Was there anything I could do?

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• This is the coolest damn gadget ever, and it isn't made of plastic and silicon and doesn't come from a Shenzhen sweatshop. You must watch the video.

• I'm not minding the new update page now that it uses a fixed font, but the rant from naamah_darling is still heartwarming.

Wikipedia is a top-10 website run by a nonprofit with no money. This diagram should strike sufficient fear into the heart of anyone who knows what hosting costs. This is a begging letter: if you like the site, please send your bucks. (FAQ.) You can get a tax deduction in the US, Germany and France; we're still waiting for the Charity Commission to get around to our application for the UK. We also have some matching donors (so your dollars count twice) lined up for donations to the US Foundation from tomorrow.

(Uncyclopedia has of course followed accordingly.)

If you'd like to help but have no money, you could get your camera out. Or, for the truly adventurous, write stuff ;-)

I am feeling sufficiently awful that I am not watching Hogfather (probably watch the video later) but am in bed playing saved music videos from YouTube on my laptop. (VideoDownloader is my new favourite Firefox extension and the saved FLVs play nicely in VLC 0.8.6.) Three minutes of meaningless visuals and a song is about the limits of my attention span. The doctor on Friday said it's a virus and the cure is to wait. I am theoretically attempting work tomorrow, but redcountess and arkady consider this unlikely.

My Christmas shopping is almost done. Thanks, intarweb!