Rapid Fire is where we grab all those great stories that have been sitting for way too long in browser tabs and lump them together in one post. What was once great potential outrage fodder for Militant Geeks everywhere as been reduced to an idea dump due to time constraints – ENJOY!

• AOL’s ’savior’ Jason Calacanis claims that attractive women have no business podcasting and should display their assets. *Yikes*. Considering that his Diggification of the Netscape homepage is a bust he’s the last one that should be dishing out Internet strategy, sexist or otherwise.
• The Amazon A9 Death Vigil continues. This week Amazon yanked the A9 toolbar, history, bookmarks, and diary from the search engine that nobody heard about. Even Bezos no longer cares about this one.
• Sony announced a global recall of its laptop batteries. Because, you know, spontaneously exploding isn’t the greatest PR. Some numbers: Toshiba – 830,000, Lenovo (formerly IBM) – 526,000, Dell – 4.2 million.
• Walmart is putting its social networking tail between its legs and closing ‘The HUB’. The crass attempt at showing the kids how ‘wid it’ a place Walmart is only lasted three months. I’m guessing that Walmart doesn’t top the list of designer boutiques that teenagers want to brag to their peers about. Just saying.
• HP – is there a shread of shame left? More charges are pending