Fabulous and informative site: Charity Navigator. I used a much less fancy site to pick Doctors Without Borders as my charity of choice earlier this year. This site is much cooler, and confirmed my choice. How can you go wrong when they give a star-rating instead of making you decide how much administrative spending is too much?
I know gas prices have everyone freaked, but maybe some people will get the charity-donating bug from donating to Katrina victims (the red cross got my pity money this time) and will start donating regularly. I'm living off a grad student assistantship, and I can afford a little something every month. I'm just saying...

The first positive news story coming out of New Orleans: A couple of bars and one restaurant are still open in the French Quarter. Best quote in the whole article:

"Those girls are town criers, they are making sure everyone has got the proper news. One of them is a stripper -- and she is a good one."

(link courtesy of FARK)

Is it wrong to bring yet another blog into the world just because I came up with a name I liked? Well anyway, I did it and I intend it to be a dumping ground of links on educational research or just education or just on being a graduate student. That's all I'm going to say about that.