Always on the look out of stupidly simple, nice to use web apps. Heres one that lets you create  (and edit) an avatar for yourself. Not only can you choose from a large range of features to create your avatar, but they make it a piece of piss to use the avatars on third party sites such as this one.

Get your avatar here: www.doppelme.com

Heres mine:

With the new release of JQuery come a lot of new features and goodies. Hers a great run down of whats new: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/jquery-1-4-released-the-15-new-features-you-must-know/

1) Connect a cable
2) Applications -> Settings -> Wireless controls -> Mobile network sharing
3) ifconfig -a and you will see the phone appear as a network connection with
4) sudo ifcofng usb0 up
5) sudo dhclient usb0
6) Surf away!

Ive seen idiots faffing around with openVPN rooting their phones and arsing about with the android sdk to do something that works out of the box. -.-’

It’ll work on most distros it depends only on the rndis_host and the rndis_wlan modules.

And yes this post was made through my eeepc tethered to my mobile.

Enjoy!