I continue to be intrigued by the Sugar user interface for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and I’ve collected some additional links — including a YouTube video demo — that will give you a better idea of what it’s all about:

• The YouTube video demo, titled “Slightly better of the OLPC User Interface“
• “Trying Out the OLPC User Interface,” a May 23, 2006 blog posting by Tom Hoffman, running on a Fedora Linux virtual machine
• Another video clip of Sugar, from November 2006
• Emulating Sugar on Windows or Mac, from a November 21, 2006 posting on the One Laptop Per Child News blog.
• “a taste of sugar,” from a May 21, 2006 posting on Christopher Blizzard’s “Invisible Sandwich” blog
• “The OLPC Sugar Interface: Don’t Do It,” a critical review of the Sugar UI, from a November 28, 2006 posting on the “Upping the Ante” blog
• “The Sugar UI,” a January 4, 2007 visual commentary on Jeff Atwood’s “Coding Horrors” blog
• “Pour Some Sugar on OLPC,” a brief March 13, 2007 posting on the Bostonist blog
• “Try Sugar the OLPC Interface,” a brief description of a how-to article on running Sugar in the RedHat Linux environment — posted on the March 1, 2007 entry of the MobileLinuxInfo blog.
• “ Will OLPC’s ‘Sugar’ Have an Effect on Other OSes?,” a brief January 6, 2007 commentary on Slashdot

I also noticed a March 25, 2006 Infoworld article about security concerns associated with the $100 laptop project, entitled “Despite upgrades, security experts fear $100 laptops.” I don’t know enough about the situation to offer an informed commentary, but the article is well worth reading … I would surely hate to see this magnificent experiment in ubiquitous computing ruined by malware, viruses, and other security problems.

I’ll post more stuff about Sugar and the OLPC project as I find it…