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Contribute to hurricane Katrina relief via the iTunes Music Store
This post is just a quick break from our usual Apple-centric coverage. The catastrophe in America's Gulf Coast is really all I can think about lately. The video I see on the news every night is almost surreal in its unimaginable horror. I don't even pretend to be able to understand what those people are being forced to endure. I think about my own kids and I just can't imagine it.A donation link that will send funds directly to the Red Cross has been added to the iTunes Music Store. I've read that monetary donations are more effective that sending "things" just now, like clothing, etc, as they only clog up the already congested distribution of goods. If you can, consider making a donation.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Pieter Ouwerkerk said 5:32PM on 9-01-2005
There's also a link on Apple's homepage. Nothing on Microsoft's...except Direct X 9.0c
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PaulPecco said 6:08PM on 9-01-2005
seems you need to go via the US itunes store to be able to make a donation. But I'm not from the US
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Thomas said 6:18PM on 9-01-2005
Excellent idea.
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janeiro said 7:17PM on 9-01-2005
the apple.com link seems to not like firefox (at least for windows)
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JAG said 10:35PM on 9-01-2005
i don't want to be the grudge here but I sent an email to Apple yesterday morning as I was mad because 24 hours after the Tsunami they had the home page dedicated to the donations. Which by the way I donated, but this time after 3 days nothing and later just a small icon, c'mon the mighty mouse is important but here are people in distress, maybe they are not Apple customers or they haven't open a store there yet but it is here in the U.S!!!
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mike said 10:15AM on 9-02-2005
microsoft playing catchup with relief efforts.. oh jeez..
check the ms page again.. it's very subtle.. you'll see it
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pocket said 12:24PM on 9-02-2005
JAG - It is a shame we don't have an Apple store in Louisiana isn't it? The closest one I've found is in in Dallas, TX... about 3.5 hours from me. :(
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