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I'm shaving my head for charity. Help out!

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11 August 2008 | Category: Uncategorized

Kevin Rose recently challenged me to shave my head for charity and it sounded like a great idea (and Gill even gave her blessing). So this Thursday, Aug 14th, is the big day. I'm going to shave my head live on Ustream.tv.

Ryan with long hair, screaming.

As you all know, us Carsonites are passionate about the web, so we thought it’d be great to raise money for a charity that helps people with disabilities use the web better. AbilityNet fits that bill perfectly.

If you’d like to donate, we’re giving away some great publicity:

$500 – You get a link in the news on Vitamin (15,000+ subscribers)

$1,000 - The above + your URL on screen during the live shaving + your URL in the post-shaving article on Carsonified.com (3,500+ subscribers)

$5,000 – All of the above + your URL at the bottom of a Vitamin article (50,000+ subscribers) + your URL in a post-shaving Tweet by Ryan (3,800+ followers)

$10,000 – All of the above + your logo on the big screen at the beginning of FOWA and a thank you from Ryan from stage to the entire audience (2,000+ attendees)

Please help us out!

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Comments

  • http://www.scottmallinson.com Scott Mallinson

    Hair today, gone tomorrow Thursday!

  • Dominic

    I am with you, bring on the clippers buzzzzz

  • http://www.justgiving.com Simon

    woohoo we’ll be watching!

  • http://uk.sun.com/startups stewart townsend

    Go for it Ryan, good cause and awesome and well done gill as well.

  • http://www.creativecomponent.com Alan Houser

    Do work, son!

  • http://www.geekazine.com geekazine

    I did that a few years ago and never looked back. Bald is Beautiful!

  • http://www.fubiz.net Fubiz

    Funny

  • http://oneblackbear.com Gareth

    Ryan, you look soo EMO in that shot. CUT IT ALL OFF. ALL OF IT. hehe

  • Gentle Reader

    This is a great cause, glad to see you’re participating.

    My guess, though, is that you’ll be “buzzing” your hair, as opposed to actually shaving your head.

    The former, hardly a statement these days, usually involves a set of electric clippers, the latter a razor and some shaving cream and still “says something.”

  • Bill

    That Kevin is a bad influence on you Ryan. You don’t need to go along with all his crazy suggestions :-)

  • http://naldzgraphics.com NaldzGraphics

    we want to see bald:)

  • matt

    heyyy what is the adress we can watch the shaving on lol would be soo funy!!!!

  • http://www.abilitynet.org.uk David

    Thanks so much Ryan – we really appreciate it

    I think we need to challenge someone to really go for it !

    who will be the first person (and I suspect this is one for the men) to offer to submit to a full body waxing for charity ? A strategically placed webcam showing facial expression throughout would be worth a lot to people !!!

    Before you ask – no its not me !

    Dave
    Director of Development
    AbilityNet

  • jenny

    ryan where is the address for us to watch this live.? i am new sorry

  • johnnyh

    Has no one mentioned “Shaving Private Ryan?”

    Or worse – “Shaving ryan’s privates?”

    Best of luck with the hair-do

  • http://iamkeir.com iamkeir

    Has the deed been done??

  • http://graphiceyedea.co.uk prisca

    Well done, Ryan :) and that was fun :)
    Shame you didn’t go with the mohawk look though….

  • http://carsonified.com Ryan

    Thanks everyone! We had a blast during the shave :)

  • http://www.sergetheconcierge.com Serge Lescouarnec

    Hi Ryan

    What’s next Air Guitar?

    Just kidding

    Thought I would ask for a little help from Ryan by asking for his Vote for my South by Southwest Panel Idea: From Consumed to Thrifty: Strategies for the Good Life in a Wobbly Economy.

    It will not be about doomsday scenarios but rather how events challenge us to reconsider how we do things.

    Voting ends on Friday, August 29.

    More details on Serge the Concierge

    Vote for our idea Thanks to the Panel Picker.

    Don’t catch a head cold.

    Take care

    Serge
    ‘The French Guy from New Jersey’

  • http://justgiving.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/hair-today-gone-yesterday/ Hair today, gone yesterday * « Our Justgiving Blog

    [...] * Title of this post nabbed from a witty comment on the Carsonified blog [...]

  • http://ilaclamabocek.blogspot.com/ böcek ilaçlama

    great and funny article

  • http://sbssinavi2009.blogspot.com/ sbs başvuruları

    Look her face pardon his face

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