Ebola in town. Don't touch your friend!

this is an ebola awareness song by some West African musicians. catchy.

i would go back in time to Lagos in the 60s

Half of a Yellow Sun's Urbane Outfitter on Nowness.com

in other futbol news... USA! USA! USA! USA!

we beat the shit out of that tiny West African country!

here is an abbreviated version of the nymag gif recap

1) clint dempsey scored almost immediately

2) cheers cheers cheers unexpected delight

3) clint dempsey gets kicked in the face and it looks like his nose is broken but it isnt

4) ghana scores to tie the game in the 82nd minute

5) surprise! four minutes later an american boy knocks the ball in with his head and we're winning again!

6) USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

nelson mandela can't read between the lines, because HE'S DEAD

Nelson Mandela didn't want to live in a world without Paul Walker. I think we can all relate to that.

— Nomi Malone (@RealNomiMalone) December 5, 2013

nErD aLeRt!

hey y'all, have you heard about the work MASS design group has been doing in rwanda? go ahead and familiarize yourself with this video, and see if you can spot 2Pz friend tanya paz!

There is a critical balance that comes from first taking the time to understand a community as we did by living there and working side-by-side with local people. Harnessing this new understanding, we were then able to propose powerful new design solutions. Ghanaian architect Joe Ossae-Addo talks about “Inno-native” architecture—a combination of innovation and local tradition. At IDEO.org, where I served in the inaugural class of fellows last year, we used the term “human-centered design” for this methodology. (via)

omg that half machine olympic runner killed his girlfriend

remember the one from south africa with machine parts instead of legs? he shot his girlfriend dead. more details, plz.

gulp

15,000 crocodiles escaped from a farm in south africa. now they are running wild! what is it with animals today? am i right?

these dummies got themselves captured. more than likely by a man like this:

what is the worst thing that can happen at a zoo?

how about a mom in pittsburgh drops her 2 year old child into a den of 11 african painted puppies and they eat him to death. worst. thing. ever.

what today is like.

ROCK OUT.

happy BEARthdie g.animalz!!!!

27 BEARS OLD!!!

hope you're having fun on your ethiopian vacay! serious school working research trip.

this is what commitment to ending violence in uganda looks like.

the founders of invisible children. (via)

what the teenagers are twittering.

you may have noticed the sudden and overwhelming internet presence of something called KONY 2012. this is it, jicyww.

Kony 2012 is an unlikely internet phenomenon. The 30-minute documentary about a despot Ugandan warlord has been watched more than 30m times online in less than 48 hours.

The hard-hitting film, uploaded by a group seeking to expose the guerilla leader Joseph Rao Kony, was relatively undiscovered until two days ago despite being first watched on the website Vimeo last Friday.

In the past 48 hours, Kony 2012 has been viewed more than 21m times on YouTube and 11m times on Vimeo.

According to YouTube statistics, the Kony video is most popular with young women aged 13 to 17 and men aged 18 to 24. (via)

responses to the video have not been without criticism, however.

It would be great to get rid of Kony. He and his forces have left a path of abductions and mass murder in their wake for over 20 years. But let's get two things straight: 1) Joseph Kony is not in Uganda and hasn't been for 6 years; 2) the LRA now numbers at most in the hundreds, and while it is still causing immense suffering, it is unclear how millions of well-meaning but misinformed people are going to help deal with the more complicated reality. (via)

read invisible children's response.

there's even a hilarious drinking game! 

and now you're caught up. pick a side and argue the shit out of it next time you're drunk.

seems kind of dangerous

OUT RUN - David Kuria character sketch Feb 2012 from Leo Chiang on Vimeo.

via

Real Mature Guys

new country alert!

South Sudan, Capital: Juba

good luck South Sudan. Doesn't look like its on google maps yet, but maybe one day...

The new country is rich in oil, but one of the least developed countries in the world, where one in seven children dies before the age of five.

Kenya

solange and the guy from grizzly bear (not that one, the other one) and twin shadow, for charity

arnold - he was having a lot of things for fighting

carly knows what i will like, and this is an example.

have y'all been following tunisia?

(it's right there across the street from italy)

this morning i saw a headline about protests against an authoritarian ruler in tunisia. last night he said he's stop using live ammo on protesters, which just made folks get on twitter and facebook to organize bigger protests. well, it seems they were successful. the corrupt leader was overthrown and fled the country, and get this -

"Some demonstrators also cited the evidence of cables from the United States Embassy in Tunisia that were released by the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks providing vividly detailed accounts of the first family’s self-enrichment and opulent lifestyle."

this also marks the first time an arab leader has been overthrown through protests.

i had a feeling this wikileaks thing would turn out for the best somehow. way to go wikileaks. and america, we shouldn't be so shy when gossiping about other countries.

nytimes has all the coverage you need.

someone made a bad decision

a passenger snuck a crocodile onto a regional turbojet in the congo and didnt live to regret his decision. the croc bit his way out of the sportsbag he was stuffed into, then ran amok in the cabin of the plane freaking out everyone. the panic on the small plane shifted the weight balance causing the jet to spin and crash into an abandoned house. there was one survivor. the crocodile survived too, but was killed with a machete during the rescue attempt. bad choices. via.

best friends

The baby elephant, orphaned at six months old when his mother fell down a cliff, chased his new friend Albert until the sheep took refuge in a shelter -- for 12 hours.
But since then, the animals have been "inseparable," say observers, napping together, walking together, and even picking up habits: Albert (sheep) figured out how to eat thorny bushes by following Themba's (elephant) lead to avoid the spikes. via.