One Laptop per Child Blog
Nice, we’re finally setting up a blog for OLPC:
We need guest posts! Please help! (email sj at laptop dot org with posts)
We’ve got 5 years
And now David is going to sing us a song…
Actually this is the part where Harvard wont let me EMBED ANYTHING ON THIS BLOG.
1.) Floss Manuals mini-store:
.js was stripped out auto-magically, and could not import .css
2.) Berkman wont let me embed YouTube in my blog.
Ok, a little tacky maybe. But seriously. C’mon Harvard!
One Velociraptor per Child
“It’s an education project, not a genetic engineering project.” - Dr. Ian Malcolm.
Mission Statement: To increase the Darwinian fitness of the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-energy, internet-enabled velociraptor with content designed for collaborative, practical, self-empowered survival
Those crazy Olin kids… Go check out www.velociraptorz.org/ and buy a t-shirt.
Blogs on XO-XP vs XO-Sugar
Now, I haven’t actually used Windows on XO for more than a few seconds. There are something like three at the OLPC offices AFAIK. But with the announcement of a viable form of XP on the XO the blogosphere has had a field day. CNET has finally posted a reasonable, if non-technical, side by side comparison of the two versions of the machine. The results in the actual article are fairly ambiguous, but blogs, both secular and FOSS have decried that kids prefer Sugar over XP.
But more surprisingly, the great majority of blogs about the subject have been in Espanol.
Battle for Wesnoth Release for XO
The popular turn-based strategy game, Battle for Wesnoth, has been bundled and customized for the XO. It’s pretty big at 77mb, but it’s a great game and I’m very happy to see it as an activity on the XO. Thank you Jeremy Visser!
5th of November
Oh man, what’s the name of that day coming up? I wasn’t supposed to forget it. November 6th? Was that it? Something about Treason and Gunpowder…
Ah yes.
Remember, Remember,
the Fifth of November,
the Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot.I know of no reason,
the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Where will you be?
Want to roast mini-marshmallows over candle flames in harvard square instead?
Sierpinski love
At Internet Superhighway a pair of internet revolutionaries. Drew up this fractal heart based on the Sierpinski trangle on the whiteboards provided by Mel, Greg and Olin crew. Pretty cool, but so far my favorite take on the subject were the fractal cookies from Evil Mad Scientist(s).
Hrrm, now for Sierpinski heart cookies?
My memes are overwhelming.
Spam that got my hopes up 2
I’ve received more disappointing spam this week. I don’t know if spamming has changed and I’ve fallen behind or if I’m just not getting it these days. But I got an email the other day with Subject: ” Job Offer”.
This is to inform you that Greenwood children foundation is interested in offering you a part-time paying job…
