bending_sickle | A click a day saves a life.* (Reply)

This in from

cleolinda, whom we trust implicitly, for yea:

"Okay, I have something to ask y'all to help with. Erin, aka

redscorner, needs to have brain surgery and can't afford it:

I suffer from two neurological disorders (Chiari malformation and cranial lesions) that will require a combined total of 2-4 brain surgeries. I'm unemployed and uninsured and the state I live in is so broke, they have strictly limited who qualifies for Medicaid. Because I have no children and am not pregnant, I don't qualify.

[...] Yes, I know people like to scam others on the internet all the time. But she doesn't want your money. Instead, she's thought of a fairly painless, creative way to get someone else's money:

projectdownload. Apparently MegaUpload will pay out $10,000 if you achieve 5 million downloads. This is limited to one download per unique user per day, but over the course of, let's say, ten days, you'd only need 500,000 people a day, if I'm understanding this correctly. It doesn't matter what she's put up there for you to download, so she's put up a very small, perfunctory text file that basically says, "Thank you for downloading this" (the actual text is also on her user profile page). I downloaded it myself just now, from a direct link she posted (you don't even have to go to MegaUpload's actual site at all; she knows how annoying the site can be), and it's a virus-free, spyware-free, malware-free text document. Absolutely painless, and now she's one download closer to the payout. Very easy.

[...]And that's the thing: if you choose to believe her, all you have to give is three seconds of your day. I'm not even sure the download took that long. You have absolutely nothing to lose. And yes, this does open the door for a thousand other people to try the same thing, some of whom may really need the money and some of whom may not, which I'm sure someone will point out, so yes, I anticipate taking some flack over choosing to post this. It's hard to figure out how many things you can post about before people completely shut down and don't want to help anyone else, but: she needs brain surgery, and at no inconvenience to you. She needs to pull the money together by something like mid-November, I think she said. Let's use a round number--thirty days, let's say. Now, I can't math too good, but that's about 160,000ish people a day, isn't it? That's completely doable. So please consider trying to help out with this, and if y'all are okay with it, I can even put a direct-download button down there with the click-a-day charity sites I always have anyway. You know, for a month. Please?

ETA: Yes, of course linking to this post is fine. And feel free to steal the button, just upload it to your own Photobucket account or whatever. It goes directly to the download, for ease of daily clicking. :)"

Links of the Day: Wowza, it's long, kids. That's 'cause I checked up on

cleolinda, she of Movies in 15 Minutes and Linkspam.

General

cleolinda's top 40 daily-reads and PCMAg.com's 100 Favotire Blogs.
Joss Whedon responds to OMwF theatrical sing-along shut-down.
All the WTF you could ever need, c/o

scans_daily

cleolinda talks about The Omen and its collosal bad luck during filming and post-production. Makes Terry Gilliam The Man Who Killed Don Quixote's troubles rather simple.
In response to

cleolinda's query,

palmetto assures us that MST3K's Santa Claus and the Martians is the "Best Christmas movie /ever/".
December 8th is Pretend to be a Time-Traveler Day (with the forum link totally not working). What it is, basically, with some ideas and the some.
Earthquake sets Japan back to 2147

delurker posts the lost page of a comic crossing Firefly and His Dark Meterials
Are you left- or right-brained?.

cleolinda echoes my very thoughts: "(A related thought: I noticed that I became a much better, faster, and more fluid writer once I had a computer to myself. Why? Because I was able to compose with both hands, rather than just my right, allowing me to even out my brain-side usage. By the same token, it's harder now to write by hand, and not just because it's physically slower. Also, my left hand gets bored.)" ETA: There is no bloody way that dancer could ever be seen to move counter-clockwise. *frustrated and confuzzled wtf-face*
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Comics

Movies

The Golden Compass: Extended Trailer, posters (check out the comments).

cleolinda offers screencaps and comments on the trailer with them.
I am Legend poster
The Seeker: A Dark is Rising is is completely owned by this review.

cleolinda echoes the feelings of many fans regarding this film.
Sweeney Todd's trailer and another link.

trailer_spot

Books

Top 10 Tips for Plagiarists
The Sign of the Seahorse by Graeme Base is in verse, has illustrations, and looks amazing.
Banned Books Week was Sept. 29 - Oct. 6. Check out the most challened books of the 21st century. (Reading #1, I weep for humanity.)
How to Write a Book *snicker* Neil oughta read this, situation he's in lately.

Food

patsyrant asks for favorite sandwhich recepies and co-creates Fabulous Foodie Bog
A new breed of Fortune Cookie

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