Tag: Charity

Shimbo Challenges You to Take a Chill Pill: The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is Good For Social Media

by Shimbo I love people. Except when people are busy being “people”. One of the natural by-products of the Internet Age is an increasingly solipsistic point of view; how could it be any different? So often we sit behind our computer monitors or our smartphones, and digest everything the internet has to offer, while filtering it through our own ideals. Sometimes… Read more →

Peer Pressure For a Good Cause? Ed Button Has an Ice to Pick With the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

by Ed Button For those of you who haven’t somehow been on the internet in the past two weeks or so, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a campaign that seeks to raise funding to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It’s a condition that affects voluntary muscle movement, and eventually leads to death. The “Challenge”, as it were, is… Read more →