…is actual a plug. But no ordinary plug: it’s a fully functioning computer with a fast processor, sufficient memory, Linux (of course), gigabit ethernet and a USB 2.0. What can you do with it? Well, pretty well anything.

I think this is the next big thing. You can configure this plug computer into anything you want. I want one! 🙂

This article, Plugging In $40 Computers in the NYTimes.com has more details, including why it is (going to be) a $40 computer.

This is the stuff of modern novels: first female professor of poetry, sexual harrassment charges, great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin, Oxford, beating — or should it be cheating? — a Nobel laureate out of the position…it goes on. For a summary: read
Oxford’s First Female Professor of Poetry Resigns.