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Online Holiday Shopping Looking Grim (Portfolio.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Ars Technica reports: The holiday shopping season may be a little less of a consumer orgy this year and more of a consumer makeout session thanks to the faltering economy, according to a new report from PriceGrabber.

Dinner with the Enlightened Seducers (Lifewise on Canoe)
One might expect dinner with Zan Perrion to be an orgy of flying phone numbers and steamy flirtations with hot waitresses. One would be somewhat disappointed. But only a little.

Rwanda urges speedy French trial of presidential aide (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Rwanda on Thursday urged a speedy trial of President Paul Kagame's aide -- who is charged in connection with a political assassination that is thought to have sparked the 1994 genocide.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Floats: A Sneak Peek (Gothamist)
Macy's Parade Studio in Hoboken opened its doors yesterday for children from various New Jersey elementary schools to get a preview of this year's eight new floats and four new giant helium balloons. Disney's new Bolt movie was represented, but the real star was a freaky display of Woodland creatures celebrating the first Thanksgiving. (Or celebrating their first acid-fueled orgy?) And if you ...

France charges Rwanda aide amid Kigali protests (AFP via Yahoo! News)
French judicial officials charged a longtime comrade-in-arms of Rwanda's president over an assassination in the run-up to the 1994 genocide, as anti-European protests unfolded in Kigali.