On great concepts - Love what R Stevens is proposing over at Diesel Sweeties - the alternative to Secret Santas... and use your blog, etc to win free goodies... far more fun and less stress than buying for a stranger.

Remember my com post about Gifts for Your Indie Ninja? Cnet's CRAVE blog - picked it up and RAN with it - defining who the indie ninja is... updated my post, it was too funny not to share.

THINK! by Steelcase - review on com. 99% recyclable, gorgeous, simple, intuitive, and oh so ergo. I think this is THE chair for web 2.0 - the aeron was so last bubble.

Impressive 2007 Tech Guide over at Men's Health... cool new nike+ipod=Amp+ bluetooth remote watch thing...

Love these new pieces over at Wooster, Location: Albany's abandon buildings, stencils by, dwell, one unit and Mr. Prvrt

Solistone metal stone tiles...

Cool Hunter reports on Cartier doing a jewel-encrusted Elephant Polo Match in India... wow.

Product of God. What a name. Deep breathe, once you're over the name... they have great limited ed prints! From artists like my fav Genevieve Gauckler!!

Pewter Sea Horse Wine Aerator - there's something mesmerizingly pretty about this... cool idea...

People Like Us Collective introduces a new line of shirts (with hoodies on the way) - a fresh new site! - AND new packaging... talk about productive! And i'm in love with this fish.

Fun black and white necklaces by Archive Jewelry... will need to find out more about these!

Geoff McFetridge's Creature Off My Back line of creatures... this one is my favorite.

The Ziricote* comes in it own wooden box and is accompanied by a pot of wax, for treatment. Hulger's first ever wooden PIP*PHONE.

the UK's Innocent juices have tapped the craftster.knitting community and they come with hand made hats this holiday season

Gorgeous Color Finding tool - COLOURMOD

On fun design concepts, here's a submission by Agustin Otegui. X4: 2 watch faces, two straps, 4 options, in one watch... also check out his first place Bombay Sapphire Ice-olate winning design.

With all the shopping to do, made a quick list of fun stores, so i don't forget... If you need a last minute gift... or the perfect gift... here are some good places to look

Obsessing about the Material Furniture Knock Down/Drag Out Collection today

Ooooh Muji's holiday selection is far too fun... also take a look at the city-handkerchiefs in London, NY, HK, Tokyo versions

Muji also has some great acrylic bangles and rings (black, clear, green, red)

Latest in Muji's "_____in a bag" is SPACE!

The way we browse and search through images is quickly changing ~ don't miss Like.com and Retrievr

Marionette Mac - most artistic use of the internal accelerometer i've seen yet

Found on oO's eclectic ~ notcot had a TERRIBLE acronym, i can only wish it were as perfect as RUGenius' "Robotic Unit Generated for Exploration, Nocturnal Infiltration and Ultimate Sabotage"

A few foodie bloggers are turning me on to design in food... and Sean's Supperclub review is just too delectable an experience not to share. Happy Belated Birthday, Sean!

The work of Keith Noodzy, love the woody art, great squids, dinos, and more.

In rebellion against traditional gift guides, lets get creative! Here's my Thanksgiving morning, "Gifts for your Indie Ninja" - aka gorgeously fun black products

WOW. The imagery of animal fetus' in the womb through birth are just amazing, and i've only seen the extended preview... can't wait to see the discovery channel show.

Someone's gone and done it - its like hot or not, for art... only prettier, you win money, and it got on techcrunch.

Shilo made the new Samsung Blackjack ad an incredibly lust worthy tech gadget with this Cingular Ad.

So much love for Questionable Content ~ time to take a closer look at the sketches and gadgets featured in the strip.

From the makers of VOSS ~ comes G Pure Energy... the next hot thing in packaging... and energy drinks?

Mimobots Star Wars series - the final character announced! Now we just have to sit back and wait patiently for their release in January...

CANDY FOR RICHMEN. ok they got me with the title... but pretty illustration on the site UI as well

Of all the crazy cuffs out there, this one is for baseball lovers... i love that you can collect autographs (and *ahem* cheat notes) on it as well... fun idea by Danielle Strle.

The packet claims that eating the 1up Mushroom will grant "immortal life beyond dreams of man." It also has the warning: Do not put in face. - It gave us a good laugh.

Fabulist find! Coolest necklace ever? T-rex skeleton that people wouldn't be able to help themselves but to comment on.

Thank goodness for Coroflot and their great GLOBAL AESTHETIC PRACTICE ESTIMATE ~ to help us all keep tabs on how much we are and should be earning for our creative ways.

The packaging and photography for the new Shu Uemura Rogue Unlimited lipstick... its otherworldly.

Also liking the 80's Purple layout/rollovers for their sunglasses page

80's Purple has a homepage UI that made me take notice... so sharing it. Crazy rollovers on the frames.

If ninjas had viewmasters ~

Of all the lego batman characters ~ they did the best job designing catwoman... no lego i've seen has pulled off such a brilliantly devious look. And holds a whip?

Leaning on the frightening/creepy side - there's still something interesting about this hand that is all graphite... a giant pencil lead hand, if you will.