I stopped in to the offices of One Laptop Per Child to catch up on the progress of the $100-ish Laptop. Minutes after I walked in, I got a demo of CSound running from one master laptop communicating with several other laptops around the room via WiFi. A group of kids each with a laptop open will be part of a mesh network. With CSound on each laptop, and one serving as a master, the swarm of laptops can mimic an orchestra. The new "rabbit ear" wifi antennas on the near-final orange-colored industrial design pictured here will have a range of a kilometer. For the very latest, including screenshots of user interface concepts, OLPC Wiki.

Across the street at the MIT Press Bookstore, I found Six-Legged Sex: The Erotic Lives of Bugs for $4.98 on the remainder table.

Lobster roll was lunch at MC2 restaurant at the Marriott.

Now to the airport...

- mike lee - cambridge, ma