Saturday, May 28 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the planet’s most important organizations – Amnesty International. For half a century, Amnesty International has been fighting to protect human rights, with some of the group’s most notable causes being the elimination of torture, extrajudicial executions, and the recruitment of child soldiers. To help mark their 50th anniversary, Prague-based studio Eallin has created a stirring animated video (see below) scored by Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer along with Lorne Balfe.

It’s death to Lady Gaga December 1, 2010. Digital death, that is. Lady Gaga is only one of the celebrities closing down their Facebook and Twitter accounts in efforts to raise money for Alicia Keys’ Keep a Child Alive charity. Usher, Justin Timberlake, Kim Kardashian, Ryan Seacrest, Elijah Wood and others are sacrificing their digital lives to help save real lives. How is quitting Facebook for charity going to save lives?

You hear a lot of talk and worry about the environment, wars, the economy, this, that and the other…and most of us think we know the reasons for all the messes, or have the solutions for how to make the world a better place.

Some folks blame Obama, or they blame the Republicans, or the conservatives or the liberals.