For now, I can only think of one thing. I’m so in love with THIS!
#1 Chery QQ3
Not that I will actually have one though. Where is Secret Santa when you need one? 
UPDATE:
#2. Panasonic Lumix LX3
“I am the Christmas Spirit. I enter the home of poverty and cause palefaced children to open wide their eyes in pleased wonder. I cause the miser to release his clutched hand, thus painting a bright spot upon his soul.
“I cause the aged to remember their youth and to laugh in the glad old way. I bring romance to childhood and brighten dreams woven with magic.
“I cause eager feet to climb dark stairways with filled baskets, leaving behind hearts amazed at the goodness of the world.
“I cause the prodigal to pause in his wild and wasteful way and send to anxious love some little token which releases glad tears, washing away the hard lines of sorrow.
“I enter dark prison cells, causing scarred manhood to remember what might have been and pointing to better days yet to come.
“I enter the still white home of pain, and there lips that are too weak to speak just tremble in silent, eloquent gratitude.
“In a thousand ways I cause this weary old world to look up into the face of God and for a few moments forget everything that is small and wretched. You see, I am the Christmas Spirit.”
(Author unknown.)
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from LDS-Gems Daily Digest
My Fav’rite ‘Net Things
by kc claffy, CAIDA
Route aggregation and increasing payload
Multiway peering and net-friendly C code
Boxes that filter on source-routed pings
These are a few of my fav’rite net things
Multicast native and option-free packets
VLANs that don’t break and short A.S. path lengths
End-to-end measures with meaning to bring
These are a few of my fav’rite net things
When my link’s toast
When the spam grows
When my thruput hits ground
i simply remember my fav’rite net things
and then i don’t feeeel sooo down
Far reaching coverage and routing that’s stable
Aggregate flow stats and Mice that are able
to back off when shown that the Net’s being zinged
These are a few of my fav’rite net things
Routers that do red and balanced net loading
Video apps with hierarchical coding
Raw packet traces to dissect and see
all of my absolute fav’rite net things
when DNS freaks
when my routes leak
when i lose a peer
i try to remember my favorite net things
and then go buy more net gear
Visualizations of virtual networks
Discovering “features” in new IOS quirks
Vendor built stacks that respect TCP
These are a few of my fav’rite net things
SNMP tools like MRTG
Knowing how to unconfig your P.V.C.’s
Measurement boxes that sniff OC3
These are a few of my fav’rite net things
When my page stalls
Or they pass laws
to invade free net speech
i simply remember that it could be worse
at least there’re still sites i reach
Cool network geeks and their company perks
Analysis tools in which true insight lurks
Stable peer sessions and route symmetry
These are a few of my fav’rite net things
Multi-mode fiber with an optical splitter
BGP sessions configed not to litter
Reverting from ATM back to IP
These are a few of my fav’rite net things
When popups leap
when copyrights creep
into my browser’s cache
i simply remember that SDMI
will most likely buuurn & crash
Stock trading web sites that haven’t yet crashed
MP3 players with plenty of flash
having my cell phone talk to my PC
These are a few of my fav’rite net things
Linux and Open- and FreeBSD
Persistence in TCP’s HTTP
Finally remembering my PGP key
All of my abosolute fav’rite net things
When Backhoes sting
or TIME_WAITs bring
servers to the ground
i simply remember my fav’rite net things
and then i don’t feeeel sooo downa
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