Far From Neutral Notions – Philippine politics, culture and stuff

Slight disclaimer: not debugged in IE. Expect breakage. Or get Firefox :mrgreen: It doesn’t validate — yet — but you can bet your baby blues I’m working on it. There’s still some errant javascript. That said, it *should* look right.

I was supposed to be doing something different — another theme for a friend’s site to be exact — when I got tired of all the clean whiteness of it all. I needed a break. I needed some color. I needed to make something that didn’t look, feel and smell Web 2.0. I had to get away from gradients, drop shadows, pink (pink!!!), baby blue (baby blue!!!) and white (white!!!).

Then it hit me: I needed shit brown.

I’ve always loved brown — one of my first sites had a brown theme going for it.

Comments welcome, of course.

Edit: it may not be immediately obvious, but the colors stand for something ;) Brown for Filipino, and blue, white, yellow and red for the colors of the Philippine flag.

Edit: now serving you valid xHTML 1.1. Up next, proper semantics.

R-18 Alert! If you are below 18 and or have delicate sensibilities… wtf are you doin’ here anyway?

That said, I suppose introductions are in order. Snapshots is an on-going chronicle of Syd’s more inane impromptu YM conversations — sometimes with yours truly — and can be found here: the Sydman Show. Check it out for more info.

This episode is one that was never supposed to see the light of CRT-illumination; it was just too gross. To illustrate, this story begins with Syd asking me this question:

May isang kilalang adik sa Bulacan na pumunta sa isang bahay (trespassing) tapos nagdala ng manok. Tapos tinira nya ung manok [...]

I think we’ve established the gross-out factor by now, haven’t we? :mrgreen:

Definitely not for the queasy: Bootleg Snapshot