March 18, 2012

OH MY GOSH FREE KIVA!

fishingboatproceeds:

Astonishingly, kiva.org is offering free trials to the next several thousand new kiva members—this means your first $25 loan to an entrepreneur in the developing world will be totally free.

This is great news. So click here and hurry while the credits are still available, and be sure to join the nerdfighters group so your loans bolster the lending arm of the Bank of Nerdfighteria.

(Kiva is a microfinance site that connects well-run microfinance organizations from around the world with lenders like you and me. I’ve been very impressed with the way that kiva is run and with their transparency, and it has a four-star rating on charitynavigator.)

March 4, 2012

"How do you feel about Scotland’s National Animal?” Oh you mean the Bagpipes? I love Bagpipes! …what do you mean it’s not an animal? Sure it’s an animal, it responds to stimulus, it can reproduce! It can’t? What are all those like, holes and pointy things for then?"

— John Green (via dimbosama)

March 4, 2012

"You were surprised and my hand hurt. No, no, no, I remember now. You got really angry too. You got really angry not because it hurt but because you were afraid that I had messed up your braces. Which is pretty much the nerdiest response to getting punched in the face ever: ‘Oh my god my orthodontics might be messed up!’ Nerds for life."

— Hank Green on punching John Green in the face when they were young (via ohchelseadawn)

January 1, 2012

"I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards, trying to make myself matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It’s so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do."

— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

(Source: whokidpotter)