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Via LameBook

UPDATED TO ADD: Bonus picture HERE.

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http://www.haveimpact.org/philippines-floods-affect-microfinance-projects/

For EVERY comment left on this blogpost, I will donate US$5 to microfinance entrepreneurs in the Philippines affected by the floods. One comment per person, deadline October 31.

Keep on spreading the message. Keep on pointing people to this fundraising post.

If you want to give extra help, join our Kiva team and contribute directly to the Kiva projects yourself.

Update 22 Oct:
THANK YOU, everyone for your kind comments. I have to admit this initiative takes proportions I had not imagined. We are now just about 24 hours after I posted this message, and we have already 208 comments, equivalent of US$1,040.

10 new people joined our Kiva lenders team, and started allocating loans to the entrepreneurs in the Philippines directly. GREAT!

In the mean time, I have some sponsors lined up to make sure I don’t go broke on the pledge of allocating $5 per comment left on this post. 

Bibi Tanga and the Selenites – It’s The Earth That Moves

If that video doesn’t work, you can listen to the song at NatGeo as well:

Direct from Paris, Bibi Tanga & The Selenites team up with producer Professeur Inlassable to map out the future of funk on their international debut.

The song is free (for a limited time) at this Amazon page.

More pictures and a video inside.

(Lobster cat pics via bestweekever.tv)

Oh, right, site news.  Yeah, I haven’t posted much lately.  I’ve been working more hours than usual.  Also, I’ve been blogging a little at other sites, so I haven’t felt like writing anything here.  Back in August I filled in (again) at Filmdrunk, and you can read some of my crap in the mornings last Thursday and Friday and this Monday at Warming Glow.

I may get around to doing more generic drug and rebranding updates later in the week.  I promise nothing.

For those who didn’t know, Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort (the “banana guy”) are handing out a “special edition” of Darwin’s Origin Of Species, that includes a 50 page introduction calling Darwin a racist misogynist who inspired the Holocaust.  The video above is of a Romanian totally pwning his argument.  The Cameron video and some more info is at Dlisted.

Via CNN:

Nobel laureate Norman E. Borlaug, an agricultural scientist who helped develop disease-resistant wheat used to fight famine in poor countries [Ed.- which saved over 245 million lives, by the way], died Saturday. He was 95. [...]

Borlaug was known as a champion of high-yield crop varieties, and other science and agricultural innovations to help fight hunger in developing nations. [...] Borlaug also created the World Food Prize, which recognized the work of scientists and humanitarians who have helped fight world hunger through advanced agriculture, the university said.

*tipping my 40 to a fellow Iowan lost*

*realizing that pouring food on the ground is probably the wrong way to honor Borlaug*

Oops.

Via scienceblogs:

So far this year 55 percent of coverage of health care has been about the political battles, 16 percent about the protests, and only 8 percent about substantive issues like how the system works now, what will happen if it remains unchanged, and what proposed changes will mean for ordinary people.

I recommend the video at the link.