This week’s smokin’ deal is Allume Anime Studio 5 for $48.98, on Sale at Buy.Com. I lead a secret double life where I make funny music videos. Sadly, I lack a decent animation program, and my digital camera sucks at video- everything is yellow unless there’s tons of light, and frame rates are bad. I’d totally buy this animation software because it looks like just the thing I need to make fun moving picture videos (South Park style), and this software claims to be able to do just that. Also, my computer can’t run Adobe umm… well, I forget what the software is called, I think it’s After Effects. Anyway, I’ve been on the hunt for a decent animation/video software for a while.

Next up on my increasingly long wishlist is this Xbox 360 Live 12 month gold subscription card , selling for The unbeatable price of $39.99. I’ve shopped and shopped, and this is the lowest price around. My subscription to Xbox Live will expire this month, and I will be buying a new 12 month membership. It’s really only about $4 a month when you pay for it a year at a time. Nearly my entire social life now happens on Xbox Live, so I’d be lost without it. That being said other goodies on my wishlist include the current Call of Duty game, the upcoming Call of Duty game, and well, a lot of video games. What can I say? I’m hopelessly addicted to video games!

Alternately, this could be called How To Turn A Tutorial Into A Comedy. The secret ingredient is goat! Okay, so you don’t exactly get a machete for your efforts- it’s more like an exacto knife.

DIY: How to Make a Knife From a Cigarette [ubergizmo]

Here’s something I would never buy.. not in a million years. It’s a serving platter made from a road sign. I don’t know if they used a sledgehammer or a mig welder or what to accomplish this, but I certainly wouldn’t want to eat off of it. Worse yet, the price tag is pretty steep at $359! Nice price for a beat up road sign that your tax dollars paid for in the first place!

DPW Platters: Eat Off a Recycled Road Sign [nerd approved]