Still time to do a good deed in 2007

[rolanni]

Remember the One Laptop Per Child campaign? Buy a $200 linux-based laptop for a child in an impoverished country? The OLPC folks have been running a Give One, Get One promotion for the month of December, due to end at midnight tonight. If that gift money is burning a hole in your pocket, this might be worth looking into. Or, if you or a child in your life has no need for a bright green and white computer, consider giving one to a child who has need.

And! Don't forget Free Rice. Around here, it's now bigger than FreeCell as the game to play while waiting for that next sentence to find its verb.

Stay safe, stay warm. Have fun. May 2008 be a year of good dreams coming true.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

Have you actually seen any of the OLPC computers? Any sense of whether they'd work for adult as well as child hands?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I have not personally seen an OX laptop. However, considering the number of adults of my acquaintance who are typing on teensy-tiny PDA and sub-computer keyboards, I suspect the OX would be doable. For some definition of doable.

Specs (http://laptop.org/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml)

And here's an adult (http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=6ffd976ed367bacae4171dd4999d36431c84b0f5) holding and messing around the with the thing, which might give you an idea of the scale.