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Sure, the Internet is great for Holiday shopping in your bathrobe at 3 a.m., but sometimes you just feel like throwing on some shoes and doing a little real-life late-night shopping. Even in the Big Apple, 24-hour outlets are hard to find, and there are times you want something a little more upscale than the wares at your corner bodega--like maybe a new MacBook Pro.

Starting today, December 13, Apple's flagship SoHo store in New York will remain open 24 hours a day, until 11:59 p.m. on December 24 (the glass-box Fifth Avenue store is always … Read more

We dredged the series of tubes for you: here's today's roundup of link love.

--GAMING: Fake wiinjuries: they're all the rage (Joystiq)

--JUICY GOSSIP: MacBook "Thin" Coming Soon? (CrunchGear)

--GADGETRY: New Nabaztag Tag (Information Aesthetics)

--GAMING: China cracks down on online games (Kotaku)

--ARTS & CRAFTS: Casting metal Legos (MAKE)

--ONLY IN JAPAN: Shark USB Mousepad Warmer (Tokyomango)

--POLICE BLOTTER: Guy wants PS3, gets box of floor tiles (Game|Life)

We dredged the series of tubes for you: here's today's roundup of link love.

--FUN & GAMES: Windows Blue Screen Error Generator (The Generator Blog via Eyebeam reBlog)

--MUSIC: "Studio 60" Christmas song free for download (CNET News.com)

--DESIGN: Moonwalker Digital Dance Shoes (Gizmodo)

--WEB 2.0: Chop, slice, and 'deep-tag' your YouTube faves with Gotuit's SceneMaker (Webware)

--WEB 2.0: Diggbait: Top 10 Tech Words of 2006 (Valleywag)

--GAMING: NES Wii Skin (Uncrate)

--MUSIC: Wi-Fi radio gathering steam (Listening Post)

--GAMING: Left-Handers (Might) Make Better Gamers (Kotaku)

--TV: Dutch TV goes digital (CNET … Read more

Today, Verizon Wireless introduced an all-black version of the Motorola Q, and while it's all sexy cool on the outside, it's pretty much the same on the inside. However, the Windows Mobile smart phone is said to ship with the second software update, which should help improve battery life and fix other bugs. Also, this version features a rubberized casing that's black all the way through (via Qusers.com), so scratches shouldn't be too revealing. You'll have to pay a little more for the privilege of carrying the Moto Q black, as pricing starts at $… Read more

NOTE: From now through December, every few days a different Crave expert will be posting his or her top 10 gadget picks for the holidays. See what we crave, and maybe you'll get some ideas! Here's our eighth installment.

Neha Tiwari is an associate video producer for CNET News.com, not to mention a cold-weather aficionado. Snowboarding, Lord of the Rings marathons, and hot cocoa top her list of pastimes when the weather gets chilly. She is the only person named Neha at CNET, and a lethal geek triple-threat. She knows how to do all the special moves … Read more

We dredged the series of tubes for you: here's today's roundup of link love.

--CAMERAS: Flickr camera meta data (Information Aesthetics)

--TVs: No One Cares About HD? (Gizmodo)

--GAMING: Take me out to the 'Counter-Strike' (CNET News.com)

--CYBERLAW: Creative Commons finds a commercial pal (Listening Post)

--CAMERAS: Absolut Lomography (Notcot)

--GAMING: Power Glove mod merges with Wiimote (Engadget)

--APPLE: "I'm a Commodore 64." (Cult of Mac)

Like many Japanese and European parties that Americans have arrived woefully late to, (see also: soccer; 3G networks; Law, Jude), the personal navigation device is just now going mainstream.

Though it's obviously not the only to do so, ViaMichelin released its first personal navigation device for the North American market this week after ignoring us for six years in favor of our apparently more direction-challenged European counterparts.

Using SiRFstarIII GPS receiver technology and NAVTEQ digital map data, the X-930 model can give voice and text directions for driving in the car and walking down the street.

Weighing in at … Read more

Here's yet another excuse to have those white headphones stuck in your ears: Wear your iPod Nano while flying down a snow-covered ski slope at death-defying speeds. It'll be like you're the star of your own extreme snowboard movie, complete with awesome soundtrack.

We brought you the iSoundCap hat a while ago, but it being, you know, cold outside now, there had to be another reason to sell an iPod holder, right? Of course.

The iSoundCap ski cap comes in red, white, black and kakhi, and is made of 100 percent acrylic. Though the idea of synthetic … Read more

We dredged the series of tubes for you: here's today's roundup of link love.

--VIRTUAL EVENTS: Meet IBM's new-tech guru in Second Life (CNET News.com)

--ONLY IN JAPAN: RoomRender renders rooms intelligent (Pink Tentacle)

--ENTERTAINMENT: Hollywood's dumbest depictions of code (BoingBoing)

--NEWS: Shocker: Kids swap music on their phones (PSFK)

--HOLIDAY GEEKDOM: Imperial AT-AT and Rebel Snowspeeder Ornament (Uncrate)

--GAMING: Nintendo ships new spaz-resistant Wii strap (gmrblogs)

--VIRTUAL EVENTS: Third Annual Second Life Winter Festival (Official Linden Blog)

--JUICY GOSSIP: Fun, obviously fake iPhone concept (Cult of Mac)