Comcast is up to no good, but I live within 5 miles of AOL, WorldCom, PSInet, Adelphia and Exodus Communications (now a part of Cable & Wireless) but none of them can offer me high speed access. I'd take the snooping Comcast service over 56k any day.
Rumor has it Futurama is not going to be picked up for next season. This is utterly disappointing but is not surprising since Fox never gave the show a time slot that would foster success.