Nerrrrrrrd Alert -- Michigan State grad student "discovers" a "new" prime number...sort of. Forgive my lack of enthusiasm, but it seems to me that Michael Shafer's sole accomplishment here was installing the software that actually ran the calculation before anyone else -- he didn't write it, and as he gamely points out, "It was only a matter of time." Thus, of course, eventually there will be a new highest special number, right? Maybe this item was planted by the company that wants to sell tshirts and posters with the number on it...dear god.