After ordering some Christmas gifts from Lands' End, the company asked if they could showcase our logo in future promotions - low and behold they did.

Check out the latest catalog to see the Plexus featured logo. Thanks to Matt Forshee & Amanda Fields from Fayette County Development Authority for spotting it!

Skitch makes it easy to capture and share images via email, chat and Web. Instead of typing a message to describe an image or screen, you can pull the image into skitch and enhance it on screen to convey your thoughts. Once you have worked with the image – adding text, using draw and paint tools, etc, you save it or drag it out of the Skitch window into your email, chat, desktop, etc. There is a setting called Webpost for you to save the image Web ready for upload to your Skitch.com page. From here, you can copy the url to pull it into a Web site or blog. Check it out at skitch.com.

Here is an example of Skitch - we used it to convey some thoughts about the Plexus home page.

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

Plexus at Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida

Plexus in Cape Haitian, Haiti

Plexus under snow in Boston, MA

Plexus at Coronado Island, San Diego, CA

Plexus in Bahamas

Plexus Goes Canine

Kindle is a new wireless reading device from Amazon that has a revolutionary electronic-paper display to provide a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper. It is simple to use and does not require a computer, cables or synching. Its wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle—whether you’re in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed.

Users purchase books directly from the device and they are delivered wirelessly in less than a minute. More than 90,000 books available, including more than 95 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers and prices start at just $9.99 for most books. In addition, Kindle to the top U.S. and foreign newspapers, blogs and is lighter and thinner than a typical paperback. Kindle has a long battery life and holds up to 200 titles.

For more information, visit Amazon.com.

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), an innovative initiative to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves takes "buy one, get one free" to a whole new level. This pioneering venture created the XO laptop, a unique machine with features created specifically for children of the emerging world and it's latest innovation is the holiday promotion that is currently underway in which each computer purchased ensures that one is also given to a disadvantaged child in a developing nation.

The XO laptop

Award winning

Honored by Popular Science magazine's "Best of What's New" Grand Award, the XO laptop marries fuseproject's high-concept design with cutting-edge technological solutions for a very low price. The goal of the project is both simple and worthy: to give every child a laptop computer, especially in developing countries, where the machines will be sold in bulk for about $130 each.

Innovative design

Each computer comes complete with a high resolution (for reading), high contrast (for operation in full daylight) LED backlit screen, Wi-Fi, "mesh networking" — a type of peer-to-peer ad hoc networking that requires zero configuration and will enable XO owners to collaborate and interact, a screen that can pivot 180 degrees to lie flat on top of the keyboard like a tablet, and it uses so little power that an external hand generator or a solar panel can recharge the system's battery.

OLPC classroom in Skopje

Give one, Get one

The XO isn't intended to be sold in modern markets like the United States. However, the XO laptop will be temporarily available through the Give One, Get One program. Basically, you can purchase two XO laptops for $400 and you'll get one, and one will be sent to a child in the emerging world.

Learn more about the OLPC

• One Laptop per Child
• Fox News Review
• OLPC on flickr
• Laptop Magazine Review
• David Pogue reviews the OLPC
• The OLPC Wiki
• OLPC News
• Documentary from MIT
• OLPC on YouTube