Hope the Ladytron Show in Atlanta last night rocked. It's a bummer they're not coming to Seattle, but I recently saw them when they toured with CSS . A few things today - first up, Zunethoughts has a story about a great resource to get Zune background images . Like this one: 'Thoughts is also running a contest to give away a (nearly new) white Zune . Cool. And I'd like to thank IWAPZ Zune t-shirt ! I wear it with pride:

A ZuneInsider reader made a video of his Zune hooked up to his car, and emailed me the link: And speaking of home-made creations, a 19yo Zunerama forum member has created his own line of cases for Zune: Zunerama has more pictures and a full writeup . Hey, have you done something cool with your Zune? Got a cool home/car/work setup? Email me the pictures! And lastly, I have one final t-shirt - only available in a women's medium. First person to email me (address after the jump). Not sure you want the...

This week, we've got the E&D (Entertainment and Devices, the division of which Zune is a part) global sales/marketing folks in from all over the world. We get together, talk product strategy, marketing tactics, that kind of thing. To kick off the meetings, we hold an indoor soccer tournament - a world cup. While in past years I played on the Latin American* team, this year played defense on the Zune team. Redmond Zunited: We didn't win the tournament in our first year playing, but we made a strong...

And now, the winners of the pointless fun Zune swag giveaway contest . The Sir-mix-a-lot-Zune Tribute "Best in Show" Award: Winner: Callidus . Excerpt: Ooh, Rump-o'-smooth-plastic You say you wanna get my songs? Well, link me, link me 'Cause I don't got that average playlist Congratulations, Callidus! You wrote the best Sir-mix-a-lot-Zune Tribute I've ever seen! You win the DLO case and the t-shirt! High-five! The Sir-mix-a-lot-Zune Tribute Contest "early bird gets the worm t-shirt" Award: Winner...