Ryan says:

 
This Friday is Buy Nothing Day.
[ adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/]
Evil marketers & PR folk everywhere best beware.
 
Similarly, the Canadian Mennonites have a great site up for Buy Nothing Christmas
[ buynothingchristmas.org ]
 
The odds that a bunch of richies will be simply making homemade mix CDs for their family & friends are slim to none. It IS really cool to see the Adbusters & Christian venn diagrams intersect, however.
 
In other news, a sloppy late-night call to the studio yesterday revealed we missed Thomas' birthday this year. Nov 10th. Sorry, Mr T.