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So Two Girls/One Cup is just about the most disgusting thing going around the internet at the moment. You can watch it here but it's EXTREMELY NSFW and UTTERLY VOMIT-INDUCING. I instead suggest you watch the funniest reaction video on YouTube:
The struggle to end the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan has been going on for years. I first learned of the escalating violence at an ISG conference commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide back in 2004, and now, 3 1/2 years later, the violence continues despite the classification of genocide by the US government and the United Nations.
There has been recent movement in the right direction, but the UN has not yet deployed the UN/African Union troops to help the millions of people in danger of being tortured, raped and murdered. In particular danger are the women in the refugee camps who need firewood to cook what little food they have for their families. These women run an extremely high risk of being raped by the Janjaweed militia who patrol the areas surrounding the camps.
The brutality of the situation is unfathomable and we need to keep pushing:
Educate:
Frontline
Eric Reeves' Blog
Institute for the Study of Genocide
ENOUGH Project's links
Do something:
- Add the Causes app to your Facebook and donate to the SaveDarfur Cause. If you donate through Facebook by Sunday, your donation will be matched.
- Fast for Darfur on Dec 5th: give up one luxury item for the day (Starbux, anyone??) and donate the money to the Genocide Intervention Network (I will post more about what I am organizing for this in a couple of days.)
- ENOUGH lists number of events on their site.
Lots of info out there, many ways to help. Just do something.
The HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the British government collector of taxes, has lost 2 discs containing the personal details of 25 million people. The discs were being sent to the National Audit Office (NAO) via an internal courier service provided by shipper TNT, and were neither registered or recorded. The 25 million people were recipients of the Child Benefit, which is EVERY family in the UK with a child under the age of 16.
My favorite bit:
"The data was sent on 18 October and senior management at HMRC were told it was missing on 8 November and the chancellor on 10 November. Mr Darling said banks were adamant that they wanted as much time to prepare for his announcement as possible."
And I couldn't think of a good pic for this post, so here's Dr. Evil delighted by the thought of identity theft:
Though this image looks animated, it's actually a static JPG. I love optical illusions!
Via MeFi
Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs received an email from a male fan professing his "man-crush." Mike proceeds to demonstrate how homophobic he is. Via Joe. My. God.
Lots of strikes going on write now in the streets of NY and LA. Though I am not too sure of the validity of the Broadway stagehands' strike, I do think that the WGA writers have a good reason to strike; they should be compensated for their work published online. Here's a great YouTube video created by the writers of the Daily Show:
Via BoingBoing
I am borrowing a Flickr contact's birthday photo to celebrate my own birthday today. Nov 10th was a good day to be born.
Radiohead is streaming a webcast which they are calling "Thumbs Down" as we speak at Radiohead.tv. So far it's been Radiohead performing, someone spinning music to strange moving and still images, and footage of everyone just sitting around a table. I think the performances are live, though I have not been able to find the exact details online.
From what I've read, they did a live 'testcast' last night and performed Bjork's Unravel (see below). I've had a lot of fun watching it so far.
UPDATE: Right now they are playing one of my favorite songs: Umbabarauma by Ponta de Lanca Africano. This is a lot of fun!
UPDATE 2: I do think this is live as Thom just came on and talked about it a bit. It's almost like they are hosting a variety show. They're now playing a video for "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" from their new album.
