Yo, if there's a problem, Bill Gates will solve it. He's kind of like Vanilla Ice in that respect, only hopefully more successful. The geeky billionaire's expected to announce today that his Gates Foundation and the Canadian government will test a new AIDS vaccine.

Gates has dedicated his life and his loot to combating the world's deadliest diseases. Of these efforts, Gates tells Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:

This money is going to be spent on some very important causes in this century, and of the top 20 diseases that create the inequity, we will have either had drugs or vaccines to virtually eliminate most all of those. AIDS is the toughest, but certainly in my lifetime, I'd be very surprised if we don't have a vaccine.

Of course, Gates doesn't plan on dying anytime soon: he's arranged to have his brain implanted in a titanium robot. If he doesn't sort all of the world's problems by then, he'll continue on in robotic form. If he's still unsuccessful, he'll either give up or go on a killing rampage that will only end when he's supreme ruler of our lonely planet.

Imagine the buying power of 13 Bill Gates. 13 very gay Bill Gates. That’s the buying power of the gay community this year according to a new study. And that doesn’t even include Tom Cruise (because he’s definitely NOT gay.)

A new report projects that the total buying power of America's gay population this year will be $641 billion—an increase of $30 billion from 2005. Bob Witeck, president of Witeck-Combs Communications, which issued the report, said that research like this is a key reminder of the importance of the LGBT market, both to corporate America and the LGBT population as a whole. "It's a confidence figure in our own population to say that we do matter," Witeck said. "For gays and lesbians in our households, we want to be taken seriously and respectfully. We want to be counted."

In the end, this may be the most paved road to equality for the GLTB community, considering America’s money above all else philosophy. Let’s just hope companies like Ford continue to appreciate our pocketbooks. We’d hate to see some gay cowboy’s have to drive Chevys.

Report: Gays to spend $641 billion in 2006 [Advocate]

We’re sure Bill Gates is shaking in his ten-thousand dollar alligator boots with this one: A Seattle anti-gay pastor has urged his followers to buy and then dump Microsoft stock in order to drive the stock price down. Why? Because his original plan to boycott all Microsoft merchandise (including almost every brand name you''d find at Target or Sears), was just a tad too unrealistic.

Rev. Ken Hutcherson, pastor of Antioch Bible Church in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, said the stock-dumping plan had been his strategy all along.

"You got to find out how you affect a company," Hutcherson said, conceding that it would be hard to get people to shun products from companies that dominate the marketplace as Microsoft and Boeing do.

He wants supporters to buy one or two shares over the next few months, and then sell them May 1.

Over/under on how long it takes this guy to drive Microsoft into bankruptcy? Hmm, how about like, never. Do these bigots even have time anymore to actually, like pray and stuff?

Pastor Urges Microsoft Stock Buy-And-Dump [Forbes]

• Warner Bros. wants to reduce the size of new Superman Brandon Routh's oversized package, giving gays everywhere a little less reason to see the film next summer. [The Sun]

• We would never have guessed it but Bill Gates and his wife make time to hang out with Indian trannies. [The Washington Post]

• The so-called "king of (hetero) strip clubs" is gay. Queerty's two degrees of separation to the man now makes complete sense. [St. Petersburg Times]

• You can now walk for a good cause and never have to get out of bed. [The Advocate]

• The World Wide Web turns 15, which was about the age we were when we first accessed gay porn online. [CNN]