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Boing Boing has two articles about the inflatable hospitable tents Doctors without Borders is setting up in Haiti. A lot of smart thinking and experience has gone this…
If you have a Facebook account:
There’s one day left to vote for Darius goes west in the speed chase.
Your vote will raise another 1$ for the fight against DMD immediately.
In the meantime is looks like Darius personally is having fun with this:
We are entering day 7 after the Haiti earthquake and situations is getting more desperate with supplies running out.
Information can be found all over the Internet, e.g.:
Please find out what you can do to make a difference.
One thing I recommend: Michael Pritchard and his Life Saver water bottles (see his TED talk) is trying to get as many water purification bottles and jerrycans into Haiti. You could support the people in Haiti and the growth of his organization by donating at http://www.lifesaversystems.com/.
Bloggers at the Center for Future Civic media are calling all people involved in ‘people finder’ websites to combine their efforts into one: "Don’t silo your apps". They call upon everyone to use the tri-lingual Google app at http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/.
With the first aid efforts going on, Architecture for Humanity is already thinking about a reconstruction plan.
Two warnings: the people involved in search engine poisoning (e.g. trying to take over your computer by installing malware on it) are of course also trying to lure you into their traps.
If you search for things like ‘haiti earthquake victims’, look at the links before you follow them. And never follow the advice to ‘download a video codec’ or ‘install our free security program because you are infected’.
Also, there will be scammers trying to raise money under false pretenses, Sunbelt Software has a blog entry on how to avoid them.
Darius goes west (see my post of 26 Nov. 2009) is organizing a speed chase to win $1000000 to fight Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy:
So all DGW supporters go to http://www.dariusgoeswest.org/vote and cast your vote to find a cure for DMD (you need to have a Facebook account)! We have until 22. January.
They also want goslabi captains to further the case.
If you haven’t done so, take an hour to watch the inspiring movie on the website.
Medicin sans frontieres made these videos about the work they do. You don’t see much but the message is clear: We can’t operate without your help,” says MSF.
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Guillaume Renaud from www.notsonoisy.com, who I referenced in the Game over post of 18. March 2008, together with Dominique Mermoud Smith from Bhakti Production wish you Happy New Year 2010 in this way:
Watch that cat 
Watch Dan Menendez play Wish you a merry Christmas:
His website is www.pianojuggler.com
This We’re all in this together video makes for a nice Christmas wish:
The music is Keeping Warm by We Were Promised Jetpacks.
For more background info visit MadV’s Youtube channel.
Photographer Ryan Lobo describes his work at TED India (nov 2009):
At the end of his talk he says:
"That’s the power of storytelling: focus on what’s dignified, courageous and beautyful".
Isn’t that much more interesting and a larger contribution than our ‘usual’ news stories? How come we do not see more of these in our newspapers. Sites like Newspiration try to make a difference in mainstream media, but it soes not seem to be holding on (yet).
