KIVA.ORG

I think the time's coming where Nobel's going to have to consider awarding prestigious things like their Peace Prizes to web-based people. It's one thing for a thinktank kinda economics guy to come up with the notion of small loans to Third World people with ambitions and plans as a way of fighting poverty, but it's a whole other thing for a couple of university students to come up with a way to not only make it happen, but make it fun and involving for society at large... and accessible to everyone to be a part of the movement with loans (that you can withdraw once repaid) as small as $25. I mean, how fucking brilliant are these kids, anyhow?

I can't wait to see what happens with this. Someone's made charity FUN. What a thought.

Know what I say?

Beats the shit out of a Tamagotchi.