
If you thought shopping was made easy thanks to our shopping site
ShopStyle — which allows you to find thousands of brands in one easy place — wait until you hear about ShopStyle's latest feature,
Sale Alerts! By navigating to the Sale Alerts tab at the top of your stylebook page, you will get to choose your top brands, and then your favorite shopping categories (shoes, shoulder bags, makeup, jackets, etc), and by clicking next one last time, you'll see a notification that tells you which email your sale alerts will be sent to (if you don't have a ShopStyle account, you will be asked for your email). And just like that, you'll start receiving daily notifications of when your favorite items go on sale, with direct links for purchasing them!

Hold onto your immunity hats, Mac users — there's a
new virus in town aimed at Macs (though you'd have to be pretty silly to get this one).
To this day, none of my Macs have ever been infected, but when I was a Dell user, (as my Texan family says), boy howdy. I basically gave up on my overrun operating system and just got a new computer.

Last February, everyone was shocked to find out that
Robert Irvine, the star of the
Food Network show
Dinner: Impossible, lied on his résumé. Although most of you said
the incident didn't change your feelings about him, Irvine still got the boot from the Food Network and was subsequently replaced by Iron Chef
Michael Symon.
Today I'm excited to have heard news of what I thought to be near-impossible:
Irvine will be returning to host the show again.

After hearing some ho-hum reviews about the
BlackBerry Storm, I was beginning to think that it wasn't going to give the iPhone a run for its
money as predicted. But now that I've watched the Storm in action, there's a feature that I'm already in love with, and I think you
physical keyboard fans will love it too.
Unlike the iPhone, which is strictly a glass touch screen, the BlackBerry Storm touch buttons actually depress when you touch them, since the entire backside of the screen is backed by springs.

A few months ago we noticed that
competitive eating was a rapidly growing "sport": This year, 1.5 million people tuned in to ESPN to watch the
Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, and there's now a game,
Major League Eating, available on the
Nintendo Wii. Yet while it's entertainment for many, it comes at a cost for others. Yesterday, Saurab Sabharwal, a 22-year-old engineer at Nokia-Siemens in Gurgaon, India,
died during a company-sponsored pastry eating contest held in the office cafeteria.

Yesterday, Dr. Pepper announced that for the first time ever,
it would feature a professional athlete on its bottles. This athlete doesn't come with ripped arms, or muscular legs, but he does have some thumbs of steel.

This year, consumers witnessed a lot of
cost increases in food, so it's only natural that the price of Thanksgiving dinner has crept up, too. Agriculture experts estimate that
Thanksgiving costs have
risen by an average of six percent this year, and the
American Farm Bureau, which conducts a Thanksgiving yearly survey, cited
$44.61 as the average cost of a Thanksgiving for 10 in 2007.
I'm not surprised; in fact, I'm certain that I spend at least twice as much on my Thanksgiving dinner.

Loaded weapons and lil ones don't mix in my opinion. I hope my daughter and son never wrap their hands around a gun. Not now or ever.