Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz is back with another inciteful article on CNN.com. This time, he takes on Senator Patrick Leahy’s proposal to create a commission to investigate the Bush administration justice department.

Read Sins of commission: Senator Leahy’s truth squad.

You can read all of David’s CNN articles at http://www.DavidGewirtz.com/cnn.

ILX Group plc has launched m-learning (mobile learning) to deliver bite size training courses directly to mobile devices. The application is expected to complement existing ILX e-learning courses.

Students in high schools in Norway can take their exams on their laptops, thanks to the MAS monitoring and auditing system from 3ami. The software provides a way to prevent them accessing hidden notes, surfing the Internet or collaborating with friends.

Twitter’s open API is leading people to build apps to turn on the lights, call if the plants need water, or help you quit smoking. All in 140 characters or less.

A few tweaks to an old netbook and this writer had a jukebox to play music from the web. He doesn’t even have to download the tunes to his box.

Google is now offering an enhancement to Gmail called Multiple Inboxes. The feature might more accuratly be called “Multiple Inbox Views” as it only shows one account. This wiki offers some information on setting up the feature.

The new version of Amazon’s Kindle reader has been released. The new audio feature allow the Kindle 2 to “read” books to you.

The One Laptop Per Child’s XO Children’s Machine isn’t a show-stopper, but it could make a good e-book reader, cheaper and sturdier than Amazon’s Kindle.

At 11 pounds it might better be called “luggable” than laptop but, with a secondary screen, built-in pen tablet, and a color-calibration system, it might be a nice portable desktop unit.

Barring some insanse federal bailout or economic stimulus package tailored specifically for the movie industry, plans for an industry-wide conversion to digital may be delayed at least a couple years. Why should you care? In this interesting article, Jorge Sosa shows how the digitial cinema transition might change the way you watch big-screen movies

Read this Computing Unplugged article.