Your First Good Deed of the New Year!

Play this fun (and addictive!) word game, and sponsors make small contributions to the UN World Food Programme for every word you get right. Everybody wins!

Happy New Year 2009!

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Dec. 10: World Day for Human Rights

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Remember those who don’t have enough to eat this year. The Hunger Site offers an easy way to help, at no cost to you (sponsors make a small donation for every click).

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Erie Canal

Tracking Gustav

Here’s a live radar loop, and below that, the National Hurricane Center widget. I’ve also added a hurricane newsfeed in the right sidebar.

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How creative are you?

I saw this on Unique Charm’s blog and I thought the abstract oil painting on her results was so cool, I ran right over to try the quiz! Me, I get colored pencils, which has an internal logic all its own even though I’m actually not a colored pencil fan and was sort of hoping for something more painterly, sigh.

You Are 66% Creative

You are beyond creative. You are a true artist - even if it's not in the conventional sense of the word. You love creating for its own sake, and you find yourself quite inspired at times.

How Creative Are You?

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What Flower Are you?

It’s a bit long, but with intriguing results! Apparently I am an Iris: “You are a very sensual person. You like to experience all the sights, smells, tastes and textures the world has to offer. Ordinary be damned, because you want to do it all.” What about you?

I am an Iris What Flower Are You?

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1-2-3-4 . . . with Monsters! (Nice Ones)

BoingBoing Gadgets posted recently about the Feist song that people either love, or love to hate, due to its repetition on the iPod Nano commercials. (I actually like it, but that’s me.) Sesame Street has revived — or “rescued” according to BoingBoing — it in a version celebrating counting to 4, with monsters, penguins, and chickens on vacation. Enjoy!

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July is Here: Time for the Flip Flops Quiz!

What Your Flip Flops Say About You

You are hopeful and romantic. You love many people and many things. You aren't unrealistic, but you do imagine things in the most ideal way possible. You are a dreamer. If something exists, you've probably thought about it. You don't think about what is, you think about what could be. Your ideal warm weather place: Fiji

The Flip Flop Test

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Easy! Help A Person Having a Heart Attack. Katie Couric Demonstrates Public Defibrillator.

You may have seen these public defibrillators hanging on the wall in airports, businesses, other public places. It turns out they are SUPER easy to use: push a button and an audio voice walks you through the whole process (pictures too). It could not be simpler — I was impressed. When someone collapses, the first few minutes are so so critical. Check out this video (be patient with the ad that runs first) and you will be prepared to save the day should you encounter this emergency:

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Fab Fun Flickr Meme from Frances

With a hat-tip to blogjem for the idea for the photo meme — careful, you’ll spend all afternoon on one, too!

Here’s the meme:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.

c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

With thanks to Flickr Folks: 1. Jennifer, 2. Meant to be dinner 3. garden at Armour House, 4. Aquamarine Leaf Ballet Collage, 5. Colin Firth revisited, 6. Chinotto - Mummums, 7. Nice, France, 8. Key Lime Pie, 9. journal pages2, 10. Life!, 11. inquisitive, 12. day 303: deconstructing jenga ( or learning to make stuff fall over )!.

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Even More Dance Party Friday

I can’t get enough of these. If it’s a slow day for the 5:30 a.m. traffic report, Cincinnati's Channel 12 anchors bring you . . . Dance Party Friday! In this episode, even vacation can’t keep Dancin’ Bob out of the studio. Enjoy!

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It takes 90 years to grow one box of Kleenex, which Kimberly-Clark manufactures by clear-cutting ancient Boreal Canadian forests. Greenpeace’s “Kleercut” campaign offers a variety of actions you can take to stop this practice of wiping away ancient forests. Click logo for more info:

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Yogurt: The Official Food of Women!

In the midst of cyclones and earthquakes, we definitely need a study break and some humor.

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Bloggers Unite: Happy Video

You may have noticed the Bloggers Unite badge at right. I hope you’ll post on the 15th. Why? Here’s some inspiration. (Yep, it actually starts with a voice over from Ronald Reagan — not what one would expect from me, but in this context it works.)

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Help Burma

More than 28,000 people were killed in the weekend cyclone that swept Burma (also known as Myanmar by its military dictatorship). I’m supporting Mercy Corps, which has local partners on the ground and is skilled in working in difficult political situations. Click here to learn more:

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May 3: World Press Freedom Day

From the World Association of Newspapers, to support World Press Freedom Day:

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The Secret Language of Flip Flops

What Your Flip Flops Say About You

You are hopeful and romantic. You love many people and many things. You aren't unrealistic, but you do imagine things in the most ideal way possible. You are a dreamer. If something exists, you've probably thought about it. You don't think about what is, you think about what could be. Your ideal warm weather place: Fiji

The Flip Flop Test

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"No More" Music Video

This gets me every time. Eddie Vedder singing, from the new Phil Donahue documentary “Body of War” about young vet Thomas Young.

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Bed Nets for World Malaria Day

Got 5 bucks? That’s all it takes to contribute a malaria-fighting bed net for a person in a vulnerable country. April 25 is World Malaria Day — a perfect day to head over to MyBednet.com, cough up $5, and add oneself to their Honor Roll. Check it out!

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Dr. Pepper, Say it Ain't So!

While Robert Reich today endorsed Barack Obama, that can’t remove the sting of an old friend going over to the other side. According to the New York Times: Dr. Pepper is a Republican. I’m not sure if this means I should change my soda of choice, or if the good doctor simply needs a pep talk.

Sure, I understand the siren song of bourbon and stuffed crust pizza, which the Times also outed as card-carrying members of the GOP. They may seem sexier than white wine and Absolut and organic risotto. Yet can stretchy cheese and dark liquor offer the left-leaning quirkiness, the irony, that certain je ne sais quoi that is, after all, also your special appeal?

Dr. Pepper, come back to us!

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The Rice Game, Redux

“What if just knowing what a word meant could help feed hungry people around the world? Well, at FreeRice it does . . . the totals have grown exponentially.” - The Washington Post

I saw a sobering BBC News report earlier this week about the global rice shortage. Prices for this staple crop have risen 70% in the past year, many countries face extreme shortages and have called out the military to supervise sales, and the world’s poorest populations are especially at risk. All the more reason to help out even in a small way, with The Rice Game. This web site takes “click to give” to new levels. The lure is a vocabulary game: choose the correct definition for a word, “win” 20 grains of rice for the United Nations World Food Programme. Does 20 grains per word really amount to much? Yesterday’s total: 156,133,700 grains of rice donated (March’s total = 4,109,191,320 grains.) Happy procrastination, word games, and giving to a good cause. What could be better?

Play the Rice Game today — you’ll be hooked! And hungry people will benefit from our fun.

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"I Have A Dream"

On the 40th anniversary of Dr. King’s death, I wanted to sit down with this landmark speech . . .

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Your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

I am nothing if not a target market for a gimmick . . .

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Honourable Lady Jennifer the Antediluvian of Lesser Wobbleton Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

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Lights Out: March 29, 2008 at 8 pm

One evening in March 2007, Sydney Australia went dark for one hour. This wasn’t a blackout: the city wanted to make a statement and ease the pressure on the earth, and 2.2 million people turned off their lights.

This year cities around the world are participating in Earth Hour 2008, including Atlanta, Bogota, Chicago, Copenhagen, Ottawa, Phoenix, Tel Aviv, Vancouver, and more. You can too: on Saturday, March 29, at 8 pm (your local time), turn off your lights for one hour. Urge friends and neighbors to do the same.

Here’s a video:

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Say No to Telecom Immunity (but yes to this video)

I’ve had a banner link posted at the bottom of the blog for a while, but I was pleased to see this terrific video from People for the American Way. Good music, good visuals, good message. Thanks to Truth & Beauty for the link!

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On, Wisconsin!

Woo-hoo!

We did it!!

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Listen to the Wombat

One world. Not two, not three. Just one. Listen to the Wombat.
A shout-out to Green Lent for the link.

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More Dog or Cat?

I saw a link to this on the lovely blog, The Proper of the Day. Like I could resist this . . . I thought my results might be more 50/50, but apparently I am a tad more feline, Meow!

You Are: 30% Dog, 70% Cat

You and cats have a lot in common. You're both smart and in charge - with a good amount of attitude. However, you do have a very playful side that occasionally comes out!

Are You More Cat or Dog?

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Yes We Can

I only add posts when I feel inspired. As noted by Geri on Good News Network:

“A group of friends in the entertainment industry inspired by Sen. Barack Obama's speech following the New Hampshire primary have produced a powerful music video urging Americans to vote. The filmmaker is Jesse Dylan, son of activist musician, Bob Dylan. The new song, written by Black Eyed Peas' frontman and songwriter, will.i.am, was released Friday after being filmed and performed entirely in the two days prior.”

The Yes We Can web site is here. And here’s the video:

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People 1 to 100 Playing a Drum

I LOVE this video, which I found on Boing Boing. It’s a video of people 1 to 100, in age order, beating once on a drum. Very sweet and creative. Enjoy!

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Authentic Happiness Quiz

Dr. Martin Seligman, drector of Penn’s Positive Psychology Center, has devoted his life to exploring the benefits of positive thinking on personal psychological health. His web site now offers several Authentic Happiness quizzes, to self-asses one’s mental state and aim toward a more positive state of mind. They’re longer than a Cosmo quiz — but why not?!

Here’s the link: Authentic Happiness web site.

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