According to a Globe and Mail story, two guys in England have developed a website called youblewmeupyoubastard.com.

The idea is that if you are blown up, the news media will grab whatever picture they can of you.

By giving a photo in advance to the website, they'll distribute it to news services upon your untimely, terror-related death. You're encouraged to send one in showing, through facial expressions and gestures, how much you think the terrorists stink.

Quite a public service! :^)

When the United Nations issued a plea in May for emergency food aid for Niger, it was ignored -- perhaps because Niger's government is itself downplaying the problem's scale. And now, as more children are dying, aid is starting to trickle in.

Update: I added a link to a Reuters story from AlertNet.org.

They sell goods cheaply, pay their employers 42 per cent better than Wal-Mart and still turn a good profit. Isn't that reason enough?

An op-ed piece in the NYT argues Iraq is rural America's war when you look at soldiers' death rates.

The death rate for soldiers from counties of 25,000 or smaller is more than twice as high as for soldiers from counties of one million or more.