Something a bit more sober than cell phone antenna catastrophes and google/apple break-up woes.

        

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 who hate Apple because Apple has been elitist and uncooperative. My thought: get over it. I’m perfectly happy and delighted with my experiences with my Apple products (and I own a lot!). So, get over it, haters.

        

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 you just need to party StarTrek style

        

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.

        

Be afraid!

        

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.

        

Meh. I want my boxee box… but the longer it takes, i’m either going for another macmini or bailing on expanding the media center all together… [to be continued]

        

One of the benefits of working at Full Sail University is getting to sit-in on conversations with amazing folks like Apple’s Don Henderson (Senior Manager, Creative Expression). This past Thursday night (5/13/2010) he shared several videos about student creatives and entrepreneurs who weren’t waiting for graduation to begin their creative lives. While shortsighted bean-counters cancel arts programs and school continue to fail, Don is showing that tapping into student creativity is the direction to go and that we can’t let “testing” dictate curriculum. This video was created by one of six students that Don and Apple are promoting in their efforts to help improve education.