OLPC: Give One Get One

MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte’s “OLPC program” has started delivering the long awaited One Laptop Per Child computers in the US and Canada.

We have recently seen how greatly these small computers were received by children in Africa and how cleverly features have been designed into it. They create mash networks between them automatically so that children can communicate with each other, can change from color to B&W so that the display is still readable outside in bright sunlight and you can - a key feature in many countries for which this computer is intended - recharge its batteries without electricity from the grid. But most importantly we’ve seen the joy and fun the children had while using the XO laptops.

So this month until November 26, OLPC is offering a “Give One Get One program” in the United States and Canada. And it works like this…

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Quote of the day: TAIAAMAI

TAIAAMAI

Speaks of this place where the birds and trees are always smiling and provide us with warmth in both good and bad times.

Maori prayer, seen in New Zealand, Northern Island, Taiamai region

Images: Cow Parade Rio de Janeiro

Most of us might have first wondered when coming to a city that has just been “invaded” by cow statues. And then many of them are so well done and make you smile. But those just gone on display in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are just hilarious.

Cows playing football, as Marilyn with hairdryer, on the beach with a Daiquiri, in Bikinis and flip-flops or on the phone - great.

Even if it’s always tempting and you just needed a last reason to visit Rio you can also have a look at…

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Everyone counts but you!

This is the outcome - winner of a design challenge to propose a strategy to raise the turnout of voters between 18 and 24.

“…I don’t care what you think of my writing or my message. You’re not included in what is going on here. Your opinion is worthless and everyone here knows it. Everyone else has something worthwhile to contribute, except you.

You’re the outcast. Everyone else has this figured out, except you. Everyone fits in, except you. Everyone, except you. Except you…

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Humor: London Simplified

A hilarious drawing of a London map that gets right to the point.

(original drawing by “nad”)
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Cartoon: Being social made easy

Being “social” today can easily be integrated into your daily office routines…

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Quote of the Day: Truth

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

H. L. Mencken

UK: How to waste the tax payer’s money

In times when governments - particularly in Europe - leave an ever growing number of their citizens after taxes and social security just with enough of their income to barely survive, more and more rumors and stories stories surface how bluntly this money is then blown by the administrators.

One might get the impression that the control mechanisms that once worked so-so…

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Advertising: Hip-Hop for Food

What is getting one of Switzerland’s biggest companies (Coop) to ask the country’s best known and maybe most controversial Hip-Hop artist (Stress) to write a song for them and do a TV spot?

And this without prescribing the topic or other limitations put up.

… and then the whole thing becomes a great success and is shown multiple times everyday on TV.

It’s not exactly like 50 Cent would do a clip for K-Mart - (despite he might never consider this because of…)

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Video: It’s no good

One of our greatest - Depeche Mode performing “It’s no good”

But then there is also “Sister of night” for the dark side of it (sorry we could not locate a video online)…

and for something completely different (the best as well - words are very unnecessary… ) “Enjoy The Silence”…
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