There's a great opportunity to participate in a hack of Amazon.com today that won't net you a big list of credit card numbers or any free books or anything, but it will let you feel like you put one over on a local giant while at the same time helped a local website save the planet. And who would pass that up? The WorldChanging book which we've been mentioning lately (here and here) is for sale at Amazon and doing well, but WorldChanging.com and their book's publishers don't really have the capacity to do the huge marketing push that is necessary today to get a book in front of a whole lot of people. In lieu of millions of dollars of PR they've designed a situation that should get WorldChanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century way up on the Amazon bestseller's list. That list is more or less real time as it takes into consideration only sales over the last twenty four hour period, so if a whole lot of people buy a book at the same time that book is likely to be an Amazon bestseller, if only for a day. A day is enough, though, to get a whole lot of notice. People pay attention to what happens on Amazon. more ›

-The sea was angry yesterday, my friends, and the 520 was closed overnight. Today it opened but perhaps prematurely as this LJ user got hit with a fish. more ›