Metblog friend and former Aaron has fired up another blog, VanPortlander. He hipped me to one of the most awesome events I’ve seen in a long time: Halo 3 for Charity!

Scott Hanselman is diabetic and it comes up from time to time on his blog. He’s throwing a party (basically) at Cinetopia on October 11th, from 7 until midnight. From his site:

We’re doing this because Halo is fun and Diabetes sucks. We’re hoping to cancel them out. The event is being organized by Rich Claussen and fellow MSFTie Jason Mauer and myself.

You can get the rest of the scoop from Scott’s blog post about it.

Aaron said it too: I love Portland, and I especially love its rampant geekery. I secretly believe it’s why I have yet to be run out of town!

So really, how can you resist playing Halo 3 for a good cause? And since it’s not happening for a couple of weeks you’ll have time to perfect your Halo 3 technique. (: