Category: humor

  • Dangerous Winter Temperatures – Snow in Houston!

    Have you been affected by winter weather this week? I’m sure northerners used to REAL cold temperatures and heavy snowfalls will really get a kick out of this two minute clip from the Michael Berry Show. 37 degree temperatures in Houston can cause a city-wide panic! Hat tip to Houston resident and friend, Kristin Leard,…

  • More Google Translate for Animals Videos

    On April Fool’s Day this year, Google introduced a hilarious video for a fictitious new application, Google Translate for Animals. I was amused to see recently that in addition to the original video, they also shared three other videos with translation examples from a cow, pig and chicken. My question is, what would a kiwi…

  • Conan on the iPad

    I watch almost zero television these days, but thanks to this Open Culture post I was able to watch 45 minutes of Conan O’Brien from his visit to Google last week. I watched this as a full screen video on my iPad. This is the future of TV, today. Get your own valid XHTML YouTube…

  • Google introduces translation for animals

    This just in… If you are amazed by the transcription power of Google Voice, wait till you and your best furry friend experience the power of “Google Translate for Animals.” April Fools! H/T to Jackie Gerstein and John Sowash. Technorati Tags: google, video, youtube, translate, aprilfools, #aprilfools If you enjoyed this post and found it…

  • Forget the iPad – The MacBook Wheel is what you really want

    In the parody spirit of “The Doritos Tablet,” commentators at “The Onion” bring us “The MacBook Wheel.” Several good sound bytes here: Everything is just a few hundred clicks away… I’ll buy almost anything if it’s shiny and made by Apple… I like how the email automatically says, sent from a MacBook Wheel, that way…

  • The Doritos Tablet – an iPad YouTube Spoof

    If you’ve watched the official Apple commercial for the iPad (and perhaps even if you haven’t yet) you’ll likely find “The Doritos Tablet” spoof video hilarious! It’s 61 seconds long. Get ready for that “multi-taste interface.” Welcome to “spice 2.0!” H/T to one of my vendor friends here at the Palm Beach County Technology Conference,…

  • Two Flowers Unblocks Ning

    I created this today using “The Newspaper Clipping Generator.” I wish this was true. In case you can’t read the above text on this Flickr image, here it is as text: In a move that has stunned technology fear-mongers and edtech vendors statewide, the internet service provider “Two Flowers” has decided to unblock the website…

  • Our rock stars aren’t like your rock stars

    If you haven’t seen the 30 second Intel advertisement, “Sponsors of Tomorrow,” check it out now. It’s an effective teaser video for the life work of Ajay Bhatt at Intel, where he currently serves as “Chief Client Platform Architect.” Ajay is the the co-inventor of USB. I referenced this in my presentation last Monday, “Communicating…

  • Why aren’t we using the real world?

    Great cartoon. Via Whelmed and Tomaz Lasic. Technorati Tags: education, real, school, world, realworld If you enjoyed this post and found it useful, subscribe to Wes’ free newsletter. Check out Wes’ video tutorial library, “Playing with Media.” Information about more ways to learn with Dr. Wesley Fryer are available on wesfryer.com/after.

  • Read Facebook in Pirate English

    Here’s a fun Facebook option my sister showed me today. From your Facebook homepage, scroll all the way down and in the lower left corner click on your LANGUAGE. From the available choices, choose ENGLISH (Pirate) – beta. Now you can enjoy using Facebook and reading updates from your friends using Pirate English! Warning: Be…