Nicky Digital has answered our prayers, and put together a Hipster Holiday Guide so that we all may have an easier time crossing off those hard friends that are just too cool to give the Gap scarf too:

"What a long, strange year this has been. From Bush to Obama, 13,000 to 8,300 Dow points, boom times to bailouts ... man, oh man.

The economy’s in a recession, our government is in limbo until January, and overall, everyone’s in a state of uncertainty. Sure, sure, we’re all sick of kvetching about it. But it’s there, it’s the elephant in the room, gnawing at our subconscious. More»