if anyone wants to buy me a birthday present you could get me a copy of this hint hint ;-)

http://www.amazon.com/Worldchanging-Users-Guide-21st-Century/dp/0810930951/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt/104-2498241-6502354?ie=UTF8


a huge, encylopedic tome on the novel ways that the technology and social movements are being used to make the world a better place, from the grass roots up. WorldChanging is based on the excellent blog of the same name, and is thematically organized with sections on "Stuff," "Shelter," "Cities," "Community," "Business," "Politics" and "Planet," each broken into a series of quickly digestable essays on subjects like "Healing polluted land," "Green marketing" foreword by Al Gore and an introduction by Bruce Sterling, and contributed to by Cory Doctrow.