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.

        

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.

        

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.

        

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.

        

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.

        

Previous administrations have issued rhetoric about what NASA means, let’s see if this one can do more than make vague commitments and let the agency continue to fall into disuse. I’m glad that President Obama directly addressed the question, why bother going to space?

        

New York invasion by 8-bits creatures!

        

David Pogue, Walt Mosspuppet and Andy Inhatko may have gotten pre-release versions of the Apple iPad, but their reviews aren’t nearly as complete or intelligent as the following iPad review by Full Sail emdt master’s student, “Dr. Guido”:

Sources:
MAC Week 1 Blog Post-Free Response iPad Review by mikeficara. http://mikeficara.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/mac-week-1-blog-post-free-response-ipad-review/ retrieved on 4/15/2010.