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Room To Read is a non-profit started by a former Microsoft exec, John Wood (something you can read about in his well-written book, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World). Their goal is straightforward and powerful: We seek to intervene early in the lives of children in the belief that education empowers people to improve socioeconomic conditions for their families, communities, countries and future generations. Recently, Richard Brownsdon of Japan, started a Facebook Cause to build a school in Cambodia. They're aiming for $10,000 by Christmas and the breadpig wanted to help. It doesn't look like they'll hit that lofty goal...

Breadpig hadn't heard of Hawty McBloggy until today, but that all changed with this recent post on the awesomeness of magnets. It made us wonder if he's any good with the sniper rifle. If you are anything like me, your refrigerator is a hub for all things Halo. Maybe you keep track of your virtual gaming events on small scraps of paper that are randomly strewn across the freezer section. Perhaps you print out your more impressive game stats and place them strategically amidst the LOLMagnetz. We're dying to know, does Master Chief ever speak in LOL? It sounds like...

Well done, breadpig legion! When we reported LOLmagnetz on Amazon, they were ranked a lowly #5966 in all of Amazon.com's Home & Garden category. Now look at what a difference 48 hours can make. I trust we're solidly number one in refrigerator magnets again. Your days of reigning supreme in Home & Garden are numbered, Oster 4207 Electric Wine Opener!

LOLmagnetz made someone's Wishroll, though I'm not entirely sure what that means. University of California, Irvine's Louise Lao trumpets Nifty Gifts on a College Budget: ThinkGeek also has some obscure gifts that could entertain your zaniest friends [...] For the ultimate useless present enthusiast, order a box of LOLMagnetz to make captions for your very own “Lolcat,” cat images juxtaposed with humorous statements in broken, Internet slang ($19.99). I can has? Though I would contest that LOLMagnetz are anything but a 'useless present' -- they're actually the ultimate present, so you're kinda right. But you even took the time to...

Lisa Kawata knows it. And now our band's hometown, Howard County (well, the county our hometown is in), now knows it, too. The breadpig rocks. Our "PR Guru" (not sarcasm-quotes, I'm quoting the following article) Mike Scrivener, scored us an article in the recent issue of Howard Magazine. Way to make HoCo. proud, guys.