1 more per gallon than the United States.
… For diesel fuel, the current price is P 51 per liter. That works out to $4.39 per gallon.

Promises are made to be broken.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines is confident that it could defeat the New People’s Army as scheduled even as the insurgents are now flaunting over their supposed tactical victories against the military and police targets.

Lt. Col. Ernesto Torres Jr., AFP spokesman, said that the rejoicing CPP-NPAs have shown their real colors as terrorists for equating victory with killings.

Torres issued this statement in response to the CPP’s commendation to the Eastern Visayas-based insurgents for “successfully frustrating the efforts of the AFP to suppress the people’s revolutionary armed resistance.”

Call it the law of supply and demand. When the world needed abundant number of nurses with promises of much higher salary than back home, many Filipinos decided to take nursing courses. Some were even doctors and professionals from other fields who took nursing as a second course. But the demand has been adequately provided by Philippine nurses who took the course many years ago. There has been an oversupply of nurses.

As GMA News reports, there are other factors involved in this oversupply of nurses.

Davao City topped the most competitive city in the Philippines according to Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project 2007 of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). The city ranked in the top 10 among key cities of the country in four categories:

1. Number 1 most competitive city in the Philippines
2. Number 3 in Responsiveness of LGU
3. Number 4 in Dynamism of Local Economy
4. Number 7 in Human Resources and Quality of Life

The Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project 2007 results showed Davao City beating local government units (LGUs) in the capital Metro Manila. In the last survey two years ago, Davao City tied for number 1 with Makati City, the nation’s premier financial center.

Denmark.

Denmark is the world’s most content nation, according to a new study on global well-being, but the good news is, despite the credit crunch and rising fuel and food prices, all of us are getting happier.
Denmark’s prosperity and democratic systems are seen as key to its contentment.

Denmark’s prosperity and democratic systems are seen as key to its contentment.

Researchers at the University of Michigan said Denmark’s prosperity, stability and democratic government placed the country at the top of the rankings, with Colombia, Canada, Puerto Rico and Iceland all in the top 10.