Here we have the man who invented the personal computer, then the laptop. He’s now destroying them. That is an amazing life.

An old standard, youtube style.

Put This On: LBJ Buys Pants from Put This On on Vimeo.

Not sure there is a way that this could be any more awesome. Here is the original recording from the Whitehouse archives.

After a day of reading miserable comments from grown people about kids who are somehow different this video picked me up. With the score 35-0 and 0:10 seconds remaining in the game, the Snohomish Panthers run the Ike Special. Ike rushed for a 51 yard touchdown as time expires. Ike has Down Syndrome. Read more.

BTW, if want to feel terrible again, just read the comments on the YouTube video page.

Jason Schwartzman introduces The New Yorker iPad app. Directed by Roman Coppola. I just thought it was an awesome way to introduce an App.

PBS, though, hopes that Mr. Rogers will live on for children — online. Last month, PBS began streaming full-length episodes of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” on both its Rogers site and its PBSKids site. “We think about Fred every single day,” said Lesli Rotenberg, senior vice president for children’s media at PBS. “The PBSKids site is based on a philosophy that I think he pioneered of looking at the whole child.”

via www.nytimes.com

When I was little I would sit on the couch every evening to watch Mipper Rogers — that’s what I called him. Almost everything I know about interpersonal behavior can be traced to his lessons. The fact that his reruns aren’t shown on any of the channels I get is a crime. Am I being too nostalgic or is there nothing like him around today? Read the NYTimes piece and make sure you watch the video below (even though I’ve linked it before) … if you care about people and education it makes you smile. Even if it makes me a hippy.

It would be nice. A middle-class family might think it would be nice to have an in-ground swimming pool. A millionaire might think it would be nice to have a yacht. The billionaire, a private jet. Someone, somewhere might think it would be nice to have food to feed her family tonight. Someone, somewhere might think it would be nice to live in a van in order to afford to go to a wonderful school. I could begin satisfying my desires and buying comforts, but I’ve learned to appreciate what little I have instead of longing for what I do not.

via www.salon.com

I saw this posted by my friend and colleague Brad Kozlek and found it a wonderful read. Its a great story of how one student decided education was worth more than an iPod, heat, and the debt it takes to get it.

Every once in a while you get to see a mainstream outlet cover a story right alongside a blog, so you can put them up against each other and see why one was so much better than the other. This week TechCrunch and the New York Times photo provided just such a lesson.

via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Why the mainstream media is dying.