5 month ago
Linkorama : FreeRice - For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
# copy8 month ago
Linkorama : plasticbag.org: On the OLPC Movement... - I expect them to decry the project as (at best) utopianist folly and (at worst) some form of western naïve semi-colonial oppression. Most of these arguments make no sense to me at all.
# copy
9 month ago
nelson : Lagos: the megacity - Fascinating and frightening story of a chaotic 8 million person city
# copy12 month ago
deusx : The Raw Story | CNN's Cafferty: Bush putting the poor out in the cold to fund war - "No money for kids' health insurance, no money to help poor families pay their heating bills but President Bush wants $190 billion additional for 2008 for his wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"
# copy
15 month ago
nelson : Luxury submarines - For when your yacht and jet aren't enough
# copy
24 month ago
Linkorama : Teach A Man to Cellphone - "One element of poverty is the lack of information. The cellphone gives poor people as much information as the middleman."
# copy
38 month ago
jkottke : Being poor is...
deusx : Whatever: Being Poor - "Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs."
kayodeok : Being Poor... - Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs
philgyford : Whatever: Being Poor - Reality check.
# copy