Will.i.am sings “What I Am” as part of Sesame Street’s 41st season premiering September 27th, 2010, on PBS Kids. If you like this also check out Richard Pryor doing the Sesame Street alphabet.
Monthly Archives: February 2012
The internet invents another way for musicians to get paid – iTunes Match
The first royalty payments from Apple’s iTunes Match are in, and they got me excited – the total amount is over $10,000 for the first two months. This is magic money that Apple made exist out of thin air for copyright holders. — A person has a song on her computer hard drive. She clicks …
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Instant Watcher turns the Netflix API into the perfect way to find a movie to watch
Instant Watcher is the perfect site for Netflix Instant users. You can quickly and easily find movies to watch and avoid the miserable search and click on Netflix’s own site. “About a quadrillion times easier to browse than Netflix’s own site” — Boing Boing Offworld, Feb 6, 2009 Within a few clicks you can figure out …
The Oscar-nominated foreign language films of 2011
Every year the Academy invites countries to submit their best film for the Oscar of Best Foreign Language Film. Each film must have been released in theaters, produced outside the United States, and contain primarily non-English dialogue. In 2012, sixty three countries submitted a film and nine were shortlisted as contenders. On January 24, the five …
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The first big controversy in Christianity? Whether Jesus was God or not
I recently listened to a podcast that brought up several interesting ideas about Christianity. The most important of which was a huge debate between Arius and Athanasius in 325 A.D., concerning the “Divinity of Jesus.” Arius was against saying Jesus was God, while Athanasius believed Jesus definitely was. This debate had been raging for hundreds …
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Skateboarding takes the next step to becoming a school sport
Thirty-four years after the National Scholastic Surfing Association was born in Huntington Beach, a National Scholastic Skateboarding League is emerging. Students attending three San Clemente schools took up competing in 2011 in the OC Skateboarding League, which had been born a year earlier. The three San Clemente teams will open their 2012 OCSL season Friday …
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Great documentary to watch: A Murder of Crows
Crows live everywhere in the world except Antarctica and are a part of myths and legends in many cultures. Their reputation in the stories varies from comical to frightening, godlike or wise, bringers of light and bringers of death, though a “murder” of crows refers to a flock of crows, and not to anything murderous, …
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Petition Facebook to put a woman on it's all male Board of Directors
Facebook hasn’t even gone public yet, but the scrutiny that comes with being a publicly traded company has already started rolling in, with the second-largest U.S. pension fund, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, saying the social network’s board of directors is too “homogenous.” From CalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance Anne Sheehan: We are disappointed that the …
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Petition Facebook to put a woman on it’s all male Board of Directors
Facebook hasn’t even gone public yet, but the scrutiny that comes with being a publicly traded company has already started rolling in, with the second-largest U.S. pension fund, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, saying the social network’s board of directors is too “homogenous.” From CalSTRS Director of Corporate Governance Anne Sheehan: We are disappointed that the …
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Data shows smart phones will soon flood the world with pictures, video, and text messaging.
In the last data update, I revealed that social network usage is rising, especially in Russia and Egypt. A good sign for the citizens of those disrupted countries. Now, we have data on cell phone use and it clearly shows the rise of smart phones in both developed and undeveloped countries. Japan has the highest …