By way of the very useful and positively glowing with goodwill and open source optimism mailing list Bytes for All, I learned about India’s ambitious $10 laptop answer to Negroponte’s $100 laptop. The Times of India article reads like The Onion, I must say, and the first thing I did was go to The Onion website and look up related keywords. Unfortunately nothing about the $100 laptop, though I did find a good picture of MIT researchers and their $30 million dollar love tester and other silliness.
But I digress. I must agree with Jacqui Cheng when he writes in India’s “$10 laptop” plans: yeah, right:
It doesn’t take an engineer to realize that $10 per laptop will be a very ambitious project indeed. The current (and final) iteration of MIT’s OLPC stands at $176, 76 percent higher than originally estimated.
… Continue reading ‘Negroponte’s “$100 laptop” plans: yeah, right!’
Jiminy crickets, I have had a fun week listening to my name being butchered on the radio and reading it every day in the newspapers and online. The latest was this email from Jodi Jacobson from Engender Health that took me over the top:
With thanks to my colleague Curtis Hicks for the idea, we sent my blog on Tobias and the prostitution pledge to the Daily Show and they did two pieces on the story,…..so for a good laugh, go to the Daily Show website and watch the two videos, “Prostitution Gate” and “Beltway UnBuckled”…..
At first I thought it was one of those personalized emails, encouraging me to read “my blog on Tobias and the prostitution pledge”, but then I realized that this simply could not be so and it had to be about this to-bias(ed) guy.
Jodi was indeed blogging about Randall Tobias, not Tobias Eigen, in her Tobias Latest Evidence of Bush Hypocrisy blog posting. Continue reading ‘Now more than ever: it’s toe-bee-us, not to-bias(ed)’
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