You get two free bracelet kits, and Merck Pharmaceuticals donates $1 for cervical cancer research. They're trying to educate about the connection between cervical cancer and HPV. The bracelet looks cool, it's a good cause, and as far as I can tell it seems to be legit.

http://www.maketheconnection.org/

http://www.universalhub.com/node/4326

Kelly provides today's most useful Boston tip: Google's Calculator lets you translate units of distance into smoots. For example, 10 miles equals 9456.7 smoots (and an ear).

Podzinger lets you do text searches within podcasts. Put in a search term, get back lists of podcasts that used it, listen to the podcast from within the browser starting at any word you choose, or of course you can subscribe, download, or get the RSS feed. Too cool, just try it. (And it's powered by BBN! Do I still know anyone there?)

(Sadly, does not work on Firefox for the Mac, but does claim to work in Safari.)