iPhone 4 Antenna-gate – Get Over It!
Earlier I retweeted the following: Have you ever noticed 95% of the time: People who hate Macs have never owned one, People who hate PCs have owned one. (thanks @gracesmith @CMoz). Only problem with the observation is that over 95% of the world's experiences with personal computers are Windows computers, so the default is to hate, versus the Apple Haters where their default is not based on experience with Apple products (except one guy in twitter who lost a project on a mac and we know it was the computer's fault...). Then there are all of the tech journalists ...
iPhone4 vs HTC Evo AND HTC vs iPhone4
No too surprising that these two videos have gone viral. There's something very irrational about fans and haters. What's even more illogical is that the video creator got fired from Best Buy because his First Amendments rights didn't fit BB's weak ass corporate culture. I bet he would have suffered the same plight had he been an educator. Oh yeah, BB decided to offer him back his job and he decided that this was a wake-up call to do something better with his life than passively tolerate said fan boys, haters and corporate bozos.
Sometimes People Do Nice Things [youtube]
This video was part of a Flash-Mob, which tend to be a kind of street theater generally organized over cell-phone text message. Many are political, most are meant to send a message. This one was a beautiful act of kindness and affection between a bus driver and some of his passengers. Thanks @ShawnKing (and @miche and @DanRebellato) for the heads up. Made my day, and it wasn't a bad day either.
Three Nostaglic iPad Mods
[caption id="attachment_4566" align="alignleft" width="430" caption="Source: engadget/Apple Noir"][/caption] There are all kinds of mods popping up all over the Internets (like the kitchen cabinet mod), but this past week I've started to see mods that seem to harken to a different tech era (mostly courtesy engadget). The first one found the beautiful "magical" iPad implanted into what was called Apple's Toilet Seat laptop when it was first introduced in 1999. In this updated version the modder replaced the LCD screen with the iPad and used the camera kit to attach the USB keyboard. In the spirit of the first iBook, the modder ...
Rock Band 3: This Time You Learn to Play Music
Rhythm game inches ever closer to ruining the game by making all your hours of playing result in the practical skill of actually learning how to play the musical instruments... First they made fans look silly playing miniature plastic instruments and now all of this might result in actually learning how to play music. Talk about accidental education.
iPad’s Achilles Heel: Moving Media Companies to the Current Century
It's something that the computer geeks don't get. It's part of why Microsoft's efforts to promote Tablet PCs for the past ten years has completely failed. It's not about the hardware or the feature list. It's about the books, magazines, newspapers, and movies I can connect to and my access to my stuff stored on the cloud. In typical Apple fashion they are at least a good five to ten years ahead of the curve and this is resulting in more than a few disconnects. The geeks are thinking GBs storage, USB ports and processor speeds and old media ...
Pixel – A Pixel Art Documentary
In the early the early days of TV the promise of this new medium was how it would benefit culture, offering notions that one day we would all attend college lectures on TV. Not so much. Similar notions were advanced as the Internet came to be. As I watched the above video I caught a small hint of what that world might be like, to be able to learn and be enriched by the clicking of a simple Play button.
Get A Mac Ad Tribute…
One More Thing pays a tribute to Apple's Get a Mac TV ad campaign, performed by John Hodgman and Justin Long. Well one good thing about the PC v Mac ads ending is that I probably won't spend whole afternoons watching the damn things that'll replace the "I'm a Mac" ads. Ack. tear.
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iPhone 4 Antenna-gate – Get Over It!
Earlier I retweeted the following: Have you ever noticed 95% of the time: People...
iPhone4 vs HTC Evo AND HTC vs iPhone4
No too surprising that these two videos have gone viral. There’s something...
Three Nostaglic iPad Mods
Source: engadget/Apple Noir There are all kinds of mods popping up all over the Internets...
Rock Band 3: This Time You Learn to Play Music
Rhythm game inches ever closer to ruining the game by making all your hours of...
iPad’s Achilles Heel: Moving Media Companies to the Current Century
It’s something that the computer geeks don’t get. It’s part of...
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Rock Band 3: This Time You Learn to Play Music
Rhythm game inches ever closer to ruining the game by making all your hours of...
Empty School – Student Created Video
One of the benefits of working at Full Sail University is getting to sit-in on conversations...
Lit Reviews Are Like Talk Shows
We’ve had more than a few confused and frustrated students have a difficult...
Ocoee “Gotta Keep Reading” Video on e-School News
After reaching the heights of being featured on the Oprah Winfrey show one might...
Gotta Keep Reading Video on Oprah’s Show Today
Got an unusual email from the boss, Dr. Ludgate, this morning saying that she wasn’t...
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Sometimes People Do Nice Things [youtube]
This video was part of a Flash-Mob, which tend to be a kind of street theater generally organized over cell-phone text message. Many are political, most are meant to send a message. This one was a beautiful act of kindness and affection between a bus driver and some of his passengers. Thanks @ShawnKing (and @miche and @DanRebellato) for the heads up.... [Read more of this review]
In Bad Faith, part 9: He Lives
I’ve noted in my eclectic twitter and facebook feeds a slight trend that I first noticed this past week, before Easter, during which someone commented that they are tired of being, or that they shouldn’t be ashamed of their faith and wanted to shout it out. Then, of course, someone quoted the verses where Jesus said, if you are ashamed to... [Read more of this review]
In Bad Faith, part 8: The Case for God – Not What You Think
I just finished read/listening to Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God, and like waking with memories of a vivid dream, I want to get my thoughts down before they get pushed aside by the concerns of the day. In Bad Faith, part 8: The Case for God – Not What You Think I think that Armstrong did such a great job summarizing the book in her NPR/Fresh... [Read more of this review]
In Bad Faith, Part 7: Entitlement
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? (Matthew 7:11 ASV) It shouldn’t be too surprising that in an era and place of unbridled abundance and wealth (that is the US in the 1970s and following) that these verses would be seen... [Read more of this review]
In Bad Faith, Part 6: Is Your God a Tribal Strawman?
So, it seems to come down to this, I’ve had these experiences, experiences that I was shocked to read about in my first year religion course at Loyola Marymount in a book by Rudolf Otto called The Idea of the Holy. The Latin phrase was mysterium tremendum et fascinans, and I completely understood what the author was talking about. I felt connected.... [Read more of this review]
In Bad Faith, Part 5: What’s Missing?
Abandoned Christian Science Building 3 by Maxwell GSDawkins wrote in The God Delusion that all experiences of “Faith” are delusions, that there is no god out there “talking” to you. He wrote that anyone with an ounce of intelligence recognizes that there is no “man behind the curtain,” and that the stories in the... [Read more of this review]
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Tweetup at HQ
NASA astronaut TJ Creamer talks about his experience in space during a "Tweetup" at NASA Headquarters, Thursday, July 29, 2010, in Washington. Creamer, who spent 161 days living aboard the International Space Station as part of the Expedition 22/23 crew, set up the orbiting outpost's live Internet connection and posted updates about the mission to his Twitter account, sending the first live tweet from orbit. Image Credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers
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