links for 2008-03-29

• My mom - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  Don Boudreaux mom obituary.
  (tags: Boudreaux obituaries)
• In Wal-Mart We Trust
  If [the U.S.] government would have responded like Wal-Mart has responded, we wouldn't be in this crisis."
  (tags: wal-mart Katrina)
• Por Marcela Sanchez - Más allá de la contienda política, la necesidad de cerrar una brecha racial - washingtonpost.com
  (tags: racism Latinamerica)
• How to refill a "disposable" Brita brand water pitcher filter with activated carbon.: Filling & using the housing. - Instructables - DIY, How To, home, life
  Got to try this.
  (tags: howto Water filter brita)
• El Independent: Mario Vargas Llosa: "América Latina tiene artistas, pero no grandes pensadores"
  (tags: Mario Vargas Llosa artists intellectuals)
• Video ads now showing on Google, Yahoo search | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
  (tags: ads google videos)
• Jacob Holdt: American Pictures 1970-1975 - Boing Boing
  (tags: Poverty America photography)
• Device remotely destroys hard drive data - Boing Boing
  Talk about dumb police
  (tags: hard disk data)
• Medical transcriptionist melts keyboard with fingertips - Boing Boing
  Talk about keyboard destroyer.
  (tags: keyboard)
• A Victim Treats His Mugger Right : NPR
  You need guts to keep yourself calm and help somebody who just try to mug you.
  (tags: Crime Society Culture inspirational)