Damn Interesting has an article up about the Max Headroom pirating incident. Today is the 20 year anniversary. Read the article <here> and watch the video footage <here>. The video still gives me the chills.
Life of a Student at Tufts University
Monthly Archive for November, 2007
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Today is Thankgiving in the United States, a day where we ideally give thanks to the people, events, and circumstances we’re thankful for. This year I’m thankful for a lot.
- Everyone who has been helping me with my college admissions stuff. Counselors, proofreaders, blog readers like you, et cetera.
- Everyone who has been helping me with studying chemistry for my SAT 2 (9 days left).
- Mac OS X Leopard’s Time Machine, for saving my system the other day when I corrupted it.
- The obvious – having food, drink, and housing.
A year ago, Ze Frank did a really touching video related to Thanksgiving. It’s still relevant:
Have a good day, everyone!
Not doing anything tomorrow? Why not play FreeRice and help feed some hungry people?
There’s a group on facebook called “Free Rice Challenge” that asks you to play FreeRice and post your totals on the group’s wall. They’ll then add up the totals and see just how much of that rice is coming from facebook members.
If you don’t know what FreeRice is, here’s what the BBC has to say:
An internet word game has generated enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has said.
The game, FreeRice, tests the vocabulary of participants. For each click on a correct answer, the website donates money to buy 10 grains of rice.
Companies advertising on the website provide the money to the WFP to buy and distribute the rice.
FreeRice went online in early October and has now raised 1bn grains of rice.
That is enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day, the WFP said on Friday.
‘Viral marketing’
The head of the WFP, Josette Sheeran, said: “FreeRice really hits home how the web can be harnessed to raise awareness and funds for he world’s number one emergency.”
She said word of the game has spread with the help of internet bloggers and websites like Facebook and YouTube.
“The site is a viral marketing success story.”
FreeRice is the invention of US online fundraising pioneer John Breen.
I maintain that FreeRice is a genius idea. You boost your vocabulary, and someone gets to eat. Brilliant.
I just got back from a “high school activity night” fundraiser that Dover’s senior class, my class, hosted. The turnout was miraculous 23 students. That is how you raise money.
It was a good time. In a small group, people are fun to chat with, make jokes with, and play dodgeball with. But, the best part was watching my Chemistry teacher try to break it down on DDR. Hilarity ensued.
Money isn’t everything.
Balancing college applications, college essays, studying for a final SAT subject test, and normal coursework is tough. I should have started this earlier, like, last year.