The Monkey Dance

As has already been noted by people with too much free time, my DonorsChoose challenge stands at $6,254. This is a big jump, and happened because somebody emailed to ask whether a donation of theirs had been counted; when I logged in to check, I found that there was $715 in account credits, which I believe are donations that didn't get made to a specific project. I'm not sure how that happened.

Anyway, even though I'm not sure of the origin of those (it's possible they're left over from last year), I put them toward the current challenge projects, because it seemed the honest thing to do. If somebody out there would like to kick in $750 so as to exclude the possibility that I just put myself over the top, please, feel free.

Otherwise, I commend to you the other ScienceBlogs challenges, which are similarly full of good and deserving projects in search of funding. If your charitable impulses remain unsatisfied, please give them money-- between the lousy economy and the non-participation of some bloggers who were part of last year's drive, the haul is a bit lower than it might be.

And watch this space for monkey dancing. It'll be a little while, as I've got other stuff to do first, but I'll try to get the video done in the next week or so.