Re: [-empyre-] cultural interfacing

["ricardo miranda zuniga" <ricardo@ambriente.com>]

As the discussion isn't picking up momentum, I'd like to pass along a
few links.  

First, links two a couple of grassroots organizations seeking to help
with the disaster in the gulf coast:
for those local to the NYC area - Black Aid is working through the
national youth advocacy coalition:
http://www.nyacyouth.org/

Spark Plug Foundation:
http://www.sparkplugfoundation.org/katrinarelief.html

and alternative coverage of the situation:
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/


Entirely aside from the Katrina relief movement - there is a Ubiquitous
Computing conference about to begin in Tokyo that people may be
interested in if you aren't already aware of it.  There will be a number
of workshops happening over the weekend at Ubicomp 2005:
http://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2005/

and related site:
http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/UbiComp2005/