Toll Way Charity from Ampolo Team on Vimeo.

New Years resolutions usually fall into one of two categories: self-improvement or improvement of the lot of others. Here’s an idea for that latter category. Please feel free to share your own resolutions with the Ampolo community. In the meantime, we resolve to keep bringing you new episodes. Happy New Year.

Debate Reform - Viewer Mail from Ampolo Team on Vimeo.

Letters, we get letters. And our gift to you this holiday season is viewer mail. Keep those emails with ideas coming, please. In future weeks we will be featuring your responses to our questions about parties, peanut butter, and art.

Blogging as Public Art from Ampolo Team on Vimeo.

As this week’s feature clearly demonstrates, whether it comes to fashion or fashioning blogs, Ampolo is cutting edge. You can visit Keiler’s blog directly by going to: simplewardrobe.blogspot.com.

As if further proof is needed is needed that Ampolo is au courant, we refer you to snippets from two recent articles in the New York Times and Chicago Tribune respectively.

Taxi TV, Brisk as the Traffic You’re Stuck In
By Alessandra Stanley
Where once there was only peeling vinyl, printed fare rates and the cabdriver’s ceaseless cellphone chatter, there is now a television screen.

Report: Ohio Needs New Voting Machines
By Julie Carr Smyth
Columbus, Ohio
The state’s top elections official recommended Friday that Ohio counties replace their touch-screen voting machines because the devices — in use for roughly two years — are vulnerable to manipulation.

Loyal Ampolo viewers will see the connection to two of our earlier episodes. In July, we suggested television sets be provided, not in taxis, but in subway/elevated cars. And last month, voting integrity expert Joan Brunwasser told you about the problem with the current generation of voting machines.

Finally, we have been soliciting ideas from you on particular subjects via email. Soon you’ll see episodes featuring your responses. In the meantime, here is viewer Tom’s response to our request for interesting websites. We checked it out and suggest you do, too:
“A great vocabulary game, and a socially responsible one you can do every day! Go to www.freerice.com and increase your knowledge and be a good person to boot!”

Stir Crazy from Ampolo Team on Vimeo.

If you’ve ever been up a creek, you know how important it is to have a paddle. Thanks to a great idea sent to us by viewer Susan from North Carolina, we’re now aware of another place where a paddle could me most helpful. Come Christmas Eve, the creatures may not be stirring, but you can if you take this and run with it.

Send us your product ideas, and we’ll try to feature them.

Backwards Book from Ampolo Team on Vimeo.

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Share your observations of other things that are backward with us here on the website or on our blog.