Do this, literally.
I took a similar laptop, flipped the screen and put a wooden picture frame around it. Now it is a digital picture frame. Of course, without USB, cd or network, it is a little painful to actually get the photos onto the computer.

There is an interesting article here which holds up pointers and recursion as two things in programming that a lot of people never really understand.

The new ASTER data expands coverage to 99 percent, from 83 degrees north latitude and 83 degrees south. Each elevation measurement point in the new data is 98 feet apart.

I would think that any individual that can afford the registration fee would simply register their name.

*.gates
*.obama

I have an original xbox running gentoo/XBMC that I use as a media center.

When booted to gentoo (I'm also running a torrent client) I use the mplayer CLI through an ssh terminal. There is no keyboard and the controller is an awkward replacement for a mouse, so I do everything in a terminal.