A friend of mine sometimes has these dhal nights at her place and they scare me a bit (past negative associations) but I decided to be brave and not neurochemically challenged and go to one I was invited to.
I got to see face-to-face the 100 dollar (American) laptop for children in developing countries. From what I gather, there is some ‘one laptop per child’ project happening, and one of my friend’s friends had one to develop software (Rob, it ran on Linux!). It even had some baby version of Wikipedia. It was thanks to Boing Boing that I originally learned of this cute little laptop thingie/plan.
I don’t know how I feel about the whole ‘one laptop per child’ thing. I can think of other things I might want to give a kid in a developing country. In fact, I was actually discussing with my friend how when last I went to the Philippines, I saw kids in the village streets, dirt-poor, but kitted out with the latest mobile phone models. The one I had was dated compared to the things everyone else was pimping. I think I’d prefer if those kids had access to clean water all the time. I know, I know…bringing all my first-world values to the third world - but I did live there for a year so it’s not entirely foreign territory for me.
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