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”The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.
Lester Bangs in Almost Famous (via heather-rivers) (via boxfactory)
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”It is one thing to describe our business model. It is quite another to see its impact. I’ve seen the impact in Rwanda. What (RED) asks everyone to do is consider the (RED) choice when that purchase option presents itself.
(BLOG) RED: (RED) at Work in Rwanda
Inspiring words about the purpose of (RED), and I’m glad to have been able to donate with my iPod nano 4G (RED) purchase. Yes, we could have donated more directly and we do donate to other programs fairly regularly, but it’s nice to be able to contribute a small amount of something I was going to buy anyway to a cause like this.
On the topic of the donation itself, though, I must admit that I’ve never known what portion of a (RED) purchase actually gets donated. Is it a percentage? Does (RED) work out a specific dollar amount of each product? Or is it something else?
I did some digging tonight at the JoinRed.com website and couldn’t find anything. Fortunately, my friend Molly pointed me towards the aforelinked post at the official (RED) blog that offers anecdotes of success in Rwanda with funds from the program. While I still can’t find anything meaty about donation amounts across the rest of the program, this post offers a timely mention at the bottom that $10 (or ~5 percent) from each of the shiny new (RED) iPod nano 4Gs that Apple just released goes toward the cause.
That ain’t much, but it’s $10 more than (RED) would have gotten if I had purchased any other color, and I happen to think the new (RED) iPod nano looks pretty badass. I’ve always stuck with white and black iPods all these years, so I’m glad to do a little bit of good with the first colorful iPod I’ve ever bought.
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”Pro tip: rent _Escape from New York_ and commit it to memory. Just… uh, you know, in case.
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Sarah Palin Is Your New Bicycle
The one that made me laugh out loud in Starbucks just now: “SARAH PALIN KNOWS SHE CAN PICK UP THAT SPILL WITH JUST ONE SHEET OF BOUNTY, THE QUICKER PICKER-UPPER.”
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”In the classroom when the kids are being jackasses I can say ‘shut up and sit down!’ But I don’t do well with retail because… I fuckin’ hate customers.
My wife, Jessi, discussing part time job opportunities so she can get back to writing. It’s bizarre, because she really is a wonderful, warm, giving, caring woman. She, like many decent retail employees these days, has more of an issue with the kind of customer who wears “the customer is always right!” on their sleeve.
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”Note to other tech blogs: you sound like idiots when you say things like “rent, rip and return all you want.” Copyright law pays your bills.
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”A typo like “Barack Osama” on a ballot is right up there with “Devoted sister, beloved cunt” in an obituary.
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”Amazing moment of the week: Dying woman w/ metastasized cancer donating time to drive voters w/o cars to the polls.
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”Is it bad that I’m beginning to mark forwards from some family members as spam?
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Obama's affinity for baby killing could seriously harm our international relations
- David: Retweet @laxidasical: "Palin in Colorado: 5,000 in attendance. Obama: 100,000. That is all."
- Anna: OBAMA KILLS BABIES. That is all.
- Michael T. Rose: You think he does that personally, or he has a staff of abortionists on call?
- me: I'm thinking Obama does all the baby-killing personally. He seems like a genuine guy, and not one who would leave as tricky of a task as baby-killing up to just any intern.
- Michael T. Rose: I'm not sure he has the time, and being able to delegate successfully is the sign of an effective leader. Then again, I'm pretty sure Sarah Palin handles all the wolf, polar bear and moose-shooting herself.
- Michael T. Rose: Hey, here's a thought: if Obama kills babies indiscriminately, does that mean McCain is driving around asking pregnant women if they were the victims of rape or incest and then offering to take care of business?
- me: Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that these key questions about outsourced baby-killing and polar bear hunting haven't received enough attention during this election. If Obama gets elected, are US relations with, say, Iran going to erode while he's off baby killing?
- Michael T. Rose: "Sir, it's Mr. Ajmedinijad on the hotline." "Sorry, can't talk now, these late-term abortions aren't going to perform themselves."
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”Mom & I are behind a car with the coolest bumper sticker ever: “I brake for…Oh shit. No brakes!
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”A few weeks before [Sarah Palin] was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist—Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine—that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (“collectively,” no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.
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