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Thanksgiving, Web 2.0 Style
Bloggers are already having fun with Thanksgiving and tech-y tips. TUAW rounds up 5 Thanksgiving iPhone apps, including one that has 27 turkey recipes and generates a shopping list for you. This year's talked-about kitchen gadget is the electric Butterball In-door Electric Turkey Fryer (!) for deep-frying a turkey indoors without ending up on the evening news (via The Bachelor Guy). If your parents tend to celebrate your visits by asking you to fix their computers, Faster Forward's got you covered: "Debugging deep-seated software ailments is difficult enough under ideal conditions, much less when you're operating in a haze of tryptophan and pinot noir. So you have to prepare for this possibility before you head home for the holidays."
Counting Down to New Moon Madness
Let the New Moon mania begin! The second Twilight film hits theaters this Friday, with screenings beginning at midnight tonight. Advance tickets are selling like crazy. "My quick survey of box office analysts shows that Hollywood is expecting New Moon to do Iron Man numbers, or $100M," writes Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood, though said analysts are concerned about the film attracting "attracting males, any males, beyond its core of tween, teen, and older females." Twitter is exploding with New Moon excitement, with tweets about the movie "now climbing at an exponential rate, with over 81,000 tweets on Tuesday, November 17th"--and 92% of those have been positive, reports Mashable. Early reviews, however, are less than positive. (Even Miley Cyrus doesn't like Twilight!)...
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