National Popular Vote - Electoral college reform by direct election of the President. Site tracks progress of legislation by state on US map. LInks to editorial support and book.
Plumpy'nut - Peanut-butter like stuff (inspired by Nutella) effective for reversing severe malnutrition. WikiPedia entry includes picture of package
This I Believe - NPR, Atlantic Public Media and This I Believe, Inc. partner, want 350-500 words.
Tuition-Free Colleges - "10 colleges that offer students a free eduction" [BusinessWeek]
Urban Furniture - And other Homeless Innovations. Starts with facts about homelessness in USA, but ends with a few possible solutions.
Global Orgasm - Peace through Global Ecstasy - On December 22, 2007, the Synchronized Global Orgasm will create a concentrated influx of positive energy into the quantum field of the Earth by combining orgasm with conscious intention for Peace. Initiative by BaringWitness.org, design by Globulart Dise�o, globulart.com (December 22, 2007)
Senate stays in session over holiday to thwart Bush - Democratic-led Congress blocks "recess appointments" from the White House, though most senators left the Capitol for the Christmas holiday earlier in the week. [CNN.com] (December 22, 2007)
Netherlands adopts open-source software - deadline of April 2008 to start using open-source software "estimates it would save $8.8 million a year on city housing registers alone" "numerous European towns and cities, notably Munich, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, using open-source systems remain a tiny slice of the overall software market" (December 13, 2007)
A child's view of the $100 laptop - Rory Cellan-Jones enlists the help of his son to see what a youngster in the UK makes of the machine. Endorses. [BBC News] (December 12, 2007)
Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead - Celebrates defeat of the attempt to award California's electoral votes by congressional district, which would have given the Republican candidate 20-25 California electoral votes in 2008. (December 7, 2007)
xo-laptop: On the Open-Sourcing of Business - "Linux is the best operating system yet written." . . . "free and open-source software is just the scientific model applied to programming" (November 29, 2007)
Nanosolar’s Breakthrough - Solar Now Cheaper than Coal. STory lists innovations, includes video and table comparing technologies. 15 comments. [Celsias] (November 23, 2007)
Where Do Ugly Americans Live? - "Most attractive" in Miami and San Diego. Allows comment. [Anxus] (November 23, 2007)
Plugging Africa's kids in to $100 laptop - An instance of OLPC, a nonprofit initiative to design, build, test and ship 15 million at-cost, child-friendly laptops to developing countries. (April 11, 2007)
Open Source Software and Schools - New Opportunities and Directions. "to responsibly spend taxpayers’ money and to maximize the potential of information and communication technology in education, it is important that educators learn about open source software and challenge conceptions that give priority to proprietary software." (December 30, 2005)
Service of Siblings - Sociologists discover that siblings are good. (October 15, 2004)