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Uber Geeks Holiday Gift Guide

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-lust-after dept.

Johann Ramirez sent us Hardware Extreme's Christmas Wishlist which has tons of lust worthy objects that you have seen on Slashdot in the past, and several more that will make you feel strange things in your loins that might be unhealthy in the context of electronics. I want me a head mounted monitor and this wall mounted stereo santa!

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  1. How about some real presents... by webword · · Score: 5, Insightful


    ...jobs for my friends out of work!

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  2. Re:My Problem... by dangermouse · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I'm 22 and my wishlist totals exactly one million dollars. (It consists of one million dollars, actually.)

    But that's an absurd wishlist, and it's not the one I tell people about when they ask me for gift hints. That one's real short, and is full of things that cost five or ten bucks.

    The trick is to know your audience.

  3. Re: We did this and we're happy . . . by raresilk · · Score: 5, Insightful
    My domestic partner and I decided to go the charitable route. We've talked about it on previous holidays, but never had enough motivation to actually do it until this year. We added up what we usually spend on our Christmas holiday giving and celebrating, for family, friends, and each other. We rounded it up to the nearest round number, and made a donation in that amount to the Afghanistan relief effort (1/2 to Unicef, 1/2 to Oxfam.)

    Then we made a nice Christmas card with color photos of Afghanistan refugees receiving food relief, including one bearded guy with a sack of USA wheat on his back that sweetly reminded us of Santa. We explained our decision in the card, including the total amount of our contributions - not to brag about it, but so that it would be clear this was not just our cheap attempt to blow off gift-giving. We asked that the recipients consider making similar donations in lieu of their usual Christmas gifts to us. The cards went out Thanksgiving weekend.

    We've received no negative reactions, and many positive ones to date. It remains to be seen whether anyone will take us up on our request to donate instead of a present, but honestly we're looking forward to a Christmas tree with absolutely zero gifts under it.

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  4. Is this site in bed with Sony? by Nonesuch · · Score: 5, Interesting
    There are plenty of cool geek gifts not made by Sony, so when 6 out of 13 items on their list are Sony products, you have to suspect something is up...

    I like some stuff Sony makes, but I wouldn't call their products "geek friendly".

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