How about a footer.

doc-src/content/stylesheets/main.sass

@@ -28,6 +28,23 @@ body
     font-weight: bold
   a
     +hover-link
+
+#footer
+  +column(24)
+  background: #F5F5F5
+  border-top: 2px solid #ddd
+  margin: 1em 0
+  .legalese
+    +column(12)
+  hr
+    +colruler
+  .links
+    +column(12, true)
+    ul
+      +no-bullets
+      a
+        +hover-link
+
 // Typography
 
 blockquote

doc-src/layouts/default.haml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
         = yield
       #sidebar
         = render "partials/sidebar"
-      #footer= @item[:content_for_footer]
+      #footer= render "partials/footer"
     :javascript
       $(function(){
         $('span.color').each(function(i,e){

doc-src/layouts/partials/footer.haml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+.legalese
+  %p
+    This website is Copyright &copy; 2010 Christopher Eppstein.<br>
+    It is licensed under XXX TODO XXX.
+  - if @item[:content_for_footer]
+    %hr
+    = @item[:content_for_footer]
+.links
+  %ul
+    %li
+      %a(href="http://compass-style.org/" rel="home") Compass Homepage
+    %li
+      Compass is Charityware - 
+      %a(href="http://umdf.org/compass") Donate Now!
+    %li
+      Compass is Open Source -
+      %a(href="http://github.com/chriseppstein/compass") Contribute
+