Refurbished 2nd Gen 8 GB iPod Touch ($170)

These are $229 new—why not buy good as new instead, though, and save sixty bucks? Music, movies, email, Youtube, Facebook, games, and apps. Yes, please? From those clever devils at Woot.

Smith Street Series Locket Sunglasses ($10)

sale!

Nice lines on these: chunky but not obnoxious. They usually retail for $70, but until they run out, you can get them for just ten buckaroos at Steep & Cheap. Buy fast! They'll run out by sometime Monday at the latest.

Get A Free (Sorta) $25 Gift Card From World Market

I wasn't going to post today, but then this tempting little offer popped up in my email. If you spend $150 online at World Market, today only they'll send you a $25 gift card as a thank-you. If you've been drooling over a spendy item there or if you've been thinking about doing Xmas shopping there, today's the day to do it.

Compact Wood Radio/Speaker ($40)

Such a sleek little number. It plays radio, or you can plug your iPod (or whatev) into it and voila, portable speaker. Available today only from Design Town.

One Day Deal: Black or White Zune ($85)

It won't have the hipster cachet of whatever new iPod product there is at this point (probably something that allows you to watch TV from other planets through your fillings, right?), but it will get you 7,500 songs or 100 hours of video in your pocket for less than a hundred bucks. Today only, until they run out, at Woot.

Autostapler ($30)

Do a lot of stapling? This cheerful machine can help you out. From The Design Town.

Hannspree 9.6" LCD TV ($80)

From the ever-awesome Woot, the teeniest, most adorable little retro-style LCD TV ever. (Also, giraffe and lion styles, if you're into that.)

Roshambo Wine Trio ($40)

Woot!, home of the Roomba and Zune and other gadget deals, also has a wine store. Right now said store is offering up a trio of arguably yummy wine from the Roshambo winery. I haven't had their wine before, but I have an immediate liking for any company that uses rock, paper, and scissors hands as their logo. Get your bottles at wine.woot!.

Megapost: OLPC Laptop Limited Time Offer! ($399)

The One Laptop Per Child group, a nonprofit producing high-quality $200 laptops for kids in developing countries, doesn't usually make it possible for the public to buy their laptops. That's too bad, because they're essentially fast, high-quality machines that are virtually indestructible, utterly flexible, and a fantastic tool for grownups and kids alike.

These puppies really are cutting-edge, which is why it's such a cool deal that they're going to be temporarily available to the general buying public.

OLPC is having a one-time event from November 12-19 in which you can buy one of their superfantastic laptops for $399. That pays for one laptop for you and one for a kid in a third-world country. Plus you get a tax write-off, because part of your purchase price is technically a donation. This is probably your only chance to buy one of these laptops, so if they appeal to the tech geek in you, go to the OLPC "Give One Get One" page to sign up for an email reminder so you won't miss the offer.

Just a few of the many things I love about this laptop:

1. The screen rotates to different positions depending on whether you're reading an e-book, writing, or gaming.

2. The LCD display is engineered to be super-bright so you can actually read the screen under bright daylight conditions.

3. The laptop innards are designed with as few loose parts as possible so jarring and dropping are unlikely to break the machine.

4. It contains no toxic materials and has a built-in carrying handle.

5. It has two wireless antenna "ears" that, aside from being cute, also pick up hella more wireless hotspots than a regular laptop.

6. You can power it with a hand crank. Let me repeat that. You can power it with a hand crank.

So anyway, if you're looking for an ultraportable laptop or a great learning tool for your kid this Xmas, this should be one of your top choices.

One-Day Deal: 30G Microsoft Zune ($130)

If you're a starving student (or thrifty adult) and you've been dying for a mp3 player with big fat storage and you don't absolutely insist on an iSomethingOrOther, this is the crazy deal you've imagined in your fevered dreams of sexy portable music. It's available only at Woot!, and only today, Friday, and only until they run out.

Bomb Alarm Clock ($40)

Great for engineers, geeks, or action movie aficionados. If you're married to said geek/aficionado, you can actually start each morning by yelping "Cut the red wire! The red one!" Which is in fact what you'll have to do to turn off the alarm. From Design Town, so, as with all their merch, available today only and never again. Note: security personnel at airports not likely to find this clock amusing. Do not pack bomb alarm. TSA not known for its sense of humor about explosives.