Frank Rich pulled no punches in his New York Times column this morning, lashing out at the Smithsonian Insitution for passive homophobia in their choice of art exhibits — and tapping into the larger silence on gay rights by many politicians.

If you’ve ever get the feeling that you should be helping society out more, but were waiting for a mobile device to come along and help you, then here’s good news. The Extraordinaries is an interesting new concept in the growing field of iPhone applications — it allows people to use the every part of their spare time cow (waiting for a movie to start, riding a bus, waiting in line) to do small bits of volunteering using the Extraordinaries iPhone app