On my list HO! Right now I'm reading "Snow" by Orhan Pamuk, a great Turkish novelist. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand a unique place in the Islamic world, where east meets west, secular nationalists meets radical islamists and it's got a love story too...

I'm glad the trains are rolling in NYC so I can get my gifts to Staten Island today. I'll try to keep TOD:NYC updated if I hear of a labor settlement.

For my long distance relatives, I used Just Give and let them select their own charity....and I get a nice tax deduction!

Oh, and everyone on my list is getting a CFL bulb and some information about how much energy/pollution they save.