Today's electronics deals, courtesy of The Consumerist:

• Sony Style: Sony Style Weekly Refurb Deals (Sony HDX678WF Home Theater $299, Cyber-Shot DSC-W230 Camera $109)
• Creative Labs: Creative Zen 32GB MP3 Player (SD Expandable, FM Tuner) $139.99 Free Shipping
• Best Buy: Best Buy Asus Essential Quad-Core Desktop Computer (REFURB) Markdowns (Core i7 for $799)
• Amazon : LaCie Metal Cast 8GB Flash Drive (Water + Scratch Resistant) for $25.99 w/ Free Shipping
• Target: Acer Aspire 5517 15.6 inch Laptop $359.99+ $11.12 shipping

• Buy.com: Sony VAIO CW 14-inch Core i3 Laptop $799.95 + free shipping
• Amazon : Fallout 3 Game for Playstation 3 for $18.96 + Shipping
• Buy.com : The Ultimate Matrix 10-Disc Collection for $17.49 w/ Free Shipping
• Amazon: The Simpsons: Season 20 DVD $19.95

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Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web (Wired)

…This year, Google will introduce 550 or so improvements to its fabled algorithm, and each will be determined at a gathering just like this one. The decisions made at the weekly Search Quality Launch Meeting will wind up affecting the results you get when you use Google’s search engine to look for anything — “Samsung SF-755p printer,” “Ed Hardy MySpace layouts,” or maybe even “capital Burkina Faso,” which just happens to share its name with this conference room.

Glow: Location-Based "Feelings" for iPhone (ReadWriteWeb)

Ever wonder how the people in your neighborhood are feeling? How about those that work downtown? Are people really happier on a Friday than a Monday? A new mobile application called Glow will tell you. Designed for the iPhone, this app lets you share your feelings using a simple star-based rating system that you manipulate using a swiping gesture.

Rejected By Apple, Grooveshark Releases App For Jailbroken iPhones On Cydia (TechCrunch)

…Grooveshark now says it has given up on its ambitions to get approved for the official App Store, claiming that Apple has been “ritually rejecting” the app for “primary selfish reasons”. We’ve heard that song before.

Lighter Side: The Big Picture: News Stories in photographs: Vancouver 2010, part 2 of 2 (Boston.com)

…Collected here are photos from the second half of this year's events in Vancouver.