Hate talking to a computer phone system?

If you hate talking to computer phone system, this web site will be one of your favorites.

The web site "gethuman" lists many top USA based companies showing what keys you must press to BYPASS their voice computer system.

http://gethuman.com/

Christmas Sale Info

I'll update this through this week, some current great prices:
TV
32” LCD TV (only 720P) for $350 (Rebates + 40 bucks shipping, 390)
32" LCD TV (720-) for 420 with shipping, no rebates


Computer Monitor
22" LCD 1680x1050 5ms response for 140
24” 1920x1200 with 5ms response for 250

Social Networking and Internet based news

The web has evolved into an online community where people share pictures, movies, thoughts (blogs), and opinions through various web sites.

Youtube is the site for sharing videos, allowing users to embed video streaming into their own web sites hosted by youtube.
Flickr is "the" site for sharing pictures.
Digg is "the" site for people scouring the web with worthy news to share, and voting for articles to surface for us to read.
Pandora and last.fm are both popular sites for streaming music to you by using tailored playlists.

I found a site that agregates all the popular buzz sites information to one page, for at-a-glance to see what the daily buzz is on the net for you to read, called popurls.

Whether your "hip" with the latest web buzz or not, check out popurls, you'll be glad you did.

After Black Friday Deals

Laptop
Click here for current Laptop deals
Acer 13" Laptop, Windows Vista, DVD, $399
MSI 10" Laptop, windows XP, $330
HP 15" Windows Vista Laptop, $499.99 w/mail-in rebate (Black Friday Laptop better processor, still good for price)
HP 15" Windows Vista Laptop, $599.00 with free shipping (no rebate)
Lenovo (IBM laptop maker) laptops from 400-550 (GREAT sale)
7" Laptop with Windows XP for $250 - TINY screen, TINY hard drive, and a crappy CPU to boot, but it is only 250 (ATOM cpu better)

PC Desktop
Click here for PC Desktop deals
Dell desktop windows vista $299 (no monitor, sale through Christmas)
Dell dekstop Windows Vista 349 (better processor, more RAM & Disk)
Dell Windows Vista Intel Dual Core 2GHz Desktop PC with 20" LCD - $396 shipped
Dell refurbished one XPS for $517 (pretty good deal for all-in-one pc)


TV
Current TV deals (click here)
32" 720p (NOT 1080P) TV $380
32" 720p LCD tv w/ipod dock $400
32" Screen 1080P for $590

Printer
Brother all in one printer wireless printer $80 (shipping delayed)
All in one wireless printer/fax/scanner/phone brother - $149

Kid Toys
Click here for wide variety of kid toys on sale

Black Friday Deals 2008

This year I'll post links to Black Friday deals, and highlight items that are well priced, but I will NOT post deals that are very limited quantities.
Black Friday Sales
DealNews - listing of all web sites deals
http://gizmodo.com/tag/black-friday/
Dell deals
Amazon Black Friday deals

laptop/desktop
Current Laptop deals
*NOTE: for dells, when possible pay to upgrade lcd screen
9" laptop linux great for web browsing, (not windows) - $250
9" laptop windows xp home 1gb ram, 160 gb hd $329
10" laptop linux 1gb ram, 40 gb ssd $399 6 hour battery life
15" HP laptop windows vista $499
15" dell laptop windows vista - $349 (hp better laptop)
Acer desktop windows vista $299
Dell desktop windows vista $299
Dell desktop with 22" screen $460

computer accessories/monitors
24" LCD computer monitor 1080p (1900x1200) - $200
22" lcd monitor for $129

other electronics
All in one wireless printer/fax/scanner/phone brother - $149
Garmin nuvi 360 navigator $169
Wii bundle for 399. price ok, but it is in stock
42" lcd tv - NOTE highest resolution 720p (about 1/2 as sharp as 1080p) $499

top of the line technical specification lcd tvs
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889102208
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889102198
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889102201

Digital Music & Audio Books

There are many forms of Music available on the internet, below are some of my favorites:

Download Music for phone or PC
Buy or download FREE Mp3's without DRM from Amazon (click here)
Of course, iTunes music store by Apple (click here)

Audio Books
Download DRM Audio books for a wide variety of devices at Audible.com (I use this all the time)
Royalty FREE legal book downloads at:
http://librivox.org/
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1

Online Radio Stations
My favorite: Personalize your own radio station. Pandora plays music based on your preferences
Online Radio stations by AOL
Last.FM - Music recommended by users (social networking)

Satellite Radio
If you own XMRadio for your car, listen online for free!
If you own Sirius radio for your car, listen online for free!

Buy CD's
You can't beat Amazon for selection and prices

Local Radio stations
Locate local radio stations, listen online

100 year record set for lack of Sun Spots in August

We talk so much about what Man does on earth, and debate what, if any effects we have on the environment/world. Global Warming, Pollution, mercury poisoning, etc.

Man's effect on the world is but small potatoes compared to what the cosmos can do to earth.
Lack of SunSpot activity has historically brought on Ice Age effects to earth.
And in August, the sun had no Sun Spots (possibly 1/2 a sun spot), first time in 100 years.
If this trend continues, rather than being worried the earth is too hot, it will be too cold!
How ironic then it is our pollution may help us fight cooling, if the sun's lack of spots becomes common place.

http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Month+in+a+Century/article12823.htm