A DVI cable will work, as long as the monitor supports HDCP.

But a DVI cable won't carry audio. (I had a DVI cable going into the TV and RCA audio going into the AV receiver.)

I'm willing to shell out $3 for an episode if I just liked it that much and I didn't manage to save it on my TiVo to get me over until the DVD comes out, or if I just want to have a look. I have a few SPN episodes, some Eureka, and some Middleman for those reasons. The difference between 99¢ and $2.99 isn't enough for me to rail at the relatively smaller selection available to rent.

A DVI cable will work, as long as the monitor supports HDCP.

Yeah, forgot to mention that.

USB cufflinks. Except for, ya know, the price, I'd totally get one of those.

You could also make a nano cufflink at this point, yeah?

That price is insane. I like how it's advertised as a 4GB drive, but it's really 2GB per cuff link.

Huh. I had thought Ping had some sort of Facebook integration. And I wasn't the only confused one.

Confusion Over Facebook's Brief Appearance in Ping for iTunes

With yesterday's release of iTunes 10, Apple also deployed a new music-focused social network feature known as Ping. When it initially launched yesterday, users creating their profiles were presented with an option to use Facebook Connect to find friends who had already created their own Ping profiles. It is unclear, however, whether the feature was functioning properly, as a number of users reported that searches yielded no results.

The Facebook Connect feature now seems to have disappeared from Ping, with many users not even realizing it was ever there. The flurry of activity has generated some confusion in the Apple media, especially after All Things Digital chatted with Steve Jobs about the lack of Facebook integration before people realized that the functionality was in fact partially present.

And Facebook is nowhere on Ping too. Currently, there is no linking, sharing or participation of any kind with Facebook - or Twitter or MySpace either - on Ping, which will work only on the iTunes software on computers, iPhones and iPods.

When I asked Jobs about that, he said Apple had indeed held talks with Facebook about a variety of unspecified partnerships related to Ping, but the discussions had gone nowhere.

The reason, according to Jobs: Facebook wanted "onerous terms that we could not agree to."

I played with the ping thing a bit last night before going to bed. It asks if you want to auto share tunes you recently rated/purchased or manually pick. I think it was a 10 or 12 songs. I said manually. Then you type in a search box. I was thinking it was from your library. But it seems a couple indie albums of friends are also in iTunes (good for them!). When I got to Beatles, the choices were rather slim. That confirmed it. It seems to only let you pick from the iTunes store. I clicked cancel, and went to bed.

Beatles is sorta a specific case with Apple though.

Spammers Already Taking Aim at Apple's Ping