On this Christmas vacation, let's pray for those who were affected by the earthquake/tsuanmi in Southeast Asia. It looks like the death toll from the whole event is somewhere around 15,000 (high estimates, but who knows with the lack of communication in some places). To read more, go here.

Edit: Wikipedia has a running article on the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake. Death toll is rising.... natural disasters really make you realize the fragile state of the Earth and of human life.

Edit: Alice has a list of places you can donate to; Amazon has set-up a page where you can donate to the Red Cross. What's really cool is if you reload the page every few seconds, you can see the # of donations and the amount going up in real time. Americans are "stingy," huh? (Proof again the UN is filled with bigoted retards)