Comments on: EFF's year-in-review: 8-bit nostalgia edition http://boingboing.net/2010/12/21/effs-year-in-review.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 11:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Gloo http://boingboing.net/2010/12/21/effs-year-in-review.html#comment-975636 Gloo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-975636 To the contrary I think H.I.B. is a really cool way to donate to some equally cool foundations. Buying something rather than simply donating is much more incentive I think when it's done virtually. When it's coming to "charity" (an inappropriate word IMHO ; I'd prefer calling it "solidarity"), I prefer to donate to someone physically. Donations by check or Paypal via the Internet just give me a good conscience but that's nothing like offering a helping hand (a free meal or something) to someone sleeping in the streets (specially in this period of the year). And I must add that "Osmos" and the other titles from this bundle are über great pieces of software !! P.S. : sorry for double posting :o/ That won't happen again. I promise ! To the contrary I think H.I.B. is a really cool way to donate to some equally cool foundations. Buying something rather than simply donating is much more incentive I think when it’s done virtually. When it’s coming to “charity” (an inappropriate word IMHO ; I’d prefer calling it “solidarity”), I prefer to donate to someone physically. Donations by check or Paypal via the Internet just give me a good conscience but that’s nothing like offering a helping hand (a free meal or something) to someone sleeping in the streets (specially in this period of the year).

And I must add that “Osmos” and the other titles from this bundle are über great pieces of software !!

P.S. : sorry for double posting :o/
That won’t happen again. I promise !

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/21/effs-year-in-review.html#comment-975520 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-975520 I bought the humble indie bundle for twenty bucks and chose to give all my donation to charity (sorry devs), which gave $10 to the EFF, and $10 to these guys who give video games to sick kids. I got like a half a dozen games that run on osx, windows, and linux (linux!!!) that I may play once or twice as a side effect. In retrospect, it's actually a pretty shitty way to donate to the EFF, but I got some free games that I didn't really want, so hey. http://www.humblebundle.com/ - Pay what you want, choose how much goes to each party. I bought the humble indie bundle for twenty bucks and chose to give all my donation to charity (sorry devs), which gave $10 to the EFF, and $10 to these guys who give video games to sick kids. I got like a half a dozen games that run on osx, windows, and linux (linux!!!) that I may play once or twice as a side effect.

In retrospect, it’s actually a pretty shitty way to donate to the EFF, but I got some free games that I didn’t really want, so hey.

http://www.humblebundle.com/ – Pay what you want, choose how much goes to each party.

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