you may or may not know the whole live.com thing that microsoft is doing, putting hotmail + msn messenger etc all under the "Live" branding.
As of today you can know sign up for live.com and live.co.uk email addresses, so if you want to try and nab a decent email address before everyone else on the internet signs up then head over to
www.live.com
and click hotmail > signup
it only opened a short while ago and I tested some short names which still were available
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