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LitWit Challenge 3.6: 1,000 words (updated with Yucch-meter)

We have writing contests and we post pictures of rugby players, so here's the Weekly LitWit Challenge with the photo of a rugby player. That's Oliver Saunders, a member of the Philippine rugby team since 2007. He is the fly half and the designated kicker. Oliver is the eldest of the Filipino-English Saunders triplets (they're [...:]

LitWit Challenge 3.6: 1,000 words

We have writing contests and we post pictures of rugby players, so here's the Weekly LitWit Challenge with the photo of a rugby player. That's Oliver Saunders, a member of the Philippine rugby team since 2007. He is the fly half and the designated kicker. Oliver is the eldest of the Filipino-English Saunders triplets (they're [...:]

Facebook's Zuck

This week the New Yorker profiles Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, nickname Zuck. Here's an interesting bit: In another exchange leaked to Silicon Alley Insider, Zuckerberg explained to a friend that his control of Facebook gave him access to any information he wanted on any Harvard student: ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about [...:]

The winner of LitWit Challenge 3.5: Game, set, match is…

Look in the other court, it's Nietzsche-reading Janko Tipsarevic playing doubles. He has a tattoo of a quote from Dostoevski. I'm reading the entries right now. jake: I am in total agreement on the one-handed backhand, and Richard Gasquet's is beautiful. Do not lose hope: I rooted for Goran Ivanisevic for years and years and [...:]

On the other hand I will sleep soundly tonight.

Ooh, there's an Illy cafe at the big cavernous NAIA terminal 3! Naah, skip it. The coffee is by Illy, but the pastries are fossilized. And expensive. And I ordered a double espresso that was served in a large cardboard cup. I said, Please put it in a china cup. They said, We're out of [...:]

Re-Lay-Shun-Ships

This is how relationships were conducted in a previous generation. Boy: Sir, I would like to request permission to court your daughter. Girl's father: Honey, bring me my shotgun! Boy: Sir, my intentions are pure, I shall work myself to the bone to make your daughter happy. Girl's father: I want to see a statement [...:]

It must be Lock Yourself in the Bathroom and Cry Month and nobody told me.

When Saffy wants some privacy she squeezes herself into the nearest available handbag. Barely a week after the last episode of bathroom drama, it happened again. I was in the bathroom at the mall when I heard someone weeping in one of the cubicles. At first it was sniffles and sobs, then it became full-on [...:]

Win an Italian vacation with George Clooney!

Photos courtesy of Focus Features True, you'll never be able to relax because some mysterious Swedes are out to kill you, and every noise in the night causes you to leap out of bed, gun at the ready. And the local priest keeps trying to pry into your personal history. And everyone in town calls [...:]

Like Roger for chocolate

Where are the Philippine universities?

Oh. Here. The methodology for the Asian university rankings is explained here.