Episode 667

Electronic Arts isn't taking no for an answer from Take-Two, and Pakistan gives us an object lesson in why censorship is bad: in an effort to block YouTube in that country, they took out YouTube for the entire world (for about two hours) and then got themselves taken offline altogether. Wow. That's a day's work, right there. 
==Stories Covered==
Pakistan removed from the Internet
Google argues against calling IP addresses "personal data"
Electronic Arts offers $2B for Take-Two
New MacBook Pros are imminent. Yep, still.
iPhone SDK may be one to three weeks late
Sony paid Warner Bros. $400 million to go Blu-ray?
Toshiba paid off to drop HD DVD?
Microsoft discontinues HD DVD drives
Microsoft launches private beta of Internet Explorer 8
Torvalds gives props to Microsoft for sharing
Adobe blurs line between PC and Web
Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered 
==From The Phones==
James from Alaska
Hungry for burgers. 
Shalin
What's with the huh?
==In the Forums==
There might be something to Molly's magnetic field!
==Emails==
iTunes refund
Ray from Alameda 
Digital TV and some hate to Apple
Roque (aka Rocky) from Guadalajara, Mexico
A senator and the digital transition
Zack 
Xbox 360 Blu-ray player 
D in Seattle 
The LOI movement
Ron Landreth 
Grandma Mary listens!
Grandma Mary 
New features on the Zune?
Oliver 
Another turtle-y update!
Michael 
Google balloons already over Sao Paulo
Alex, from Rio.
It's Rick, the "balloon scientist" and amateur radio operator from Colorado.
Rick von Glahn
Parker, Colorado