I had to wake up early in the morning to do it, but I was able to order an XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation (and donate another at the same time). I was prepared to discover the project's website was overloaded with visitors-- one observer predicted the alloted systems would sell out "in 30 seconds"-- but I had no problems.

I visited www.laptopgiving.org promptly at 3 am, saw that the main page had changed to show the start of the "Give One Get One" program, and clicked the "Find out more" button. That took me to a page providing a small amount of additional detail on the program plus a link to place an order.

The ordering link took me to PayPal-- so that could explain why the OLPC site wasn't overwhelmed; they're only providing two pages to most visitors.

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