This listing is a work in progress. This is a list of famous duos in the course of history. Why do I (or you) need this list? Oh for couple costumes, of course! What did you think? :-) Feel free to add comments about your favorite duos!

The Everly Brothers – a famous duo in the music industry, known largely for their country-inspired rock and roll music.
Batman and Robin – need I say more? This duo is known by stooping ancients down to the PSP generation.
Mario and Luigi – the classic duo in the gaming world. Mario and Luigi has become a Nintendo icon when it comes to family gaming.
Cleopatra and Julius Caesar – arguably the most famous duo in history – in the field of history, they are known by anyone who’s taken the most basic world history class.
Mickey and Minnie Mouse – a classic duo that symbolizes and iconizes early cartoon animation series, this duo simply tops the list for being oh-so-unforgettable.

There are hundreds if not thousands upon thousands of search engines in the world wide web, but only a few is regarded to be very good; and which gives you the information that you really need – very quickly.

Google makes it to the top of the list. Google usually is the safest search tool, and you can usually find what you need or want on the first page – and on the very first try. Yahoo! comes next, although sometimes there are a number of things that do not appear in Yahoo!, but which appear in Google.

Meanwhile, factual questions can be answered adequately in search engines such as Ask Jeeves, Factbites, Answers.com and Brainboost. But if you’re working on an academic paper, then FirstGov, EducationWorld, CompletePlanet, MagPortal, Scirus, National Geographic Map Machine and Yahoo Reference are just the sites you need.

You need sounds, music or movies? Then try Loomia, Torrent Typhoon, The Internet Movie Database, SingingFish and Podscope. If you’re still in doubt, or if you simply want to try as many search engines as possible, then try 20search.com, a pretty cool website that simply provides search services of 20 different search engines.

No, this is not exactly just a list of the best or the most talented celebrity look-alikes. Nor is this a list of the best celebrity scams of all time. No, it’s a bit far from that, and the word ‘Free’ gives it away: how could the list of the best scams or celeb look-alikes NOT be free anyway?

Free Celebrity Fake Lists are actually lists of, well, yes, look-alikes and actual celebrities, only the actual celebrities have different bodies. Let me make that a bit clearer: some of the featured ‘celebrities’ have actually just been photoshopped to have the faces of actual celebrities they’re supposed to represent. There are a number of pretty good look-alikes of actual celebrities featured, but most have been edited to have the actual faces of celebrities. So if you happen to come across certain sites that feature a celebrity fake list, don’t think how amazingly the ‘fake’ celebrities look just like the celebrities themselves – because they actually have the faces of the celebrities.

Oh, and why does the list have to be free anyway? Well, the list isn’t exactly just a list – it’s a list with pictures; pictures of mostly ‘fake’ female celebrities – all in various states of undress.

A continent is basically one of seven major landmasses on Earth, ideally separated by expanses of water. However, continents are made distinct based on convention rather than criterion; some continents are separated by land boundaries than expanses of water.

The distinction between continents was started out by Greek mariners, who were the first to name Europe and Asia to connote the landmasses on either side of the waterways of the Aegean Sea, the Dardanelles strait, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus strait and the Black Sea. Ancient Greek thinkers had debated then whether Africa was part of Asia or a different land mass altogether. Africa was decided to be distinct. The Americas meanwhile were discovered by Europeans; specifically Christopher Columbus who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the West Indies in 1492. Today, there are seven official continents. Below is a list of the seven continents with links to high resolution maps, which you can then print out.

Printable Map of the 7 Continents:

Africa
Europe
Antarctica
North America
Asia
South America
Australia (also known as Oceania)

The United States of America has 50 states and 15 additional unincorporated territories, either organized or unorganized. Unincorporated territories are basically areas under the United States jurisdiction, but to which Congress has determined that only specific parts of the Constitution may apply. Incorporated territories meanwhile are areas in which the Congress has determined that the United States Constitution be applied in its totality; these territories correspondingly form each of the states.

Organized territories are territories in which the provisions of an Organic Act – or any Act of Congress that establishes a territory to handle federal lands – such as the establishment of a Bill of Rights have been implemented.

The list of the 52 states of the United States of America and the 12 territories is listed below. I have also added a link for a map of each state for reference, just in case you’re planning to travel to one of them soon. The links even provide Physical, Elevation, River and Lake and County Maps for each of the state. You can also purchase high resolution maps here.

Maps of the 52 states (click on the state names):

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Additional U.S. Territories

Organized
Guam
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
United States Virgin Islands

Unorganized
American Samoa
Midway Islands
Wake Island
Navassa Island
Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands
Johnston and Palmyra Atolls
Kingman Reef
Bajo Nuevo Bank

Baidula.net is a fast rising search term in China, and one of the very few Chinese search terms typed using the English alphabet.

Baidula.net seems to be related to the Chinese search engine Baidu.

Gambar Pemerkosaan is a sneaky mystery floating over the Interwebs.

Gambar Pemerkosaan lurks over the minds of men who, all day long, scour the intangible lands for his existence.

These men, they sit, hunchbacked, because of Gambar Pemerkosaan. These men, their eyes are dark and hollow, and whispered words pass vaguely from their lips: Gambar Pemerkosaan.

These men, they are the Seekers of Gambar Pemerkosaan.

I know who Gambar Pemerkosaan is. I know where Gambar Pemerkosaan is.

But I cannot tell you.

Found this outside our cottage in Dakak Resort. This is what is said on the front:

…and then on the back:

Gim and I dissolved into laughter after reading it. Hahaha. (Nice way to rephrase “sleeping”… or did they mean something else???)

Phone Instructions:

To call cluster A, B, C, Beachfront, Presidential Suite, and other outlets, please press [key] or [key] then dial the corresponding phone number of the room.

To call cluster D from cluster A, B, C, please press line 2 or 3 above, then you hear TOT… TOT… TOT…

When in Dapitan, you will not fail to visit Gloria de Dapitan, the tiny city’s prime spot for leisure-seeking travellers. You often find me here, as there isn’t really any other place to hang out in Dapitan when you’re not looking to sun or swim.

Gloria de Dapitan (named for the country’s current president, which is a shame) includes several restaurants, a few boutique shops, an Internet shop, some bauble-selling stalls, a snack stall (french fries and ice cream), a bowling place, an impressive fountain (for a provincial town) and in the center of it all, a cock-fighting gymnasium (apparently the Congressman, who owns the entire Gloria and most of Dapitan, is a big fan).

Gim and I go to Gloria everyday to access the Internet. The whole place is a wifi zone, and anybody can access the wifi for free. The girl at the airconditioned Internet shop lets me sit inside while doing my Internet rounds. I try to make her charge me the regular Internet rate but she flatly refuses (she lets me surf and charge my laptop for free) so I sometimes bring her some sweets in exchange for her generosity hehehe. Sometimes she won’t receive those too.

The food in Dapitan is superbly inexpensive, so Gim and I often visit Gloria to get dinner. (Most shops don’t open before 2pm so it’s hard to find lunch there.) Our favorite restaurants are Tapas & Beer and a pizza place (gosh I forgot the name).

At Tapas & Beer, better get an order of tapa (dried beef, fried in soy sauce). It’s very tasty, and the onions are very crisp. Also try their calamares, or fried squid rings. They’re one of the best I’ve ever tasted, because the squid rings are very thick and tender at the same time. Gim loves crispy pata (a leg of pork salted and boiled then left in the air to dry for an entire day, then deep fried) and we found it in the menu so we ordered that one time, and Gim loved it so much he left nothing but bone (the ones he couldn’t chew enough to swallow hahaha).

The pizza shop in Gloria is not to be missed. The shop owners come from Switzerland and the ingredients in their pizza definitely prove it. Regular servings (good for three or four but Gim and I can finish one in 30 minutes) cost only P200 ($4) while family servings cost P300 ($6). Extra toppings cost P30 (less than $1) and a request for thick crust costs P30 as well (you will want the thick crust for sure!). Trust me when I say they are VERY VERY good.

Most of the pizzas are mozarella-and-meat-heavy, just the way Gim and I like it. We love sausage and often ask for extra toppings of it. The pizza is cooked right in front of you if you want to watch. The contraption where the pizza is cooked is bizarrely small, but the server says it cost almost a hundred thousand pesos (roughly $2000). Whoa, but if that’s their secret I want one too hehe!

Have a look at the menu, I took a shot hehehe.

And here is Gim patiently waiting for our pizza on the counter. :-) It takes about 15-30 minutes for the pizza to cook (it’s not a fast-food place) so when the pizza gets served you’re sure to be starving heheheh.

It’s a great eat. :-)

Gloria is a cheap place to eat for city people, but there are many more spots in Dapitan where you can get cheaper and tastier food, especially when it comes to seafood.

But that’s for another post. :-)