While I'm thinking of it: Anyone out there want a Gmail trial account? If you aren't familiar with it, read the about page. One area of concern for some is that there are automatic filters to try to deliver targeted advertising. Some consider this an invasion of privacy, but don't seem to have the same concern about spam filters, which do essentially the same thing. In any case, it seems like a convenient service for free email from a company that has done its best not to be evil in the past. I've got a few referrals to get people in during the testing phase if anyone out there is interested.
Disclosure Statement: I am in no way affiliated and receive no compensation from Google. I do own some stock (read: very little) and happen to think they're cool though.
I'm not particularly threatened by gmail's scanning and ad targeting. The FBI's Carnivore scares me more. Actually, I could see fun times had by gmail users playing most interesting targeted ad games...
I plan to get a gmail account eventually and would like to try to lock in pix3l as a username if still possible, but my interest in this is about a 4 out of 10. If you know people that are more interested, hook them up first.
If you run out, Ish, I've got some gmail invites I'm not using.
I can't get rid of my invites! I think the GMail demand has been satisfied.