Making Darfur a Topic on Twitter

I'm encouraging everyone who reads this blog to check out Mary's blog at:

http://hailmary-fullofgrace.blogspot.com/2009/07/make-darfur-topic.html

She's long been active in the effort to make everyone aware of the genocide in Darfur, and the insufficient effort to stop it. She is organizing a campaign re this by making it a topic on Twitter., starting this Wednesday.

Text messages from plants?

I wonder what my mom would have thought of this story. She never really understood how cell phones could do so many things, and I wonder what she would have though about getting a text message from a plant.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0101-thirsty_plants_text_for_help.htm

http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronics/add2/images.

Now I'm following the adventures of a plant in Germany on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/botanicalls1