After that cheery news below about giving there’s this from the NY Times: …with the recent announcements of pension freezes by some of the cream of corporate America –  Verizon, Lockheed Martin,  Motorola and, just last week,  I.B.M. – the bell is tolling even louder. Even strong, stable companies with the means to operate a pension plan are facing longer ...

From the Wash Post: For weeks, many nonprofit organizations have been predicting that the billions of dollars that Americans poured into relief funds last year to help the victims of epic disasters — the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan earthquake — would result in "donor fatigue." Donors would grow weary of charitable giving after contributing to disaster-relief ...

Okay, okay! Once you can get around Second Life without bumbing into the walls it gets pretty interesting. I upgraded my graphics card driver and went in again. Here’s what I found.

I take it all back. I finally found Randy (aka RC Mars) in Second Life. Somehow the information I got was two hours off. He and volunteer Jade Lilly made their presentation and I (Chester Carnot) mostly stood and watched. I stood because I had a hard time getting my butt to sit in the right place. It takes some ...