Got a minute? Then you have time to enjoy a lecture from a faculty member at the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Speaking on a wide range of topics — from enthography to philosphy to music — the lecturers offer insight, whimsy, and, above all, brevity.

“It’s hard to be a tech reviewer if products arrive pretty close to perfect,” laments Mark Kellner (washingtontimes.com). But he admits to being “very impressed” with iPhone 3G: “The phone performs very well, e-mail is a breeze, and as a music player, the iPhone-in-iPod mode has no equal.”

“The big winners in Apple’s new online App Store are gamemakers,” says Ryan Kim (sfgate.com). After all, “seven of the top 10 paid applications, including the top five, were video games,” and he reports that Simon Jeffery, president of Sega of America “expects to sell 1 million downloads of Super Monkey Ball on iPhone.” “This is a very viable platform,” Jeffery said. “We’re just scratching the surface on the iPhone.’”

Jim Dalrymple (macworld.com) spent his first week with iPhone 3G in Los Angeles, and it “made my trip a little easier,” he says. So much so, that Dalrymple is positively smitten: “I love the iPhone 3G and have already recommended it to many of the people that e-mailed me since its release looking for advice. The addition of GPS made the iPhone much more effective for traveling and MobileMe is a godsend.”

An audio engineer for 33 years, Greg Price offers simple advice to those who’d like to become great engineers themselves. “‘First, you have to play an instrument,’” reports Jim Dalrymple (macworld.com), “‘and second, you have to use a Mac.’” “When it comes to making music, using a Mac isn’t something you should do, Price emphasized, it’s a must.”