I'm a couple days late on this—PZ, as usual, was quicker on the draw—but the always-prescient Doonesbury name-checked DonorsChoose on September 9.
Long-time ScienceBlogs readers might remember that around this time last year, the bloggers organized a funding drive through DonorsChoose that netted almost $35,000 for under-funded projects in public school science teachers' classrooms.
This year, they're going to be doing it again.
As if a nod from Doonesbury weren't seal of approval enough, DonorsChose recently took second place in the American Express Members Project, in which individuals voted to have AmEx contribute funds to the most compelling org's.
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