Thursday, June 19, 2014

Help save the world while being nerdy

There is a unfair stereotype that nerdy folks don't care about the bigger world. That's just not true.  Every day nerds run and participate in good causes that do real good for people. I myself participate in the yearly Extra Life event where we have a 24-hour video game marathon while raising money for Primary Children's Hospital.

Sometimes, you get a chance to help people while getting an awesome deal. the Humble Bundle program is one such awesome program. What is a Humble Bundle? It's a program that lets you purchase digital media, mostly video games, at a price you choose with an amount of the purchase price that you decide going to charity.

Let me say that again. You get a bunch of cool media for a price YOU decide and the money goes to charity.

I've participated in this a few times but a new audiobook bundle is very exciting because it includes two of my favorite books of all time.

The first is "Fight Club" which really shouldn't require much more than a title. The other is "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" by blogger and nerd superhero Cory Doctorow. This book is about... well let me quote the blurb:

Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.
Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the care of a network of volunteer "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.
Now, though, it seems the "ad hocs" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents and is replacing its venerable audio animatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself.
Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war...

See! it's awesome.

including those two there are 11 books in total- thats over $1,000 worth of audio books you can get for a few bucks.  You need to spend at least $10 to get all of them. It's such a good deal its stupid.
Click HERE! to buy!

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