A few items of note:

• You won't need a credit card for Xbox Live Gold on the Xbox 360, thanks to prepaid cards you can buy for cash.
• Major Nelson's "blogcast" gets a mention in the "New and Notable" section of the iTunes Podcasting section.
• Xbox Solution does a rundown on various Xbox Live statistics. Apparently 15% of XBL subscribers are women.
• TeamXbox thinks the Origen site is a countdown to a Halo 3 announcement, based on the translation of a message in Latin hidden in the site.