using that old Pretenders song on the bb pad TV commercial just makes them sound a little bit desperate to me... "Give me some attention... PLEASE... anyone? anyone??? really, I'm special!"

...to get the last humans to Utopia!

Microsoft has "no plans" for a smaller version of the 360.

Oh, you mean something that is even more likely to overheat and would probably exceed the current awesome 50-whatever% failure rate?

Yeah, I want that!

this is off-topic, but must be mentioned... that chick in the pre TV commercials is very odd looking. it's actually kinda spooky how odd looking she is... sorta alien. it freaks me out and makes me feel like i just witnessed something wrong in a petri dish.

The Zune is just a jealous attention starved child... it noticed that it's big brother the XBox was getting plenty of attention with it's "ring of death" strategy...