Despite the misguided and unwarranted support of the American Civil Liberties Union, the Virginia Court of Appeals soundly rejected the appeal of spamming miscreant Jeremy Jaynes, and ruled to uphold his 2004 conviction.

Some of the 'net media news websites are reporting that the websites of convicted computer-fraud-artist Kevin Mitnick have been hacked and defaced by a group of internet graffiti artists.

Earlier this month the man leading the crusade to distribute computers to millions of children in developing countries around the world, presented the newest version of the "$100-laptop" at a national education conference hosted in San Diego.

Earlier this month the U.S. Federal Trade Commission asked a known adware/crapware/spyware spreader to hand over a bag of money as a way to make the FTC "go away".

As the Keynote speaker at LinuxWorld earlier this week, Nicholas Negroponte spent some time expounding the virtues of the One Laptop Per Child initiative. As a salute to the highly laudable aspirations of that noble project we feel it's only fitting that we re-visit the money-green-colored view of the world's richest egomaniac and the disparaging statements ole' Billie made about the OLPC project last month at a hob-nobbing Microsoft Forum in Washington DC.