Free iPads Issued As Part of Local College Curriculum. Sign up for college, get an iPad. It’s part of the new curriculum at Moore College of Art & Design, the all-women school that has an enrollment of approximately 500 in Philadelphia. Students will receive the devices, customized by Apple and pre-loaded with visual arts- and design-related apps. Officials at Moore say their relationship with Apple Inc. is the first of its kind.

From Newsworks:

“On Monday you’re in the drawing studio, and on Wednesday you’re in the computer lab. That is one way to incorporate digital media tools,” said Dona Lantz, Moore’s dean of academic affairs. “But we saw the iPad as the mobile device that bridges the physical facility, both in ideas and being able to work with fluidity without having to go to a certain classroom in a certain building.”

-LD

[Newsworks, h/t @geekadelphia]

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Will Anyone Miss Myspace? Five years ago this month, Myspace became the most popular social networking site in the United States (a position it held until April 2008). Today, News Corp. sold it for $35 million, a $545 million loss from what Rupert Murdoch paid for the site only six years ago.

The20’s @Geekadelphia took to Twitter and weighed in with the above. This on the heels of Business Week’s in-depth story about the rise and fall of the site last week.

The site still has 35 million visitors a month in the United States, namely for music and movies, so it’s not going away for good—yet.

What are your fondest Myspace memories?

-LD

[@Geekadelphia, TechCrunch, NYTimes.com, BusinessWeek]

Getting Fired Up Over Red Lights. You may feel helpless when the bus turns on red or the cop’s driving and talking on the cell, but you can always take a page from the angry consumer and start blasting them on Twitter (NSFW).

It makes you feel better. And as TechCrunch points out, sometimes you can get justice if the right person sees it.

-VL

[@Geekadelphia, @DrewLazor (NSFW), TechCrunch]