Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street? Today bloggers are celebrating the beloved show, whose 40th anniversary is coming up on November 10, inspired by the day's Google Doodle (Search Engine Roundup notes that international Google properties are featuring learning programs popular in those countries). "I was THERE. I think I watched the first episode. I had the 1970 album. I had the little paperback books that came out around the same time (The Sesame Street Book of Numbers and so on). We got Sesame Street Magazine," writes Dewey's Treehouse. "The show has also become a conduit for other branches of pop culture. (They say you haven't really made it as a star until you're a guest voice on 'The Simpsons,' but the 'Sesame Street' cameo is also worth a fortune in cultural caché.)," notes MTV Newsroom.

The characters on last night's episode of Mad Men were shocked by the assassination of JFK; viewers in 2009 knew it was coming but are chattering about how it was portrayed "We've probably all seen those grainy bits of footage--or excerpts from them--quite a few times in our lives," writes The Watcher. "To produce a shocked, horrified reaction to an event that has been part of the fabric of history for so long is indeed a tall order for any television show." Televisionary writes about the ways each character in the episode learns the news by watching it on TV: "There's a massive sense that television, as a medium, as a means of connection, has truly arrived." What's Alan Watching?, on the other hand, didn't like the episode for that reason: "[I]f it was necessary, it wasn't very satisfying to watch--watching a TV show about characters glued to their TV sets feels particularly slothful."

Hey Office fans, ready to watch the best video ever? Here it is. "The video for 'Male Prima Donna'--the first single from Kelly (Kaling) and Erin's (Ellie Kemper) girl group, Subtle Sexuality--is hilarious, featuring ridiculous costuming (lots of gold Spandex, Erin as a priest), Ryan (B.J. Novak) rapping and a guest appearance by Andy (Ed Helms)," writes Zap2it. It's the first of "a new string of webisodes," reports BuzzSugar, and great news for fans who think the show has "not nearly enough Kelly Kapoor." Plus, the song's actually good: "As funny as the pitch-correctedness and ridiculous rhymes in this Kelly / Erin / Andy / Ryan video are, it's baaaaaaarely an exaggeration of an actual radio-ready pop song," writes Best Week Ever. "I'm still humming it to myself (...my rhymes bite like piranhas....)."

Parents using Baby Einstein as a babysitter might want to rethink their plan: Disney is now offering refunds on the videos, after recent research showed "watching TV from ages 1-3 could actually cause attention problems" (via Truthdig). "The big winner in this recall," says The Inquisitr, is "The Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood, an organization that focuses on parental run and real education over electronic media." Game Theorist is bummed that only people who bought products in the last five years can get refunds: "From 1998 to 2001, we must have purchased a ton of Baby Einstein DVDs and CDs, board books, toys (and maybe even videos). Our kids loved them and I loved the fact that the marketing was so cynically directed at the nervous (if I don't act the kids will suffer) yet optimistic (they could be Einstein) parent." Too bad, says Cognition and Language Lab: "[I]f you want to make smarter babies, the best option I know of is to play with them more."

Did NY Times Executive Editor Bill Keller just leak real info about the mysterious Apple tablet? (via SnarkMarket). In a meeting that wasn't supposed to be recorded, he said, "I'm hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending Apple slate..." "He seems extremely matter of fact about the 'impending Apple Slate' and doesn't clarify the statement as being some sort of forward looking statement. Very Strange," says 9 to 5 Mac. "Given that we've heard strong rumors that the Times is one of Apple's partners in developing content for the iTablet, and that Keller mentions the 'slate' with confidence as if it's a real capital S product, these words carry some weight," writes Fast Company.

Meanwhile, Electronista reports that "China Ontrade claims to have a SIM tray for the Apple tablet and has gone so far as to provide a comparison between this and the existing iPhone 3G/3GS tray to illustrate their differences. The mystery tray is thicker, with a more pronounced curve and a different mechanism... The SIM if real would confirm the presence of AT&T and possibly T-Mobile 3G for the future tablet design." Business Insider imagines what the Apple Table could look like, with a slideshow of 20 design concepts.

Microsoft was also at the Web 2.0 Summit this week in San Francisco (we're still on 2.0?) and released a Twitter search for Bing. "Looks pretty cool--we hope Twitter is getting its money's worth for giving up its search leverage here, says Business Insider. VentureBeat reports that Google oh-yeahed Microsoft by saying it too will pull Twitter streams into its search results. Mashable describes something apparently related: Google Social Search. "The bottom of search results will soon have social networking information from your friends, like their Flickr photos or their status updates." Apparently we need more exposure to social networking, because currently Facebook users spend only 8 billion minutes on the site every day, GigaOm reports. "On a busy day, an eye-popping 1.2 million photos are served on Facebook each second." (Hey, can you order those Windows 7 Whoppers online?) And Twitter is so overused "it's basically broken," suggests Technologizer.

Google is launching music service? Now finally we'll be able to get songs on a computer! "Next to nothing is known about the service at this point, rumored to be called "Google Music," informs Epicenter. Erictric calls it Google Audio, which seems less tuneful. "But the new service is all but confirmed," TechCrunch assures. "And we have the screenshots to prove it." Gizmodo lays down the arrangement: "You, Anonymous Google User, will search for music. Google will return a special search page template with artist info, album listings and cover art--this is something they've been doing for a while now. The crucial difference is, you'll be able to listen to songs...directly from the results."

Over on the third screen (the one in your pocket), the iPhone keeps blowing away sales numbers. "If you ever had doubts about how big mobile internet is going to be, check out this presentation by Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker," says Mobiz. It's one of those presentations that you just want to tell everyone about." You may remember Mary Meeker from such hits as the first Internet bubble that exploded disastrously. Basically, Meeker's data shows that the iPhone/iPod is the fastest growing consumer electronics platform in history, says The iPhone Blog. Techcrunch uses another MM slide showing data traffic on AT&T's mobile network is 50 times higher than it was three years ago. But there's still no app for ordering the Windows 7 Whopper online.

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Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue: An American Life, will be released on November 17, and Oprah has nabbed an exclusive November 16 interview with Ms. Rogue herself: "With syndication in 215 domestic stations and 147 countries, The Oprah Winfrey Show is touting it as a 'world exclusive,'" reports Washington Wire. Last year, Oprah was campaigning for Obama and refused to have Palin on her show, but now she may help Palin sell some books--and The TV Guy and More thinks that because "the interview will air during the important November ratings period...Palin should help Winfrey, too." The Swamp wonders whether Oprah's questions will "take a different tack than Katie Couric's took"--but it's unclear whether "different tack" means harder (for Palin) or easier. Conservatives4Palin is feeling pretty positive: "The odd couple need not enter BFF status, but Oprah--more than any person on the planet--will be able to humanize Gov. Palin to people predisposed to dislike her." We'll have to see, but "no matter how you feel about Palin, or Winfrey," writes Daily Intel, "this is going to be a great piece of television."

This week Barnes & Noble unveiled the Nook, its new e-reader. The Nook, which will be available at the end of November, costs $259 and has "dual touchscreens along with wireless courtesy of WiFi and AT&T 3G wireless. Battery life isn't too shabby either with a reported 10 day life off of an 3.5 hour charge" (via CrunchGear). "The most intriguing tweaks, from my perspective, are a 'sharing' feature, and the fact that the Nook runs on Google's (GOOG) Android operating system, which might allow for interesting upgrades over time," notes MediaMemo. Ed Burnette's Dev Connection explains the sharing: "Another innovation in the Nook is the ability to lend books to your friends for up to 14 days. They don't even have to have a Nook, just the free B&N eReader software installed on a PC, Mac, or mobile phone." "I think it's my new favorite reader," writes Pimp My Novel. "(Sorry, Sony... we can still be friends.)