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Tee of the Day: “Chewie and Han” by Chris Wahl. It’s...

Tee of the Day: “Chewie and Han” by Chris Wahl.

It’s the ship that transmogrified the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, etc.

Buy it here.

[shirtoid.]

Viral Ad of the Day: Lionsgate scares the ever-living demons out...

Viral Ad of the Day: Lionsgate scares the ever-living demons out of unsuspecting Chatrouletters with a promotion for The Last Exorcism featuring a screamer passing for a random exhibitionist.

(sNSFW, “fuck” n’ such.)

[mashable / thanks pj!]

The iPad Project documents deploying iPads at school

We've been following the folks at D7 Consulting as they roll out a set of iPads that were awarded to them by Box.net (and keep an eye out later this week for an update on that), but that's not the only group of people attempting to use iPads in a collective space. Frasier Speirs (Mac developer at Connected Flow) is implementing iPads at a school that he works at, and he's documenting the whole process on his blog as The iPad Project.

It's an interesting read. Even if you're not trying to follow in his footsteps and implement a large number of iPads across a system, it's intriguing to see how he and his co-workers are trying to squeeze a very consumer-targeted product into a more professional space. Concerns range from setting up profiles and activations on each device to more practical issues like labeling them with names and finding a way to charge them all together.

Part of the iPad's charm has been how many different places and ways that people have found to use it. At its heart, it's a reasonably powerful touchscreen computer, and that's a device that's got a lot of potential in a lot of fields. We'll look forward to seeing other implementations in various fields and locations.

[via Cult of Mac]

TUAWThe iPad Project documents deploying iPads at school originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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I'm a huge fan of wacky laboratory safety signage. This beauty comes to us from a public restroom in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, via reader XAdamDX and the Submitterator.

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