Would you like to make a contribution of historical proportions? Here's your chance. This challenge is to create technology that can literally help to reshape our world, liberate hundreds of millions of people from repression, and bring down evil regimes in the process. There are few...

ChaCha is a free mobile answers service, allowing users to call 1-800-2-ChaCha or text questions to ChaCha (242-242) on mobile phones and receive answers within minutes from real people. We've just launched our new API's, which provides you with free access to ChaCha's database with over 400...

 The NYC BigApps Competition will reward the developers of the most useful, inventive, appealing, effective, and commercially viable applications for delivering information from the City of New York's NYC.gov Data Mine to interested users.

Update 10/02/09: Thank you very much for your participation in the Mozilla Labs Weave Web UI Design Challenge. The Weave team will go through the submissions in the coming days, evaluate, and discuss. Mozilla should finish this process by the end of next week, after which they will provide...

Recipes often are either too large or too small for the group I'm feeding that evening, and I'm not always interested in having leftovers of a dish.  Who needs potato salad that serves an army when all you've got is a small regiment? Halving a recipe is easy, but what if you need a 3/5 or a...

I am a frequent user of the New York Public Library system and am tremendously grateful to be able to request books, view my list of checkouts and even download audiobooks online, but I find myself wishing for one really key option: email alerts to let me know of the approaching due date...

As a classical singer, I'm often asked to sing for specific occasions - weddings, funerals, birthday parties, anniversary events, etc. and I'm sometimes at a loss for a variety of options to offer the event host.  Language requirements are occasionally given or secular versus non-secular...

I do my best to ensure my family is consuming a balanced diet, but how good a job am I actually doing?  At the beginning of each week, I select recipes from various sites that I like and from a stack of recipe books, and I make sure to add fruit, cereal and healthy snacks into the mix, but I...

Classical singers are always in need of sheet music copies of arias, either to peruse for possible future repertoire or as a last minute replacement for a score left at home.  A great deal of classical sheet music is currently in the public domain and thus legal to copy for personal use, but...

I'm sure everyone has dreamed of winning a prize at one time or another - the HGTV dream home giveaway, a trip to the Bahamas advertised on the back of a grocery box or a makeover from a high end salon.  Many of these sweepstakes have online entry forms where people can post their...

As a novice bread baker, I begin each loaf with the hopes that it will emerge from my oven with the dream combination of a beautiful soft crumb, perfectly stretched and crunchy crust and great, evenly bloomed oven spring.  However, more often than not, one or more of these it items seems to...

Every week, I receive a CSA box that contains many different fruits and vegetables, some of which are rather unusual.  I then search a few standard websites to find recipes that use as many of these ingredients in as few different recipes as possible (in other words, recipes that use two or...