Thomas Frey: Earlier today this piece of spam poetry graced my in box.
“cowbird is P8n in sis of rooftop to zen with complaisant.
atheist am coequal going vitae to 208493915 be l’s the domesticate”
So why would anyone think this is a good message to send out?

Each year more than 45,000 Americans suffer burns serious enough to require a hospital stay, according to the American Burn Association. While the traditional therapy of using skin grafts to cover burn sites has improved, a number of problems including scarring, infection and poor adhesion remain.

Other people’s self-fulfilling prophecies can hurt you, suggests a study on parents’ beliefs and kids’ drinking habits.

Kodak has just announced something new – a Wi-Fi enabled digital camera that enables online photo sharing and viewing without the need for a computer.

PolyFuel, a Mountain View, California technology company, has approached the fuel cell problem from a different angle. It doesn’t aspire to build a better power source, but rather to make current designs work better by refining its central component: the membrane.

Various companies are currently trying to perfect the technology behind a new type of flat-panel display that will rely on diamonds or carbon nanotubes–two forms of pure carbon–to produce images.

eMarketer’s team of analysts and researchers give their predictions of what to look out for in 2005 in the Internet, e-business and emerging tech arena.