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Use your email signature to support charitable causes

The "Consider the Environment" meme spread across email signatures like wildfire, and now Reply for All is hoping they can accomplish the same thing.

Their service inserts an advertising-supported signature into your GMail or Yahoo Mail messages that supports a charitable cause of your choosing. Currently, there are eight choices: AIDS prevention, cancer research, children's rights, animal rights, climate change, fighting poverty, clean water initiatives, and supporting education. The insert can be customized three ways: display your cause only, or add rotating relevant facts and your contact information.

Once you begin using your new signature, you can check on the impact you've made on the Reply for All web site. They also provide global statistics, and it's nice to see that they've been able to make some fairly significant contributions since launching their service.

You won't be spamming your mail recipients with ads, either. It's only added once every four hours, and you can always click the brightly-colored no signature button to remove it from a message.

To use Reply for All, you'll need either a Gmail or Yahoo Mail address, Firefox, and the Reply for All addon - which you can install after signing up. There is a privacy policy and a TOS that you may want to read, just so you know what you're agreeing to by signing up.

[ via Digital Inspiration ]

Filed under: Games, Internet

PETA mashes up Cooking Mama and Stephen King for gruesome holiday fun

Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals'Tis the season to go on a murderous rampage, according to PETA. Once again proving hostile to cavemen but friendly to animals, PETA has re-created Cooking Mama in a Flash version (downloadable on Macs and PC's through the magic of Adobe AIR).

Unlike the soothing "Better than Mama!" you're used to on the Wii, this Mama is more akin to Sweeney Todd. PETA is calling their creation, "Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals." I think I just heard the Lawyermobile at Majesco pulling out of the garage.

Killing turkeys, ripping out their guts and stuffing them with Atkins-unfriendly carbs is the name of this game. PETA tries to drive home the point that cleaning and cooking a turkey is a messy, horrible affair. Unfortunately, I had too much fun with the cartoonish game to truly grasp the horror of the situation. Luckily, after two rounds -- and regardless of whether you "win" -- you're treated to a "bonus" video describing and illustrating the sad lives commercially-raised turkeys are forced to endure. It ain't pretty.

Still, I give the idea two big thumbs-up for creativity; PETA has always been a creative bunch. But I doubt the Southern gents I know would be dissuaded in the least by this game. It's tricky to preach through videogames, and trickier still to illustrate terror when making something so cute and fun. All the same, I look forward to "Hello Kitty: Shelter Edition" if they ever pick up the idea.

Check out the screenshots... if you dare. Oh, and if you check out the game I recommend you turn your speakers down. There's some screaming and loud music involved. Enjoy!



[Via Planetsave]

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