Add to that the advent of more light-hearted dating sites aimed at younger audiences, such as Match.com (the television adverts scream: "Too many women! Men join for free!") and Mysinglefriend.com (Sarah Beeny's brainchild, in which your best mate writes your character profile), and you can see why the barriers have been broken down in recent years.
Then came "The Big Donor Show," a highly questionable Dutch brainchild in which candidates -- not contestants -- competed to donate their kidney to a terminally ill patient.
Finally, a smart, jampacked installation titled "Useless Science," the curatorial brainchild of Laura Hoptman and Michael Carter, looks at ways in which artists have consistently turned a subversive, absurdist eye on the modern ideal of technological progress.
HD Radio (The HD apparently stands for high definition, as in HDTV), used to be known as IBOC, and is the brainchild of Ibiquity, a digital radio startup in which several major media and automotive companies hold an investment stake.
Modern Times was the brainchild of Joseph Warren, who wanted to create a society in which there was no government, and thus no law, no police, and no money.
Glasnost, in which Bunch of Cropped Wings could be seen as a keynote piece, is the brainchild of the German collector Volker Diehl.
Their brainchild is Zola, which is still in private beta, but will be launching in the next few weeks.
Runners up in the contest include San Francisco-based PlateTopper, the brainchild of Michael Tseng, which transforms ordinary dinner plates into airtight storage containers.
Obama will have to contend next year with hundreds of millions in spending by outside groups like the Karl Rove brainchild American Crossroads, which plans to raise $240 million to help elect Republicans.
The experimental orchestra was the brainchild of Google, which owns YouTube.
In this case, "The Great Schlep" is the brainchild of JewsVote.org which in turn if a project of the Jewish Council for Education and Research, a federal PAC "created to develop and disseminate information to voters in the United States around issues of concern to the Jewish community".
