We've received an old Pentium 233/MMX laptop that has 64mb of RAM, a 10gb hard drive and is currently running Windows 98. I'm intending turning it into a basic Internet kiosk for our living room, which is definitely doable. The trick, however, will be to get it running a more powerful / stable operating system that can run the two basic services I want: web browsing and instant messaging.

In a second PR win by the search engine giant, it was noted this week that since October Google has been refusing to give the US government search results data of its website visitors as part of said government's continued attempts to push through a law that was already thrown out of the courts two years ago.