ITGumbo: spicing IT up

We're working on some fun updates here at ITGumbo, including a new FAQ about how to publish posts from your desktop.  Stay tuned for new developments coming soon.  And if you're dying to see something new, check out ebizQ's events center. 

As you can see, we have updated the design of ITGumbo! Please bear with us as we work out any quirks that arose from the transition.

Happy Veterans day folks! Or for our readers in England, Australia, and Canada, happy Remembrance day yesterday, and happy Armistice day France!!! Here's your tech news in brief:

Peter Galskowsky describes what it was like to order a laptop from the one-laptop-per-child project. I've included this article for its snappy title alone: One Laptop Per Me. Why didn't I think of that?

Engadget wins best tech blog in the Weblog awards. At ITGumbo we are biding our time. bide bide bide.

And lastly, Google finally honors Veterans day by decorating their logo in military uniform. Except, you know, they did it yesterday, so you can't check out their holiday logo anymore. You know Google, some of us like to celebrate Veterans day TODAY when we get an extra DAY OFF to honor the services of our men and women in the military. It is a FEDERAL HOLIDAY after all. If you even recognize the federal government anymore.

"What's that Mr. Paterson? No, we're not implanting a chip in you, it's an RFID tag. It's like TOTALLY different!"
As this imagined conversation indicates, RFID tags for use to prevent medical errors now have competitive pricing. User acceptance may be a long time coming, however.

For those addicted to XBox 360 (and still crashing in Mom's basement) help is on the way. A new parental timer, coming next month, lets parents limit how much time their kids spend on Guitar Hero and other such games. Or if you're over the age of 18 but want to limit your playing time for your own health (dash love life) you can also use this feature, as long as you make sure you tell the password to someone else and make them promise never to tell you "even if i tell you to tell me later and say that the deal is over, seriously we're not playing anymore, i want you to tell me" even then they shouldn't tell you the password. It'll be like your own personal epic struggle. Go to it, Odysseus.

Mirror mirror on the wall, is the popularity of facebook starting to fall? This article questions whether the original market for facebook, college kids with too much time on their hands, may migrate over to another networking product now that their parents can join too. Maybe I'm getting old, but for some reason I'm not overly concerned about this?

Here's someone whose personal crafting hobby is way superior to yours. Here's the step by step instructions on how to fold crazy complex Lord of the Rings characters out of origami. Be careful though; a thorough browsing of this site may make you feel inferior about your own pop-stick creations, and it's only monday morning.