John Lennon Flogs OLPC Laptops From The Grave

pobject width=”425″ height=”344″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/4b4GkGMiBDQcolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfeature=player_embeddedfs=1″/paramparam name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/paramembed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/4b4GkGMiBDQcolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfeature=player_embeddedfs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″/embed/object/p pYes, it’s true, Liverpool’s fave musician, John Lennon, has taken a break from being dead to help the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation drum up business for the worthy XO laptop./p pThe former Beatle and peace protester has been drafted from beyond the grave, thanks to the permission of Yoko Ono and digital wizardry, to appear in a new advert promoting the advantages the XO can give to kids in developing nations. /p pIn the ad, his voice is heard saying: /p pem”Imagine every child no matter where in the world they were could access a universe of knowledge. They would have a chance to learn, to dream, to achieve anything they want. I tried to do it through my music, but now you can do it in a very different way.”/em/p pAt the end, he appears on an XO’s screen, saying – despite the deliberate pixilation distorting his actual mouth movements: /p pem”You can give a child a laptop and more than imagine. You can change the world.”br / /em/pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a6485d/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=John Lennon Flogs OLPC Laptops From The Gravelink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/30/john_lennon_flogs_olpc_laptops.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=John Lennon Flogs OLPC Laptops From The Gravelink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/30/john_lennon_flogs_olpc_laptops.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588685110/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44451933/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588685110/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44451933/a2.img” border=”0″//a

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