You know you're gonna do it. Don't lie. You're gonna be there in the dark, in the cold, along with all your friends and neighbors standing in line like a dope at 4:50am outside some Big Box store or a mall waiting for some kid to unlock the door so you can buy a $300 plasma tv or a $5 dvd player. It's America and no matter how cool we think we are, we're......

- (1) Go to Circuit City today after 2pm, (2) ask if they have Super Paper Mario in stock, (3) if they don't have it in stock ask and then receive a Circuit City $20 gift card, (4) dance around with your free $20, (5) thank your pals at LAist and at - Joystiq - A state panel in Oxnard basically killed any hope for a floating offshore natural gas terminal to be built......

- When the Instapundit is tired of spinning he puts up pictures, when O'Reilly slips in the ratings he increases his volume but Geraldo sticks right in there - O-Dub - If Dick Cheney is such a tough guy, why does he always seem to be getting interviewed by the likes of Rush Limbaugh? - HuffPo - CNN desperately trying to prove that they're not part of the Liberal Elite. Don't worry CNN, we......

Winners: Best Buy, Circuit City, Retailers. Losers: People who patiently stood in line as others cut in front of them. Lesson: The holiday season is about giving, family, charity and doing it online.......

Right now you might be heading back into the kitchen for thirds, or you're thinking about some sweet potato pie, or perhaps you're about to snake the Lay-Z-Boy from Grampa as he takes a leak. But around the country people are gearing up for Black Friday specials. Black Friday being the day after Thanksgiving where major retailers unload a few choice deals to sucker lure the madding crowds into their stores. We met up......

1. Engadget: Next Friday Circuit City will be selling $99 laptops, sorta 2. BoingBoing - Cemetery 2.0 links your real headstone to your Facebook Memorial page. 3. FC2: Windows Vista doesn't work with the Zune? 4. Gizmodo - Blender capable of blending 40 pens 5. Xujing Lei - still loves her cat 6. Huffington Post - Guest blogger John Murtha writes: "Iraq is key... Let's get to work." Hey John, don't quit your day......

- Michael Moore gloats and rubs it in with "A Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives" - LA Times - Kids storm Circuit City, get into fights for the right to pay Sony hundreds of dollars for "fun" - CBS2 - Rancho Cucamonga leader of a motorcycle stunt club dies by being hit by a car while he was doing a wheelie. Witnesses say it was the car's fault - Daily Bulletin - That UCLA......

Right around the corner from LAist, at the Circuit City near the Pioneer Chicken, KCET, and the amazing Vista Theatre, the good people from Zune are giving away free tickets to the Red Hot Chili Peppers show. Which Red Hot Chili Peppers show? The little secret one they're doing at the Zune launch party somewhere here in LA. LAist loves people who are first in line, so this afternoon we went to the Circuit......

** LAist Exclusive ** Los Angeles natives the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be playing the official Zune Launch Party this Monday (11/13) from 8-11pm at a small venue here in LA - aka not in a stadium. The venue information will be posted on zuneinsider.com and LAist on Monday morning. Tickets are free to the public and EXTREMELY LIMITED. Tickets can only* be picked up tonight at the Circuit City at 4400 Sunset......

+ Apple to staff Best Buy? The electronics giant has a lot of things going for it -- decent prices, good selection, excellent extended warranties -- so imagine if the computer sales staff was trained and managed by Apple? If it's anything as good as the Genius Bar at the Grove's Mac store, it could run Circuit City right out of town. + The LA Times are in Greenland covering global warming and the......