I just watched the Apple Education event keynote and I’m very excited about what I saw. If you haven’t seen today’s keynote yet, run, do not walk to your local device (I got a better connection via my iPad projecting the keynote to my TV) and sit a spell. Nope, Schiller will never have Steve’s …
It’s political season folks, so while we get a deluge of political ads with pretty pictures meant to feed on our fears and divide us over nostalgic values that never seems to reach the level of observable constructive behaviors, here are three political videos, one meant to make us remember that there’s something more important …
Here’s a great video that explains the problems with PIPA and SOPA (besides being dumb acronyms): PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! – http://www.fightforthefuture.org/pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and …
Some jobs, it’s near impossible to know whether one is doing well because the flood of work never stops. This is the dilemma if you’re the local unofficial computer guy on campus when everyone comes to you for any little thing that can go wrong with technology in the classroom. The online equivalent is the …
The first video was created when illustrator, James Braithwaite, took a 1969 audio interview of John Lennon by 14-year-old Jerry Levitan. Uploaded by imetthewalrus on Jun 17, 2008 In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, …
Driving home after working out Wednesday evening, I got a cryptic “OMG” text from a friend and thought that she must have texted me by mistake. I wasn’t at all ready for her reply. It took me a while to find something to text back to her. Almost 18-hours later I’m still more than a …
I’m a tad leery of corporate sponsored calls for “going back to the old ways.” My first thoughts are that words (and videos) are easy, where’s the example in the real world? Video originally uploaded by chipotle on Aug 25, 2011
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So, apparently Microsoft still thinks that it can do comedy. Yeah, I guess they didn’t learn anything after spending millions on the Sienfeld/Gates commercials. Worse than just not really being funny is that the issues raised in this video are complete FUD. Again, Microsoft is misrepresenting the point, in that anyone who uses any email …
While listening to NPR’s Religion podcast I was surprised to hear that there is yet again another group of Christians predicting the Rapture, when Jesus will rescue the faithful and leave the rest to suffer unbelievable torment. This time the date has been set for Saturday May 21st. Hmmm, some things never change. I guess …