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 By Maria Mouk for Silicon Valley Watcher

Break out! Week thins out and makes for the weekend wander.

Tonight join me, your friends, and your friends freaks and geeks, at Mighty's 3rd Anniversary. Free admission all night with Open Bar until midnight. On the decks will be your favorite dj's from THE SPACE COWBOYS,TIGERBEAT6, OPEL PRODUCTIONS, EGGS, HOUSE OF LOTUS, MOXIE, THE FRINGE CAMP, GET YR FREAK ON, DEEP END, GUN CLUB, FUNKY COZY, FALSE PROFIT, EVIL BREAKS, bands, performances and much more.

Get some quiet daytime in before pressing your aural limitations at Friday night's Brutal Sound Effects Festival at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Running for its 11th year, this blanket of treble vibrance will numb your toes, and fluid your thoughts- until melody flows out of your inhalations. Special out of town guests will include Los Angeles Free
Music Society pioneer Joseph Hammer, and god-being from Baltimore “James Twig Harper”.” This multi-media concert and film event will feature the following bands:• Psichologico Tramas (Joseph Hammer, Loachfillet, Albert Ortega, Mitchell Brown)• James “Twig” Harper• Skozey Fetisch• Beandip Troubadours (Branpos/Antiear)• XOME• Hans Grusel’s Krankenkabinet• Core of the Coal Man• Spider Compass Good Crime Band• Ecomorti• and Sound effects presentation by heejay KROB. Only 8 bucks and show starts at 730.

Feeling frisky after getting a mind rock? Throw on your Super Santaman costume and get out early- as the Santas take over SF. SantaCon 2006 starts at 830 in the East Bay, or stumble in by 10am to the Carousel at Pier 39 in San Francisco. Come prepared for barhopping and lots and lots of Santas...

And now its Saturday night- and you find yourself standing at the doors of the RXGallery. Inside awaits you interactive "Device Art" and beats with Kontrol's METOPE, hailing from Berlin with tech-lectro to make you twitch till the AM. The current exhibit at RX is entitled Device Art; and is a year in the planning- featuring over 2 dozen interactive video pieces, optikinetic works; conceptual and performance. 

PLug in- Engage- Dissimenate.

Saturday night also offers the Opel Holiday Season Soiree @ Shine. A holiday season party with all the trappings of egg nog, decor, mistletoe, and snazzy outfits. No dress code per se, but we're requesting you dress up a bit: bust out that cocktail dress you've been dying to wear or the styled out get up too nice for work. Performing will be SYd Gris, Smoove, Dutch, ViaJay, Aaron Jae, Nathan Vain, Dulce Vita, Cosmic Selector, and Dex Stakker.

This weekend- 2 trunk shows offer you unique gifting options for the winter days.

Saturday; Pandora's Trunk- at 916 Natoma offers a designer sample sale, art/fashion production performance, rotating indie artists, gourmet food, massage, and free play pinball all under one roof.

Sunday: Younique Boutique features bay area artisans and crafters such as ViaJay and Green Girl, Ruby Pearl: pussy art, jewelry and soaps, Lindy Kehoe: fine art prints and originals, books, Cheryl Kerr: silver and Paua shell jewelry, paintings, Elwyn Crawford: velour cloches, fabric-college head scarves, Sequoia: art prints, glass art, handmade poi for dancing
Dee Dee Russell: glitter and feather clothing, and more Im sure. At Anon Gallery 285 9th street- noon to 7. 

Monday evening; join Dave Eggers, writer of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, at the Herbst Theatre for conversation about his most recent book ;What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng. Epic in scope and full of adventure, tragedy, and triumph, What is the What depicts the recent history of civil war in Sudan through the eyes of two young men. It is based on the true story of Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of a 1000-mile exodus and one of Sudan's "Lost Boys." In 2003, Eggers and Deng traveled by cargo plane to southern Sudan where Deng was reunited with his parents, who he was separated from seventeen years earlier during the Second Sudanese Civil War. Deng will be on site as well.

2007 Lurks... so gather inspiration but travel light.

[diggrz refers to the nomadic lifestyle offered by mobile digital technologies and gadgets - creating a "nomadig" culture. The diggrz name is also a tip-of-the-hat to some of the ideas of the Diggers, a democratic group that arose in 1649, out of the English revolution .

The Diggers were a radical group that cultivated and protected common lands, and sought to create egalitarian, self-sustaining communities. The Diggers would have found  kindred spirits in today's software engineer culture,  and the focus on creating  commonly owned technologies through egalitarian open source community projects. - Tom Foremski]

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