The University of San Francisco, being the state-of-the-art campus that it is, has donated 50 of their old but not obsolete PCs to the Tenderloin Technology Lab. The lab, a joint program between St. Anthony's and San Francisco Network Ministries, also got a monetary donation from shiny-domed computer nerd and Craigslist found Craig Newmark to cover the costs of upgrading the donated PCs with more RAM and updated software.

USF students also volunteer to staff the lab and teach month-long computing classes to a population of underserved folks who find themselves without the necessary resources to seek out and apply for jobs in a rat race that has turned mostly digital. Kudos to the students for helping folks do something more useful than facepoking and farmvilling and porn searching. Newmark's altruism, on the other hand, is a little suspect when you realize he just got a new audience hooked on frantically refreshing Craigslist all day.

[CBSLocal]