One of our favorite charity partners, Keep A Breast, is sponsoring the first ever Country Throwdown Tour and needs your help! If rocking out to Montgomery Gentry, Little Big Town, and Eric Church, while supporting a great cause sounds like your idea of a good time, this is for you.
Visit the Keep A Breast blog to see if any of the dates and cities will work for you. Then, if you’ll be around and are willing to help KAB spread the word about their mission to eradicate breast cancer, fill out the form (here) and they’ll contact you.
By visiting the KAB blog, you’ll also learn how to get 7 free downloads on iTunes, featuring artists from the tour.
To help you get through these last few hours until you’re officially on weekend time, we have a select trio of distractions for you.
We’ll start with something that’s on the morbid side but so strange, you have to see it. It’s a man in Puerto Rico on his motorcycle… at his wake - as in viewing before the funeral.
The man died in a gun-related incident last week and his family decided to deviate just a tad from tradition. To each, his own... (Via Geekologie)
Next, check out this eruption of intense radiation, called a prominence, on the surface of the Sun.
It was caught last week by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory space telescope.
The gasses cover a range of about 60,000 miles and would easily cover the entire Earth! (Via Bad Astronomy)
Last but not least, check out this remake of Lady Gaga’a Telephone, beautifully executed by some soldiers in Afghanistan.
If you feel the need to watch that one again and borrow a few of their moves for the weekend, we'll understand.
As a result of an April 22nd explosion and sinking of a BP oil rig, more than 120 miles of water in the Gulf is covered in a slick, black layer that’s creeping closer and closer to our coast. Ten wildlife refuges in Mississippi and Louisiana are in the oil’s path right now, and it is believed that the oil could reach the coastline as early as this evening.
Image via CNN
The spill came at a particularly bad time for wildlife, as birds are in the area to nest.
Just a few short weeks ago, President Obama angered environmentalists by saying that he would lift bans on offshore drilling for much of the Gulf and East Coast in an effort to decrease dependency on foreign oil.
It’s National Autism Awareness Month. The number of children diagnosed with autism in the U.S. has increased by 600% in the past 20 years. With no established explanation for this, there are 13 million affected families looking for answers and, more importantly, an improved quality of life for their autistic loved one.
Here’s what you can do:
- Participate in a Walk Now for Autism Speaks Event.
- Text “AUTISM” to 50555 to donate $10 to the Autism Society or text “AUTISM” to 25383 to donate $10 to Autism Speaks – both are great organizations working to help all those affected.
- Learn how to support legislation that affects those with autism by visiting www.vote4autism.org.
- Update your status on Facebook or Twitter with “Autism affects 1 in 110” you can also include “text ‘AUTISM’ to 25383 to donate $10 and improve the lives of those affected.”
- Have small children in your life? Take them to a Bounce for Autism event.
- Get inspired by watching the movie “The Horse Boy” on PBS. Check your local listings at www.pbs.org.
You can earn free donations to help fund early behavior therapy for autistic children by supporting Autism Speaks on SocialVibe.
YouTube has pulled the latest video by academy award-nominated British artist, M.I.A. from it's pages.
The video, Born Free, features US soldiers rounding up a group of red-headed young boys, meant to represent any ethnic minority group. It's nine minutes long and includes violence, drug-use, nudity and a not-so-subtle, politically charged message.
Still, many are saying that you can easily find much worse on YouTube, so why pull this one?
If you think you can handle it, watch the full video here. Let us know if you think the ban is justified and share your thoughts in the comments below.
To mark the 50th anniversary of The Anne Frank House, the entire collection of the young girl’s writings, which include the famed diary, a book of short stories she wrote titled "Tales from the Secret Annex," and a notebook of her favorite quotations is on display together, for the first time.
After Anne’s death in a concentration camp in 1944 at age 15, her father, honoring her wish, published the diary she kept while she and her family hid from the Nazis during the Holocaust. About its publication, he said:
“I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in your own circumstances, you will work for unity and peace.”
Last Spring, charity: water held an event in New York to show the severity of the global water crisis. The exhibit included a "wishing well" where passersby could toss spare change that would help fund water projects in the impoverished, and now earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti.
The photo exhibit came down after three months but the wishing well stayed up. Last week, at the charity: water offices, they received a delivery of about 500 pounds of change!
It’s just one more example of the small actions of many having a huge impact. Take a small action of your own today on behalf of charity: water or the organization of your choice on SocialVibe!
For no real reason aside from the fact that we love you all, we're sharing a sampling of things that have entertained us so far this week. Consider it a reward for making it through Monday. You're welcome.
For starters, we bring you a site that does nothing other than make noise when you click things… and yet has the ability to entertain an office full of college-educated 28 yr-olds for hours (don’t ask how we know this).
http://instantsfun.es/
Next, a compilation video of incompetent people on infomercials before their “life-changing” experiences with the advertised products. Ridiculous as they are, don’t pretend you’ve never been tempted to buy at least one of them during a bout of insomnia!
Last but not least, a way to entertain yourself, feed the hungry, and use that info you picked up in art history.
freerice.com
Take trivia quizzes on FreeRice.com and for each question you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to feed the hungry through The World Food Programme. That may not sound like much but it adds up - millions of people have been fed so far and the site is only about 3 years old. You may have seen this before but take a few minutes this week to revisit the site and earn a meal for someone in need. Hooray for guilt-free time wasting!
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