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Today is a special day here at EDN.com, and we need your help. For every page you view today, we’ll be donating a penny to a very worthy charity, Alex’s Lemonade Stand, which fights childhood cancer. You’re welcome to click links at random if you want to (every click counts, after all), but we’ve also gone all out to serve up a huge payload of worthwhile content for you to check out.

You might want to start with our EE Career Satisfaction Survey: Simply answer a few (interesting) questions and you’ll be entered to win an iPod Touch.

After that, I urge you to peruse some of the following selections.

Here’s a brand-new Video Design Idea, Microcontroller drives 20 LEDs.

Then there’s today’s new issue of EDN, including a cover story on electronics in auto racing; features on flash memory, ac motors, and ac/dc switching power supplies; a Prying Eyes look inside a video-surveillance reference design; an edge-of-your-seat Tales From The Cube offering entitled "Time bomb: The case of the invisible failure mode"; columnist Bonnie Baker discussing designing with touchscreens; and a batch of new Design Ideas.

Turning to our many blogs, you’ll find entries on solar power and electric cars, the Playstation 3, demanding consumers, municipal Wi-Fi, Halo 3, Korea ROHS, the Tesla electric roadster, a free book-chapter download (PDF) on troubleshooting switching power supplies, the future of the SOC business, Intel research on error correction, and much more to come.

I thank you for visiting EDN.com on any day, but especially today. Thanks in advance for helping us make this charity drive a rousing success.

—Matthew Miller, EDN.com editor in chief