Being a geek is nothing to be ashamed of these days. In fact, it can be described as an “in” thing, with big names in Hollywood  hyping up characters playing as such and the general trend towards gadgetry and the people with the mojo to fully use them. Exploring in the direction of the geek’s rise to prominence, we discover many traits that are parallel or is a direct influence to a person being a geek. Primary among these “traits” in my opinion would be shyness.

An old PC is a poor, depressing piece of kit. It probably has been through many hours of mayhem with games, gone through deadlines with you, given you headaches with its idiosyncrasies and whatnot. Yet new life can be had with these old PC’s, if you can be creative with what you put it up for.

Many classifications have been bandied around for things as diverse as food preferences to general movie stereotypes. Hence, being “vegetarian” has replaced your religious orientation in resumes, while you’ll find it difficult to find a teen movie without a jock, a snob, and a geek.

As anyone here in the Philippines who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past few years know, the local call center industry has been booming in a way it has never boomed before.  

Public transportation in the Philippines gets a huge facelift as the Electric Jeepney (E-Jeepney)--Southeast Asia's first public transport of its kind--debuted yesterday on the busy streets of Makati City.

These electric-powered jeepneys are designed to run without the use of fossil fuels,

helping mitigate climate change and keeping air pollution and solid waste at a minimum.

"Don't play video games because it will make you violent!"

"Playing video games is bad. Period."

Ever since the dawn of Duke Nukem/Doom/Wolfenstein/Quake/CS, a lot of people (including your parents) say that playing video games is bad for you. Not only that, people have been "connecting" the violent actions done by some teenagers to various video games like GTA. Of course, there will still be people who don't really care and still continue to play their favorite video games as a form of catharsis.

If you say that everything about video games is just wrong, think again.

Trivia time! Can you guess what the picture above is?

Hmm.

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Ready?

It's actually a dish with bacteria....

Now, the real question...

Do you know where they got this bacteria from? 

Well, you'll never guess... Until you read the story that is...

From all of us here in Hardwarezone Philippines, We would like to wish all our readers a very, Merry Christmas!

May god bless all of you and keep you safe in this coming year.

Watch out for 2007!

Regards,

The Hardwarezone Philippines Team

Take a look at the mask above. Is it 3D rendered, or is it real? What do you think? Take a wild guess.