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:) it's just a matter of time A soap opera in your phone?! Why didn't the Pinoy think of this first??? Because they were too busy watching some dubbed soap opera on television. Well, Holland beat us to it. Shame on us, considering we're supposed to be the texting capital of the world. Below is the report from picturephoning.com . Holland, the country who brought to television the first "Big Brother" reality show in 1999, is now innovating with the first picture soap opera, Jong-Zuid . The technology is not exactly MMS, but WAP-push, a function of most color-screen phones. It's sort of a "photo romantic" (at least that what they used to be called in the Netherlands, "roman photos" in French), a story involving love and romance told through pictures and read by adolescent girls. What's interesting is that Jong-Zuid actually has famous Dutch TV-soap actors starring in it. Viewers can either follow the episodes on th...

:) A brief history of Komikeros in the American comic book industry Part one of my report is now online , thanks to J.Torres, who needed someone to sub for him while he attending some conventions. I do hope I was able to mention all the prominent Pinoys who did work for American comic books. If I missed out on anyone or got my details wrong, please email me at: budj (at) rocketmail (dot) com. Special thanks to these websites used for reference in the writing of my article: http://www.lambiek.net http://www.komikero.com http://www.povonline.com http://www.twomorrows.com http://members.cox.net/komikasa/ http://users.raketnet.nl/weirdcomics/home.htm http://www.ramonschenk.nl/

+ Pics and Porn Mga retrato na kuha ni Gerry sa kanyang mga paglalakbay sa tabi tabi. http://josejavierreyes.blogspot.com/ The completely uncensored rantings and ravings of the Official Pornographer of the Philippines about almost everything profound and profane, monumental and mundane with occasional references to people and places, real and imagined, living while many wish them dead.

:) A different kind of phlog Check out Wim Wenders' "Pictures from the Surface of the Earth" aka "Picture Haiku's"