Piracy goes point-and-click with an app that takes a picture of a DVD's UPC, finds the movie in a torrent, and downloads it at home:
http://torrentfreak.com/torrent-droid-scan-barcodes-get-torrents-090311/
United Video caught peddling a petition in support of the "Guilt by accusation" laws by falsely claiming it is to stop kiddy porn:
http://nexusmag.co.nz/news/video-stores-caught-claiming-controversial-law-will-stop-child-porn
The One Laptop Per Child project looks like switching to the ARM CPU for the OX-2 design. Problem: Windows doesn't run on ARM CPUs. Yet:
http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/279958/olpc_set_dump_x86_arm_chips_xo-2
France's Gendarmerie Nationale say that the police force has saved €50 million as a result of migrating from Windows to Ubuntu Linux:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars
And finally. Ever wondered what a trillion dollars looks like? Well, with the magic of computer graphics you can get an idea:
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
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