Have you ever wanted the Linux operating system to control your home? If this is you, then your prayers have been answered. Linux MCE is the new, free operating system that lets you to stream media files, pause live TV ala TIVO, and even control your lighting and heating system from your mobile phone, all from one place. All you need is a computer to run it on and hardware that supports it. Suddenly, the future that was predicted in The Jetsons doesn’t look all that far-fetched.

Those of you out in the blogosphere who love to listen to free streaming music online, listen up. Streamzy lets your search for your favorite songs and then save them into a streaming playlist, all completely for free. Streamzy is the perfect tool for someone who likes to have their music digitally, but would rather not mess with any messy files. As always, Streamzy is a completely free service.

If you like to play music as much as you like listening to it, then the following announcement will be music to your ears. The International Music Score Library, the web’s number one repository for public domain sheet music, has reopened. The IMSL founder Edward W. Guo is also promising some big changes in the future, including a backup system and a few “collaborations” with a few “major organizations.” No matter what comes about in the future, there is one thing that we all can agree on: it’s nice to have the “joyful noise” back online.

Sometimes, it’s just not easy being number one. Just ask Twitter, who is still having scalability problems right now. User have seen the website more down than up lately, and some people have even started selling T-shirts with the infamous whale image you get when the site is down. The people at Twitter say that they are working on it, and we should see less and less down time as the changes near completion.

For those who have grown tired of Twitter’s “whale” of a problem, why not give another service a try? Identi.ca, for example, is focused towards creating a fully scalable microblogging network, which promises to be more stable and secure than Twitter without removing features. It also plans on supporting both OpenID and the microblogging-targeted OpenSocial network. While its status as a “Twitter killer” is unknown, Identi.ca proves once again that necessity, like Frank Zappa, truly is the mother of invention.