Two new little buttons, and an idea for gifts in the First World

This post contains no porn, I won’t blame anyone skipping it
But still, mind you, the second half of this post contains interesting stuff, in my opinion.

Wow, you want to read it, even if there’s no porn ? Wow.
OK, two things :o

In case you didn’t notice, I added two little buttons of top of my sidebar, they’re only visible on top of the sidebar when you’re on the index page

One of them points to Flattr, a very nice initiative allowing micro-payments, in short, you like something, you click, and that gives a bit of a predetermined amount that you chose beforehand. On my blog it may not look special, but imagine in the future, when Flattr becomes even bigger, the impact it can have on on a charity-type group, or on a newspaper, or on a music group…

The other button has been added because I’m weak and I nurture the fantasy my blog will be shown more often in Google search results if enough people click it, it’s the brand new +1 button.
I won’t totally blame you if you click this +1 button

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Now, on another subject, a First World useful suggestion.
(If “First World” isn’t familiar, open this and try not to laugh too hard)

Last month, for my birthday, I had a problem : I needed nothing. No clothes. No electronic stuff. No books or music (the only ones I like are the ones I find myself.) I was content that it was my birthday, but I neded nothing. And as a liberal with strong green convictions, painfully convinced our ever-more-consuming drive is leading to nothing but catastrophe (trees don’t grow as high as the sky, guys, and besides gas, petrol and uranium, even several all-uses minerals won’t last two or even one century), I hated the idea of receiving useless junk.

Finally, we came up with another idea, something new for my family and friends circle, charity gifts. The money for you is spent on charity relief actions across the globe, and you are offered proof the money was used, in your name, for this, or that. The vaccination of x people, digging a water pump in a village, whatever.

Maybe for you it is no news, but for me and everyone around us, it’s… genius ! No more waste, and, I tell you, you feel much happier your gifts are making a big difference. Between receiving a new jumper you didn’t need, and the idea a village finally had a water pump, that peasants were helped buying non-GMO crops, that children could receive education thanks to you, for the same frigging price, what would make you the proudest, the happiest ?
Maybe you too you could think about it, if you’re surrounded with useless junk already ?
Cf this, or that, or that, etcetera…