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A Lifehacker find:
LeapFish.com has this interesting “utility” that provides an appraisal for your domain and how much it’s worth based on several criteria. I ran our domain through it and this is what I got:

Thank you for using the LeapFish Domain Name Analyzer. The following custom report explains more details about what each of these [...]

On the MIA-EDSA bus route there is one line whose employees wear a white shirt with blue collars and emblazoned on the back with “BAVES TRANSPORT ASS. INC.”
While I’ve always thought of ASS. as a sad contraction for the word association (personally I prefer assoc. but then again, nothing beats the full word “association”) I’ve [...]

Seal of Approval or Mere Marketing Ploy?
What first seemed to be a congratulatory announcement faxed to our office has turned out to be a legitimized marketing ploy.
This is about a marketing group that calls itself the Philippine Marketing Excellence Awards, which has sent a fax to our office congratulating us for having won the award, [...]

But the Philippines isn’t even breaking into a sweat.
In Germany, the venue of this year’s World Cup, worker’s unions are calling for flexible work schedules so that workers can watch the games and not be penalized for absences.
With the recently concluded FA Cup Finals (smashing game between the Reds and the Hammers) finding out [...]

My aunt (the one who raised me and is now in Seattle and has been there since I went back to my parents in Cebu which is another long story that will be told in another post but not here) used to bring home a bag of boiled peanuts for me on exam days, back [...]