Microcredit is the “new” big thing in charity and economic development. You may have heard about Mohammed Yunus who won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his use of microloans. Now you can get in on the action, too! Kiva.org is a peer-to-peer microfinance gateway that allows individuals to loan money to [...]
Archive of entries posted on June 2007
Texting for Old Folks
If I were hip and into texting, there are several of these that would come in handy and I’m not even a boomer! Of course, using KTD would probably disqualify me from the hip category anyway.
Oh well. BRBGTP.
This makes me sad. . . and even wearier
Gallop Poll: Majority of Republicans Doubt Theory of Evolution
The majority of Republicans in the United States do not believe the theory of evolution is true and do not believe that humans evolved over millions of years from less advanced forms of life. This suggests that when three Republican presidential candidates at a May debate stated [...]
This is the way we roll!
I wasn’t able to go to the SLA Conference this year (I’m going to AALL this time instead), but I’ve been following the happenings on the blogs I read. I LOVE this comment overheard by Tricia. I think it sums up very well myself and the librarians I hang with.
One hotel worker commenting [...]