NEW YORK (Reuters) - No. 1 microchip maker Intel Corp INTC.O will pay $300 million to resolve claims by Intergraph Corp. INGR.O that its Pentium line of microprocessors infringes on five of Intergraph's patents, the companies said on Monday.

SANTA CLARA, CA — APRIL 15, 2002 — NVIDIA® Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA) today announced that the Company’s nForce™ 420-D platform processors have been selected for use in Hewlett-Packard Company’s HP Pavilion desktop PCs—further proof that NVIDIA’s nForce product family continues to be the PC platform of choice by leading OEMs and system builders worldwide due to its integration of innovative system, memory, networking, and audio technologies.  According to NPD Techworld, a leading market research firm, HP Pavilion has been the number one retail desktop PC brand nationwide for the last 12 months.

No, it's not a type-o.  Apparently a couple of REALLY board C64 hackers managed to throw together a couple of ethernet adapters for their Commodore 64 machines, and stuck one on the internet.  Not only is it running TCP/IP stacks AND a web server, but they some how managed to shoehorn a RealAudio server onto it and is streaming audio from the C64's cassette drive, which I hear sounds TERRIBLE.  If this excites you, they've posted the source code and some pics of the C64 server.

I'm going to go laugh hysterically for a while now.

Those of you who are old enough to remember the classic 80's game M.U.L.E. for the Atari & Commodore 64 will get a kick out of this.  Shrapnel Games has announced that it will publish Space HoRSE, a strategy game created by Gilligames and inspired by the classic game M.U.L.E.. Players undertake a mission to create a self-sufficient colony on a remote planet. They must use their holistic robotic slave engineer, or "HoRSE," to harvest the resources of their new planet--food, power, titanium, and zirconium--and build a successful colony.

Gawd I remember my parents playing M.U.L.E. when I was but a wee lad.  You can read more about it and see some screenshots over at GameSpot.

While all you Procrastination-Type Geeks are dashing to the mailbox with your tax-returns, don't forget to swing by Subway for a free cookie.