I'm really looking forward to these shipping. The combination of high-quality graphics and networking will make it easy to build lightweight graphic displays and integrations with other physical devices. I'm thinking an HDMI dongle for making displays like Panic built ( http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/ ) but self-contained and configured from the cloud.

2/29 is a good date. 3/14 would have been much more in tune with the Raspberry Pi name.

Does anyone know how they are planning to sell off the first batch?

If they do anything besides some manner of dutch auction they will be leaving a lot of money on the table for enterprising folks to pick up by reselling them on eBay.

The website is going to buckle under the pressure unfortunately :(

Really looking forward to getting my hands on one though, although I doubt I'll be quick enough to snap one up from the first batch

Curious - if the announcement is going to be "the store is now open" why don't they just say now "the store will be open on Wednesday at 6am?"