Today marks the release of Sex and the City: The Movie. With the news that SATCTM tix are selling out, your friends at Social Signal (part of the original Change Everything team) want to save you from the nightmare of a Sex-less weekend.

We knew this day would come. Lice...yuck!

As we struggle to contain the lice outbreak on our kids' heads, we share the following resources and insights:

How we perceive technology has a lot to do with how we use it. I've recently written a blog post that talks about how we can personally use the web to support social change. In Five ways to shape the soul of the Internet, I argue that

OK, I'm cheating a little here -- I already love my work a lot of the time. But recently I connected with someone who is helping our company bring its work into even closer alignment with our values and our goals.

1. My hair dryer (so no cracks about the 'do, ok?)

2. All the #@*!!## beeping, noisy kids' toys in our house. Let them play with carbon neutral, quiet blocks for the day.

3. My TV. I can read the American Idol results online. ;)

What will YOU turn off?

Last month's "how the hell didn't I know that" moment was the discovery that Avent bottles, which both of my children have been drinking from daily for just about their entire lives, contain a suspected carcinogen.

I came across this info not through a consumer alert -- that went out in 1999, before I was a parent and paid attention to these things -- but because I set out to investigate the rumour I'd heard that plastic wasn't safe for food storage.

I'm coming out: I'm an American Idol fan. I'm guessing that the reason for my fandom may be at the heart of the show's popularity: I would LOVE to get up on stage and open my mouth and have a big, beautiful voice pour out of it.

As things stand, I can at best hope for half that equation (the standing up on stage half). And given that the only thing to pour out would be a fine, even at times kinda nice voice, but nothing special and nothing to hit the high notes with, I don't see myself getting up on stage anytime soon.

One  of our small supply of trusted babysitters has fallen in love with someone in Nanaimo (hint to fellow parents: DO NOT encourage your babysitter to go visit that ex-boyfriend in another town). So we're back to searching for fresh blood, and wondered whether there might be room for a web app to help. 

Turns out, someone else has already thought this all through. CareSquare is a well thought-out online community that helps parents find available caregivers, and lets you rank trusted caregivers and see those who are trusted by your friends (or their friends). There are a few hundred caregivers already in the network, but surprise surprise they're mostly in the San Francisco area.

ChangeEverything.ca is an opportunity to expand your organization’s constituency and audience – and not just by reaching out to people already on the site. CE can be your gateway to a whole universe of social networks and online communities, if you know how to use it. Here are some ideas for using your involvement in CE to find even more potential supporters online:

Before you can find your potential new allies online, you need to identify the keywords and phrases associated with your issue, work or organization. For example if you and your friends want to start a community garden, you might look for content related to “garden”, “organic”, “vegetables”, “gardening” PLUS either “Vancouver” or “Victoria”. Once you know what keywords to look for, you can start searching for kindred spirits in a variety of online communities.

Maybe that's more realistic than "be a better working mom". One thing I've discovered talking with my fellow moms -- working and nonworking alike -- is that we're all plagued by a similar sense of inadequacy. I feel guilty I'm not around more for my kids; a friend who works part-time worries that she's not providing a strong working woman role model for her boys.