Posted by Adam on January 25th, 2005 — Posted in General
I was reminded today of the public service announcement cartoon character morality touting role models of my youth. Remember McGruff the Crime Dog? Or how about Woodsy Owl? For the truly stout of heart, Nancy Reagan. And Smokey Bear? Now he was old school, born in 1944. I’ve recently seen a Smokey Bear billboard, but what happened to the other guys? How are kids going to know what to do when the gangbangers at school start talking about bringing a gun with them? Do we even still have celebrities telling us about the more we know? Well, at least we’ve still got milk.
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Posted by Adam on January 2nd, 2005 — Posted in General
As most everyone in the world probably knows, an earthquake and its aftershocks created a series of Tsunamis that devastated a number of Asian and African countries. The death toll is estimated at 150,000, and the number of people displaced by the destruction is staggering.
To get a feel for what it was (and is) really like, you can download a number of home made videos. I am also hosting two videos that I found on a blog in .dat (DVD) format. I’ve converted them to XviD, so you’ll need the codec to watch them.
Video 1 (1.8 MB) Video 2 (3.13 MB)
Once you see the severity of the event, you understand why the need for help is so dire. Governments around the world have already pledged funds to aid the relief work, but we can do more than that. Google has set up a page the lists some of the organizations accepting private donations for the relief effort. Many of them can be done quickly and simply over the Internet with a credit card. In the face of this kind of tragedy, I think we can have no other reaction than to do what we can to help.
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