A lady has been awarded $29 billion from Phillip Morris due to her smoking habit leading to lung cancer.[Cnn Money]
Um… I do think that tabacco companies have large liabilities, especially to the health care industry and government, but I just don’t see this much money being appropriate for a single person.

Review: Lindows 2.0 Dissected. Bob the Knob writes “Extremetech has done an in-depth review of Lindows. The … [Slashdot]

In the early hours of the morning, .NET, Microsoft’s platform for XML Web services, saved a five-year-old boy who fell down a well in Ottumwa, Iowa. [Sam Ruby]