Hackers. Slow Motion. Snow. Here’s a little round up of links from around the web you may have missed this week:

• Random Hacks of Kindness: a two-day competition of more than 1,000 software engineers solving problems that arise during humanitarian crises.

• Marvel at some of the entries to National Geographic’s photography contest.

• Restaurateur Jean-Gorges Vongerichten’s half-Korean wife, Maria Vongerichten, has a new PBS show called “The Kimchi Chronicles,” in which she eats her way through South Korea.

• What happens when you put a slow-motion camera on a fast moving train? Watch.

• What did people google search in 2010? (Also, in list form.)

• Have you had your first snow of the year yet?

• Jim Wallis says it best: DREAMS should not be illegal.

There's been considerable rain where we live in Haiti, and there are also wind gusts. I fear for folks in Leogane and elsewhere who are vulnerable to flooding.

Let's try it. For the next six weeks before the election, let's focus on truth and civility. Why? Because it's getting worse. With the campaign season in full swing, the level of our public discourse has hit new lows. From politicians to commentators, I keep hearing the same thing, "We've never seen it get this bad." And some of them are clearly helping to make things worse.

Here's a round up of links from around the web you may have missed this week: