Homotron Week In Review: Week Ending 5/24/2008

Hello folks! We're back!

I hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend, and paid the proper respects to the men and women in service to your respective countries.

I'm finally back from surgery recovery (let me tell you, vicodin is *not* conducive to coherent writing) and so you'll see me back on the site this week!

Like a changing of the guard, Jesse James will be out for the week on vacation, so we wish him great times and have already coordinated efforts on booby trapping his rooms here in the Homotron Labs with what I can assure you are extremely complicated and thoroughly hilarious automated obstacles.

Shhhhhh! Don't tell him anything!

On to the linkage:

• There's some rumblings that Best Buy wants to get into the rental business. Maybe they're trying to copy Blockbuster's bid for Circuit City in reverse?
• Also from the rumour files: Comcast wants to meter your bandwidth. *sigh*
• Everyone loves a flying penis!
• Netflix realises every movie-loving couch potato's dream.
• You cannot even imagine the joy I felt at seeing Steve Ballmer covered in raw proteins. Seriously, it should be rated as pornographic for me.
• Tiny shows us he has a little grandmother inside of him.
• Napster tries to wake up again from its perpetual irrelevance in today's music landscape... by copying iTunes. Napster must not like making money.
• Microsoft gets desperate... and bribes people to use its search feature. This one's too easy.
• Exhibitionists on the 9th floor: rejoice! There's now a wall climbing robot camera outside your window!
• Firefox 3 is set to come out in June. I can feel the anticipation reverberating through the tubes.
• A class-action lawsuit is now underway against the telcos for the way they charge for text messages. I'm all for it: charging for text messages you receive and can't block is absolutely ridiculous.
• NeonMadman asks: is mainstream marketing dead?
• Time Warner Cable splits away from Time Warner. I actually applaud this: separating content providers from content delivery infrastructure is much better.
• Our gadget of the week was the awesomely simple, cheap, and easy Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1. I guess Creative can come up with a good new product.