Another couple from SciAm this time

• Top Sci/Tech Gifts 2004 -- Our favorite presents to give and get this holiday season is one full of great hints for the scitech librarians in our lives. I kinda like the USB swiss army knife thingy myself. Or the Einstein Action Figure.
  
• Back to the Future: Physicists gaze into the crystal ball by Graham P. Collins is an interesting conference report from the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. The idea was that the physicist were to speculate about the trends in physics research in the future, almost trying to tease out where the next big thing will come from.