An interesting article about a man who collected/purchased signs from the homeless and has written about some of their stories.

“Amazon has acquired popular deal-a-day website Woot. The announcement was made on the Woot Blog. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Woot will remain an independent, autonomous entity, much like Zappos when it was acquired last year by the online shopping giant.” – Source: http://mashable.com/

“Consider the mosquito borne disease malaria. This year, malaria will kill over one million people, over 80% of which will be children. Great Britain used to have malaria. In North America, malaria was epidemic and there are still a handful of infections each year. In Africa malaria kills over 100 people per hour. In Russia, amidst the corruption of the 1990s, malaria re-established itself. What is the difference between these cases?

We know how to prevent malaria. The science is universal. The difference is good governance.

Put another way, unresponsive or corrupt government, through malaria alone, causes a children’s “9/11″ every day.

It is only when the people know the true plans and behavior of their governments that they can meaningfully choose to support them. Historically, the most resilient forms of open government are those where publication and revelation are protected. Where that protection does not exist, it is our mission to provide it.

In Kenya, malaria was estimated to cause 20% of all deaths in children under five. Before the Dec 2007 national elections, WikiLeaks exposed $3,000,000,000 of Kenyan corruption and swung the vote by 10%. This lead to enormous changes in the constitution and the establishment of a more open government — one many hundreds of reforms catalyzed by WikiLeaks.

We believe WikiLeaks is the strongest way we have of generating the true democracy and good governance on which all mankind’s dreams depend.”

>> Source: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/WikiLeaks:About

Christina was telling me about this yesterday and living in America something like this didn’t sound true but evidently it is.  He chose this method to die, possibly for the headlines but not sure I agree with the death penalty.  Thoughts?

“Convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad early Friday, the Utah Department of Corrections said.  Gardner, 49, is only the third person to die by firing squad in the United States in 33 years.” – CNN

The story of a man, a women who left him (maybe it was the mohawk), a $180,000 car, and lots of open road.  >> http://jalopnik.com/5559767/

Leo Laporte says he does not want to have anything to do with Jason Calacanis since he has been aggressively cranking out “This week in” shows.