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I return from vacation to learn that Katie Holmes had Tom Cruise's baby almost a week ago. The earth didn't move where I was digging.

Let's start slowly...

eBay Express: Fixed-price purchases, no bidding. If this were Google, it would say "beta"; instead, it says "preview."

Neil Young is streaming Living With War at his site beginning Friday, according to Reuters. Lyrics are in the crawl there now.

Da Vinci Code Quest: A Flash game that promotes the movie. Prizes. More info, comments and spoilers at Jay is Games.

New penicillin found in wallaby milk:

Scientists have discovered a bacteria-fighting compound 100 times more effective than penicillin - in wallaby milk.

Researchers found the highly-potent compound, tagged AGG01, was active against a wide variety of fungi and bacteria including antibiotic-resistant superbugs....

Save the Internet: Philly Enquirer Bling blogger Daniel Rubin:

Is this just "big company bad?" as one TPM Cafe commenter asked. Or is Congress truly "Giving Away the Internet?"

The hands-off-of-our Web crowd is warning that Comcast/ATT/Verizon/Time Warner will be allowed create a two-tier Internet, where premium-paying content providers will enjoy fast-lane service and those great, quirky mom-and-pop or unpaying sites, will be relegated to the slow lane - or the shoulder...

There's an official Save the Internet site.

Jeff Pulver has launched a Viral Marketing Contest to Save the Internet; rules are here. (via Doc Searls)
Related: Don't undercut Internet access. A San Francisco Chronicle editorial.

Windows keyboard shortcuts you never knew existed! Hyperbole in the headline -- the list starts with Ctrl-A, which selects text and is hardly obscure, but you might learn something new to you here.

The Children's Choices for 2005 from The Reading Teacher:

Each year 10,000 schoolchildren from different regions of the United States read and vote on the newly published children's and young adults' trade books that they like best.

If there's a kid in your life, you might check out the choices. Rebecca Blood paged through it and -- probably using Ctrl-A on the location bar -- offers links by age:

The list is divided into Beginning Readers, ages 5–7, Young Readers, ages 8–10 (half way down the page), and Advanced Readers, ages 11–13 (2/3 of the way down the page).

Affordable Europe: NYT,

...money-saving tips on everything from hotel rooms to cultural events from New York Times correspondents and contributors in 16 major European cities.

Their suggestions are not extensive. Do they not want to crowd their favorite haunts?