I'm not gonna bother to waste your time listing stuff that aren't that great of deals. As most of you have probably gathered already, there isn't a real abundance of hot deals for this year's BF. So I'll just list the deals I think might be worth checking out.

• Crucial's got a deal for refurb SSDs for $1/GB
• Shuttle Computers are offering a deal to the first 100 people ordering X350 model that with the code UKNOWUWANT1, it's free.
• Roku XD (which I want) for $64, a decent 20% off deal
• 4GB G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 10666 Ram for $49.99. Pretty great snag.
• Amazon's selling the Kindle 2 for $89.99

A good BF list by Engadget

And DealVista has the motherload Black Friday list. This thing is hefty, take your time. Comprehensive deal spreadsheet.

Almighty BF spreadsheet

Interactive Puppet Prototype with Xbox Kinect from Theo Watson on Vimeo.

This is very cool stuff. The Xbox Kinect, which has already been shown to be a wealth of opportunities for hackers to take advantage of, has been transformed into a interactive puppet projection. Still in its infant stages, but shows a ton of potential. 


I'll be following this project.

http://gothamist.com/2010/11/16/nyu_professor_surgically_installing.php

In the Game from Alex Gansert on Vimeo.

Playing video games too much? This ever happen to you?

You should probably seek help :D

http://jezebel.com/5688563/what-fast-food-really-looks-like

I'm addicted to Angry Birds too. I'm on like 11-9 or something. I want this cake. It's awesome.

Edit: actually I just beat it again :/ They need to update again and add more levels! So addicting.

This is pretty awesome. Have some apps you'd love to play with on a bigger screen? How about your 50" living room LCD? Could really have some fun when you have people over.

More info via Gizmodo

This is an epic video made by flipbook.

Wondering when your significant other and you will call it quits? Facebook has a pretty good guess when it will happen.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/11/02/facebook.breakups/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

So Randy Moss' stint with the Minnesota Vikings has once again ended. Rather quickly this time. He was waived today after being traded to Minnesota just 4 weeks ago by the New England Patriots.

Where does he go next? Back to New England? That would certainly make them the winners of the trade, gaining a 3rd round pick. Several other teams are in need of wide receivers such as: Bears, Seahawks, Rams, Dolphins, Jets, and Chiefs.

Who do you think will pick him up?

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/33143/how-to-create-a-pumpkin-carving-stencil-in-photoshop/

This great guide shows you how to make a stencil for your pumpkin to carve some amazing and complex designs. Give it a shot!

This videos hilarious. A reporter from Texas is in San Francisco for the World Series. While reporting he can't but help share that he smells weed. Throughout the report he keeps mentioning it. I think he had a few puffs before going on air.

Now this is pretty cool. Watch the next Mars rover be built live via ustream. Watch as the men in funny white suits work. Hope they don't do anything embarrassing like pick their nose and eat it...you're on candid camera!

Daft Punk's new song, Derezzed, goes along with the upcoming Tron movie. Check out their music video.

Are you going to go see Tron? Out December 17th.

Head over to http://www.eso.org/~sguisard/Pagim/darkest_sky.html to see these beautiful photos taken in Chile. The site has flash so you can zoom in on the photos. It's really incredible how many stars there are.
I tried adding one of the flash elements but blogger doesn't want to show it :(

From a Chaplin film. Cell phone in 1928? Probably a hearing aid or something but really weird none the less.

Conan 24 hour Webcast

My favorite, "Pinching Earth", by Uysal Mehmet Ali.

This is really cool and impressive. A band made up of solely iPhone-based instruments. Not bad. Performing on the subway train.

This is funny/embarrassing. He calls himself "Shawty Mane".

I so want to do this. Hilarious and awesome.

This looks awesome. A huge body tracking tetris game outdoors in Madrid, Spain. One player's movements changes the blocks orientations, the other player's movements change the blocks position.
I want to play this.

I'm amazed at the last one with the gun shooting and empty casings flying out. Very creative.

New track off Lloyd Banks' upcoming album, Hunger For More 2.

He pulled out all the stops on this one. Fab's verse is crazy. Album drops November 23rd. Buy it.

Here's a really cool and funny map of internet communities.

http://xkcd.com/802/

Watch all the way to the end or you'll miss the best part. This guy has balls but no brain.

Crazy educational center plans by Alejandro Muñoz Miranda in El Chaparral, Albolote, Granada, Spain.


Beautiful.
http://www.archdaily.com/79913/educational-centre-in-el-chaparral-alejandro-munoz-miranda/

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The lead Russian contractor for the International Space Station (ISS) says it plans to build the first hotel in space to cash in on a growing market for private tourism, a senior executive said on Thursday.

Energia, part owned by the Russian state, wants investors for a private space station that would house up to seven people and serve as a hotel, said Alexander Derechin, the company's deputy chief designer.

"Commercial space ships are being built around the world, they will need to fly somewhere," Derechin told Reuters.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11765508



Crazy Russians. I can only imagine the cost for a night's stay!

From Engadget.com

From personal use, the iPad is severely addicting, but soley for its browsing prowess. I don't use it for anything else, so these others definitely can be considered even despite the lack of apps in comparison to the apple app store. The Galaxy Tab has interested me the most because of the Android 2.2 which supports Flash. I'm not sure if the Playbook supports flash or not. The smaller 7" screen is good and bad. Love having all that real estate but does make it more cumbersome. I'll have to find out more about the PlayBook before I fully decide which is the winner. The 3MP front and 5MP rear is quite impressive however. (Rear really is useless though. Who's gonna take a picture with that huge thing )

GT3 RS, SLS, 458 Italia

 The boys over at Top Gear were seen in NY with a GT3, SLS AMG, and 458 Italia. My guess is Hamster was in the GT3, Clarkson in the SLS, and James in the 458. The trio in the US always make for an epic episode. Can't wait for season 16 to start!

Very sick Nagaro Blue B5 Audi S4 slammed on CCW Classics.

Cleeeaannn. Nagaro Blue is one of my all time favorite colors. Love b5 s4's.Ridiculous stretch.In the wild.

Hit the stanceworks.com link to read about it and see more pictures.

http://www.stanceworks.com/?p=9516

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Dazzle Ships

Artist	Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Title	Dazzle Ships
Label	Telegraph (Virgin)
Year	1983
Designer	M. Garrett, K. Kennedy, P. Pennington, P. Saville, B. Wickens for Peter Saville Associates
Music	Electronic popular music Head over to hardformat.org to see more.

Scott Hansen over at iso50.com never ceases to amaze me. Check out these pictures he took with a Canon SD780 point and shoot camera. His post-processing skills are phenomenal.

Canon SD780 Vs. Burning Man

Gucci Mane - Grown Man ft. Estelle
Gucci needs to make more tracks like this.
Redman - Fly
Red never fails.
50 Cent - They Burned Me