The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Shanghai Plunge or Microsoft Tabletop Technology

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

• A plunge by the Shanghai Composite Index after China tripled taxes on stock trades in an effort to cool the market...
• New tabletop technology from Microsoft (MSFT)..."Gates is unveiling a new technology called Surface Computing that lets people interact with computers using touch, hand gestures, and physical objects equipped with optical tags"...
• An upbeat forecast and accelerated stock repurchase plan from IBM...
• A look into Apple's (AAPL) new product, Apple TV, with the "notion that Steve Jobs might be promising more than he can deliver"...
• The blame game regarding the price of gasoline...
• Some mild caution about upcoming solar-power IPOs...
• Patent infringement woes for Qualcomm (QCOM) as the company was found "guilty of infringing on three Broadcom (BRCM) patents"...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest story is this - $1M gold bathtub stolen from Japan hotel...according to the article, "A glittering bathtub made of gold worth nearly $1 million has been stolen from a resort hotel"...officials were quoted as saying "We have no witness information and there are no video cameras...We have no idea who took it"...

By no means do I condone crime, and I certainly don't encourage it, but it seems to me that if you can make a clean getaway with an 18-karat gold, 176 pound bathtub you should just be allowed to keep it. What do you think - man law???