Once again, a year is fading out making way for the next one. This time: 2008. And once again, we – my colleagues and I, Torge – would like to know what made this year important to you, what moved you to tears and who really ground your gears.
Short review: Last year you nominated Al Gore as the most polular person of the year. The silver medal went to Sébastian Chabal, a guy who I never ever heard of well-known rugby player of the Sale Sharks. The real surprise, however, was to be found at the lower end of the scale where George W. Bush handed over the Golden Raspberry to Paris Hilton. By the way: Knut (the famous Berlin polar bear) got stuck somewhere in the middle.
When it came to the vote for the most important website of the year, there was of course just one possible winner: Spreadshirt! What actually surprised me was that you guys like MySpace more than Facebook…
Anyway, additionally to some questions you already know from last year, we want to elect the most beautiful city and risk a short glimpse into the future this year.
All participants can hope for awesome prices like the Acer Aspire A150X.
So take the survey. Have fun!

I was really happy about an email from Tamiko Thiel last week. Tamiko runs the Mission Base Creations shop and told me that her legendary CM-1 shirts are now finally available for European customers, too.
CM-1? Mission Base? Tamiko Thiel?
Here´s the story: Tamiko was a member of the team that designed the CM-1 super computer at the MIT in the early 80s. The “Connection Machine 1″ - that´s the full name of the device - was “the first commercial computer designed expressly to work on simulating intelligence and life”.
Even before the team finished the design of the computer, Tamiko came up with a t-shirt logo which visualized the design principles of the CM-1. Tamiko: “In fact, we designed the CM-1 to look like this logo, thus making it the only supercomputer designed after a t-shirt!”
The shirt became famous as the “Feynman t-shirt” in the 90s, when Apple’s “Think different” campaign used a photo of Nobel physicist Richard Feynman wearing it.
See pictures of the shooting here.
Using Spreadshirt, Tamiko has reissued the legendary tee and now made it available in Europe, too. In case you still need Christmas presents for geeks, Apple fans and/or regular t-shirt lovers, the CM-1-Shirt should be a sureshot.

Now is the time to send Santa on his last run - if you order by December 15th, which is tomorrow, we can guarantee that your shirt will be delivered before Christmas!

As Santa will put on extra speed, we were able to cut costs:

from 6:00 -11:59 a.m.: 10% off + Free Shipping with the voucher code rollercoaster10
from 12:00-05:59 p.m.: Free Shipping with the voucher code rollercoaster
from 6:00-10:59 p.m.: 20% off + Free Shipping with the voucher code rollercoaster20

Those who are still at a loss for gift ideas can also give their loved ones a personalised gift voucher for £15 or £25. This way they can choose for themselves and test out their creative muscles.

Less than three weeks away and we might already be tired of Christmas jingles, the word x-mas and crowded stores.

That doesn’t save us from the fact that we still need gifts. For those who are saying to themselves “This is the year I will start shopping before Christmas Eve”, we have quite the tip for this upcoming weekend. Saturday: get out and grab some of that crisp winter air. Sunday: stay home and simply finish all of your shopping.

We’ve made your lazy Sunday even more convenient — with the voucher code “LAZYSUNDAY“, you will get all orders placed on Sunday, December 7th shipped for free. The voucher is valid in the T-Shirt Designer, on the Marketplace and in all shops.

I even have a gift idea for you: some might have already seen snow this winter, so our knitted mittens and caps certainly deserve a shout-out. They are from Vermont, which means that they are hand-made and extremely comfortable. And with a little creativity, mittens can be quite handy.