Getting excited about trying this out. Apparently their USB support has substantially improved recently.

Small private investment fund (informal) being set up to help with economies-of-scale production issues for small open-source hardware projects.

Quoted:
WebGoat is a deliberately insecure J2EE web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web application security lessons. In each lesson, users must demonstrate their understanding of a security issue by exploiting a real vulnerability in the WebGoat application. For example, in one of the lessons the user must use SQL injection to steal fake credit card numbers. The application is a realistic teaching environment, providing users with hints and code to further explain the lesson.

Why the name "WebGoat"? Developers should not feel bad about not knowing security. Even the best programmers make security errors. What they need is a scapegoat, right? Just blame it on the 'Goat!

$100 Linux node with 512B DRAM, 512B Flash, Gig-E, USB (that's it!)

Quoted: Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central ...Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.

Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on an owner's laptop. The client continually monitors the current location of the laptop, gathering information (such as IP addresses and local network topology) that can be used to identify its current location. The client then uses strong cryptographic mechanisms to not only encrypt the location data, but also ensure that the ciphertexts stored within OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable. At the same time, it is easy for an owner to retrieve location information.

Quoted: Interview with author Dan Ariely of "Predictably Irrational" about applying behavioral economics to Open Source.

Discussion on recent ODF flap-up. The last three paragraphs aren't a summary: they are a related, useful meme.

The closing sentence is the keeper:
Quoted: Long term, applications as we know them are dead and the functionality we associate with applications today will simply be a part of the data we're interacting with tomorrow.