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The Canadian Tire online flyer has been doing this for years and it does a better job than the one above as you have free movement of the page corner.
Click on the flyer

Is she wins even a fraction of the lawsuit, no one will be able to dispute it was a "best buy."

Why look here, no interest for 18 months on a Gateway computer:

http://bestbuy.shoplocal.com/bestbuy/Default.aspx?action=browsepageflash&storeid=2413107&rapid=512596&pagenumber=1&prvid=021008BA&promotioncode=021008BA

http://officedepot.shoplocal.com/officedepot/defau lt.aspx?action=detail&flashbrowse=y&storeid=247147 6&rapid=444255&pagenumber=1&listingid=-2092873181& ref=%2Fofficedepot%2Fdefault.aspx%3Faction%3Dbrows epageflash%26storeid%3D2471476%26pagenumber%3D1%26 rapid%3D444255%26prvid%3DOfficeDepot-070826

$600.

last year i bought a dell with bluetooth and everything above for $700. nothing you listed is worth $500.

Very nice game indeed, but I am not going to get the full game...

I also got to play it tonight (I actually had free time and not in crunch mode?) for about 40 minutes (yes, it is short). The previews, screen shots, video clips, and trailers didn't excite me for this game. I kept hearing and reading very high scores from Xbox 360 port (demo and the full game that was sold earlier). Everyone was raving how scary, addicting, and pretty the game was. Now, I know why. The audio, graphic, special effects, etc. were very nice.

POSSIBLE SPOILERS: This 3D surrealistic first perspective shooter (FPS) game and story theme was an issue for me since it didn't hit me to excite me. It takes place in 1960 in an underwater city (it reminds me of Atlantis, Titanic, Blade Runner movie, etc.). The demo started out with an introduction that reminded me of Lost's Oceanic Flight 815 jetliner crash in the sea/ocean, but at night time. Wow, looking at the water was LOVELY and seeing the water splashes and droplets on my screen! While swimming to the lighthouse near by, I heard the flames, explosions, me coughing out water and breathing, etc.

The fun start begins in the lighthouse when I travel down to the underwater city named Rupture. At the same time, I met a guy helping me over the radio. You can hack robots to be on your side and protect you, security cameras, sentry guns, etc. There are various life spawn spots if you die. If you played System Shock 2, then you would recognize that this is the same people who worked on this game. The whole game system is based on it, but on a different game engine. The game still had scary parts, beautiful graphics and effects, objectives/missions, etc. It also reminded me of American McGee's Alice 3D FPS game for the surrealism and weirdness.

Check out the game if you have a decent gaming system or a Xbox 360 (heard it was good on the console as well and there's a free demo). Enjoy the graphics, special effects (check out those neat water falls, leaks, etc.), cutscenes, sounds, music, and horror. I was surprised it ran well on my not super fast system even without the beta NVIDIA driver that is supposed to be supported for this game.

Circuit City weekly ad/advertisement shows it for $39.99 for this week. So one extra copy for you to buy since I am not buying it due to above reasons and lack of free time (got other games to play and finish). If it was a sequel to System Shock 2 game, then I would be all over it just for SHODAN (I miss her harassing me like saying "Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?")!

I was looking at the weekly ad for Target on Sunday and came across an iPod compatible microwave. I can see the usefulness behind some of the others on the list, but this one left me scratching my head (maybe it is the crappy looking implementation).

$7.99 -- seen in its weekly ad that end on the 17th. I pricematched with another store that had in stocks and near by.

If you are using third world child labor, don't count your time at all, and happen to have all the tools and most of the miscellaneous supplies just lying around ready to be put into the transhcan, I'm guessing you might break even.

Of coursem that's if you don't mind poor color rendition, and have an enormous space for your projector.

Don't be put off by lamp life. 2000 hours? My first PJ lasted more than 4 years on its original 1000 hour lamp (it had about 1700 when I sold the house, and still looked fine). 2000 hours - that's 8 hours a day, five days a week, 50 weeks a year, or 5.5 hours a day, every day, all year. Unless you plan on just leaving the thing on all the time, it should take you a good two years to go through a 2000 hour lamp, and several HT projectors are sporting 4000 hour lamps now. Heck, by then you'll want a new projector.

Officemax recently had a PJ on sale here for $499. 1100 lumens, 4000h lamp, 2000:1 contrast. That's going to be hard to beat with a DIY setup.

Spend a couple of hours searching for a bargain, instead of building your own. You'll probably be happier in the end, and if you're married, you'll definitely be happier with the WAF in the end.

There are already some sites offering searches of local/off-line/bricks + mortar stores. In the US it's shoplocal.com, cairo.com, stepup.com. In the UK it will soon be askthelocal.com, who are in beta. I guess the major search engines will get on board eventually...

I saw RadioShack's version in this months ad:
http://radioshack.shoplocal.com/radioshack/default .aspx?action=detail&flashbrowse=y&storeid=2406880& rapid=177938&pagenumber=17&listingid=-2096452092&r ef=%2Fradioshack%2Fdefault.aspx%3Faction%3Dbrowsep ageflash%26storeid%3D2406880%26pagenumber%3D17%26r apid%3D177938%26prvid%3Dradioshack-050922

Now I remember, it was in my junk mail. No, not the PIC, just an ad for it. Radio Shack has it now. I checked their website and couldn't find it but did find it in their periodical.

http://radioshack.shoplocal.com/radioshack/default .aspx?action=browsepagedetail&storeid=2404476&rapi d=177937&pagenumber=17&listingid=-2096452092&ref=% 2Fradioshack%2Fdefault.aspx%3Faction%3Dbrowsepages pread%26storeid%3D2404476%26rapid%3D177937%26pagen umber%3D16

If the link don't work, use the SKU #25-587.

I'd buy one but I've got enough things to break.

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"You've got questions - we've got cellphones" -- and now, not-cheap-enough computers, too.

that nobody has mentioned Fry's electronics. You might have to stop by their retail locations for most of the good deals, but they still have some great prices on most everything and you can check various forums for sales flyer scans. You can check out their online store here.

Shoplocal is another decent site for various electronic goods, you can check sales via zip code search, very handy site indeed.

Of course, I think every geek knows the standard site for street prices has to be the good ol' pricewatch.