Cellar tip jar is up and running

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OK! Here are the current rules of thumb for the tip jar.

Until further notice, any and all money that comes in via the tip jar will go directly to text ads for the Cellar. In this way, anything you donate will help the Cellar by bringing visitors here. Plus, you're supporting a new form of advertising that is less irritating and more appropriate for the net.

You're also supporting the sites where text ads go. They include, in no particular order:

fark.com (classifieds)
kuro5hin.org
blogspot (supporting hundreds of small sites)
blogger (ditto)
metafilter.com
ad farm (ads for many smaller sites and online comics)

Text ads will vary between linking to the main site and linking to the image of the day. People seem more likely to stick around if they come in via iotd, because it's about something, rather than the Cellar itself which is roughly about nothing.

If you want your tip jar donation to go to a specific site, let me know and I will certainly support that.