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A wok is intended to be heated beyond the temperature at which some non-stick coatings flake off.
Stir fry cooking is intended to use small pieces of food flash fried so they retain their texture and nutrients.
People who care about their diet recognise that woks are a healthy way to prepare food and use them regularly.

The RasPi has got too much publicity for all the wrong reasons. Everyone here who is talking about media centres and file servers is kind of missing the point that these things are made by a charity for kids, so they can get into computers rather than websites. If you want something to run Android, buy an Android phone/tablet, or look at Android x86, if you want a file server get a SLUG and if you're after a microcontroller by all means, have at a large pile of Arduinos with a soldering iron. This device isn't for everyone and was never intended to be.
I for one welcome the flood of Model Bs hitting eBay so that kids can get their hands on them, or being able to break dad's RasPi without getting into trouble. That's why they are so cheap, so they can be replaced after they have been busted by inquisitive, experimenting kids.

Curiously, my RasPi is working fine with the "poorly documented, incomplete" Arch Linux distro I have on it. I find that the features I need all seem to be present and correct.
A lot of people can't be bothered to trawl GOOG for answers to "how do I make this Linux thing work" and so your point is correct, for those people. But if the media hadn't been all over this like a rash maybe these people wouldn't have thought "I must have one of those ... Ooh Shiny".

Great to see Apple's architecture agnosticism is catching on.

Android has always been reasonably portable. The kernel is Linux after all, and most of the user land doesn't care too much aside from JIT / interpretter code. Indeed Android has been running on x86 and MIPS processors for a while now.

Biggest issue are probably native apps. I don't understand why there is no LLVM target so that devs don't have to care or worry what processor is running in the tablet / phone / box but still benefit from native runtime performance. Curiously Renderscript (a new API) in 3.0 does use LLVM but not the NDK.

No other mobile OS runs as far as I know on X86.

Yeah, not like Android or Symbian runs on X86.

A man with more than 80 belongings becomes a slave to what he owns

It doesn't even boot on any real-world hardware that I'm aware of - just some emulator.

From this phrase alone one can tell you know nothing about what you're talking about.
http://www.androidx86.org/
http://www.android-x86.org/

But please, don't let me stop you.

http://www.androidx86.org/

Android never ran on x86.

FAIL