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Jul 12 2007 12:00am EDT

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Changing the Present: Hate shopping? Deplore the holiday store scramble? Then do good by giving donations in the names of family and friends online. They get a nifty card that shows you care enough to make them look altruistic.

Monocle.com: Here's a video of the top 25 coolest urban elements in existence from around the world.

Tech Digest: Sure, technology is great for bringing people together, especially via popular social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace. But what happens to your 'friends' pages when you suffer a broken engagement?

Independent: Irish is not a dead language by any means when it's getting a boost from 21st century technology. A new program in Ireland gives schoolchildren mobile phones for some SMS action with their teachers, in Irish of course.

The New Zealand Herald: A condom fashion show in swinging Beijing.

--Andrea Chalupa

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