It occurs to me that the new "social networking tools" are adding an element of explicit "scoring" to what previously was one of the few areas of life that didn't have that. People are "scored" at work by salary, bonuses, etc. People are "scored" at play with literal scoring systems. But historically you weren't "scored" on your social interactions. You had some friends, you had some enemies, and I suppose you could keep "score" if you wanted, but there wasn't any kind of system for it.

I think I might have found a hardware bug in the W5100 ethernet chip...

Seems like the OLPC will have a hard time, threatening the the big players turf has it's consequences. A US-based Nigerian company has sued Nicolas Negroponte and the OLPC project, the keyboard seems to be the culprit.