Not where to donate your extra dollars this season? Boing Boing has a great list of places you can give a buck :

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/10/charitable-giving-gu-1.html

Examples include :

Electronic Frontier Foundation: EFF always gets my largest annual donation.

Last year: No organization works harder, spends smarter and gets more done for your personal long-term technological liberty than EFF. I spent years inside the org and I know for a fact that every dime donated makes a difference.

This year: Man, that goes TRIPLE this year. EFF’s major work on clobbering the NSA and AT&T for their massive, illegal wiretapping program has convinced me to give EFF more money than I’ve ever given to a charity in my life. If one organization is going to keep the Internet free and open, it’s EFF. Add to that a raft of incredibly smart hires this year, and you’ve got a powerhouse organization that deserves everything you can spare for them.

Last year: The Participatory Culture Foundation: I’m on the board of this charity, which produces ass-kicking media software in the public interest. The best-known of these is Democracy Player, an Internet TV program that just works — add feeds based on YouTube keywords, or published feeds from creators, and new video arrive automagically and just play. Because TV is too important to leave up to Microsoft and Apple.

This year: It’s called Miro now, not Democracy Player, and it’s gone 1.0. It makes all the other services like Joost look like proprietary crap (if the show fits…) and it’s free to all comers. All Miro wants to do is make it easy for artists and audiences to get together without ending up love-slaves to some half-baked world domination scheme hatched by a DRM broker. If we’re gonna have TV, this is the kind of TV we should have. [Boing Boing]