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Yes, One Laptop Per Child is a great nonprofit that helps tons of children worldwide. Yes, Yoko Ono said it was OK. That doesn’t make this ad any less weird:

When has digitally reincarnating a dead celebrity ever been a good idea? At best it makes people confused about whether said celebrity is alive or dead. [...]

When I was younger I had a term for the types of things my friends and I enjoyed half-sincerely, half-ironically: The Cult of Awesome. In this Cult of Awesome were, in rough order of Awesomeness: zombies, robots, ninjas and pirates. (Dinosaurs were in there somewhere too, depending on who you ask.) Vampires, however, were not [...]