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Randy Newman

Imagine Peace

A young guy with this modification of John Lennon's famous "Imagine"printed in white on an Apple classic black T-shirt is high fiving hisfriends who have just produced "Lotus-eaters", a short music video warning of the dangers of unthinking submission to seductive technologies. They did this in less than 24 hours using the facilities of the new John Lennon Bus, being shown at Macworld Expo 2008 in San Francisco, after its re-launch at the Consumer Electronics Show in LasVegas earlier this month. (The concept has been in existence since 1998).

Martin Levins | Jan 17, 2008

Education and the Mac

The International Society for Technology in Education aims for students investigating coherences by themselves - learning by doing leads to real understanding.

Martin Levins | Dec 10, 2007

Parenting 101

The protection of children on the internet has been a regular feature in many media for some time now and it’s been capped off recently with the Federal government offer of an internet filter for free (for three years) to every Australian family.

Martin Levins | Dec 10, 2007
John Cage

Caged

Mention the surname “Cage” most will probably think of the actor Nicolas, or the American music composer, John.

Martin Levins | Nov 30, 2007

Truly Universal Access?

Played with this? It’s in the second-last row of your system preferences and looks a little like a minimalist graphics designer got to da Vinci’s famous “Vitruvian Man”. You know — the naked guy in the circle.

Martin Levins | Oct 21, 2007