In what can only be called a sign of the times, “Cyber Monday” has arrived today. If you are not aware of its meaning, it is the first Monday after Thanksgiving. Apparently, today is a significant online retail day as many people look for bargains in cyberspace as they head back to work.<\/p>\n
In light of Cyber Monday, I offer up a real distraction for techno geeks like myself – Popular Science’s What’s New<\/a> for gadgets this Christmas season. I ended up on their site after reading a short article from the Pioneer Press website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Warning:<\/font> This site can be a real time waster.<\/p>\n Now that you have been warned, click through to image #6 and you will see a USB turntable for your old vinyl LPs so you can digitize them for your MP3 player. Talk about “classic contemporary.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In what can only be called a sign of the times, “Cyber Monday” has arrived today. If you are not aware of its meaning, it is the first Monday after Thanksgiving. Apparently, today is a significant online retail day as many people look for bargains in cyberspace as they head back to work. In light of Cyber Monday, I offer up a real distraction for techno geeks like myself – Popular Science’s What’s New for gadgets this Christmas season. I ended up on their site after reading a short article from the Pioneer Press website. Warning: This site can be a real time waster. Now that you have been warned,… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}