Things We Like (January 2010)
Submitted by Brett on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 9:01am.
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- They're ba-aaack. Kika has given birth to 5 brand new Shiba Inu puppies, and you can watch them grow, live, online.
Seriously, anytime you think the world is against you, check in with
these pups for 5 minutes, and you'll be ready to go again. - With the Ustream app for iPhone,
you can not only use the puppies as a way to ignore strangers on the
bus, you can stream your trip to the world. Privacy concerns have never
been so cool. - Besides, privacy is so 2009.
- Network for Good has just released the "Online Fundraisers Checklist".
It works like one of those quizzes in the personality magazines -- you
know, "Do You Ace a First Date?" or "Is Your BFF Really on Your Side?"
-- only it's helpful. (And, while we swear we didn't make those quizes
up, we will deny reading those magazines to our dying breath.) - Controlled serendipity.
- Primary Pad
is like Google Docs for elementary school students. "Alright, who
inserted 'Bobby is a doody head' into my essay on climate change?" - While we're still disappointed the flying cars all those science fiction movies promised we'd have by now haven't been built, at least NASA is working on it.
- Automatic voice-to-text translation. We have heard the future and it is incoherent. Hilarious, though. Apparently, technology isn't always the answer.
- List segmentation.
- The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. (And not just because the winner will be announced at the 2010 NTC.) But hurry! The nomination process closes February 1st.
- Hey, we're also mentioned in Allyson Kapin's "Best Campaigns of 2009"! How will we top Holly's "Single Ladies" remake? Hmmmmm...
- Crisis Commons. Those folks are doing good things.
- A great American philosopher once toasted, "To alcohol: the cause of and solution to all of life's problems." Now, there's a very detailed schematic (PDF) to help you construct most any cocktail for your own toasts. Where do these people find the time?
