Remember Jacob French, the guy walking from Sydney to Perth in Stormtrooper armour to raise awareness and money for the Starlight Foundation? He’s a dead set champ, and now you can track his progress courtesy of his shiny new Spot GPS device. Here’s a map of where he’s got to so far.
Ahh, the Humble Indie Bundle. It works like this: you name your own price on the game pack (said to be worth $50), then choose how your cash is split between the developers and a charity like the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Well, as you can see, there may not be as many Linux nerds as Windows or Mac users, but they’re far more giving.
Jacob French has just started walking across Australia — from Perth to Sydney (4100km) — in a Stormtrooper outfit to raise money for the Starlight Foundation.
Watson’s defeat of man struck a hard blow against our hope of dominating computers in trivia party games ever again, but do you know who was hurt worse? The charity that Ken Jennings was playing for. Instead of taking home $US1 million, Ken Jennings won $US300,000 (and gave half of that to charity).
Joining up with Bill Gates, George Lucas, Warren Buffett and 50 other billionaires, Zuckerberg has agreed to donate the majority of his wealth to charity, as part of the Giving Pledge movement Gates launched back in August.
