It’s that time of year again – a geek’s best chance to look cool on the cheap. ScotteVest is having its biggest sale of the year with 40% taken straight off the top of some of its coolest stuff. Just remember to enter in this special coupon code – 9SALE40 – when you reach checkout. But the sale is only on through Friday and on limited stock so it’s best to act quickly. Then once you do, you’ll still be able to hold on to all those gadgets that make our digital world possible, but walk around empty-handed and un-encumbered like your only care in the world is looking good. (At least that’s what we tell ourselves when we wear ours.)

You can find their special sale page with all the details here.

Unfortunately one of the movies I was most exited about last year came and went before I had a chance to see it in theaters. The film I missed tells the timeless tale of two cultures in conflict. One is comprised of a dark-skinned race of people who are misunderstood and are being exploited by another group who considers themselves superior. In an attempt to gain total control the second group hatches a plot that takes advantage of medical science and uses the enemy’s own bodies against themselves. They also lie to one of the males and trick him into working as their inside man in order to keep the peace and prevent larger-scale violence and destruction.

While it sounds like I may be describing Avatar, that’s actually the plot of a different movie we’ve mentioned more than a time or two here on InfoAddict. The smaller independent film I am referring to is called Black Dynamite and it had so limited a release for such a short span of time that I never could find it playing anywhere even close to a time I could make it.

Well Black Dynamite was finally released on DVD yesterday and I can say without reservation that it was worth the wait. I rented it from my local Blockbuster early and have watched it several times already. Not because I am trying to squeeze every penny I can out of the rental fee, but because their are new things I notice every watch-through and some parts keep getting funnier. To put it on the t on the same level as “This Is Spinal Tap” would be a little blasphemous, but it would be accurate to say that it succeeds well at delivering the same kind of layered, deadpan, seemingly unintentional comedy that really grows on you.

If I go to return it at Blockbuster today it will only be because I plan on stopping somewhere else on the way home to buy a copy of my own.

In an amazing display of honor and integrity possibly extinct amongst American businesses, Toyota Motor Corp. CEO and President Akio Toyoda declined to accept an award from the Japanese Government for the Prius model’s energy efficiency. The Prius was one of 3 products selected this year to receive the Grand Prize for Energy Efficiency and Ecological Quality from Japan’s Trade Minister.

Referring to the recent voluntary recall of 437,000 Prius for possible brake problems, Toyota spokesman Paul Nolasco said, “We declined to accept the award because we thought it was not appropriate.” Toyota made the decision to recall the Prius amongst the recent recall of a total of 8.5 million other Toyota autos after receiving only 200 complaints total in both the U.S. and Japan of the hybrid experiencing a braking delay in very specific cold weather conditions over very bumpy roads.

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Hate me if you must, but I am not a football fan at all. It just holds no interest for me. I used to have a need to sit through every Super Bowl though. Why? I loved watching all the multi-million dollar advertisements.

Now however, thanks to Al Gore and whoever invented TiVo, I don’t have to put up with all the shirtless obese men painted in their team’s colors, or the nonstop grunting from amplified helmet mics anymore. Using my DVR I can just fast forward between commercials afterward, or even better, find the websites that let me select exactly which ones I want to watch and when. If you feel the same way about the sport, or even if you are a pigskin fan who just may have missed an ad or two during some congratulatory chest-bumping, these are the best three sites I came across this year:

Spike.com/superbowl

Hulu.com/adzone

CBSSports.com

Enjoy! Oh, and before you head off to voluntarily watch the advertisements from the big game that CBS will be using to pay its bills (each 30 sec. spot was 2.5 mil a pop!), we humbly request you consider clicking on an ad or two here every so often. It’s a small something we’d be very appreciative of and would help us continue to feed the habits of Info Addicts everywhere.