Breadpig & Mongol Rally 2010
Exploding Marmalade plastered our porcine hero on the side of their car in exchange for some moral support and a donation to Mercy Corps. We were thrilled to oblige on both counts.
Category: Not Being Evil
How Should We Donate $53,000 of xkcd Book Profits?
2009 was a very good year for Breadpig and thus a very good year for our partner non-profits, Room to Read in particular, thanks to the success of xkcd: volume 0.
May 10, 2010 | View Comments | View Post
The xkcd school in Laos is complete! Rejoice!
With over 25,000 copies of xkcd: volume 0 sold so far, breadpig is thrilled to announce that the xkcd school is complete! Thanks to all of you who helped get us here.
Mar 15, 2010 | View Comments | View Post
Breadpig is a PyCon 2010 sponsor! Stop by if you’re in Atlanta for the Python-fest
Steve and I had the privilege of giving a keynote at last year’s PyCon. Watch the video [steal slides here] for Steve’s gripping account of the switch from Lisp to Python, see him artfully respond to questions about why reddit’s search is so unsatisfying, and hear me get asked if I’ll sponsor PyCon the following [...]
Feb 10, 2010 | View Comments | View Post
Project Update: The xkcd school in Laos is nearing completion!
After selling out (yay!) of the xkcd book, we had some printing delays over the last few weeks (sorry!) that have held up shipping for some of you. All books should have now been shipped, but if something seems very wrong, please forward your invoice to us. After getting your feedback on the xkcd blag, [...]
Nov 19, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Help xkcd Choose a Dedication for the School in Laos
via blag.xkcd.com: Sales of the xkcd book continue to be quite strong thanks to glowing reviews (thank you!). And the breadpig recently learned that we’d raised enough from our fundraising book tour to get the xkcd school built! Now we need your help to dedicate it. You see, each school will have a permanent plaque [...]
Oct 13, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
We did it! You raised enough money to build our xkcd school in Laos
We couldn’t have done it without you. We aimed to raise $32,000 for Room To Read to construct The Kengthan Incomplete Primary School in Laos (don’t be troubled about the ‘incomplete’ part, that’s just a tricky translation from Lao to describe the education level – it’s going to be 100% complete when it’s built). It [...]
Oct 02, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
ScienceCommons $455 Richer Thanks To The DNA Of Internet Celebrities
The auction got another bump from ScienceCommons before bidding ended this afternoon at $455. I trust they’ll enjoy the ROFLDNA. This is breadpig’s second ROFL-success (last year’s ROFLaptop contest ended at $521 raised for OLPC) but this one-of-a-kind-DNA-artwork was the idea of Erik Martin, reddit community manager, troublemaker, and member of the breadpig honor guard. [...]
Apr 10, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Thanks To The Internet’s Help, We’re Already Over $200 For ROFLDNA
We kept the auction period for this ScienceCommons fundraiser to a crisp 3 days. ROFLDNA has done well thus far. Thanks to breadpig’s friends at Laughing Squid, ROFLCon, and all the wonderful people on the Twitter, we’re looking to send a nice check to a very worthy organization. Bidding ends tomorrow (April 9th) at 14:00:20 [...]
Apr 08, 2009 | View Comments | View Post
Breadpig Wants Children In Cambodia (And Everywhere) To Have Room To Read
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 [...]
Dec 23, 2008 | View Comments | View Post
HoHoTo – A Model Of Geek Efficiency & Charity
The hungry in Toronto are a little better off thanks to #HoHoTo. What’s most remarkable about this event isn’t just everything they raised, but how quickly they assembled it all together. Here’s the recap, but the quick & dirty facts are impressive nonetheless: All in, we’ve raised more than $25,000 and people brought about 3,000 [...]
Dec 20, 2008 | View Comments | View Post
LOLmagnetz Now On Amazon! Currently #2 In Refrigerator Magnets
They’re sold via ThinkGeek, but having LOLmagnetz on Amazon is still a thrill. When I took that screenshot yesterday, LOLmagnetz were comfortably sitting at the number one spot. Too comfortably. Look at where that hubris has left us 24 hours later. This is a task for the breadpig legions; put the breaded swine back in [...]
Dec 05, 2008 | View Comments | View Post
Breadpig Visits SF SPCA, Eats Breadpigs, Spreads LOLmagnetz
What better way to celebrate a successful partnership than to eat cupcakes shaped like swine? (See, they’re made of bread-ish cupcake matter and hence ‘breadpigs’). The SF SPCA graciously invited breadpig over for a lunch and a tour. It turns out their headquarters is a short walk from the PigPen (our new BatCave-esque name for [...]
Dec 01, 2008 | View Comments | View Post
Attention All Cylons: Breadpig Has A New Ally Against You – The Electronic Frontier Foundation
As is the case with all breadpig projects, all the profits go to a worthy charity. Ideally, the breadpig can find a non-profit with objectives related to the project (e.g., LOLmagnetz profits going to the SF SPCA). About a month ago, we launched a new shirt: Spoiler Alert. If you don’t watch Battlestar Galactica, its [...]
Nov 13, 2008 | View Comments | View Post
A Little Breadpig In Cambodia
As you may have noticed, the breadpig was away for most of September. Soaring through Thailand and Cambodia, our winged porcine hero made some fascinating discoveries. One of which is an organization in Cambodia called FRIENDS (I’m not yelling, that’s just how they write it) that works to get street children into safe environments and [...]
Oct 02, 2008 | View Comments | View Post
