A Texas school district is looking at awarding needy students with their surplus computers which used to fetch the school district only pennies on the dollar at sales and sometimes actually cost them to have hauled away. These computers will include a linux operating system as well as open source word processing and photo manipulation software and a few games. The district also plans to use some of the surplus computers to build a technology lab for an after school program which will include classes that focus on computer hardware.

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Yes, this is Windows. Yes, this box is sitting on my desk. Unfortunately, I have to have Windows on at least one computer at work. Sorry folks, hope this doesn’t lower my cred. ;) Anyway, you can get the Twitter app here: http://theflexblog.com/?p=20 and if you don’t have it, you will need the Apollo Runtime.

I don’t know if I just had my eyes open to moblog possibilities this weekend or if iThings are really taking over the world, but it seems that there are way too many iThings out there now-a-days.

I found the iFan at Wal-Mart. When searching the web I found info about it as a user submitted stupid gadget at Gizmodo. Awesome.

Shopping at Best Buy over the weekend, I found more iThings.

First, the iWash 

  Next, the iDry.

Apparently these are intelligent laundry machines by Frigidaire.

The last item I saw really wasn’t so shocking. It’s a take off the iDog and manufactured by the same company; the iCY. It’s cute and I want it because it would be good for my penguin collection even if I refuse to give up my Creative mp3 player and follow the trendy iPod people.