The Great Geek Manual

Age of the Hacker is Over? – Thanks to technological advances, hackers and phishers aren’t getting away with cybercrime the way they used to.

Black Friday Deals – Mashable rounds-up the 10 Best Resources for finding great deals in the mall madness that follows Thanksgiving.

Courseware Links for Artists – ArtCareer.net has posted a directory of over a hundred links to college courses for burgeoning artists, including lectures on art history, photography, and video production.

IBM to Build “Thinking” Computers – With a government grant from DARPA, IBM is slated to begin the first phase of research on “cognitive computing,” essentially building computers that work like living brains.

Meteor over Edmonton – A police dash cam caught a few seconds of spectacular footage of the recent meteor that fell this week in Edmonton, Canada. Check out the preview of our eventual Armageddon.

Photoshop Text Effects – Photoshop Roadmap shares eighty ways to transform headers into works of art, then another thirty.

Pilot School – A collection of television series pilot scripts, including: Buffy, Battlestar Galactica, Hill Street Blues, The Sopranos, The West Wing, and The Wire.

Top 25 days in Computing History – Tech Central has put together a timeline of the events in the computer industry that changed the world, beginning with the day that Charles Babbage announced his design for his analytical engine.

The Turbaconducken – Consider this culinary treat for your next holiday meal. It’s a chicken stuffed in duck stuffed in a turkey, all wrapped in bacon and otherwise known as a bacon-wrapped turducken.

What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science? – Ellen Spertus, a graduate student at M.I.T. wonders why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one.