Looks like MIT have unveiled their $100 laptop, crank handle charging and adaptable orientation. Looks pretty nifty. More details here and over at MIT.

Apples move to Intel seems to be going faster than expected - looks like the new year might hold some goodies from Intel wrapped in a PowerBook form.

Nice retro scrapbook design. Hard to believe we used these things only 5 years ago.

Don't try this at home - Physics behind 4 nifty demonstrations - including dipping your hand into molten lead.

Suns ZFS has been released into the wild - some background information and a roundup of links on the topic.

A collection of Nagios plug-ins over at Nagios Exchange with a broad range of supported systems that can be easily monitored. Its good to see its Nagios is alive and well - it seems to be taking forever to get version 2 out the door. Once you get your head around the way you configure things its very very easy to use. My only gripe is that changing multiple configurations can be a little time consuming (but I believe the way this is handled in v2 is different anyway).

Pitchforkmedia seemed to be unreachable for most of yesterday but they're back so I've linked to their list of The Worst Album Covers of All Time.

Via Dana Epp - Portknocking. Who would have guessed this technique would have grown big enough to warrant its own section of the interweb. Portknocking is very cool - essentially you connect to a series of ports on a server in a special sequence (the knock) to trigger a particular action from the server.