During this holiday season, we will feature our employees’ selections of the best gifts.

Michael (Inventory Manager) recommends:
I find flash USB drives like the SanDisk Cruzer Micro
– which I prefer mainly for its ultra small size and cool minimalist look — to be extremely handy.

I
carry a couple in my Buzz bag
at all times, and have one loaded with a number of
free “portable” applications
that allow me to do my work my way (and securely) on any available computer with a USB
drive. It’s almost as good as having a computer you can carry around on
your keychain!

Another great gadget gift idea are the inexpensive flash-memory mp3
players that abound these days from reliable manufacturers like SanDisk,
Creative, and iRiver. Units with 1 gigabyte capacity for under or around
$100 are pretty common these days, with smaller capacity units (good for
daily playlists, podcasts, audio books, radio shows etcetera) going for
much less. FM player and voice recording are handy additional features
that are also becoming pretty common in these players.

By the way, Techbargains.com is an great
site to watch for announcements of the best tech gadget deals.

Tom (President/CEO):
The Zojila dish rack.

Sunga (VP of Sales & Administration):
iPod!

Nicole (Seattle Store Warrior):
So definitely ummm probably a navigation system for a car hahhaha (since
I drive…) Nawww, maybe like ummm a blackeberry or something. This is one of those things that I think pretty much anyone could use. I can’t justify the expense on myself but I could see thinking it would be a great gift idea.

OR THIS!!!

During this holiday season, we will feature our employees’ selections of the best gifts.

Nicole (Seattle Retail Store Warrior) recommends:
Toys for Tots. Or Childhaven. I have a friend who works for
Childhaven and they always need as much help as they can get, whether that be money donations, gift donations, or just an extra hand or two to
volunteer with some help!

Darcy (VP of Marketing):
Gift adoptions from Defenders of Wildlife or Pasado’s Safe Haven.
Two of my favorite animal organizations. When you give a gift adoption of a wolf, horse, cat, dog, whale, or bear, the recipient
will receive a beautiful color photo of the animal being sponsored along with their life story. Recipients of a gift adoption from Pasado’s Safe Haven will even receive an invitation to visit the animal you ‘adopt’ for them.

Tom (President/CEO):
Unicef. There are a number of ways you can give your friends or family a gift that also supports the work of Unicef — giving a gift donation, shopping in their holiday store, or even buying an album of Bjork remixes, the proceeds of which will be donated to Unicef.

Sunga (VP of Sales & Administration):
The Humane Society or Habitat for Humanity.

As a company, we have donated over $20,000 to the Seattle Vet Center, where they provide our homeless veterans with food, clothing, and support.

The Medium Cafe Bag is back in stock in every color with the exception of colors Cocoa/Steel and Cocoa/Wasabi, which will be available in February 2006. Colors in stock now are: Black/Steel, Black/Wasabi, Crimson/Steel, Plum/Steel, Plum/Wasabi, Steel/Deep Blue, and Steel/Crimson.