flickr fun

Just found out about this from Boing Boing. Two little bits of holiday fun for your flickr library. Add a note to any of your images labeled "ho ho ho hat" and it will place a Santa Hat on your image. Add another note labeled "ho ho ho beard" and it will place a Santa Beard on the image. That is a little bit of fun for the holiday season.

Charlie Brown Christmas redux

I just got an email from a friend with this link to a version of the Charlie Brown Christmas as performed by the cast of HBC TV's hit Scrubs. This is no simple reading of the script, but rather a re-interpretation by the cast. It is funny, a little blue, but mostly funny.If you are If you are a fan of the show, you are aren't you, you will love this version. With all due respects to Sparky.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Watching this cartoon as a kid, and countless times now that I am a father, I always wondered whatever happened to these puppets. A few years back I was at Kevin Smith's comic book shop in Red Bank, NJ and saw a couple of great books on the production of the cartoon, but it never really stated what happened to the puppets.

Well they were found last year. Well only a couple of puppets survived and they were in pretty bad shape. Here is a nice bit of info on their restoration and some nice pics.

MacHeist

So today is the day the final bundle has been revealed from the folks at MacHeist. If you have not been following, MacHeist has been a bit of an online scavenger hunt to get great deals (read: free) shareware apps for your trusty old OS X. The bundle they are releasing is a great list of popular software that many folks would be happy to add to their Mac. They are also donating 25% of the bundle price to a charity of your choosing, from their selected list.

I had participated in the "heist" since it started and think it is a great idea at viral marketing. However, I do think that the directorate, the folks running the show, need a bit more practice to bring something this complex off without the many hitches this one certainly had. With each heist, there were a series events and tasks that needed to occur; many of those events coming out of the directorate were not always timely. There are actually many folks who had not received certain pieces of information needed in order to complete their heists; I for instance never received the first email response needed for the first heist.

Despite the glitches it is a good proof of concept for this type of viral marketing and certainly will mature as it is used by more companies hoping to reach their target markets with effective and unique messages.

Sick, traveling, ugh…

I was the lucky recipient of a serious bit of the flu over Thanksgiving. Am now just beginning to feel better. In the meantime I have traveled to the Outer Banks (have a couple of nice shots of Kitty Hawk I will be adding to the plog), MacAppADay has begun and the MacHeist continues its irregular path.

MacAppADay is a great promotion. Every day during December they are giving away 5,000 copies of a particular piece of shareware. So far they have let go some decent software and the price can't be beat.

MacHeist is a bit of scavenger hunt across the web to solve riddle, puzzles, etc. In the end some nice software is there to be had as well. At the end of it all they will also offer a decent bundle of software (yet to be named) for a discounted price. Both are good bit of diversion for the month.