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HTML5 Ambilight

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:08:57 +0800

HTML5 Ambilight:

HTML5 Ambilight Demo: http://chikuyonok.ru/ambilight/

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Alex Varanese Retro Posters

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:57:00 +0800

Alex Varanese Retro Posters:

"I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds."

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:56:10 +0800

“I don’t care much about music.
What I like is sounds.”

- Dizzy Gillespie

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28)

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:36:28 +0800

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28):

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Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:45:02 +0800

“What’s A Girl To Do” Bat For Lashes (Fur and Gold)

“Prescilla” Bat For Lashes (Fur and Gold)

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:41:00 +0800

“Prescilla” Bat For Lashes (Fur and Gold)

pinoytumblr: Pictured: Trophy hunters and their local trackers...

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:23:49 +0800

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Pictured: Trophy hunters and their local trackers and guides beaming over the body of a dead water buffalo.

This website promotes and provides a comprehensive program for hunting game in the jungles of Mindoro, Philippines. They invite trophy hunters from all over the world to “collect some of these unique [read: endangered] Asian species”:

Native Asian Water Buffalo

Asian Dwarf Forest Buffalo (Philippine Salt Buffalo)

Asian Wild Boar

Philippine Bearded Warty Pig

Black Philippine Jungle Cat

Large Palm Civet and Small Palm Civet Cats

Asian Sambar Deer

Mouse Deer

Saltwater Crocodile

I looked up some of these “species/sub-species” online, and though I didn’t get exact matches to exotic-sounding strings of adjective combos like “Asian Dwarf Forest Buffalo / Philippine Salt Buffalo” or “Philippine Bearded Warty Pig,” it’s pretty obvious that they’re referring to the Mindoro Dwarf Buffalo (common name TAMARAW) and the Mindoro Warty Pig, respectively. In fact, among the many pictures on their website, you can find:

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They’ve said it themselves: these are “native species you simply cannot hunt anywhere else in the world today.” Both the Tamaraw and Warty Pig are endemic to Mindoro — and they’re endangered, like most of the other species on that “trophy list.” The Philippine Mouse-deer, the wild water buffalo, most species of wild pigs, the Philippine Deer (sometimes called the “Samban deer”) — all endangered. There’s also the critically endangered Mindoro crocodile, a freshwater species. The hunting program offers only its “saltwater” cousin as game (if we were to believe them, that is) — but according to this study, and even the Wikipedia page, the saltwater species is a “very small, ‘at risk’ population” in the Philippines.

The whole operation claims to be “working with the Philippine government to issue export permits for this species under a trophy hunting program.” They even have a “Seaside Safari Base Camp” — “beachfront cottages with air-conditioning, TV and private amenities in individual rooms.” They provide the “outfitter/professional hunter” with “local trackers and porters,” guides, vehicles, licenses, and — from the looks of it — anything, everything, they would ever need.

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Now, is it just me — or is hunting endangered animals supposed to be, say … illegal?