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Gift Guides 2009

It is the shopping time of year. I have posted a couple gift guides over the last few weeks and have gathered those and others for you here.

• Harper's Bazzar - Gifts for Her
• LATimes - The perfect presents for Muggles, Trekkies and fanboys
• Time Gift Guide
• Boing Boing Gift Guide - Kids, Media, Gadgets, Nonfiction, Fiction
• ZDNet's 2009 Holiday Tech Gift Guide
• GameSpot Game Guide
• GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide
• Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide, 2009!
• Ars Technica Holiday Gift Guide 2009
• New York Magizine - The Gift List ’09
• CrunchGear Holiday Gift Guide
• The Uncle Mark 2009 Gift Guide & Almanac
• CNET Gift Guide
• Treehugger Gift Guide
• The Art of Manliness Holiday Gift Guide 2009
• Valet Gift Guide '09 Everything under $100 (almost)
• Makezine Gift Guides
• Liquor Snob Holiday Gift Guide 2009

Post-Tday links

Hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving. Enjoy the links.

• From solar energy to hydrogen: there's no step two
• Per Capita Wine Consumption Chart
• Giving up the GIMP is a sign of Ubuntu's mainstream maturity
• How the H1N1 vaccine is made
• Make Terrariums, Planters From Light Bulbs
• USB pet rock - all the functionality of the original pet rock, but is USB compatible
• Four Photos of a Frozen Niagara Falls
• AFT Customs Er Hed
• Radical Ducati Imola RAD02
• Rodney Aguiar’s Revelation
• Matrix Bullet-Dodging Scene Recreated with LEGO Stop-Motion Animation
• Star Wars Facebook Updates
• xkcd: Pandora
• PHARAO To Be Most Accurate Atomic Clock In Space
• 61 Free Apps We're Most Thankful For
• The Art of Manliness Holiday Gift Guide 2009
• Review: Chivas Regal 18 vs Johnnie Walker Blue
• The 10 Best HDTV Deals Under $1000

Today’s Links

• Harley WLC custom
• Valet Gift Guide '09 Everything under $100 (almost)
• HD Guru Picks The 10 Best HDTVs You Can Buy
• The Big Picture: National Geographic's International Photography Contest 2009
• How to Run Google Chrome OS from a Thumb Drive
• End of the line for IBM's Cell
• Studying the science gender gap at the high school level
• Large Hadron Collider starts up, produces first collisions

Today’s Links

• Scientists create the first programmable quantum processor
• Himalayan Caves May Be Shangri-La
• MAKE's mostly $20 and under electronics gift guide
• Liquor Snob Holiday Gift Guide 2009
• The Big Picture: On the shoreline
• The Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
• Scan Tailor Cleans Up Scanned Pages
• Deus 1200 V-Twin café racer - HFL has more photos
• Lower Your H1N1 Risks at the Airport During Busy Holiday Travel Times
• High Noon - sundial cannon
• Chumby-One - at $100 it is tempting
• An introduction to the FBI's anti-cyber crime network
• Lithuanian Horseback Riding Academy was a CIA Secret Prison
• First Glimpse at Google Chrome OS
• Tracking a mass extinction via mastodon poop
• Top 10 free Windows tools for IT pros

Today’s Links

• Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend
• How-To: Upright electric bass from a 2x4
• Man Uses Crane and Lawn Mower to Trim His Hedges - what could go wrong?
• Coca-Cola Bottles History
• Partial H1N1 immunity can come without exposure to virus
• "Polaroid" mini-vase
• "Discount club" scams filch billions from online shoppers - Don't click on discount popups...
• How to Run a Meeting
• xkcd: Academia vs. Business
• Inside "MinWin": the Windows 7 kernel slims down
• Seventeen Things Worth Knowing About Your Cat
• IBM makes supercomputer significantly smarter than cat

Today’s Links

This entry is actually a few days but didn't get posted for some reason.....

• Mot Droid teardown
• New in the Maker Shed: Ice Tube Clock kit - Xmas is coming......
• Windows 7 themes: how to unlock them or create your own
• Intel and AMD bury the hatchet under $1.25 billion in cash
• AMD shakes up x86 CPU world with two new designs
• AMD avoiding Larrabee route on road to CPU/GPU "Fusion"
• Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu in Perfect Harmony
• Ron Wood Norton flat track racer
• Archimede Pilot XL Manually Wound Watch With ETA 6498 TOP Movement - extra-large, good price
• SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP
• Qualcomm hopes Snapdragon smartbooks take bite out of Atom
• Crescent Earth
• Ninja Cat Technique Revealed
• The Genetic Home of Speech
• 5 tips for fixing your Facebook page

Today’s Links

• Innovating problems: why DJ Hero flopped
• American Percussion | Zildjian Cymbals - cool history
• Now that AMD and Intel have settled, the fight really begins
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii review: impressive, and then some - I hope to be playing this in Christmas morning (yeah that is a hint....)
• Ars Technica Holiday Gift Guide 2009
• Make: Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Toys for grown-ups
• Jorg Gray JG1900 Watch Review - good value
• Choosing The HDTV That’s Right For You
• Pigeon: Impossible
• Mmmvelopes - just wrong, but it would make sending holiday cards more interesting...
• Kawasaki GPz 550
• Viacom's top lawyer: suing P2P users "felt like terrorism" - um yeah....
• Spark Fires Hanging Fireplace
• Cray rides AMD's Opteron to top of supercomputer list
• 15 Inventions Inspired by Science Fiction
• Wikis in the workplace: a practical introduction- shared knowledge is key to success
• The Gadget Show pits the Porsche 911 GT2 against its Forza Motorsports 3 digital cousin
• World’s first supersonic jump jet, the F-35B goes to trial
• When do net neutrality "anecdotes" become "data"?