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Advertising gives weird messages sometimes. The Lipitor^tm commercial showing the model tripping? The implication is that wearing a size 6 dress causes high cholesterol levels. There's a Country Crock^tm ad which clearly implies there is no need for risky, expensive IVF procedures; just eat the product; you'll be pregnant in no time. Advertising in different fields may be more useful; here's a story about the increasing number of projects using distributed computing (got computer? Not using it part of the day?) to solve scientific puzzles. Think SETI or Mersenne Prime numbers. A list of these projects is available here.

Here's some news about less savory projects: Nigerian cyber-cafés are cracking down on some of their fraud-happy customers. On a brighter note, perhaps you've heard of the dog aboard an abandoned ship? Well, she's still there at this writing; part of the problem (said quite seriously) is that the dog understands only Mandarin!