Note: MSF/DWB does have a Haiti-specific donation page.
IIRC, it's linked in the comments -- it mightn't have been up when the original post was made.
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'Serenity'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
P.M. Marc - Jan 13, 2010 8:42:03 am PST #1267 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Steph L. - Jan 13, 2010 8:53:18 am PST #1268 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I can barely process the Haiti scope
Me neither.
One of the pictures in the NYT slideshow is a view from above a neighborhood, and all the houses -- 40 or so -- are just timbers on the ground. I can't even get my mind around that, much less how big the whole thing is.
Tom Scola - Jan 13, 2010 9:00:47 am PST #1269 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
One of the pictures in the NYT slideshow is a view from above a neighborhood, and all the houses -- 40 or so -- are just timbers on the ground. I can't even get my mind around that, much less how big the whole thing is.
Photo #38 from the boston.com link I posted above. Seeing how tiny the people are in that picture is disconcerting.
Steph L. - Jan 13, 2010 9:03:58 am PST #1270 of 30001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Photo #38 from the boston.com link I posted above.
That's the one. It's shown much smaller on the NYT site, and I didn't even realize there were people in the photo.
(I'm not clicking too many links, because I just can't handle it.)
Ginger - Jan 13, 2010 9:05:21 am PST #1271 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I didn't even know about Limnic Eruptions (sudden eruptions of CO2 from lakes that asphyxiate everything nearby).
You clearly have not been reading enough weird science.
Poor Haiti sometimes seems like a great cosmic experiment in misery.
tommyrot - Jan 13, 2010 9:14:53 am PST #1272 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kathy A - Jan 13, 2010 9:15:26 am PST #1273 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
This is fascinating--the Chicago Reader has newspaper clips from a rash of testicle-removing assaults that happened in Chicago in 1922. The papers didn't actually call them "testicles," though; they used the term "gland" instead. Having two balls cut off was a "double gland" theft.
msbelle - Jan 13, 2010 9:22:34 am PST #1274 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
work is annoying me. I am researching trips for my 40th birthday next year.
smonster - Jan 13, 2010 9:24:32 am PST #1275 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I will likely donate to MSF/DWB.
"if you can smell what the rock is cookin'" RANDOM and now Jump Around is stuck in my head.
You've transformed into my ex-girlfriend!
Beverly - Jan 13, 2010 9:38:59 am PST #1276 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
To backtrack a little, I appear not to watch comedies on tv. I don't know when I stopped. They just don't really interest me much.
I don't see movies in the theater, either, unless they are in some way larger than life. Comedies, rom-coms, even intimate mysteries or psychological thrillers I see on dvd or streamed. Theaters are for spectacle, from LotR to Bourne. Of course I ordinarily have little compulsion to see a movie when it's first released. I tend to wait till all the excitement has dimmed and the throngs thinned a bit.
--I'm no fun at all.