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Last chance to save lemurs with Delicious developer Mike Lee
If a man bills himself as the world's toughest programmer (site may be NSFW, depending on your sensitivity to four-letter or 12-letter words) it's usually a good idea to take notice when he sets his mind to something. Delicious Monster developer Mike Lee has created a campaign to help save the lemur population of Madagascar, by soliciting $100 donations and in return sending the contributor a stuffed lemur, similar to Mike's world-traveling sidekick Thievey.Your opportunity to do some good, and join the Founding Troop of Club Thievey, closes out at midnight PT tonight. If you were considering a last-minute charitable donation, Mike's cause is a great option -- plus you get a cuddly lemur.
Speaking of charitable donations that expire at midnight: the OLPC Give One-Get One program closes out tonight. For $400, you can send an XO laptop to a needy child and get another one for your local undersized technology consumer. Sure, it doesn't run Mac OS X, but it will blend in nicely with your old clamshell iBook collection.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
MacMacken said 2:49PM on 12-31-2007
Doesn't Mike Lee already make enough money by charging for every minor update??? Mike Lee should rather work on the development of his software instead of wasting money for some monkeys …
*SCNR*
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Tristan OTierney said 5:32PM on 12-31-2007
Not only is your comment completely unwarranted for a charitable cause, but when's the last time Delicious Monster charged for updates? Please crawl under a rock an die, care of the Mac Dev community.
Daniel said 7:10PM on 12-31-2007
MacMacken, lemurs are not monkeys...
Simon Arch said 9:04PM on 12-31-2007
But they are indeed primates.
dschamis said 6:35PM on 12-31-2007
I just sent my $100 - my kids will love the plush doll!
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jigme said 7:25PM on 12-31-2007
so... stuffed lemurs from the "save the lemurs" campaign?
(joke!) :-D
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geochick said 8:13PM on 12-31-2007
$100 for a plush lemur? I guess some folks have $ to burn on this type of thing. All the best but I still have a few belated Christmas presents left to acquire.
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artifex said 7:27AM on 1-01-2008
As my local PBS station likes to remind people: you're not buying the gift. The gift is a token of appreciation.
(I didn't join; if I had the money, it'd probably go to Mercy Corps or someone like that. But I appreciate the effort he's putting into it and wish him luck)