http://www.raspberrypi.org/about

If you know anything about linux You'll be able to jump right in and start playing with it.

If you don't know anything about linux.. WHY? Heh Its really easy to learn if you use Windows daily.
I'll try to dig up some links to good learners sites for linux, but nothing beats just installing it and playing, for newbies I like "Mint linux" (Note that won't run on the Raspberry-pi board)

Anyways back to the lil 25$ HDMI out computer board... the 35 $ version has a 10/100 network jack and a 2nd usb that just screams small home network storage...

The 25 buck one would make a great media player for all those LEGALLY DOWNLOADED ANIMES we all have :>
http://www.raspbmc.com/ <- Xbox media center port project WIP

Im going to be ordering one as soon as the store opens and I'll try to keep that project updated.

SPECS

""The Raspberry Pi measures 85.60mm x 53.98mm x 17mm, with a little overlap for the SD card and connectors which project over the edges. It weighs 45g.

The SoC is a Broadcom BCM2835. This contains an ARM1176JZFS, with floating point, running at 700Mhz, and a Videocore 4 GPU. The GPU is capable of BluRay quality playback, using H.264 at 40MBits/s. It has a fast 3D core accessed using the supplied OpenGL ES2.0 and OpenVG libraries.
The GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode.

The GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24 GFLOPs of general purpose compute and features a bunch of texture filtering and DMA infrastructure.

That is, graphics capabilities are roughly equivalent to Xbox 1 level of performance. Overall real world performance is something like a 300MHz Pentium 2, only with much, much swankier graphics.

Model A has 128Mb of RAM, one USB port and no Ethernet (network connection). Model B has 256Mb RAM, 2 USB port and an Ethernet port.""


*wags* Oh I can't wait---muddog007