Here's one that I just across:

A sports management company sponsored a contest & reality tv show in India to find the 'million dollar arm'.  The winners of the first season – two villagers from Uttar Pradesh – were signed by the Pirates and learning the game (they had to be trained to wear a glove, having been used to catching the ball bare-handed, cricket-style).  They are keeping a blog here (and clearly learning English but it is refreshingly authentic).

In a cricket-mad country, there ought to be some good arms out there that can be trained to be baseball pitchers, although baseball is a lot harder to pick up than, say football (soccer) or basketball, in terms of the nuances & strategy.  But here's wishing Rinku & Dinesh the best of luck!

I've had my eye on Sonos, the multi-room music system, for a while.  However, I just couldn't justify the cost of it, especially in a flat where I mainly listen to music in just one room.  I also didn't like the fact that, due to its lack of native storage, Sonos requires your computer to be turned on to stream from your collection or setting up a networked storage drive, which didn't appeal for a few reasons (added cost, hassle of keeping libraries synched, look, etc). But I did want to avoid having to keep my computer on to play music.  So I researched options and settled on Apple TV + Remote.  What I like about it is:

• It auto-synchs with my iTunes library (I have the 160 GB version) so I don't need to have my computer on to play music through my living room speakers.
• Having downloaded the Remote app to my iPod Touch, I can play music through AppleTV without having to turn my tv on.
• It's a relatively cheap solution (AppleTV is ~ $329 / 279 GBP; Remote is a free app) and cheaper than Sonos + network-attached storage
• Oh, and I can also display pictures and play movies/tv shows that I download through iTunes

If I had multiple rooms, Sonos would probably get the nod but so far, Apple TV + Remote seems to work just fine for my living room but I would like to see it updated to better enable listening to streaming internet radio and other apps or widgets such as 8tracks, last.f and others.