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This fragile card is the way refugees access non food items and multiple distributions of food.

Most of these people have been uprooted from years if not decades of living in Sudan. Their patience and grace in a very hot, dusty and challenging environment is impressive.

MeFite tarvuz talks a little about his blog featuring photos from South Sudan.

The cat is off the ledge!

I grew up without cable, and am pretty much ignorant of everything but the "classic" music videos from the 80's; please let me know what I'm missing.

An awesomely generated list of 80s videos from Ask MetaFilter. Now with playlists!

Part 1 | Part 2

ronald McDonald house dinner by dstanfor

Chicago area MeFites got together this past weekend for the second time to cook dinner for people at the Hyde Park Ronald McDonald House.

Star Trek science onesie in action by PugnoM/camustafa/Mustafa Ünlü (cc by)

My 13-year-old son and I are watching every Star Trek right now and it is a fantastic experience. In fact it has repaired our relationship.

A former classmate of Ghyslain Raza (otherwise known as the infamous Star Wars Kid) talks about what it was like going through law school with him and how amazing it is to hear Ghyslain speak about cyberbullying, ten years later:

Think about that burden, and the awful paranoia and loathing that would fester. And think about the publicity and retraumatization that will entail from stepping out like this, especially considering how much he has been protecting his identity the last 10 years.

Considering all of that, it is fucking HEROIC that he has decided to step into public and take a stand for such a good and appropriate cause. I would never in a million years have the guts to do it.

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