My Chumby arrived today! I'm not really sure what I'll do with it, but it's cute, runs Linux, and comes with a large set of widgets -- some of which are marginally useful. 
As pictured here, "spud" (it has a name) is sitting comfortably on my nightstand pretending to be a clock. In a few moments, it will become a weather station, then a moon-phase expert, then a web cam, a strange thing that screams when you poke it, a cat, hula girl, and then back to some other kind of clock.
Setup was pretty trivial. The only piece missing is a nice internet radio client, but that seems to be coming real soon now...
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