Think philanthropy, and zillion-dollar, press release-enabled grants spring to mind. It doesn't have to be this way because the Net makes it really easy to give a little on your terms. Here's a great page that lists oodles of worthy causes, some with descriptions, some without. Some, such as BreastCancerCharity.com and a few others, are domains for sale or plain broken sites. If you've done something wicked lately, gain a few karma points by hauling your plastic to one of the working sites listed here and buy yourself out of trouble.

Ebony and ivory heaven

www.PianoWorld.com

The piano is one of those things I'd really like to play but, because there's a keyboard but no mouse and monitor, I just can't get the hang of it. So if you're a wanna-be, a virtuoso or somewhere in between, this site is itching to be clicked. The history and general education areas are extensive and a good read. There's even a mini-Monster.com lurking here in the shape of a want ads section. And the search found a match for piano tuna. Ouch.

And that was that

www.disobey.com/ghostsites/

Should you find yourself flush with cash, show your favorite nephew this site when the little blighter comes begging for start-up capital for his can't-fail dot-bomb. It's a virtual graveyard of places that didn't make it. Interestingly, the loving goodbye notes are few. Most are along the lines of "We're closed, that's all folks."

Down but not out

Salon.com/tech/wire/2001/06/15/new_homeless/

Keeping with the doom-and-gloom theme, here's a cheery little story of once well-paid technology folks living on the streets. Not only are rents and house prices in Silicon Valley absurd, but now laid-off techies who earned $60,000 to $100,000 a short while ago are among those living in homeless shelters in San Jose, Calif.

Mother of all cases

BluesHotTub.yi.org/caseart.html

From time to time somebody will e-mail a picture of a souped-up computer case to this site and, I must admit, some have been quite good. But this has to be the ultimate collection of computers stuffed into things they're not usually stuffed into. Cardboard boxes, camera cases, hand-built wooden jobs. Some lurid, some conservative, all entertaining.

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