Use Twitter to create a straw poll
Twitter is now getting enough traction that people are finding some pretty good uses for it.
One contender is to run an informal straw poll.
One site that can help you do this is strawpollnow.com.
The system interfaces with the Twitter api so that you an create a poll and send folks to that poll via Twitter. The poll not only keeps track of the breakdown of your poll but also provides for comments as each person responds.
Here is a sample poll I built in less than a minute.