Helping people and building shelters for them is crucial, but helping the pets that evacuees had to abandon or were told would be cared for until they'd be reunited might also be a good deed: The Louisiana Humane Society is urgently looking for volunteers and supplies for its makeshift animal shelte...

A lot of folks on the eplaya seem to care about what Burning Man is doing or can do in the wake of the disaster (or they want to rant about it). Making it easy for them to find these threads by creating one section in the index called "BRC and Katrina" or something similar that's easy to find could ...