The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Earnings from Procter & Gamble (PG) or Carl Icahn's Letter

Here are some of the contenders for today's biggest...news...of...the...day...

• Earnings from Procter & Gamble (PG)...the firm posted inline earnings of 74 cents a share and upped the low end of its forecast...
• Chatter on Motorola (MOT) as Carl Icahn is reported to have written an "open letter to shareholders that is being published as a full-page advertisement"...
• A look into the oil patch amid concerns about what Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is going to do...
• Disappointing comments from Liz Claiborne (LIZ) that have the stock poised to gap lower...
• Speculation that Microsoft (MSFT) may be poised to buy internet advertising firm 24/7 Real Media...
• A rebuttal by Google (GOOG) that YouTube isn't violating the law...
• A new camera geared toward pushing video to sites like YouTube...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest story is this - Video game aims to hook children on Shakespeare...it would seem that a college professor has combined the two great joys of children, video games and Shakespeare, into one unstoppable experience...what child wouldn't jump at the chance to fight enemy spaceships by "memorizing lines from the famous play, learning facts about Shakespeare's life and devising synonyms and homonyms for parts of the text"...the article doesn't say whether game makers such as Electronic Arts (ERTS) and Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO) will be coming out with competing products...

I think that this concept fits perfectly with the Grand Theft Auto series of games...the only thing that would make that more enjoyable would be a box of spinach-flavored popsicles...