New York Times (blog) City Room: Stamps From Space, With Brooklyn TiesNew York Times (blog)So he had to do some research for a postage stamp commemorating Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first American to fly in space — not to be confused with the spacewalkers in Mr. Giancola's illustration in …

Osama's tooth, morbid memorabilia hot sale itemsToronto StarAlthough eBay scratched an ad for a $1500 tooth purported to have belonged to Osama bin Laden, dozens of other morbid memorabilia is selling well. And on the streets of New York, near the Ground Zero site of bin Laden's most famous terrorist …

Get Mom's Attention With a Neon Note Card SetPR Newswire (press release)Note Card set that includes matching envelopes and stamps. The Neon Celebrate! Note Card set includes brilliantly colored swirls, circles and dashes in pink, blue, orange, yellow and green. And for only $12.95, the eight-card set makes a great …

Collectors snap up royal stampsToowoomba ChronicleClifford Gardens Australia Post store manager Cameron King takes a closer look at the newly released royal wedding stamps. STAMP collectors and royalists alike flocked to Toowoomba's Australia Post shops yesterday to get their hands on the latest royal …Locals put stamp on royal nuptialsFraser …

X-bit Labs Intel's Next-Generation Eight-Core Sandy Bridge E Processor Hits Ebay.X-bit LabsAt least several engineering samples of eight-core Intel Core i "Sandy Bridge E" in LGA2011 package are now on sale at Ebay web-site. The chip marked as "Intel Confidential" has eight cores with Hyper-Threading technology, 20MB of level-three cache …

Green stampsThe News Journal (blog)I stopped at the Post Office today to mail some Mother's Day cards, and saw that the USPS is now offering “Go Green Stamps.” The 16-stamp set lists different things you can do to help “put your stamp on a greener tomorrow.” They include buying local …

Cloud CIO: Lessons from the OpenStack Design SummitComputerworldThe first item was the keynote presentation by Neil Sample, VP Architecture for eBay. eBay is considering Rackspace as a platform for its use of public cloud (although Sample was careful to note that eBay is also considering Azure as well). …and more » …

DALLAS–(BUSINESSWIRE)– “Print Big, Save Big” Promotion and New Sign and Banner Online Order Feature Help Small Businesses Maximize Their Marketing Dollars Small businesses have a positive long-term outlook … More: continued here

Sale 'may close 9000 post offices'Sunday MercuryGovernment plans to sell off the Royal Mail could lead to the closure of more than 9000 post offices, according to a new report. Research among 800 sub-postmasters by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) found that nine out of 10 said they could not …

Pak Watan eBay profits jump 20% in the growth of PaypalPak WatanInternet auction giant eBay has reported a sharp rise in quarterly profits thanks in large part due to strong growth at its Paypal division. Net income for the first three months of the year was $476 (£286m), a 20% …