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Archive for June, 2007


Knife Under Cups - Magic Act Goes Wrong!


Warning!
When you see cups on magic shows, don’t volunteer! Why? watch this!

Accidents really happen, magic must be performed with great responsibilities especially if the trick needs volunteer to finish the act. When I watched this clip, I was really shocked, I can’t believe a guy would do such a foolish act, not 100% it will work as it is thought to work and injured a unsuspecting volunteer. I am posting this video to warn others and especially magicians to think twice!

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Bataan - Land of Filipino Heroes

Bataan is a province of the Philippines occupying the whole of Bataan Peninsula on Luzon. The province is part of the Central Luzon region. The capital of Bataan is Balanga City and is bordered by the provinces of Zambales and Pampanga to the north. Bataan is almost 3 hours away from Manila and an hour and a half away from Pampangga.
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Bataan is subdivided into 11 municipalities and 1 city.
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The province of Bataan was established in 1754 by Governor-General Pedro Manuel Arandia out of territories belonging to Pampanga and the corregimiento of Mariveles which, at the time, included Maragondon, Cavite across the Manila Bay.

In 1647, Dutch naval forces landed in country in an attempt to seize the islands from Spain. The forces massacred the people of Abucay in Bataan. In the late 1700s, Limahong, a Chinese pirate used Bataan as the launching point for his conquest of Luzon, which was unsuccessful.
Manila Burns During World War II
Bataan featured prominently during World War II. Just ten short hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese planes surprised US forces again at the main US air base in the Philippines on the island of Luzon. After two weeks of diversionary tactics, the main Japanese invasion force landed at Lingayen Gulf on December 22, 1941. Japanese General Masaharu Homma’s 57,000 troops waded ashore against a typhoon and the resistance of US trained Philippine reservists. Homma landed tanks and artillery later that day, and began advancing south toward Manila, despite the valiant efforts of Major General Jonathan Wainwright’s Philippine Scouts, including the 26th Cavalry which suffered losses of 80 percent of its forces. On Christmas Eve, 1941, more of Homma’s forces landed to the east of Lamon Bay and advanced toward Manila, preparing to crush the American-Philippine forces in a “pincer” maneuver. General Douglas MacArthur put into effect plan “Orange 3″; the original plan for defense of the island. The Philippine Scouts heroically opposed the Japanese advance while the main forces complied with MacAruthur’s order to withdraw to the Bataan Peninsula, leaving behind the food and medical supplies crucial to the support of their units.
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MPack - The Italian Job

Online criminals have recently launched a wide spread web attack, which turns legitimate websites into weapons, security vendor. The attack began late last week and by Monday morning, more than 10,000 Web sites had been compromised, according to security firms Trend Micro Inc. and Websense Inc. 80 percent of the infections are on Italian Web sites.

Almost all of the Web sites we saw this weekend were in Italy; We were referring to it as ‘Italian Job 3,’ in-house.

Most of the infected Web sites are legitimate, “These aren’t porn sites, they aren’t gambling sites; they are hotels, fish-and-tackle sites, tourist information”

said David Perry, global director of education with Trend Micro.

Even local Italian government Web sites have been infected, and most of the affected sites are hosted by one of Italy’s largest Web service providers

Infected Web sites contain a short piece of HTML “iFrame” code that redirects the victim’s Web browser to a server that attempts to infect the victim’s computer using a tool called “MPack“.

It is a piece of code, usually hosted on victim’s server, written in PHP. It uses a variety of exploits and automatically chooses which exploits are needed on each target computer. MPack creators call themselves “Dream Coders Team”.

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Comdom Yes, Abortion No!

When I was googling around, I found this blog which talks about how she was disgusted on Chruch beliefs of opposing the use of condom and abortion. She says:

That is so disgusting and unbelievable how the Church opposes condoms and Abortions. Yeah go on. The more people on earth the more problem we will have.

IMHO I do think that using condom has great advantages rather than disadvantages. And I do believe that having a birth control methods such as using condom will help solve population growth which result to poor economy.

As for abortion, I am definitely anti-abortion. I do believe that there is no “freedom of choice” here. The child has also no other choice you know! We just have to be responsible and be human.

She also quoted:

“Today, no one is a virgin when they get married,� Bundchen said.�
Everyone’s favourite Runway supermodel Gisele Bundchen criticizing the Roman Catholic church’s opposition to condom use and abortion.

I do not see the connection? Is this supermodel saying that be liberal and mind your own business? Hey I don’t mind you doing whatever you like, but common doing abortion (wake up! you’ll end up regretting it in the end).

And lastly “unwanted pregnancy” if it is rape or just not being prepared to be pregnant. Raped, this might be the end of the world to you but hey If you loose hope, what else will be left to the child? You know why humans are greater than animals? Animals have no feeling they just do what they feel they want to do. If they are hungry they will hunt, if they feel horny they do it right there. Unwanted pregnancy, it is a matter of discipline if you do not have it do not blame the child, accept the consequences and move on.

In the end, be proud of being a woman. Being a mother does not mean it is the end of the world. I am proud to have a loving mother. Someday if you choose not to do an abortion somebody will tell you that same line.

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Stripper Vash


Today I had been lurking around at Youtube, accidentally I found this clip I can help but to laughed at this. If you guys have no idea of the characters here are some short info, basically they used 2 popular playstation game and anime series namely Final Fantasy VII and Devil May Cry 3, lastly Trigun. The characters which appeared in this video are:

  • Lady
  • Vash the Stampede
  • Vergil
  • Vincent

Lady, Vergil and Dante are characters from Devil May Cry 3, Vash The Stampede is from Trigun while Vincent is from Final Fantasy VII.

Anime Central, is an event held in the state of Illinois dedicated to the appreciation, recognition, and enjoyment of Japanese animation and culture. It is an event which is attended by many and is an opportunity to meet and talk to people with similar interests.

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