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Vietnam: The Legacy of Agent Orange
Breadpig muses on the various legacies of war, focusing on dioxin poisoning caused by lingering Agent Orange.
Nov 11, 2010 | 3 comments | View Post
Vietnam: Educating Girls in Tra Cu, pt. 2
Breadpig visits the homes of 4 girls enrolled in the Girls Education Program in Tra Cu, Tra Vinh, Vietnam.
Oct 29, 2010 | 5 comments | View Post
Vietnam: Educating Girls in Tra Cu, pt. 1
An overview of Room to Read’s Girls Education Program in Tra Cu district, Vietnam.
Oct 28, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
reddit wanted to win Stephen Colbert over with kindness – we had to help!
The reddit community decided that a good way to drive the point home would be to launch the largest Donors Choose fundraiser ever – something breadpig needed to be a part of.
Sep 14, 2010 | 6 comments | View Post
Breadpig Asks, “WTF CNN?!”
If you’ve felt an urge to facepalm upon visiting the frontpage of CNN.com, our newest breadpig project, WTFCNN.com, is for you.
Apr 28, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post
ThinkGeek now carrying xkcd: volume 0
It’s a little known fact that monkeys and breadpigs are naturally quite amicable with one another. Less known is that monkeys can be found riding breadpigs during their lunchbreaks as a means of sport, similar to that one Harry Potter plays with brooms. One result of this is the success of LOLmagnetz …
Mar 18, 2010 | 8 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 | 9 comments | View Post
Featured Breadpig Bookseller: Bookshop Santa Cruz Loves xkcd
We received these photos from Bookshop Santa Cruz, an independent bookseller (rocking since 1966!) that’s been featuring the breadpig-published xkcd: volume 0 for the last couple of months.
Mar 04, 2010 | 3 comments | View Post
Reasons to self-publish, or start your own niche publishing company (or not)
Like any good uncorporation, breadpig aims to do things a bit differently. Last year, we published a tutorial for how LOLMagnetz generated $30,000 in profits (for charity, but profits nonetheless). Now we’re doing it for xkcd: volume 0.
Feb 17, 2010 | 9 comments | View Post
LOLMagnetz had a strong 2009 – better than even 2008 – thanks to some help from ThinkGeek
We’ll be publishing a 2009 Breadpig, Inc. profit & donation recap shortly, but there’s an overdue “Thank you” due for ThinkGeek. For giving breadpig yet another feature in their catalog (I think this makes three times? Awesome!). We couldn’t have given away $15,000 in LOLmagnetz profits last year if it weren’t for …
Jan 09, 2010 | 4 comments | View Post
The reviews are in, xkcd: volume 0 is a winner
Thursday Dec 17th in Cambridge, MA is your last chance in 2009 to meet Randall Munroe for a book/poster/raptor-signing. It’s a free event, so please drop by.
Dec 16, 2009 | 3 comments | View Post
Don’t trust Santa to get you what you want, add something from breadpig to your wishlist (or surprise someone else!)
Rather ironically, I suppose, breadpig is a big fan of Buy Nothing Day. The rest of the year, we’d love for you to buy our products, though. But more to the point, if you can avoid traditional commercial gifts this year, the breadpig wholeheartedly supports you. Consider sending someone a kiva gift certificate …
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 …
Nov 19, 2009 | 12 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 …
Oct 13, 2009 | 6 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 …
Oct 02, 2009 | 35 comments | View Post
