Tycho and Gabe over at Penny Arcade have a pretty dedicated readership in the neighborhood of 150,000 (according to them.) They decided to ask their readers to buy stuff for their local children’s hospital, and in the course of a week have topped $30,000 in contributions. It’s a pretty amazing thing - people buying Christmas presents for kids that they’ll probably never meet. There are lots of “Secret Santa” type of programs out there, but this is the first one I’ve heard of that’s completely organized and run by a couple of punks who thought they could make a difference. Ok, maybe punks is the wrong word. I don’t think they anticipated that the response would be as big as it has. You can check out some amazing pictures of the gifts at the Child’s Play website.

There was another link I wanted to post today too, but I forgot what it was. Oh well, I guess that’ll just give me something to post when I remember what it is :-)

Simpson’s quote of the day isn’t the Simpson’s - instead it comes from the end of this new story: “Besides being a former Spice Girl, Beckham has a singing, dancing and modelling career.”