Believe it! Today is supposedly National S’mores Day.
Even if it’s not, let’s just go ahead and celebrate this wonderful campfire, summertime treat. Just do it. Go home and grill a marshmallow over the grill and put together your graham cracker sandwich of joy.
Yet another NICE encounter at a drive-thru window in Oceola, WI.
http://www.newrichmond-news.com/articles/index.cfm?id=25073§ion=Opinion
This has to be the most common NICE topic found in letters to the editor pages nationwide. Could you imagine not only getting a yummy order of McDonald’s fries only to find out it’s free? Holy cow. Unreal.
Check out ARK (Acts of Random Kindness), a polo shirt company in the UK dedicated to making the world a better place:
http://www.arkchangeyourworld.com/
Cool upstart. All the best!
Look at this astounding chart from Flowing Data showing the spike in consumed hot dogs (+buns) at the Nathan’s Hot Dog annual 4th of July hot dog eating contest in the 2000s. Who will win this year? I hear Kobayashi san is on a mission…
Missourian, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie made a $1 million gift through their foundation (apparently called the Jolie-Pitt Foundation) to help kids in war-torn Iraq. The money will be distributed by the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, an initiative that was launched at the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative and co-chaired by Jolie.
The money [...]
Read this article highlighting the pleasant trend of couch surfing, a network (a non-profit org, actually) of nice folks around the world who have a couch open to friendly road warriors. See the link below and also visit www.couchsurfing.com.
Here’s their mission statement:
“CouchSurfing seeks to internationally network people and places,
create educational exchanges, raise collective consciousness, [...]
Now this is a nice deed. Barack Obama is going to help his arch democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, to repay her campaign debts by asking his top donors to put up the money for this pledge.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/06/25/Obama_asks_supporters_to_help_Clinton_pay/UPI-41011214391834/
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