] Human remains found in the chimney of local Salvation
] Army Thrift Store last week were those of a 37-year-old
] man who was reported missing in 1999, the chief medical
] examiner's office said Wednesday.

CompleteWasteOfTime.blogs.com had the right title:
"Someone failed break-and-enter class"

wnbc.com - News - Chimney Remains ID'd As Man Missing Since 1999

] We have some isolated reports of users who've been hit by
] the new Skulls trojan on their phones.
]
] This trojan has been distributed on some Symbian
] shareware download sites as "Extended Theme Manager" by
] "Tee-222". If you see it, don't install it on your phone.
] It will make the smartphone features of your phone
] useless, so you can still make calls with the phone but
] that's it, no messages, no web, no applications. Recovery
] could get tricky, especially if you don't have a
] third-party file manager software already installed on
] your phone.

This is a pretty nasty looking beast.

F-Secure : News from the Lab

] Microsoft chairman Bill Gates receives four million
] emails a day, and is probably the most "spammed" person
] in the world.
]
] But unlike ordinary users, the software mogul has an
] entire department to filter unsolicited emails and only a
] few of them actually get through to his inbox, Microsoft
] chief executive Steve Ballmer said today.
]
] "Bill Gates (is number one) because he is Bill Gates.
] Bill literally receives four million pieces of email per
] day, most of it spam," Mr Balmer told a conference.
]
] "And so we have special technology which just filters
] (spam).

Wow. Imagine software that *filters* email to avoid Spam. Truly, Microsoft is living on the cutting edge.

But its true, I'm sure it is not a new thing to sign up Bill Gates to spam lists. He is the most obvious and enduring target.

] "Literally, there's a whole department, almost, that
] takes care of it."

I'd like an anti-spam department.

NEWS.com.au | Gates 'world's most-spammed man' (November 18, 2004)

] Diana Duyser's mystical grilled cheese sandwich is for
] sale -- again.
]
] The massive online auction house eBay admitted Tuesday it
] made a judgment error in taking down Duyser's sale item:
] half of a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich that she
] says has an image of the Virgin Mary on it.
]
] An e-mail Duyser received from eBay had said the sandwich
] broke eBay's policy, which ``does not allow listings that
] are intended as jokes.''

Herald.com | 11/16/2004 | eBay calls pulling ''Virgin Mary'' cheese sandwich from bidding ``a mistake''

] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - EarthLink Inc. ELNK.O and Yahoo
] Inc. YHOO.O said on Monday they would begin tests of a
] new anti-spam technology that encodes digital signatures
] into customers' e-mail as a way to separate legitimate
] messages from unwanted spam.
]...
] Yahoo's DomainKeys embeds outgoing messages with an
] encrypted digital signature matched to a signature on the
] server computer that sends the message.

In the absence of a consensus, we will again have a competition of who carries the most weight and includes the most users. This is a good start toward that. If AOL comes onboard, we'd have a significant percentage of usage; considering that Microsoft, the other big player, has worn out its welcome, that may be enough to be declared Critical Mass.

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

] An upcoming Microsoft software product for clustered servers
] won't run on Intel's high-end Itanium 2 chip, according to a
] report first published on News.com. Instead, it will be
] optimized for a more mainstream type of server chip from Intel
] and rival Advanced Micro Devices

I would say this is yet another set back for Intel:Itanium, except that in real clustering environments -- compute loads where the difference between an Itanium and a Xeon is significant -- Microsoft is almost completely irrelevant. Microsoft was at Supercomputing this year, with a two-story booth... and almost no attention. I saw Linux support touted by the hardware vendors far more (10:1?) than any mention of Microsoft products.

Microsoft Nixes Intel's Itanium Chip

] IBM's still-incomplete
] Blue Gene/L system, which will be installed at Lawrence
] Livermore National Laboratory Latest News about Lawrence
] Livermore National Laboratory, achieved a sustained
] performance of 70.72 trillion calculations per second
] using a standard test program, the Department of Energy
] said on Thursday.

Its ON for next week

Technology News: News: IBM Supercomputer Claims New Record

] We have brains for you in Brains, Other Brains, and
] Celebrity Brains.

Clever little parody there.

Brains4Zombies.com -- Your online home for Brains and Brain-Related Products

] You Searched For: itanium
]
] Your search has been rewritten from: "itanium" to "titanium"

Dell - Search - All Dell.com

] While Intel prepared to deliver thousands of Itanium 2
] processors, SGI's manufacturing facility in Chippewa
] Falls, Wis. braced itself for a hectic summer and fall.
] "The thought of building a 10,240-processor system in a
] little over three months was something, especially since
] we still had to meet our normal manufacturing pace," said
] Dick Harkness, vice president of Manufacturing
] Operations, SGI. "While quite the challenge, we had every
] confidence that we could meet it."

One more -- this represents 10% of the Itanium2 processors Intel expects to sell this year. One computer.

NASA, SGI and Intel Build and Deploy 'Columbia' in Record Time: New Supercomputer World's Most Powerful