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Toy News:

• Ugobe's Pleo: your own pet robot dinosaur
• Spy Video Car

Tech News:

• Sandisk Fanfair and TakeTV: think iTunes store and AppleTV
• Comcast and Verizon caught cheating consumer internet
• Black Friday Beginning on Thanksgiving, but Wal-mart sues! Someone tell us why!
• TiVo Series 3 and HD gets a big upgrade
• Pink Barbie iPod Dock

Interview

This week, Dale Cripps from HDTV Magazine joins us to tell us all about HDTV. If you're looking to buy an HDTV this year--or ever, you should listen to this comprehensive buying guide. Know what to look for and how to find what's right for you.

Video Game News and Reviews:

• PlayHut opens another virtual world, GoLive2.com Kraze
• Samba de Amigo for Wii will lack Maracas peripherals
• Microsoft releases XBox 360 Arcade to compete with the Wii, but don't buy it

Review

Super Paper Mario

The spiritual Wii successor to Super Mario Bros. 3 will not leave you flat. Dale and Teresa give you the skinny on this mostly 2-D platformer.

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DirecTV owes us money. Since we switched over to Dish Network, and DirecTV bills in advance, they owe us $55 and have been sending us "bills" to notify us of this for the past couple months. What they haven't sent, though, is a check. Aside from the ludicrous notion of wasting postage and paper to tell us they owe us money instead of just sending the money, this leaves us having to go to them to request our money back.

O.K., fine. That's bureaucracy. No big surprises here.  read more »