Seen today: #twatch Open Hardware Networked LCD Screen - Slashdot Hardware. Quite tempting! Affordable (USD 45) and it can do cool stuff. By default it displays real-time topic trends from Twitter on an LCD. But with a bit of playing with LCDproc it can also show system statistics, RSS feeds, mail notifications, and more such as ... METARs.Hope someone of the LCDproc development team picks this up soon: Although the page assumes there is a way to redirect a serial port to a network stream in linux this is a bit harder.
Other webprojects: Camp Wireless, wireless Internet access at campsites, The Virtual Bookcase, book reviews, Weather maps