10 page preview of Marvel’s Secret Invasion


I’m already getting crazy since last month about this upcoming Marvel comics new cross over and Its time to go back the old ways of playing hide and seek. Look for the unknown enemy in your own backyard! Oh boy, I’m sure I’ll hit the comic store next week for the first issue. Don’t miss this comics, penciled by Pinoy artist, Leinil Yu.
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Force-Feeding Classical Music does not make a Child Genius

When researchers in the Nineties found that listening to Mozart enhanced university students’ spatial reasoning, an entire industry sprang up based on the claim that flooding the nursery with piano concerti could boost a baby’s brain. Today, you can still buy albums and DVDs trumpeting the so-called “Mozart effect”. The only problem is that the Mozart effect is nonsense.

more: http://rudjard.blogspot.com/2008/03/force-feeding-classical-music-does-not.html

What is Jason Castro doing?

Jason Castro’s a talented lad who pulls off great singing performances every now and then. As Simon said, one aspect of his charm is definitely his goofiness.

Jason Castro just might be Goofy in human form.

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Grow Island

Want something challenging? Try this game. It will surely tickle your brain.

This game is somewhat a puzzle-type of game because each button/panel will upgrade the other button/panel. You must think carefully because each action has an effect on the others. The main goal is simply putting all the levels of the buttons into maximum levels. Click the picture below to see exactly how it looked like after finishing the game, so you would know if you are on the right track. 

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Innovative Ways of Telling Stories

Came across an interesting new Penguin project

According to the Guardian, “The We Tell Stories project has been created by Penguin in partnership with alternate reality games company SixtoStart. Other participating writers include Toby Litt, who was named as a Granta best young British novelist, Naomi Alderman, winner of the 2006 Orange prize for new writing, and Mohsin Hamid, whose The Reluctant Fundamentalist was shortlisted for last year’s Man Booker prize.”

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The Joy of Reading

Reading books, be it a novel, a classic work of fiction, a biography, a political or philosophical treatise, a historical account, or what have you, has always been one of the most enduring joys in my life. Our family’s Holy Week excursion in Mantalongon, Dalaguete gave me another occasion to prove this.

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Smart Bro Plug-It Goes Prepaid

PLDT has been really aggressive to penetrate the masa market. They recently introduced a prepaid GSM-based landline service that will definitely kill bayanWIRELESS Landline. PLDT Landline Plus Prepaid enables anyone who have a GSM mobile phone to have an instant landline for as low as P300 per month. Now, anyone can get a Smart Bro account without submitting any papers or requirements. Smart is offering their Smart Bro Plug-it as a prepaid kit for Php4500.

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Adobe Photoshop Express is Not the Web-Based Photoshop

The online version of Adobe Photoshop is finally here. But it’s not exactly what you were expecting.

Why release Photoshop Express like this? Maybe Adobe’s not looking to web-ify as many Photoshop features as possible, but instead hook the average user with the retouching tools and of course the social sharing angle, just like Picnik. But could Photoshop Express become both feature-packed and social in the future? Why not?

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National Age Group for Philippine Chess

Hey there!

The National Chess Federation of the Philippines will be staging their annual National Age Group Championship from April 1 to 6. Venue will be at the Mandaluyong City hall. As of today, we have 500 registrants for all the tournament categories.

After the age group week comes the National Juniors Championship where all interested participants can play as long as he is 20 years old and or younger.

For details, please check out my blog at http://philippinechesschronicles.blogspot.com.   

 

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