USB Controlled Power Strip
Reference Material
USB to serial
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/762
or possibly
http://www.harbaum.org/till/i2c_tiny_usb/index.shtml
(http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html)
Controlling power (from signal)
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/100 (though prob not)
more prob opto isolator & triac
http://www.electronics-lab.com/projects/misc/005/index.html
http://www.edaboard.com/thread155997.html
http://translate.google.gr/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=el&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.soloelectronica.net%2Frele_solido.htm&sl=auto&tl=en
http://imakeprojects.com/Projects/avr-tutorial/
http://ladyada.net/learn/avr/fuses.html
http://www.engbedded.com/fusecalc/
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-ISP-Programmer-ATMEL-AVR-ATMega-ATTiny-51-Board-/320675405594?pt=UK_BOI_Electrical_Test_Measurement_Equipment_ET&hash=item4aa9be5f1a
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B81NVlfiCcB3ODVkMGFhMWQtYThhZC00OTZhLTk2MzctNDEwNDVhNjI0N2Rm&hl=en_GB&authkey=CMuq_McL
http://brownsofa.org/blog/archives/191
http://imakeprojects.com/Projects/avr-tutorial/