Go Geeks: Mark Horvath Wins $50K
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 Posted in Internet, Society | 3 Comments »So homeless advocate Mark Horvath won the SXSW Pepsi Challenge. I stayed up until midnight on Monday night sending out tweets, bugging people to tweet and watching the parade of #RefreshGary hashtags come in. We went to sleep pretty sure ...
Geeks Doing Good: Help Mark Horvath Win $50,000
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 Posted in Society, Technology | No Comments »The SXSW Interactive Festival is going on this weekend in Austin, Texas. It's a bigtime collection of web geeks (and yes, I so wish I could be there). The cool thing about web geeks is that they care about causes. ...
A Boy Draws
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Posted in Art | No Comments »I came across this picture in a CNN article today that gave the numbers of the tragedy. The stories are always more interesting, like this boy drawing in a makeshift camp at Champ de Mars in Port au Prince. I ...
Mark Horvath on CNN.com
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 Posted in Friends, Society | No Comments »My day started by seeing the face of my friend Mark Horvath on the front page of CNN.com. Mark Horvath is a tireless advocate for the homeless and founder of InvisiblePeople.tv. Earlier this year Mark did a national road trip ...
I Salute You, Mustache Men
Monday, November 30th, 2009 Posted in Health, Style & Fashion | 1 Comment »Today is the last day of November, which means it's the end of the Movember charity drive, an event where men agreed to go clean-shaven and then grow mustaches for the month of November in order to raise money for ...
Share Your Leftovers
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »Musician, blogger and Compassion advocate Shaun Groves is in India right on another Compassion bloggers tour. These are pretty incredible trips (they did Uganda last year and the Dominican Republic last fall) and admittedly hard to read. This morning I checked ...
You Can Change the World: With a Tomato
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Adoption | 2 Comments »Twin Citizens can head to Bachman's this weekend to support Children's Home Society & Family Services (our adoption agency). For $5 you can get all the fixings to pot a tomato plant right in the store (fun for the kids!) ...
You Can Change the World: Vote for Homeless
Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »I've talked about the site invisiblepeople.tv before and the incredible work being done there. Mark is the man behind the site, formerly homeless himself, unemployed and on the verge of being homeless again. He's been holding on for quite a ...
You Can Change the World: One Day Without Shoes
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »I went barefoot today as a part of Toms One Day Without Shoes. It's a simple idea to raise awareness for the millions of people who go without shoes every day and face dire consequences. Not having shoes can lead ...
You Can Change the World: Easter Well in Ethiopia
Friday, April 10th, 2009 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »During our week in Ethiopia we couldn't help but think about water. The water that flowed from the tap would make you sick. And it did. I spent a day sidelined by it. You couldn't brush your teeth with it, ...
