Google is offering Google Checkout to nonprofit organizations. Through the end of 2008, nonprofits can process online donations at the fine rate of $0.00 per transaction and 0.00% fees — can you believe it, a true 100% of the donation goes to the organization!

Here are a few words posted on the Google Checkout Blog about this:

“Besides being free, Checkout for Non-Profits is designed to make the entire donation and collection process more efficient. For donors, it enables you to complete a donation with just your Google login, and it helps you track your giving in a convenient and central place (a feature that should be particularly useful for those of us who tend to start our tax returns on April 14).”

I look forward to taking the system for a test drive.

Zayko just completed a new website for Unbound. Unbound is an online journal of the legal left at Harvard Law School – and also the community of left-affiliated students, professors, and practitioners who publish it.  You can read more about all the new features, here.

ReleaseChimps.org won an IMA Outstanding Achievement Award for 2006. The Interactive Media Awards™ recognize the highest standards of excellence in website design and development and honor individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievement.

We are thrilled to be recognized by a respected panel of experts for the quality of our work.

Click the button above to view the trailer

I just read a review of the penguin-animated film “Happy Feet” with Robin Williams doing some of the voices. Apparently, there is a whole sub-plot about global warming and environmental issues…

I haven’t seen the actual movie yet, but I saw the trailer (above). I think the humor is terrific and the music, and dancing are fresh and new. After “March of the Penguins” and “Penguins of the Antarctic,” I thought I’ve seen enough penguins, but I’ve never seen them like this!

Click the button above to view “The Penguin Paso Doble”

Click the button above to view “Family Reunion”

“Penguins of the Antarctic” on PBS, is an in-depth look at different penguin species and their means of survival. The film puts viewers atop icebergs and underwater with these extraordinary birds, explores penguins’ arduous existence and the challenges ahead for them.

Penguins are considered to be the most social of birds. Even at sea, they tend to swim and feed in groups. The birds go to incredible lengths, I learned, to find food for themselves and their babies. In the Antarctic, they withstand brutal snowstorms and frigid temperatures, and they go for months without food, all for the sake of their chicks.

NATURE “Penguins of the Antarctic” airs on PBS Sunday, November 12, 2006.