New York City has just announced the winner of its “Taxi of Tomorrow” competition.  Nissan will build a minivan that will soon become the only vehicle permitted for use as a yellow cab in the city. The contest mandated several rider-friendly features. But my favorite requirement is one that will improve life for the people outside the cab: “low-annoyance horn.”

Pat is tied up with coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden so there’s no trivia quiz today. The game resumes tomorrow, May 2 at 11:30 am ET.

One of the most amazing stories today is about a man named Sohaib Athar who essentially live-blogged the Osama bin Laden raid…without realizing it. Under the Twitter handle @ReallyVirtual, Athar who had just relocated to Abbottabad, Pakistan from Lahore, began grumbling about noisy helicopters near his home.

Knowing what we know now about the death of Osama bin Laden, the result of an attack ordered several days ago, is there anything to be read into President Obama’s reaction when Seth Meyers brought up bin Laden’s name at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner?

In almost every industry there are tools that are vital to getting the job done. In shoe stores, it’s the Brannock Device. In barbershops, it’s the Barbicide stuff. And in TV newsrooms, it’s the TelePrompTer.

If you want your child to be a CEO one day, name them Deborah. Or Debra. Both spellings appear on a fascinating list compiled by LinkedIn about the most popular names for several different professions. Male CEOs tend to have short names or shortened versions of longer names: Bob is high on the list. So is Jack. Female executives, on the other hand, tend to have long names and shy away from nicknames.

Erin submitted today’s Starbucks Alter Ego. She’s as baffled as we were by the barista’s two-layer approach—Eroivin is what we made out.

It was only a matter of time before “Law and Order” champed on Charlie Sheen’s over-publicized bit. And as it turns out, I was there to see it happen. Last month, I taped a quick appearance on “Law and Order: Criminal Intent and was in the room as Jay Mohr taped his Charlie Sheen-like rant to the TV interviewer.

How’s this for an ethics test: What would you do if, on a trip to the supermarket, you finished your shopping and then discovered that there were no employees around to check you out—or prevent you from stealing everything in your cart. That’s exactly what happened last Friday—Good Friday—when a computer glitch forced the doors of a New Zealand supermarket open an hour before employees showed up for work.