Nixta Sinks

Go on, do it

This is rather interesting. Buy one OLPC XO Laptop to be donated, and get one yourself (for the child in you, or... er... some child you know). I think that I count as a child, at least for a little while until I give it to a real child. In the meantime, a real child somewhere will have one anyway.

And I get a year's worth of free T-Mobile WiFi access (good on you, T-Mobile). $200 of the $400 tax deductible too, so two laptops for $330, both of which will eventually end up in the hands of some sproglet somewhere.

If anyone else feels the urge to donate but is hampered by a lack of a US address, drop me a mail (yes, I'll take all your tax deductions, but think of the children!).

Only 15 days left to do this, by the way. End date is Nov 26th.

It's also a very clever longer-term strategy of course, to keep numbers of these laptops within the US and consequently in the minds of many affluent and charitable (or guilt-prone) people with credit-cards. That's no bad thing of course either, and can only help the long-term availability and support of these things.

Via Hedgy. Note that Hedgey (with an E) is some unknown with a javascript experiment to the tune of "Fuck off", utterly unrelated to Hedgy.

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