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Michigan's "no iPod left behind" budget proposal
Facing a $1 billion budget deficit, Michigan state House Democrats have proposed the natural addition to such a weighted spending plan: free iPods for every kid. Ostensibly for educational purposes, the $38 million plan would provide iPods or MP3 players to every student in Michigan to use as a learning tool. We've seen laptops -- which Michigan (and Virginia) handed out to its students a few year back -- and even PSPs be put to such educational use, but iPods are a bit of a new one on us. Pearson Education does have that curriculum for the iPod, and bought Apple's PowerSchool a little while back, but this would undoubtedly be the largest rollout of such curriculum to date. That said, we're all for the insanity, 'cause just like our iPod always told us: "We don't need no education... Teachers leave those kids alone." And if the iPod says it, it must be true![Via The Raw Feed, picture courtesy of Anti iPod]
Anatomy of a free iPod
We've all seen those free iPod services, but do they really work? This fellow has the proof, and is offering up some suggestions on how you can make it work for you (as well as including his little referral links so he can get even more iPods, but that is another issue).It is an interesting post which reveals one or two tidbits I didn't know about the program (such as they overnight you your iPod, how nice!).This is not an invitation to plaster your free iPod referral links in the comments, if you do we will delete the link, but keep the post. We're just trying to keep it real up in here, as the kids say.
