Yahoo has a story this morning about Bill Gates, who besides being the richest man in the world, is also the most spammed. Ah well, with great wealth comes great annoyances.

Each day more than four million messages speed off for Mr. Gates’ inbox, but sophisticated filtering programs and an IT department dedicated to clearing out unwanted emails, filters and traps the spam. Apparently even with the best and the brightest MS has to offer, a few pieces of the dreaded stuff still find the target.

Gee, Bill it’s real neat that to have 58 billion dollars and a company worth more than the GDP of Israel. Nothing can touch that sort of achievement. But how about sharing this nifty filtering technology with your customers? Must it just be a proprietary MS secret to wake up and not have krillions of messages about penis extension, breast augmentation, hot moms and their college aged neighbors, or counterfeit Viagra and Cialis?

billg AT microsoft, I beseech you: forget about encouraging India to practice safe sex for a moment and return my inbox to the full and upright position. Release this magic program – and lay them spammers down!

Just in from Iowa, a wild turkey has seized complete control of traffic patterns! Each morning during rush hour, Jake lurks at the roadside. When drivers slow to admire his dashing good looks, this Terroristic Tom rushes the motorists, and halts their cars. And what of the motorists that step out of their vehicles and attempt to shoo Jake? He circles their car and makes wild turkey gestures.

Read about Jake the mad turkey

Now, why mention this turkey harassment? Three reasons. First, next week writer guy sends two turkeys to the great beyond in the trusty frying kit, so it’s topical. Second, I didn’t know there were enough cars in Iowa for traffic. Finally, a bizzare nature story trumps the bear who drank a case and half of beer.