Found photo: Genius? Or idiotic?

March 14, 2010

Does anyone know the story behind that picture? Posted via email from Mike Elgan’s Lifestream

Laptops disrupt lectures. So let’s ban lectures!

March 14, 2010

Lecturing professors nowadays face a room full of students paying full attention — to their laptops. A lecture, by definition, is a method of teaching whereby a person talks and an audience pays attention. But a laptop is an interruption machine that fragments attention. Lectures and laptops are …

The iPad paradox: Less is the new more!

March 14, 2010

I've noticed a trend online recently of new services whose main feature is that they hardly do anything. Twitter was the first major site in that new trend, which boldly asserted its limitations as features. "You can't send more than 140 characters!" "No pictures!" &quo…

Laptops and lectures are incompatible. So ban lectures!

March 12, 2010

Lecturing professors nowadays face a room full of students paying full attention — to their laptops.A lecture, by definition, is a method of teaching whereby a person talks and an audience pays attention. But a laptop is an interruption machine that fragments attention. Lectures and laptops are inc…

What sort of man reads ‘Playboy’? A criminal.

March 12, 2010

Playboy Enterprises has inked a deal with  2K Games for the product-placement of Playboy magazines all by scenes in the game Mafia II.  Posted via email from Mike Elgan’s Lifestream

Found photo: Hulk is a Blackberry user!

March 12, 2010

Mystery Pic 113: What is it?

March 5, 2010

What is it? Post your guess in the comments section below. invent certain you give your whole name and the city you live in! whether you're first with the right reply, you'll earn the dubious honor of getting your name in the next issue of the awe-inspiring Mike's List newsletter. The r…

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