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There is a wonderful new effort by the folks at The Command Post to create a network of bloggers "who raise awareness of 'micro charities'—charitable opportunities that are simple, personal, non-bureaucratic, and inspiring."
The charitable campaign is called Strengthen the Good. Alan Nelson has posted links to charities helping victims of Hurricane Charley in Florida here.
Bloggers who want to join the network can sign up here.
Please lend a helping hand and spread the word. As the group's slogan urges:
Don't just fight evil: Strengthen the good.
"(Via Michelle Malkin.)
U.S. Regulators Release Vehicle Rollover Data: "New federal statistics show how prone individual models of new cars and light-duty trucks are to roll over in an accident."
The article doesn't give the url (why not?) but the new data has been incorporated into lots of other good data at http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/ncap/.
Print real US postage stamps with your own photos. No boobies.: "Sean Bonner says, "Stamps.com has launched Photo.Stamps.com where you can upload your own images and print real stamps. Here's some I'd like to see:
Let's check out the Terms and Conditions...
3. Content Restrictions:
You further agree not to use the PhotoStamps website or service:
B. To upload, order for print, or otherwise transmit or communicate any material that is obscene, offensive, blasphemous, pornographic, unlawful, deceptive, threatening, menacing, abusive, harmful, an invasion of privacy or publicity rights, supportive of unlawful action, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, illegal or otherwise objectionable;
(Via Boing Boing Blog.)