You might need a phaser to fight the crowds on Friday.  (“Stun” setting will probably suffice.)  Anyway, since there appears to be no Hallmark iPhone ornament, I picked up one of these the other day for the Christmas tree, which will go up a week from Saturday.  It’ll look great next to the Communicator.

The old Owlsley and the XTC ain’t helping, so I still haven’t sussed howto embed video in Word Press, but I loves youse guys ‘n’ gals , so , to celebrate the shopping season, there’s a link below to Steely Dan from Two Against Nature – gosh these guys need to do another great album – their tours in this century have been utterly fabulously kewl – not bad fer a couple ol’ music nerds.

STEELY DAN – BLACK FRIDAY

UPDATE: – BONUS – EVERYTHING MUST GO!

Before you enter into the fray with the huddled masses, make sure your iPhone is locked and loaded.  Preparation is always key when entering battle.

You’ll find a rundown right here.  And why is it called Black Friday, you ask?

Money quote for today’s Thanksgiving holiday:

“Without Steve Jobs’ Apple the world would be a less colorful place. The man is a living legend and deserves his place in history. This Thanksgiving, Steve Jobs is one of the things that I’m thankful for. And I bet you are too.”

Good old Woz. After all I’ve done to him over the years, he still wants to be my pal. So last night he calls and he says he just read that thing on my blog about the Facebook shares. He says, Hey, remember when we went public and you wouldn’t give any shares to the guys who had been with us in the garage, and so I created the Woz Plan and gave them some of my shares, or sold them really cheap? So I was thinking I could help you out on this Facebook thing. I’ll give you some of my Facebook shares. Okay?

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CNET News writer/commenter/something or other, Stephen Shankland, catches Firefox adding Chrome features. Well, I guess that’s why it’s called open source. I share, you share, we all share, we all benefit. You know what I noticed when playing with Chrome OS in VMWare? You can’t download and use Firefox. Or any other app you download to desktop. It’s the Google cloud or nothing. Uh-oh!

You think things are bad on Earth. Check out this video of a solar tsunami (no, that’s not something you get at a sashimi bar). And this shit apparently happens a lot. Makes me real glad and appreciative of our place on this apple skin here on this planet. Another thing to give thanks for today, don’t take it for granted, folks.

Google stopped pussyfooting around playing pop-a-mole with scuzzy advertisements and, starting immediately, is banning advertisers of scuzzy ads.