Its a bit embarassing (like my electronics-fu is now totally blown), but seeing as the chip on the left just found a block (and at a ridiculous 1 billion difficulty), its just so much of an unlikely event that I just had to share. BTW that's an EP4CE10E22C8N mining at 12 MHash/sec !!
Cool, I have a 3 DE0-Nanos and was running them at 6.67 MHash a sec, powered by USB. I thought it would be cool to try to build something with the largest non-bga FPGAs from Altera but I guess it would be far from profitable at this point.