We're just one week away from Buck-a-Hit Day, our annual charitable gift-giving day on this blog. For every visitor that comes to this site next Thursday, December 16, we'll give $1 to charity, up to 1,200 unique visitors. We'll also have our annual comments contest, in which a reader who leaves the best comment gets to designate where some of our donation goes.

And we'll be asking readers to pitch in by clicking on donation boxes for a handful of worthy charities. Already we've got match challenges from a couple of readers, totalling $750, which will make those clicks worth double.

So come on back a week from today. It's for good causes, and all you have to do to give is show up.