Andy Carvin has an interesting video showing the MIT Media Lab's hundred dollar laptop. [via Pito] 
Jeremy Zawodny reports Yahoo's First Hack Day. I've tried something similar years ago, it really is an exciting experience: you end up with an incredible amount of good stuff in a few hours and start wondering what if the same energy could be maintained for some months across a team. The answer is that you could build something amazing in a tenth of the time usually required, we tried and it worked.
