Tag archive: Ted

Kids today need their visual stimuli, and Google just made it easier for teachers to play videos in the classroom. YouTube has launched a network setting that slims down the streaming video service and still gives school administrators access to a community of educational videos free of distractions. Public schools typically block websites such as Facebook and YouTube, in a way cloistering students and at the same time impairing teachers'… Read More

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) famously aimed to create the $100 laptop and make it available to schoolchildren throughout the world. It never reached that cost target – the actual figure is close to double that – but it’s made a big impact, and now it hopes to make and even bigger one. Speaking at the TED 2009 conference, founder Nicholas Negroponte announced that the company would open source its hardware design and… Read More

As the organizers of the Webby Awards announce on their site, “Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and have been chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences based on a number of creative and functional criteria.” And now we know who the chosen ones are, after the winners of the 12th annual Webby Awards were… Read More

Evil Dead hero Ash is back as gaming company THQ today said they were releasing the latest chapter in the Evil Dead saga. Known as Evil Dead Regeneration, the game is shipping now for the Playstation 2 and is expected to ship later this month for Windows PCs. Evil Dead Regeneration will feature the voice of Bruce Campbell in the role of Ash and Ted Raimi as a deadite dwarf sidekick. The plotline as mentioned in the press release reads:… Read More