Great Apple ads over time
Apple has released some really excellent ads over the years. Their short-lived but very famous 1984 Superbowl ad is very memorable:
Steve Job’s keynote address announcing the Macintosh from the same year is also really great:
A more recent ad for the “sunflower” iMac is also cute:
Here is Apple’s appeal to idiots:
Finally, here are six [...]
Great Violin Story from Dave Belden
I just read a really good musician story on Dave Belden’s website. Dave is an actor, filmmaker, web developer, and violinist in the Chicago Sinfonietta, and he has a scary tale of his violin getting stolen in Europe. Check it out here.
Dave has designed websites for many prominent musical and [...]
Compare your income to the rest of the world
This is a fun website and definitely worth checking out:
HOW RICH ARE YOU?
Every year we gaze enviously at the lists of the richest people in world.
Wondering what it would be like to have that sort of cash. [...]
Net Neutrality, Ask A Ninja Style
This is from a couple of months back, but it is a great description of net neutrality:
Google for Educators
This week’s Podcast for Teachers describes a great new service from Google designed specifically for educators. Google for Educators amalgamates all the Google services that are of use to teachers, including Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Blogger, Google Page Creator, Picassa, and Google Books.
Click here to listen to this most recent Podcast for Teachers.
None of [...]
The Power of del.icio.us
The term “social bookmarking” may not be familiar to everybody, but it has emerged as one of the most useful tools of the Web 2.0 movement. The service del.icio.us (now owned by Yahoo!) is the oldest and best example of the power of social bookmarking. Del.icio.us allows users to save their bookmarks online, [...]
Free 512MB USB flash drive
I just found this offer poking around on Digg. It looks legitimate, but you may be dooming yourself to endless catalogues and the like. Sun will send you a free 512 MB thumb drive if you provide them with an address. Visit the site here or click the banner above to check [...]
File sharing–good for classical music
This is a very interesting post from Ars Technica about file sharing (illegal music downloading). Is it bad for the industry? The post cites a recent study on this matter:
The data used was from 1995 through 2003. Michel wanted to see if there’s a link between owning a computer and decreased CD buying [...]
The Google Earth Revolution
Anybody who hasn’t played around with Google Earth should download and install it–this program is going to change (and already is changing) the way we see our world and the way we learn about places, plan trips, teach geography, organize resources, and much more. I have written a couple of times in the [...]
200 years of content accessible through Google News
Ars Technica recently announced that Google is starting the Google News Archive Search, a service that will allow for searches from selected sources up to 200 years into the past. Ars Technica reports:
You can think of the new search in one of two ways: a more specialized version of a regular Google search, [...]
