This impressive collection of charitable resources allows you to connect with the issues and organizations that you care about most. A new concept in online philanthropy, Shine! makes giving easy by offering access to over 650,000 charities. Create your own charity page in order to receive personalized news, make donations, sponsor fundraising drives, or help spread the word about good causes. The commerce area of featured partners lets you donate to charities while you shop for books, music, electronics, and more.
This straight-talking health forum for young adults tackles all the big issues: sex, drugs and alcohol, mental health, skin difficulties, weight disorders, and family problems. While it's no replacement for professional health care and the counseling of parents or guardians, it can provide some important facts on many issues that can be uncomfortable to discuss. Simply enter a subject in the search bar or browse an array of message boards, chat groups, advice columns, and relevant articles.
Michael Stipe, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, and other concerned citizens lend their voices to this powerful collection of first-hand accounts of human rights abuses all over the world. A half-dozen disturbing but enlightening video documentaries chronicle the plight of children of war in Uganda, victims of government massacres in Guatemala, prostitute slaves in Russia, and more. Find out what you can do to help.
SpotLife wants to be your gateway to the Internet's funniest home videos, so they've created a "personal broadcasting" service that lets you upload and share digital video and audio, photo galleries, and web cams with your family, friends, and the rest of the Internet world. Content is organized thematically into channels with names like Groove (trendy music multimedia), Warp (avant garde, urban, and sci-fi productions), Chemistry (dating and relationship content), and Blister (sports, outdoors, and adventure broadcasts). Click around for a taste of what's playing or produce your own show. Guess what? It's free and easy.
African Recipes - The Congo Cookbook
Here's a collection of simple, everyday recipes accompanied by observations about cooking and culture in tropical Africa. Designed by a former Peace Corps volunteer, the site is tastily illustrated with African motifs. Recipes are grouped by ingredients: beef, chicken, fish and seafood, rice, and vegetables dishes. The Sauce, Soup, and Stew category includes a variety of traditional dishes made in the ever-present cookpot -- including elephant soup (made with biltong, not elephant); fufu, a mash of yam, plantain, or cassava; and two classic meals with misleading names -- palaver "sauce" and palm oil chop, curry-like crowd-pleasers from West Africa.
Network Solutions, a leading web address registrar, presents a fascinating look at who's staking their claim on the world wide web. For example, 60% of domain names are purchased by first-time buyers. Los Angeles is currently ahead of perennial rival New York for U.S. domain name registrations, while San Francisco and Houston are close behind. Seoul leads they way in international domain registrations, followed closely by Toronto, London, Paris, and Vancouver. Click around for a fascinating look at the geography of the Internet.
The veterans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 are back with a new venture -- an online humor magazine. We browsed the current essay, which uses an online translator to make mincemeat of Shakespeare (in honor of the bard's upcoming birthday?). We chuckled at the Cliparts, a comic strip composed entirely of clip art. Finally, we read a human anatomy review focusing on derriere style. Remember, this is the humor team that developed a cult following on late-night public television.
The biggest art installation ever to appear in the state of Rhode Island is also alleged to be the world's largest functioning game of Tetris. Created by students at Brown University's Technology House, La Bastille consists of a 12-story data network (housed in Brown's 14-story Sciences Library), 11 custom circuit boards, a Linux PC, and over 10,000 Christmas lights. If you missed the real world display, which ran from April 14-22, head over to this online chronicle instead for a detailed look at the collaborative project, complete with photos and movies of the live event.