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This very geeky XO laptop is on its way to Europe. The woman at the post office was very confused by the pig with breadwings.

Not bad for a $200 laptop covered in marker, eh? Update: We originally had a link to the eBay listing here, but it expired after 90days, so we took the link down. It will always be in our thoughts.

Thanks again to all of you who helped with your signatures and support.

Nick Gonzalez (former TechCruncher turned startup-guy) recently wrote on the auction and even remembered the first eBay-for-charity auction Steve and I did last July.

And I also got sent a LOLmagnetz shoutout by Thomas Nybergh — he really sums it up well:

From the Non-allergenic lolcats dept.: Put last year’s mainstream Internet meme on your fridge… tomorrow! Non-US orders accepted.

The breadpig couldn’t agree more. Pre-order yours today!
Thanks to both Nick and Thomas for spreading the bacon around.

So far, so good. There’s already been a solid amount of activity on the auction.

Scott Beale (of chuckling cephalopod fame) and AJ Vaynerchuk (who’s just awesome and needs no mascot) both gave the ROFLaptop some love in their respective blogs. Much appreciated, gentlemen. The breadpig would salute you if it weren’t for the trotters.

The former security director of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit has blasted the project for losing sight of its goals, accusing chairman Nicholas Negroponte of deceiving the public. It’s all about shipping kit, says Ivan Krstić in an incendiary essay.

Excerpted from the register

Though, you ought to read Krstić’s original essay here as well. Ivan and I are chummy from back in my Cambridge/Somerville days, so I heard the synopsis of his essay right from his mouth at an event a couple months ago.

Nonetheless, I felt compelled to keep my word to acquaintances still at the project about auctioning this autographed XO laptop to benefit the OLPC. Now I’m feeling rather conflicted, so I’ve emailed Ivan to to get his opinion on where to donate the proceeds. Granted, now that there’s been bidding on the eBay auction, I can’t change the listing because it’d be misleading past bidders.

Maybe Iron Man will save the day. Geez, I just wanted to raise some money for a non-profit…

Just in case you didn’t believe me about getting the Firefox’s signature…

Adam from LOLCode generously spread the word about the ROFLaptop. Maybe if this auction is big enough, we can convince OLPC to stop shipping with Windows…

The eBay auction expires on May 23rd and 100% of the sale price will go to OLPC. This couldn’t have been done without the help of the fantastic hosts of ROFLCon, a collection of great Internet meme-creators who were happy to smear some Sharpie for this project, and of course, breadpig’s friends at OLPC. Thanks to all of you and happy bidding!

This little laptop has come a long way since the initial announcement. I posted an update along the way after I’d started collecting a few sigs, but the XO laptop is now a geektastic sight to behold.

  

Thanks to Michael Galpert of Aviary for taking the video.

And if you’re not a fan of moving pictures, here’s a good pic captured by tiredofh20.

I’ll try my best to divine the names from these signatures and get them appropriately tagged before putting up the eBay auction. Thanks again to all of my fellow ROFLCon speakers who were kind enough to lend their handwriting and support.