Stocking stuffers
The Chicago Tribune has 2007 Scared of Santa winners, a score of photos where kids simply were not buying into the program.
This seems to have been the year of the virally interactive Flash-based Christmas, with Office Max leading the way. The supply superstore-sponsored ElfYourself.com (originally launched in 2006) became a sensation these past few weeks. Office Max also has ScroogeYourself.com and the ever obstreperous guys over at JibJab have a sleighload of ways to humiliate you, your friends and family. There’s a Snowball Fight!, Office Party, and my personal favorite, It’s a JibJab Life.
All this puts the pressure on grandaddy sites like NORAD Santa to keep up their game. To its credit, the king of Santa tracking now puts Google Earth to work on the job. It can only be a matter of time before Google acquires NORAD.