Nice — a cool new iPhone app is an excuse in your pocket. The app, Got2Go, will send you a text or voice mail about something urgent demanding your attention so you can make a graceful exit.  For example, you’re on a floundering date — hit the ‘Catastrophic’ button on Got2Go, and a few minutes later you’ll get a text alerting you that there are fire trucks outside your building and you’d better get home and save your collection of vintage Budweiser holiday mugs.

-Tom