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Posted by ryan on 24 Apr 2008 at 02:17 pm

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Yeah, yeah, I know… long timey no typey. Well if you must pry, I have been failing miserably at passing a kidney stone and succeeding victoriously at finishing up our online store (should be up by the end of the week?) and putting together XMas 3: The War on Christmas (more on that soon).

ANYWAY…

Now on to the reason I brought you all here today… A while back I heard rumblings of a laptop being developed that could be hand cranked for power and be sold to developing countries for under $200 a piece to get them in the hands of poor kids. What do poor kids need with laptops you say? Well sure, food and clothes are good but the only way to truly help impoverished nations is to help educate the children so that they can create a better future for the entire country (and in turn, the world). The laptops can be loaded with a thousand or so books and when they are in proximity to one another they create an automatic network - meaning that if each kid in a village had a different collection of books on their laptop it would be a virtual library for a place that may otherwise have never gotten books other than the Bible (shudder).

When the project was announed it was said that they would never be available in the States because they didnt want to have all of the stock going to people who could afford a standard computer. However this morning as I was eating my Vanilla & Almond Special K (or my lady cereal as I call it) I caught a story on CNN about a special promo where for the next two weeks you can buy two of them for $399 and one will be sent to a third world child in need and the other will be sent to you. Not only do you get to help kids AND get a kickass looking little computer that can be powered up in a blackout or whatnot (mmm… apocalypse laptop) but $200 of the cost is also tax deductable as a charitable donation (if any of you are into that paying taxes thing - I kid, I kid).

If you are interested click HERE to check out more info on the computer, the Give One Get One program and purchasing.

Look at how pumped those kids are? Seriously, don’t you want to make kids that pumped? I thought so…

Posted by ryan on 14 Nov 2007 at 01:01 pm

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The FCC is only taking public comments on Net Neutrality for another 5 days. Click the link below and find out how you can add your name and story to the growing list of people fighting to keep little guys (like us) on the same online footing as the big guys (the usual suspects).

Posted by ryan on 09 Jul 2007 at 12:20 pm

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I like blogging. Really I do. I even just started another blog so I can have a place to only write about music. (Hey Ryan, I’m gonna advertise that here: www.24hourpartypooper.com).

The one thing that bugs the hell out of me though is my constant push/pull with the ins/outs of blogging. I don’t always feel like linking to every single thing to which I make a reference. I mean, if I’m talking about a news story or something then, sure, I’ll link to it but if I’m talking about, say, Sonic Youth or someone then I’m pretty sure  you can find them on your own and don’t need my help.

The secret that drives all this, though, is that people who run websites L-O-V-E that the embedded link is the standard. They drive traffic, traffic drives up ad revenue, ad revenue helps people drive new cars.
Readers like embedded links because it make the Interweb FUN and EXCITING and, most of all, EASY.

(Voice of reason: Gordon, only you would bother arguing that the Interweb is a conspiracy to keep people lazy and drive advertising revenue.) (Counter Argument: no, I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one, but I hear ya.)

Oh, yeah, and MySpace wasn’t invented by Tom. So there.

Posted by admin on 08 Jul 2007 at 03:30 pm

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