Give blood, get an iPod

Rather than risk life and limb for a crappy old iBook, why not get your gear the old fashioned way... by selling donating your blood!

Many chapters of the Red Cross are offering incentives to potential donors in an effort to increase the nation's blood supply. Raffle tickets granting a chance to win iPods, vacations, gas cards and gift certificates are not uncommon rewards. My local Red Cross parks their Bloodmobile in front of the neighborhood's big movie Multiplex almost every day and they hand out free movie passes to anyone who donates.

Giving up some plasma for a shot at an iPod isn't such a bad deal. If the number of donors is as pathetically low these days as the Red Cross claims – your odds of winning that raffle are pretty good! But seriously... you should donate blood anyway, if you're eligible to. It's the right and cool thing to do. The life you save could be your own.

I'm in such a do-gooder mood today, I even recycled a graphic for this post!
[Thanks, Nick!]