This is what mountains look like when they’re about to get all explode-y.

(Full size version at the Nasa Earth Observatory)…

Here’s something cool: an entire lake packed with jellyfish, in the Philippines. Apparently these guys got cut off when the continents were shifting around the lake separated from the Pacific Ocean. Best of all, you can swim with them- their …

Sigaw (The Philippines, 2004)

Sigaw (which translates as The Echo) is the first Filipino movie I’d ever seen. It’s a nice little low-budget horror flick with a twist at the end that observant viewers will see coming, but which is …

The always wonderful Mr. Christopher Hitchens on the obon festival and what it means to us as Americans.

And my point? Well, my point is that under the azure blue skies that prevailed all of last weekend, you would not …

What do you say about a woman who energized an entire populace to overthrow a dictatorial regime? Her subsequent Presidency left much to be desired, but to Filipinos around the world she will always be ‘Tita Cory’. The People Power …

The Philippine government maintains a small garrison of civil servants on Pagasa, a small 75-acre island in the Spratley island chain, in order to claim ownership. While this may sound like paradise, the truth sounds more like an episode of …

In case you’re wondering what this song is, it’s the Philippine national anthem Lupang Hinirang – the actual lyrics sung in the commercial are:

Aming ligaya na pag may mang-aapi,
ang mamatay ng dahil sa iyo.

or,  for non-Tagalog speakers:…

Sorry, io9 – Schumacher still has the distinction of having made the worst Batman movie ever. You can’t honestly tell me that the 1993 Filipino production Alyas Batman En Robin is less entertaining than Batman & Robin.

I mean, …

From MSNBC:…

My heart is heavy because my idol died,” said Byron Garcia, security consultant at a Philippine prison who organized the famous video of 1,500 inmates doing a synchronized dance to “Thriller.” The video has had 23.4 million hits

With relatives serving in both the European and Pacific theaters during WWII, I have always been a bit of a war-junkie…and I’m particularly happy to see the Pacific theater finally getting its’ due. Growing up in the Philippines, my dad …

When I read about the death of Bulgarian Survivor contestant Noncho Vodenicharov this morning, my first thought was: ‘They have Survivor in Bulgaria? I wonder if it’s as soul-crushingly awful as the American version…’. But say what you want about …

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