Data Gift Guide by Nathan Yau.
From the post:
Now that we’re done giving thanks for all the intangibles like love, friends, family, and drunkenness, it’s time to turn our attention to the physical objects we don’t have yet. It’s the most wonderful time of year! Here are gift ideas for your data geek friends and family. A few of these take a while to make, so be sure to order them now so that you get them in time for Christmas.
Nathan has collected some interesting sources of gifts for the season.
From things I have never wondered about, pillows shaped like statistical distributions, to the more familiar books and electronics.
I mention this in lieu of any topic map specific gift sources that come to mind. Perhaps that will be different by next Christmas!
One possibility: Instead of a book of politicians and their dumb ideas, what if you had a book of dumb ideas with the politicians that hold them?
A reverse index of dumb ideas.
Other suggestions? (Volunteers to watch the news to create such an item? I have avoided it for years. What it doesn’t get wrong, is largely irrelevant.)