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If you’re reading this rather than facing the last minute Christmas shopping that you need to do, you should check out the Bargain Queen’s list of Last minute gifts – some great ideas there.

Final Potter title announced – and it’s not Harry Potter and the Revenge of the Death Eaters, in case you were worried.

[as] Beijing: Queueing for Free Cabbage; it’s impossible to imagine a scene like this in Sydney

Movie: Casino Royale Despite what everyone has said about this being a great movie in its own right, it remains at heart a Bond Movie. If you like the genre, you’ll like this one, if you don’t, there’s still not much in it to save it from itself. Watchable, enjoyable fluff, great action sequences, but …

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[kottke] An explanation of the deadweight loss of Christmas; where the giver spends more on the gift than the recipient would have spent – "An economist might suggest that the solution is to abandon the pretense and simply start exchanging small piles of money. The boom in gift cards is a kind of socially tolerable …

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[kottke] Short Imagined Monologues: (Famous atheist) Professor Richard Dawkins Speaks at Fair Hills Kindergarten Regarding Santa Claus

Interview with Bill Gates – my favourite quote: I didn’t buy the last DVDs of (the TV series) 24. I try not to purchase these so I can receive them as gifts.

Words of the day: Enclave and exclave – political geography terms.

[andrew p] Pray for Coal – the ten most dangerous toys of all time