Students at the University of New Mexico took particular offense at the above cartoon. The student newspaper The Daily Lobo reprinted the cartoon was originally published in The Netherlands by the dutch artist Hajo after the death of Osama Bin Laden last week.

Some students reacted strongly to the depiction of President Obama depicted as a monkey, regarding it as racially insensitive.

This follows another more outrageous parody controversy. A California Republican party official Marilyn Davenport sent out an email with a photoshopped picture of President Obama.
In it he is depicted as baby in a family of baboons with the caption “Now you know why no birth certificate.”

When the image in the email was discovered, a flood of outrage followed with both republicans and democrats demanding the resignation of Davenport.

Meanwhile at the Daily Lobo, the editor-in-chief eventually apologized for the publication of the offending cartoon.

Interestingly, last Saturday at the White House Correspondents Dinner, President Obama used the same imagery as the cartoon above to make fun of himself (see video). Both images are from the movie “The Lion King”.

True, both have different takes on the subject… what’s your take?

Smartphones! tablets! mobile computing!  4G networks! All cool toys to play with.

We can thank the innovative brains behind incredibly powerful microprocessors for making these things available to us.

Now a promising new jump in that technology is on its way… meaning more fun stuff for us in the future.

MIcrochip giant Intel recently announced its plans to expand development of three-dimensional microprocessors.  Current microchips are built on flat panels, which limits the number of transistors that can be included on a single chip – in turn limiting the processing speed of the chip.

The new 3-D design, called “Tri-Gate”, builds microchips around cylindrical bases, which allows them to almost double the number of transistors, increase processing speed, and waste less energy than the current predominant microchip design.

These chips are just 22 nanometers in width – that’s just 10 times the length of a DNA strand! To get a better idea of what exactly the change is, take a look at this article.

So when the next PC released claims to be faster, better and stronger than the last, maybe you’ll know just a little bit about how it got that way.