In the US, we're celebrating Thanksgiving today, ostensibly a holiday when we take stock of our blessings and give thanks for them. These days, Thanksgiving is mostly a foodie bacchanal and football orgy. Instead of the usual ironic, silly, and interesting urls <I>Stereophilia</I> usually offers, I'm posting links to some of the most worthwhile causes I know. If you feel thankful, share a little of your good fortune with these folks.

I can't imagine anything worse than having a chronically or fatally ill child. The George Mark Children's House is the only free-standing Pediatric respite and hospice in the country, offering children and their families the services they need.

The Center treats children with autism and other severe physical, intellectual, and emotional disabilities using a technique based on the belief that music provides a universal language and that every human being has the capacity to respond to music.

Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 70 countries.

When I was going to carpentry school learning that I wasn't a good carpenter, my teacher put us to work at HFH, saying that nothing taught you faster than doing a job for somebody who <I>needed</I> you to do it right. He was correct&mdash;and it felt good, too.

The deadliest words in the kitchen: Let's double it!

My first electronics project was the crystal radio I constructed to earn my Webelos badge in the Scouts. It was like magic&mdash;something I made pulled radio waves out of the air

I'm sold. Now all I have to do is win the lottery.