I’m super excited about next week’s contest. In the mean time, we’ve got some hot, fresh links for you to browse. Anything is better than being Kwame Kilpatrick.

• Where’d the radio go?
• More Apple secrets come out of the shadows
• What good is a cellphone going to do for a prisoner?
• Hot Topic fiends will love this light-up Transformers shirt
• Cupcooley
• 16TB of media madness!
• Sony is issuing a major VAIO laptop recall
• TiVo HD XL costs a whopping $600
• Woot! is selling Dyson vacuums on the cheap again
• New LEGO stores have opened (including King of Prussia!)

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