Over at Amazon they are offering the 80 GB Playstation 3 for $50 off - Today only!  So go grab one if you're not a proud PS3 owner yet and have been considering the idea.

Also, through June 14th, Peggle is $0.99 for the iPhone/iPod Touch.  Pick that up for sure if you haven't already, because - Peggle=Perfection.

That is all.

Today is the day that a lot of Playstation 3 fans have been waiting for, and the only thing I can say to anyone falling into that category is this: Prepare to be disappointed. I have been beta testing Home for well over a year now (although that's a little bit of deceit, as I've only booted the thing up half a dozen times in that year), and I can now unequivocally say to you that it is pretty much trash. Anyone participating in the Home™ beta before today's system-wide release was under an NDA, and although there has been a lot of talk about Home™ irrespective of that fact, I decided not to say a word one way or the other until it was released to the masses.  But now everyone can download pure disappointment for themselves! Now, obviously, Home™ is a work in progress.  Many things are not fleshed out to the extent I assume they will be once it clears beta status, but it's easy to see what the end product will be based on the framework they have now - and that is that it will be a steaming-pile of unasked-for features and lackluster graphical front end interface, when all people really wanted was a nice clean system for starting games and organizing media (which the XMB isn't so hot at either).  Everything from the character creation to the apartment decorating to the in-world games is abysmal. Before you decry me as a Playstion hater or a Xbox Fanboy, please recognize that I love all of my systems (and I've owned practically every one since the original NES) regardless of their manufacturer.  Home™, though, is just one more example of the (sadly) faultering Sony we've seen this generation.  Home™ is simply an excuse to throw a metric shit-ton of advertising at you disguised as a living, breathing avatar-based community.  Don't fall for it. Now, if developers take full advantage of Home™ and are able to include themed environments based on their games that allow the user to have a more tactile experience (as opposed to say, just watching a trailer - which honestly is plenty for me) then there may be some merit yet.  Until then, it's simply a Playstation (and all of its sponsors)-branded Second Life that is releasing, ironically, right as Second Life fizzles and dies. Sony, I think it's time to restructure your marketing and development executives.