hey all, just a reminder - if you want to make a donation to help those effected by the disaster in the Indian Ocean, one choice is Red Cross/Red Crescent, the international aid organization. Be careful whoever you pick to use a legitimate charity, to insure the aid gets there.

Update; two more donation possibilities;

1) a friend of mine has established reliefsearch.org. the idea is to use this search engine, and the money from the ads will to help tsunami disaster victims.

2) my neighbor (who may just be a saint, or a really, really good person if you're not into religious things) is a doctor here at UCLA and spends a great deal of his time wiht a group called GHAP. Basically, these folks are like the Red Cross, except they pay their own administrative costs (phone, airfare, food, etc.) so that all the money you donate (100%) goes to the medical equipment and supplies they need to help folks. Larry, my neighbor, is in Sri Lanka right now doin' the doctorin' thang. And, for the record, they not only don't get paid, they aren't getting salary from their regular jobs to do this. So basically they rule.