Interlude – “Empire State of Mind” Jay-Z | Alicia Keys [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

by Jon Thompson on May 29, 2010

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Interlude – We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot

by Jon Thompson on April 12, 2010

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Google Chrome – The Aid Worker’s New Best Friend

December 23, 2009

I have been using Mozilla‘s Firefox as my main browser for many years. It used to be quite fast but recent updates have killed its performance. The main reason I stuck with it is that it supported the Adblock Plus extension that conveniently stripped out all ads and saved me both bandwidth and money. At $8/MB [...]

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Map Kibera – The First Useful Humanitarian (Tech) Thing To Be Done In A While

November 30, 2009

That may sound a little harsh but let’s face it – there are not a lot of people doing really original things out there these days. After my rant about how the only thing (tech) anyone should be doing is building a cache box OR helping Mikel map stuff, it is not surprising to find [...]

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Interlude: I Gotta Feeling

September 21, 2009

Until someone does something truly impressive in the humanitarian field y’all are going to have to settle for a little Black Eyed Peas: Mazel tov!

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Do We Need To ‘Save MSF’?

September 6, 2009

I really cannot let this one go. It is an issue that has been bothering me for some time and the recent flap over the MSF ‘Boy’ video was the icing in the cake. I fear the radicals have taken the helm of over at MSF and are steering our beloved organization into the breakers. [...]

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Pine Ridge Pow Wow

September 4, 2009

Pine Ridge Pow Wow from American Festivals Project on Vimeo. Given the awful taste left in my mouth from this past week of trying to tamp down the fringe elements of the aid community with appeals to logic, I think it best that I offer up some strong medicine to counteract their poison. I attended [...]

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In The Field Brand Is Everything

September 2, 2009

Reader: I am not appalled or incensed, and really struggle to think why you would be. A boy is in pain. He is being treated by doctors. They are not “fabricating suffering”. This is the reality of MSF, and represents what they do in a completely honest fashion. MSF UK: To answer your first three [...]

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MSF UK – Your Silence Is Deafening

August 31, 2009

I have been trying to sit this one out. I really did not want to write about the new MSF Boy video but I feel I have to now that the people who made it have disappeared from the online discussion. By not continuing the comment threads on various blogs the Comms team at MSF [...]

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Rails Rumble – Vote Now!

August 30, 2009

Rails Rumble is currently underway and you’ve got about 7hrs 20min left to vote. Please head over to the Rails Rumble site and check out the projects. Rabble, who has left us numerous useful comments and tips, has a project in the running called How’s My Code. Rabble, who’s real name is Evan Henshaw-Plath was [...]

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