: Though Wired.com readers selected 10 excellent photos in our yellow photo contest , we here at the photo department like to fight for the underdog. Here are our 10 favorite submissions that we think deserved more attention.

: After weeks of excellent submissions in our yellow photo contest we at the Wired.com photo desk have a new favorite color. Here are the 10 highest reader-voted submissions. Mikage Rinoa takes home the gold (ahem) with his photo "Yellow Dew Drop" at left. Mr. Rinoa will be receiving a subscription to Wired magazine and a digital picture frame for his desk.

Your assignment for this photo contest is both simple and difficult: music. Move beyond the band and concert cliches and show us what music means to you. Use the Reddit widget below to submit your best music photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 highest-ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. Show us your grandpa's old dusty stacks of shellac, the piano in the backyard overgrown with moss and ivy, an exotic minstrel in the heart of a Mediterranean bazaar. Deliver us to psychedelic synesthesia by making us hear your vivid photos with our eyes.

Here is a selection of seven sensational sins; tempting destinations that will ensure that the next few months will give your family just as much of a sugar rush as October did.

This week's smart deal takes on an off-season escape to Greece via an offer from Friendly Planet.

Ski vacations are pricey by nature, but savvy parents never pay full price for a winter getaway. Here are 10 easy ways to save on a family getaway this winter.

"500 Places to Take Your Kids Before They Grow Up" highlights the best trips for parents and children alike, including these six excellent titans of industrial imagination

Saul Williams "Sunday Bloddy Sunday" MP3 Produced by Trent Reznor

Leading Online Platform for PC Games Extends Portability

November 3, 2008 - Valve, creators of best-selling entertainment products and advanced technologies, today announced the roll out of Steam Cloud, a set of services for Steam that stores application data online and allows user experiences to be consistent from any PC. Steam Cloud is a free extension to Steam, a leading a platform for PC games with over 15 million accounts worldwide.

Phil Davis returns to celebrity status at Wrestle-offs

SFR launches all-you-can-eat MP3 download service

Indie hits Mr. Robot and Starscape from MoonPod now available via Steam for just $9.99 eac

The medieval role-playing game Mount & Blade is now available on Steam for $29.99 worldwide.

Naxos's Premier Download Site, ClassicsOnline, Launches World's ...

According to a report from the U.S. Department of Commerce, construction spending in the United States edged down in September, coming in at -0.3% month-over-month. The consensus had forecast construction spending in September to decline by 0.8%. The total construction figure for August was revised upward to 0.3% from 0.0%.

Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker said that slowing economic growth and weakening labour markets in the U.S. may prompt banks to further reduce their lending to consumer and firms, thus leading to further credit tightening.

The U. S. Department of Commerce has launched a new website to assist Americans in getting through the current and probably future economic situation. The site is billed by the Department as "a resource for the American people to find help to keep their homes, find jobs and protect their savings..."

Microsoft must be wondering what else it can do to prevent piracy, especially for products that are yet to be released. The latest offering that is expected to hit testers around the globe early next year, Windows 7 is already out and circulation is going thick and fast; thanks to the technology of torrents. Pirate Bay [...]