Toyota Window to the world - multimedia system

This is a pretty neat concept

Muppet Bar in SF

A Muppet Themed Bar recently opened on Mission St in San Francisco.

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review

Via ArsTechnica

"The user-visible changes in Lion are legion. You'll be hard-pressed to find any part of the user interface that remains completely unchanged from Snow Leopard, from the look and feel all the way down to basic behaviors like application and document management. In Lion, Apple has taken a hard look at the assumptions underlying the last ten years of Mac OS X's development—and has decided that a lot of them need to change. "

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Study finds toddlers learn more from Elmo

Via KidScreen

"There’s something about Sesame Street‘s Elmo.

Researchers from the Children’s Digital Media Center at Georgetown University have found that toddlers performed a sequencing task better when an Elmo toy puppet demonstrated it than when an unfamiliar puppet performed the same exact task."

Budget Hero

Check out an interesting ed game made by a friend of mine at APM about balancing the Federal Budget:

BUDGET HERO

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero/

"Think you might do better than President Barack Obama and congressional leaders in picking and choosing what government spending to cut -- or taxes to raise -- to stave off a debt showdown that could wreck the economy? A new game gives you, too, the chance to play "Budget Hero."

"Budget Hero 2.0" is an update of an original version that came out in 2008. It shows players just how difficult it might be to carry out their grand policy objectives -- universal health care, extending the Bush tax cuts or ending foreign aid -- and still keep the government from either becoming irrelevant, or going broke."

BTS - MHP Shoot - Super Grover 2.0 on 7/12/11