THE CYBER MONDAY DEALS aren’t over just yet.

UPDATE: Link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!

CHANGE: Comcast Starts The Ball Rolling That Kills All-You-Can-Eat Internet Access. “As web video — which uses a lot of bandwidth — grows in popularity, Comcast will want to get paid more. Especially because web video is eventually going to replace a lot of the video you’re currently watching on cable TV, and that you’re paying Comcast a fat monthly bill for.”

JOHN STEAKLEY — the author of Armor, not the former student of mine by the same name who sometimes emails this blog — has died.

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Last year’s interview with John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War and many others, is now up on YouTube.

THE GROWTH OF collaborative consumption.

FIRST-HAND REPORTING from Taiwan’s elections. “Taiwan’s midterm election was marred by a bizarre assassination attempt against KMT politician Sean Lien — either a conspiracy or a case of mistaken identity, depending on whom you talk to.”

JOHN ONDRASIK’S CD For The Troops IV is now out. (Bumped).

NORTH KOREA could make two nuclear bombs per year.

CHANGE: Scientists Find A Way to Partially Reverse Aging In Mice. Faster, please.

ORGANS MADE FROM SCRATCH: “Building blocks” containing gels turn cells into different types of tissue.

ANOTHER BIG-SCREEN TV FOR CHEAP. 47″, 1080p, under six hundred bucks. They’ve really gone from luxury goods to commodity items over the past year or so. Which is a good thing!

PHIL BOWERMASTER: Life Expectancy 200 And Beyond. Er, faster, please?

TRANSPARENCY! White House Refuses to Release Donors to David Axelrod’s Charity. Well, they’ll probably show up on Wikileaks anyway. Everything else does . . . .

FASTER, PLEASE: Vaccine Prevents Colon Cancer Recurrence.

NELSON SPINS IN HIS GRAVE: “The Royal Navy is selling HMS Invincible, a storied aircraft carrier, in an Internet auction. I don’t know whether to be more melancholy over the decline of the once-great Royal Navy, or to laugh at the postmodern madness of it all.”

DROP, MEET BUCKET: Obama Freezes Federal Pay to save $5 billion over two years. Here’s Conn Carroll on what should come next.

ROBIN HANSON: Beware of future filters.

HEH: Video: Plank + tiny wheels + V8 Supercar engine = Aussie for “skateboard.”

IN THE MAIL: Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer.

HERSCHEL SMITH: Should I Renew My NRA Membership? Well, it depends. On the one hand, if Reid had lost, we’d be looking at Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. . . .

HMM: WikiLeaks Completes Obama’s Transformation Into Jimmy Carter.

At this point, I have to say, Jimmy Carter looks like a best-case outcome, slowly fading from possibility.

WOW: Senator McCain Compares Palin to Reagan, Says He’s ‘Proud Of Her’.

BEST SONG ABOUT A JOURNALIST EVER? The Tumblin’ Sneakers’ The Secret World of Charles Kuralt. Background here.

The French Broads’ Tom Brokaw is pretty good, too. But they had less to work with.

DAVID BERNSTEIN ON WIKILEAKS: “The harm to U.S. diplomatic and military interests is said to be quite large. I’m glad Koh is sending Julian Assange of Wikileaks a stern letter of reprimand, that will show him! Who said the Obama Administration wasn’t tough enough to protect American interests?”

UPDATE: Reader David Shimm emails:

Why is it that Wikileaks has been able to publish all kinds of classified State Dept. documents, but Obama’s Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard Law transcripts still remain confidential? Maybe we should have a university registrar’s office consult with the US government to assure that secrets remain secret? I’m just wondering, that’s all.

In my experience, university registrars are formidable and competent. Apparently the same can’t be said for the folks entrusted with our national secrets.

HOW THE GREATNESS OF A NATION is measured.