Friday round-up 2/10/09

Interesting news, views, upcoming events and online discoveries this week. Have you found anything else worth sharing this week? Let me know below.

• Devastating times in Samoa this week. You can help the relief effort via Oxfam and The Bodyshop is collecting in stores.

• The Vegpledge. A tongue-in-cheek, overhyped infomercial-style website encouraging people to try a vegetarian (or "more vegetarian") diet for 60 days. At least I think it's tongue-in-cheek - I'm never entirely sure with Americans! : P
  

• Regifting Robin. Unless you're a maths whiz, this nifty game will keep you mystfied for a while. And the Regiftable website has some entertaining stories about regifting that you can check out while you're there.

• Premiere of the movie Food Inc., hosted by Grey Lynn 2030 on 14 October. This movie has been hailed as "An Inconvenient Truth" for food. Details here (and you can click through to buy tickets online). Enjoy wine and canapes and an eye-opening film.

• For the girls: introduce yourself with a man's name at Soul Bar during October and get a free glass of Moet! (Thanks Solange for this one!)

• 1000AwesomeThings.com: this is gorgeous! I love #671: "Reuniting a sock from the Sock Orphanage Drawer with its freshly washed, once lost brother or sister".

• Want something, but can't or don't want to pay for it? Got something you no longer need, but don't want to put it in landfill? Freecycle it! If you have something you want to give, try DonateNZ first - then you can be sure your stuff is going to a great cause.

• 350.org releases an iPhone app! It helps you find actions happening close to you on the Day of Action, October 24, so you can join in. It's free at the iTunes store here.

• Awesome Big Day Out 2010 line-up announced this week! And that's just the first announcement. Count me in!