Help for Japan

Here is a great article from Mashable.com on social/digital tools to aid in relief efforts in Japan.  This includes links to the code from Hellobar.com to add a red donation bar to the top of your wesite.

The Red Cross text donation plan still seems to be the quickest way to help:

The American Red Cross has once again launched a texting campaign to raise money for relief efforts in the Pacific region. Last year, the Red Cross was able to raise over $20 million for Haiti relief through simple text donations.

If you would like to donate to the American Red Cross for Japan Earthquake Relief, just text REDCROSS to 90999. Each text will provide $10 towards the Red Cross’s humanitarian efforts.

Cool Thing of the Month - OneUpMe.Com

I am more Angry Birds than  Miller Analogies Test, but over the past month I have become completely addicted to Oneupme.com (shout out to David Black for turning me on).

The instructions for the site's keystone analogies game is straight forward:

Every weekday, a topic is posted consisting of a two-part phrase describing both a person and something else. For example, a post may be:

"He's like Stalinism: of Russian Descent"
or "She's like a walled city: unnecessarily defensive."

Your goal is try to think of a more clever finish to the analogy.
For example, if the topic was

"She's like conditioning shampoo: multi-tasking"

you might respond with

"always making promises she couldn't keep"
or "often found in hotel bathrooms."

After entering your one line riff, peruse the responses from an amazing assortment of poseurs and pedantry.  Vote Facebook-style via the Like button associated with each response.  Double entendre runs a muck in the game, much of it hilarious, but the top entries each day are always brilliant.

Check it out!

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China as the World

Cool comparison of Chinese provinces to whole countries.  Click here to see the entire image on Economist.com.