software worth mentioning:
NetNewsWire; saves me a large amount of time each day, by harvesting the news, and displaying it in a nice interface. no more trawling around on news sites...
X-tunes; a really smart helper for controlling iTunes without activating it or going to the dock.

according to this, volkswagen is planning to re(tro)introduce the legendary vw bus in 2005, the prototype has been showed of at a few car conferences, but now vw are finally committed to bringing it to market, hopefully they won't make it too expensive like they did with the beetle.