Ars Technica has a good run through of the case and issues here, BoingBoing here.

FORBES: The Importance Of The First Sale Doctrine

The blog BoingBoing posted a photo of a man's elbow that was apparently sliced open by one of the computers -- or a similar model.

CNN: MacBook Air 'doubles as a kitchen knife'

As a side note, I noticed that on BoingBoing, the comments section inevitably led to the speculation that we ourselves are living in a simulated universe.

FORBES: Connect

Cory Doctorow, a friend, and writer at Web publication BoingBoing, said in a lengthy post there that Mr. Swartz had struggled for years with depression and had written about the subject publicly.

WSJ: Legal Case Strained Troubled Web Activist