Fort Bonifacio millennium celebration - from the New York Times.

This is the first case of a target getting money out of a LAD - three bucks! Passed on from the Philippines. The Kindly Contributor titles this correspondence An Exchange With the Dumbest Criminal On the Planet. LAD (or Lad from Lagos) is the advanced fee scam/fraud letter/fax/e-mail usually from Nigeria, the sender of which wants to cut you in on a financial deal of a lifetime.

Lea Salonga, reprising an old role for a last time - from CNN,

Reality is imitating the Web! Bert (of Bert and Ernie) appearing on a pro-Bin Laden poster in Bangladesh a la Bert is Evil originally concocted by Filipino web guru Dino Ignacio. How freaky is that!?

A gay political party (Ang Ladlad) will be on the ballot Monday for the first time in the Philippines, where eight out of 10 households are Roman Catholics. CNN touts Ang Ladlad to be the only gay political party in the world.

In a Q&A, he talks about his economic and social goals, and takes on his critics - from BusinessWeek Online.

Alan Ocampo's personal account of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Alan used to work at the 68th floor of WTC2 as a web designer - from Alan's personal website.