Tech Links: May 30, 2013

What Happens In An Internet Minute?

Entertainment

Jesus, The Original Pirate

Gadgets

Using brainwaves to create 3D objects? It’s not science fiction, it’s just science

More People Have Cell Phones Than Toilets, U.N. Study Shows

Sony and E Ink are Making a Digital Paper Notepad and it Looks Awesome
The Stupidity of Smart TV

Why The Apple TV Has Nothing To Fear From The Xbox One

Tech Links: May 27, 2013

LEGO Android by Bruce Lowell

Business

Apple Calms Investor Fears With Earnings Report

Apple Has an Identity Crisis: Is It a Hardware Company or a Software Firm?

Apple Snaps Growth Streak: First Profit Drop in a Decade Comes Despite Strong Demand for iPhone, iPad

Entertainment

This 8-Bit Video Will Make You Miss Your Childhood in the 90's

How Developers Coded in 1985

HereIsToday.com is a single serving site that does exactly what it's name implies. With each click of the mouse, the little block of today-ness gets recontextualized and rerecontextualized into bigger and bigger swatches of history until the ribbons of color include just the slightest notion of human existence.

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“I was taking an advanced calculus class and my instructor was reputed to be a fabulous researcher, but he barely spoke English. He was a very boring and bad teacher and I was absolutely lost and in despair. 

So I went to the campus tutoring centre and they had Betamax tapes of a professor who had won teaching awards. Basically I sat with those tapes and took class there. But I still had to go to the other one and sat there and wanted to kill myself.

I thought at that time, in the future, why wouldn’t you have the most entertaining professor, the one with the proven track record of getting knowledge into people’s heads?

We’re still not quite there. In university you’re still likely to be in a large lecture hall with a very boring professor, and everyone knows it’s not working very well. It’s not even the best use of that professor’s time or the audience.”

—	Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales argues the boring university lecture will be the first casualty of the online education revolution.