Black Friday is the Friday after Tnxgiving where retailers traditionally offer their best deals. This site is publishing rumored prices for various items and recommends buying the items b4hand and then returning them to get credit on BF.

Digitizing the Public Domain a new project designed to either get some kid a bunch of record players OR to digitize and release up to 30,000 records now out of copyright into the readily accessible world wide diginet. a gutenberg project for music. information wants to be free. yippee!!! (from boingboing)

Curious George: Is College Really This Easy: The Chronicle says undergraduates just party and never study. When I graduated a few years ago it was pretty easy to slide by with little study through the semester, but the hours were always made up at the end with all-nighters in the library. How's this jive with everybody's experience?

- the Economist's choice: a surprising endorsement from the conservative weekly

Undead Art -- take the now public domain Night of the Living Dead and splice it up with other zombie movies to make a remixed halloween classic via elykcooks

Darth Vader as a postmodern gargoyle? Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, a kid entered a contest for evil and put the Dark Force atop the National Cathedral.

The Social Future as seen by six SF writers: Cory Doctorow, Pat Murphy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Norman Spinrad, Bruce Sterling, and Ken Wharton. Hosted by John Shirley.