36: I Am Ninoy">

The IAmNi­noy Cam­paign is a year-long cel­e­bra­tion of the life and legacy of Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino who was assas­si­nated 25 years ago. 25 years ago, his death—like the death of Jose Rizal around 80 years before that—sparked a rev­o­lu­tion. In 1983, it was as if hope itself died when Ninoy died on the tar­mac of the air­port that will one day be named after him. Three years later, mil­lions went to the long stretch of EDSA (Epi­fanio de los San­tos Avenue), to oust a dic­ta­tor in a blood­less revolution—the first of its kind in the world.

My friend, Shalum, is the food critic/photographer/resto tripper/foodie behind My Food Trips. No, she’s not pay­ing me to do this, and no, I’m not doing this because I am part of many food trips she gets into. Hehe. But I’m doing this because I like how she has evolved into a really good food and resto critic.

“The Sim­ple Dol­lar is a blog for those of us who need both cents and sense: peo­ple fight­ing debt and bad spend­ing habits while build­ing a finan­cially secure future and still afford­ing a latte or two.”

Wise Bread is a com­mu­nity of blog­gers who have banded together to help its read­ers live large on a small bud­get. And because I am in a quest to bud­get my money, this site has been quite help­ful to me ever since I sub­scribed to it.

Wisebread’s Mis­sion

Wise­bread believes that peo­ple on a bud­get can still enjoy fab­u­lous and fun lives. It’s mis­sion then, is to share tips that will help peo­ple live large with­out sac­ri­fic­ing their finan­cial inde­pen­dence. What does it mean to “live large” on a small bud­get? Essen­tially it means you can have fun while you save. From Wise­bread: “Too many finan­cial experts focus on the neg­a­tive aspects of money man­age­ment. They freely throw around words like “sac­ri­fice” and “respon­si­bil­ity” like there was a fire sale at the Bor­ing Store.”

Boing­bo­ing is #5 in the list of the Top 100 Blogs in the world right now. And rightly so.

Boing­bo­ing has the catchy tagline: A DIRECTORY OF WONDERFUL THINGS (which is a more suc­cinct tagline com­pared to COOL THINGS YOU PICK UP ON THE ROAD CALLED LIFE—this made me think. Should I replace this? What do you think?). And it is a direc­tory of really won­der­ful things.

It started out as a fanzine in 1988 by Mark Frauen­felder and Carla Sin­clair. Along with Mondo 2000, Boing Boing was an influ­ence in the devel­op­ment of the cyber­punk sub­cul­ture. Com­mon themes included tech­nol­ogy, futur­ism, sci­ence fic­tion, gad­gets, intel­lec­tual prop­erty, Dis­ney and politics.