Shopping early for Christmas/Heute schon an Weihnachten denken

Law and Magic Blog (always worth a read and originally recommended by kalebeul): I try to do my holiday shopping early, which is why I am on the prowl now. recommends the Unemployed Philosophers Guild, although I was less taken by the Houdini mug (Houdini disappears if you fill it with coffee) than by some of the post-it notes, such as those featuring Cézanne and Freud, and a Van Gogh birthday card (not so good for Christmas, of course). If that doesn't suit, it's now possible to buy your bust of Karl Marx online, thus saving me a trip to Trier to the Karl Marx Museum. At the Carbolic Smoke Ball Co., you can download a PDF file of Christmas cards (mysteriously entitled ChristmasCards2006.pdf). The figure of Justice with a robin in one scale is nice, but there's really time to make one's own now. LegalAndrew recommen…