Elf'ed myself

I saw this on Andrew Careaga's blog and I couldn't resist.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

K.I.S.S.

Here's me being a NMDB again.

You know the old acronym KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.

When it comes to digital holiday cards, Keep It Short Stupid.

Here's one for those of us making cute little digital Christmas cards, this from the University of Maryland. It's clearly well organized and highly produced, but it's almost 4 minutes long.

Ditto with this Holiday card from Eckerd.

4 minutes might as well be an hour for me in the Interwebs time. Granted I have no emotional connection to either of these schools having attended neither. Maybe I'm a Grinch, but if I want to watch for minutes of lame acting, I'll watch Grey's Anatomy clip.

I don't want Brad's head to get too big, but he did a really nice job with the Butler University version. Right around a minute. Perfect.

These things are meant to be fun and put a smile on people's faces. I understand that. It just annoys me that you spent a s- load of time producing this thing and I'm bored after 1:30 and stop watching. Make better use of your time and Keep It Short Stupid!

Big Picture's year in photos

F'ing wow.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/the_year_2008_in_photographs_p.html

You know you're a tool when..

You have a WIRED magazine hat, and wear it.

No sweater vest today though. I'm making progress.