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Pixel Qi drives beyond the XO to the $75 laptop in 2009 - 10.

Server2Go is a tool that lets you put PHP and SQL driven websites onto write protected medias. This means you can put your site onto Compact Disk or a USB stick and it will autoload and run with an already configured Apache server. Well worth playing around with if you want to impress clients (or hand out your educational software solution).

This video from Princeton University on Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys is a must see. They’ve been successfully getting hold of encryption keys by exploiting the Random Access Memory (RAM).

A few months ago when I first saw a demo of this crayon physics application I was gobsmacked. Nice work.

Mary Lou Jepsen’s Keynote to the Greener Gadgets Conference explains that designing for the poorest people in the world and trying to do the right thing led to the greenest laptop in the world - the XO laptop also known as the $100 laptop or the one laptop per child program. Battery (with processing) decomposes into fertilizer, 5% - 10% power consumption, no mercury, cadmium, lead or chromium, recyclable, 2.5 times the typical lifetime. The full length video of her keynote is also available.

Web Worker Daily has posted about the Emerging Communications Conference taking place from March 12 - 14 in Silicon Valley. More interesting still for today is the 25 minute Web Worker Radio podcast linked to in the article which discusses the revolutionary changes in mobile technologies which are going to change communication technologies. Voice Over IP (VOIP) only enhanced the old paradigm of the phone. New technologies are going to enhance telecommunication by including social networks, context, relationships, etc.

Jeffrey Zeldman’s Version Targeting: Threat or Menace? says opting into IE8 version targeting is right. Do I sense a line in the sand being drawn in Standardista land?

Jeremy Keith’s article They Shoot Browsers, Don’t They? on why he’s not for the opt in default of IE8’s version targeting.