Viral Video :: Current State of the Art

There’s been a recent flurry of activity in the media-blogo-linko-sphere-interwebs about “viral” videos and how they are made.  These things are like the weather in New England — every once in a while ya get a Noreasta’ .  Yesterday’s article in the WSJ by Raymund Flandez may be the peak of this imperfect little storm. 
Some recent [...]

XO Laptop by OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), “Give One Get One” Launches Today

The folks at OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) are a class act.  Today their “Give One Get One” (G1G1) program launched, where for the masterfully engineered price of $399, you get to donate an XO laptop to a child in the developing world (who will hopefully not carry the thing on their head as their elegant-yet-silly [...]

Hug a Professor Day

 Maybe it was a professor you had in college or university, a teacher in high school (or even CEGEP, for those who know what that is)… or maybe it was a TA (teacher’s assistant), or your thesis advisor… but whoever it was, you haven’t spoken to them in years. 
 Well, it’s time that you reached out [...]