Tsunami Disaster Relief

I got these sites from Apple.com. You can donate to the relief effort via any one of them:

» American Red Cross

» AmeriCares

» Direct Relief International

» Medecins Sans Frontieres

» OXFAM

» Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka

» Save the Children

» USAID

» UNICEF

» ReliefWeb

Over the river and through the North Woods…

I spent the weekend with family in the North Woods of Wisconsin at the Palmquist Farm, a rustic resort with 800 acres, and a charming Finnish heritage. They offer great food, cozy lodging, extensive cross-country skiing, a super-relaxing Finnish sauna, and an unforgettable black Labrador Retriever named Otis. Sadly, we had to come back home. I can’t tell you how depressing it is to ride in a Clydesdale-driven sleigh under a warm blanket on a bed of hay, through a picturesque Robert Frost landscape to visit a herd of buffalo in the morning, and ride Chicago’s Lawrence Avenue bus in the evening on the same day.

SKI 3D

SKI 3D has the coolest Web game I’ve ever seen.

20 (and counting!) Amazing Election Facts

I’ve been lax on politics lately; post-election denial and avoidance. It seems like he won fair and square this time, right? Not so fast! You must read this list compiled by Angry Girl, that exposes the links between Diebold and ES&S (the leading electronic voting machine makers) and the Bush Administration, and how that relationship might have had something to do with the outcome of the vote.

I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives

He’s at skop.com’s KeyJay, ultrainteractive KungFu Remixer.

Guerrilla, the new Patty Hearst story

Patricia Hearst’s 1974 kidnapping and subsequent experiences as a member of the Simbionese Liberation Army (SLA) are set to be the subject of a new documentary called Guerrilla. Whether she adopted the SLA’s revolutionary, radical, counter-cultural ideology freely or was brainwashed has been debated ever since. I doubt this film will put the question to rest.

Millau Viaduct

The French President has inaugurated the Millau Viaduct, the world’s highest bridge. The brainchild of Foster and Partners, it is “taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.”

More funny fonts

Peepod and Stalker are good too.

Dingfatz by T.26

Dingfatz by T.26 is the funniest font I’ve ever seen.

Oldest American dies at 114

Verona Johnston, born in 1890 to a Civil War veteran, died at age 114 last month. Just 10 years her senior, Drake University honored her with an honorary degree on her birthday — August 6, 2004 — to accompany the one she received in 1912. ‘Nuff said.