Even if they gave away a bitcent, it'd be cool

Holy fuck. Sorry for the loss. I don't know the link... but there is a data recovery service provided by a company for BTC. First of it's kind.

Hardly any progammers or miners like my explanation of how mining works using the concept of a "reverse bingo", but a few non-techncial people have claimed that my explanation has helped them understand mining better than any other explanation they've seen:
 - http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/3978/153

You can use their api to do that.
http://api.bitcoinaverage.com/
http://api.bitcoinaverage.com/ticker/all

Make up your own - that would be better.

We're signing up more venues every day. We're being filmed for TV interviews today and tomorrow.

It helps that we have a really diverse team in the Co-op. We have programmers, financial people, and social media people (me!  )

My role has been to run our Meet Up group, and use other larger Meet Up groups I run to promise customers to any restaurant, pub or coffee shop who agrees to accept Bitcoin.