Thanks for Standing, Blogs against Breast Cancer

To the person, or perhaps even people, who read my previous entry and took action, thanks (at least one person did, right?). ‘Stand Against Poverty’ (a rather pointless action, in my opinion – shouldn’t people have to stand up at a specific time, in a specific way, or at a specific place?) was officially (according to Guinness) the largest ‘mobilisation’ of people in recorded history, with over 173 million people taking action (specifically 173045325, over half of them in Asia). Why am I telling you this? Anyway, now when governments around the World continue to do basically nothing about poverty, they can’t pretend nobody cares.

Anyway, Diets in Review (whoever they are; hopefully a group with a sense of humour) are very kindly donating $5 to the National Breast Cancer Foundation for every blog or website that posts the following badge, so DIR give $5 for me, please, and the rest of the innumerable hordes reading this: get a blog or website and put up the badge.

Bosquevirtual

The topic of this post is incredibly similar to my last one. In fact, the site mentioned is on the ‘help for free’ list I posted: www.freewebs.com/clickforcharity, in the environment section. So why am I posting it again? Partially for extra publicity, and partially because giving it a blog section means an extra 5 euros to the cause, If only earning money was always this easy.

The cause in question is reforestation. Not the best but it free, so I won’t complain. All you have to do is fill out the survey at www.bosquevirtual.com/, available in 4 languages, to ‘donate’ a euro, and put it in your site or blog for 5. Now check out my other post for more free ways to help good causes. And for the reforestation equivalent of free rice, check out http://www.answer4earth.com.

More than just free rice and the hunger site

This entry is dedicated to, and about, the myriad ways to help good causes for free online. The useful link is: http://www.freewebs.com/clickforcharity 

I saw an article on free rice, the internet game where you enhace your vocabulary and feed the hungry, and clicked the ‘free rice’ tag. I don’t know how many articles there were, but iy was a lot! I wondered: does anyone know about the other ways to help for free? Maybe the Hunger Site, but that’s probably it. There was no way I was going to post a comment on all those blogs (I tried) so I came up with a simpler way to appease my conscience and hopefully help a few people: you’re reading it. 

The idea of using advertising to generate profit from a free-to-use service is hardly new. Lots of TV stations use it. Google made a fortune from it (charitable search engines use the same method to earn revenue for good causes). Facebook is pretty successful (Kaioo, its for-charity equivalent, less so). In 2000 or so someone came up with the idea of using it to generate money for charity. Thus, the Hunger Site was born. Click button, view ads, fund a cup of food. Simple. The idea has since spawned imitators. There are now literaaly dozens of click-to-donate websites. There are also other ways to help for free: search engines, e-mails, Facebook applications, even windows messanger. There is a list for them all, somewhere. Maybe.

 Here is the link for that list, or in any case the best one I’ve found: www.freewebs.com/clickforcharity. Now go do good!

And alledgedly, $5 to AIDS for every player who joins Everwars here: http://mrgandalf.playeverwars.com/ Its quite a fun game, so enjoy! (I’m Brekker on there, by the way)

Hello world!

Why are you reading this? Read one of my other posts, they’re useful, then something funny. The funniest thing I’ve ever seen on the internet is the Wikipedia article on Xenu, followed by http://www.cs.utah.edu/~duongsaa/more_htm/jk_100animeRules.htm (the 100 laws of Anime physics – sorry, the link system won’t work), http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html  (the Evil Overlord list; short version http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Humor/EvilOverlord.html) and this random one about Chuck Norris: http://clients.arranschlosberg.com/chuck/

Yes, I am sad.