Bloggers are the new journalists daw.......(hand me the barf bag please)

Random factoids accrued during the course of the day that have no bearing on the Philippine trade deficit but I share here anyway because contrary to the cliques of the Philippine Blogosphere, blogs are just blogs where people, like me, can post useless facts. No pseudo-intellectual babble or paid review of yesterday's technology here!



Watching Hamilton's tyre get spectacularly shredded at the Turkish Grand Prix, I discovered that Oxbarrioshire is HQ to four Formula 1 teams: Renault, Williams, Honda, and Honda Super Aguri. Also, Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso live here. The aerodynamics of the McLaren are crunched by SGI (same computers that rendered Toy Story, Matrix, Lord of the Rings, Shrek). The downward force on F1 cars means they can be driven upside down in a tunnel roof given a minimum speed of 140mph.

A tyre cornering or braking experiences a g force of 5, an average sneeze produces a g-force of 2.9. (Imagine the impact crater if you had 1000 Kiko Pangilinan's sneezing at the same time!)



Tom Quad is part of the Royal Domain. This means unless the Queen or her appointed muchacho explicitly approves it, the police have no jurisdiction in this area. As a result, students engage in all sorts of illegal activities here, buggery, Class A-B drug use, openly expressing admiration for Pope Benedict XVI, urinating on the Mercury pond, etc...