Eight year old Rachel Beckwith was aghast when she learned that other children had no clean water and chose to skip her ninth birthday party, asking her friends to instead donate $9 to mycharity:water for water projects in Africa.
She set a goal of $300 and was disappointed to only reach $220 on June 12th, her 9th birthday.
On July 20th Rachel was critically injured in a 13-car pileup. She passed away three days later.
Her campaign goal of $300 must have seemed quite large to her, but now it seems so small. At the time of this writing, her campaign has raised $1,256,304. If you can, please join me in supporting the cause of a selfless 9-year-old girl.
While reading this reddit post about Mikko Hypponen’s TED talk, I concluded that some users either had incredible visual acuity or they were watching the video at a higher resolution than me. Then Mikko posted a comment recommending we watch it in HD. I looked around for a link to the high res version for future reference, but couldn’t find one. Turns out it’s hidden behind the “Download” button (under “Watch high-res video (MP4)”).
But I’ve made it even easier than that. I wrote a bookmarklet (it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer) to do it in one click. Just drag the following link to your bookmarks toolbar and use it when you’re on a TED talk page: Ted in HD
If your mental math skills could use some improvement (like mine could), I’ve created an online tool to practice math problems. There are the basic problems of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, as well as calculating the tip and determine someone’s age. If you have other calculations that are commonly encountered in daily life, leave a comment so I can add it.
To begin practicing, select the problem type, type your answer in the text field then hit enter. It will check your answer and move on to the next problem, then display your results when you’ve completed all the problems.
I’ve been working on a free service called Shortmarks (Shortcut Bookmarks) and have been using it for close to a year. It has become indispensable, giving me fast, keyword shortcuts from any browser. It’s great to be able to switch between Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Opera without missing a beat because all my searches and keyword shortcuts are available. Plus there’s no extension to update or bookmarks to sync.
It can be a little confusing at first so I created this screencast to explain how the service works.
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