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What's so great? Was it all computer generated, or did they move pictures?

Or are they demonstrating their new time machine?]]>Dec 28th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
If I could, I'd criticise the lips motion. I'm not completely sold on that one, altought, it's a very, very good job. Really, I appretiate this kind of work ;)]]>Dec 28th 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

(sigh...there's practically a wiki for EVERYTHING)

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Guys - humor is good, but it has to be funny.

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Ok, it has Yoko Ono's consent. Yeah, it's going to help out poor children. But having a voiceover impression of Lennon? That's just wrong. I thought that they had pulled up some old audio footage of him saying that it would be great for kids everywhere to have access to a world of information, but then I heard the word "Laptop". This is dumb, hokey, in poor taste, etc etc. Yoko and everyone involved should be ashamed.]]>Dec 28th 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
Oh right, that doesn't happen...]]>Dec 28th 2008 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
(supposedly) it's not a voiceover impression - it's Lennon's own voice. They took a variety of recordings on Lennon, and picked out the various words (and in the case of laptop, sounds), and digitally remastered it into this endorsement.]]>Dec 28th 2008 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Should have used Peter Serafinowicz - he's got it spot on... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jcVS9ssNYVQ#t=1m24]]>Dec 28th 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/

This going to fail. Wait and see. You'll read about the failure of this shit in places like Time magazine. Turn the page or it'll be on the front cover. Thousands of those machines will be in landfills in short order.
Caption would read,"WHAT HAPPENED?"]]>Dec 28th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
Also, the laptops are designed to be easy to fix. Extra screws are even stored inside of the laptop.]]>Dec 28th 2008 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Jan 2nd 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
Believe it or not, people like John Lennon are alive today. It is a major shame that the OLPC project thinks they are not, and that a John Lennon zombie is more effective than anyone else.]]>Dec 28th 2008 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
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So dead lennon is saying he's a failure, and you can change the world MORE than him (pfft!) by buying a $99 laptop.

*facepalm]]>Dec 28th 2008 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
A WHOLE DAMN LOT, don't you think? It doesn't say he failed changing the world... It says that in order to change it further, you can contribute with the cause by donating $200 to get a poor kid in a poor country a computer.

What do you do to help others, besides overthinking about the message of a charity ad?]]>Dec 28th 2008 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
He didn't fail at all. He's obviously still affecting people today.]]>Dec 28th 2008 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 29th 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
When we, a generation you can't even define let alone name, begin to break through, one of the first things we'll do is cut you off, and suffer the consequences. I wouldn't mind killing off Social Security if it means paying back the debts and burdens you placed on our backs.

And let's be clear here: John Lennon was an arrogant, pompous fucking asshole. He prolly didn't care that the man he preached was directly responsible for the killing of millions of his own kind just because they POSSIBLY thought different. And he failed to see beyond his own jaded detachment from reality that many of the things he preached were impossible on a global, national, even at a city level within NYC. (I wouldn't call John Lennon a terrorist, though. Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, on the other hand...)]]>Dec 29th 2008 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
Now imagine a pandemic of pig flu.]]>Dec 28th 2008 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Jan 2nd 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
The guy is dead. Sure, we miss him, and we would like him to be alive, but this... Is too much.]]>Dec 28th 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/
However, I could get behind the idea. As long as the kids get the whole internet, not just firewalled versions their gov't allows.]]>Dec 28th 2008 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 28th 2008 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 29th 2008 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 29th 2008 3:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/28/john-lennon-eerily-returns-to-push-olpc-cause/Dec 29th 2008 11:14AM