Commercial Break

A lovely friend of mine works for Orbis--a nonprofit company that provides glasses and other eye-improvement stuff for poor people in poor countries--and she wrote saying, "Maybe you could mention in your blog this great charity you know of, and how if they donate to it via Yahoo!, it might qualify for matching funds."

Because the thing is, they actually made it to the finals of some Who Is The Greatest Nonprofit? type of competition sponsored by Yahoo!, and they really will get matching funds, so anything you donate is pretty much guaranteed to be doubled. That's a nice feeling.

Here's the link. Start your new year on an altruistic note. At the very least, can we help actual human beings instead of a bunch of fucking cairn terriers? (You'll see.)