A sobering report from my beloved on grinding poverty in Kenya

My partner, singing_phoenix, has just posted to her LJ an eloquent and appalling description of what she has observed in Nairobi's slums, where thousands of people suffer daily from privation unimaginable to those of us living comfortably in the US or elsewhere. If you read it and think, "How can this problem be solved? And how can I help?" as I did, let her know your thoughts by posting a reply. She feels she does not do much despite others' saying to her, "I could never do what you do"; but just bringing to people's attention the obscenity that such poverty and need is in this supposedly advanced era seems to me a great service all by itself.

Damn, Songbird, but I'm lucky to be your man. And proud.

Your Horoscope For Today, with visuals

To celebrate my having finally gotten my hands on the new "Weird Al" Yankovic CD (be warned; it's a Dual Disc CD/DVD hybrid and costs significantly more than a standard CD, around $22 US), here's a hilarious Flash video an Al-fan made for a song from one of Al's previous albums, courtesy of Google Video.
(Your Horoscope For Today)

Today's memes

Foolishly appropriated from cflute:

Which Programming Language are You?

Which Computer Operating System Are You?
(Well, at least it got that one right...)