If Amazon is Santa, 400 folks living in RVs outside the Coffeyville, Kansas fulfilment centre this Christmas are the elves.
President Obama visited a Boys and Girls Club and played the part of Santa, asking the kids what they want for Christmas – but instead of hearing traditional requests for bikes, the kids all wanted iPods, phones and other tech.
Everyone knows Father Christmas has a reindeer-powered wooden sleigh, except evidently Land Rover’s crafty designers, who’ve updated the humble vehicle with some much-needed aluminium.
Today in the musty sub-basement of Gizmodo we call Remainders, Star Trek‘s Simon Pegg is having AppleCare difficulties, Santa gives you GPS directions, Star Trek: TNG gets bizarrely and hilariously re-dubbed, Adult-Swim-style, and Sony renames their ebook store.
I like UFOs. I like aliens. I like classic illustration. After snooping into his email, I even like Santa. And I don’t like Rudolph. Therefore, it doesn’t get better than this. Merry Xmas everyone. [DRB]
Dear Kids. You all have been bad. You’ll be all dead tomorrow night. Merry Xmas, Lego Santa Crab. P.S. Check out my other cool pics. I rock. You don’t. Ho Ho Ho. Ho.
Not happy with cancelling MacWorld and the Stevenote, Phil Schiller and Santa Claus appeared in a joint press conference today at the North Pole announcing the cancellation of Christmas after 2008′s.
Believe it or not, there’s a site dedicated to deceive kids into thinking that Santa Claus exists: Send photo, pay $US10 and they insert Santa. Can you guess what Santa is doing here?
Once upon a time, when everything was black and white and the Russians had horns and tails, someone printed an ad asking kids to call Santa Claus using a very wrong telephone number.
Hand-writing letters to Santa is so 20th Century. These days, Santa has a Gmail account and an iPhone running the Santa Mail App. If you’ve got the app too, you can send the bearded.gift-giver messages that he will respond to individually. While that may not hold too much appeal for you as an adult, it will give you a certain level of street cred with your kids, especially when they get individualised responses.
