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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

We want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and extraordinarily happy holidays! Don't stress, eat lots and lots, and be pleasant to your relatives - you only have to do this once a year, right? And we can rest...

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Send a Gingerbread Man E-Card

If you're tired of the regular old Christmas e-cards, try this gingerbread man e-card instead. It's just a little bit different - you start out with a plain gingerbread cookie, and you can decorate it with icing and little candy...

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Need More Monopoly Money?

If you've been gearing up for the annual Monopoly marathon with all the family over the Christmas holidays, this mgiht come in handy: Hasbro offers a PDF file that lets you print your own Monopoly money. And if you're leary...

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Talking Lips Speakers

This rather strange looking set of lips is actually a speaker. Really! You can plug it into your phone, your computer or your stereo. Apparently, the lips move in conjunction with its output. So it's really a speaking speaker. Actually,...

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Create Your Own Snowflake

If you have fond memories of folding a piece of paper and cutting out a snowflake, you'll love the create your own snowflake site. We tried to cut out so many little snippets, the site told us we had reached...

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CoverPop

Check out CoverPops, by Jim Bumgardner. (The pic above is called 500 Gifts for Geeks - well, okay, this particular piece isn't art, but we thought it was interesting). Move your mouse over each mosaic at the CoverPop site, and...

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Relax! It's FedEx ...

We got our last Christmas gift parcel shipped out today, so we're pretty relaxed now about the whole Christmas shipping thing now. But we still thought this site by FedEx was pretty funny: Relax. I Will Manage. Our favorite? A...

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Pyramat PM220 Vibrating Gamer's Chair

So, we're going to take a guess. You figure you might not be able to snatch an XBox 360 off the shelves before Christmas so there's a kid on your list who's going to be XBox-less? Chances are, that kid...

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Melting Snowmen Canisters

We're not too sure how festive these are. The snow kind of fits the season (especially up north here), but to be honest, the faces kind of remind us of Scream. Anyway, you can order these Marcel Dzama Melting Snowmen...

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Elf Zapper Game

Lots of games are coming out, it seems. The Elf Zapper is quite addictive, and sort of fits in with the whole holiday spirit. (Just remember that you're zapping the evil elves. That will make it more Christmas-y. Not to...

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Leroy the Hand

Do you remember Bob's Cube? Well, the makers of that site are back with another place for us to roam around in. Leroy the Hand is, well, a hand. And this is his dressing room.

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Creative Zen Vision:M

Since one of us has a 30GB on her wish list (or 60GB but we're really not going that high in price. Really.) we've been scouting around, looking at everything that's available out there. We had more or less figured...

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Epson PowerLite Home 20

Here's a nice addition to your home theatre if you've been looking to spend under $1000. Well, okay. Priced at $999, we're talking only a shade under $1000. (And for us Canadians, that's actually more than a shade over $1000.)...

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In the Driver's Seat

You'd better hang on! (We're talking to the poor guy with the coffee.) You're in the driver's seat for this one. Have fun! Via Adverblog.

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For the Guy Who's Got Everything

... but only if you've got $30,000 to spare. Dominos Pizza's Ultimate Man Cave Couch offers these features: * Two flat panel screen televisions * DVD player * Mini refrigerator * Xbox with three controllers * Electric Red MP3 player...

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MacGyver MP3 Watch

We like this one: the Skullcandy MacGyver MP3 Watch. You can get a full GB for $299, which is quite a lot for a watch. And get a load of what's packed into this thing: The MacGyver sports a selectable...

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Champagne Belt

If we had the money to go yachting and all the worries about warm champagne that whole lifestyle implies, we'd definitely go for the Mini Moet Belt. For all those times when you're picnicking and need somewhere convenient to put...

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Take the Aichoo IQ Test

Have you ever thought about how you sneeze? Apparently, your sneezing style tells a lot about you. According to What your sneeze says about you, you can actually tell your personality type from your sneeze. Which ones are we? Looks...

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Holiday Gift Guides

It kind of feels like we were flooded today with holiday gift guides - in our in-boxes, our feedreaders and in our mailbox. So we thought we'd share with you two of our favorites. Coolhunter's 2005 holiday gift guide is...

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MAD Cover Collection!

Here's a site that will thrill all MAD lovers. (One of us has some very dear memories of midnight MAD reading under the covers with a flashlight back when she was probably way too young to even have her hands...

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Boss from Hell: Signs and Symptoms

If you're planning on a career change, and figure you'll line up some job interviews to start the new year off with a bang, here's an interesting article on how to detect the boss from hell, right from the start...

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Skull and Crossbones Towels

We love these towels! They wouldn't suit our decor (we like to call our bathroom "muddy-eclectic"), but we have some people on our Christmas shopping list this year we know will absolutely love these. They're available from PixelGirlShop for US...

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TV-B-Gone Universal Remote Control

Okay. So we weren't too swift on the uptake today. When we first saw the TV-B-Gone Universal Remote we said, WTF? It only has one button and that one button only does one thing - turn the TV off or...

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Flipclip Flipbook from Your Short Videos

Remember making flipbooks as a kid? Sure you do! You know, where you stapled a bunch of papers together, then you drew all these very interesting characters doing lots of very interesting stuff ... (one of us drew stick figures...

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