The! Biggest! News! of! the! Day! - Not Yahoo Management Change or Comments from Merck or Disney

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

• A management shakeup at Yahoo (YHOO) that included the COO and the head of Yahoo's media group...(note - no, this doesn't yet mean I am dropping my exclamation point boycott...)
• Word that Merck & Co (MRK) reaffirmed it guidance...
• Upbeat comments comments from Walt Disney Co. (DIS) as the company "remains 'very bullish' on its prospects"...
• Disappointing earnings from Novell (NOVL)...
• Some mildly downbeat comments on Google (GOOG) as it is said that "employees have begun trickling out"...
• The exciting news that "spam volumes have doubled from last year"...
• Mortgage applications data...

While those are all stories worth watching, I think it is obviously clear that the biggest story is this - San Francisco says no to cookie aroma at bus stops...we discussed this story yesterday and it turns out there are some limits that people aren't yet willing to cross!!!...thankfully...now we only have to worry about the apes taking over...