For the ridiculous on your list, the Dickens-style wool cape.

So I was shopping around for a custom made Real Doll to send to the yesbutnobutyes Holiday Lunch in my place. (Sorry Lads, can't make it-hopefully "REAL DNAgal" will be equally entertaining-perhaps more so.) Anyway, I digress. During my planmaking, I found "Real Sheep" It's a parody site, but cute.

Previous posts on the soft, silent type:

Merry Christmas...Happy Holidays...Happy Hanukkah...Season's Greetings...Happy Kwanzaa...I don't know, is Ramadan now? Whatever holiday you celebrate, we can all agree that this is the season for putting aside differences, hitting the checkout lines and blowing the rent money on trendy items that'll be regifted for others...Ho Friggin Ho.

But you're still not sure what to get some people, right? Well, from the people that bring you that Top Five on Tuesday list that no one reads, comes yet another guide to items that'll be sold out by the time you get to the store...enjoy!

Vanessa Sue and Mikael Drache are strippers who share some of the secrets of getting into their pants in Part I of A Guy’s Technique with a Stripper’s Critique:

Think of each of those twenty dollar chats as an interview, but instead of seeking a new employee, but you are seeking your next “interest” someone you might find fun to be with, in all senses of the word!

Cingular is changing their name back to AT&T Wireless. And there's a (an?) hilarious article about naming in the Telegraph.

How did they persuade boards to part with vast sums of money for something that had always been free, and was better when it was? Here's an answer from Interbrand's website: "The chosen name, Xingux, is derived from a word with many positive connotations by using 'signo' (sign) with the abstract device of starting and ending with a letter X. The visual identity communicates the dynamism of the group's business."

Browsing these explanations is like reading the minute scrawls of a lunatic obsessive recluse: "Qarana originated from an Indian language called Jain meaning 'to cause'… Hospira… is an abstract of the words hospital, spirit and inspire and the Latin word spero meaning hope."

So that's the important Jain and ancient Roman markets sewn up then.

(via Snark Hunting)