Slick Deals & other consumer IT sites

Here's some great consumer IT sites

Slick Deals has short great deals that often expire within a few days. They usually involve a mail-in rebate. The upside is that they might even beat the lowest price on PriceGrabber. Props to my bro GDP who put me on to this. I bought a computer monitor from a deal discovered here.

TechBargains similar to Slick Deals. PlanetBargains is a sister site which has non-IT products.

Microcenter this is a physical store chain, in the ATL, MSP & other big US cities. Apparently they also do internet retail. I bought a few items here in the store, I've found in general they son the local chain store field (Best Buy, Office Max, Office Depot, etc) on price. I've bought the 50-pack Windata DVD-R 16x speed for $10, a few times now.

Reseller Ratings apparently this is similar to PriceGrabber

Price Grabber

This site Price Grabber compares the landed total cost (purchase cost + tax + S&H, by zip code) of many internet retailers, for many consumer IT & other products.

Props to Jamie that put me up on this a while back. It served me well in buying a 256MB MP3 players back in Jan 05.

Best Deal Magazines

This site Best Deal Magazines has got it for cheap, no Clipse. I might re-up my US News & World Report via these guys, 40 issues for $6 LOL.

'The Constant Gardener': What the Movie Missed

interesting The Nation article on the human cost of new drug development, an issue highlighted by the movie "The Constant Gardener".

National Do Not Call List

I read that even cell phone numbers may be soon targeted by Telemarketers. MF that to the nth degree!

Supposedly the Feds have a way to block this. Contact the "Do Not Call" center will supposedly enable you to legally block tele-douches from spamming your phone for 5 years. Contact

888-382-1222 (call from the phone nbr that you wish to block)
-or-
www.donotcall.gov

Now, we if we could only set this up for regular snail mail, right?