Have you noticed that those bits of cheer are more often made of actual bits these days? Those ubiquitous digits are even changing the way we send our season’s greetings! Are greeting cards now in danger? 

Leave it to Weiden & Kennedy in London to figure out how make a Christmas Card Making Machine powered by digits. To get a card you go to physical site on London, get your photo taken and they put together a very cool ecard for you. (Thanks to Scott Lackey and his interesting blog — The New Advertising)

The ‘Elf Yourself’ promotion from Office Max has been a big hit. Upload your own photos and they do the rest. The site was put together by JibJab. You might want to visit the JibJab site and check out all their stuff. You can even star in their version of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ 

By the way, if you haven’t seen the actual movie recently, you can see it right here, thanks to Google. It’s interesting to watch it in the context of today’s world events.

No matter what, I wish you lots of joy and cheer and digital happiness with my own ecard. This card is for those who don’t mind the word ‘Christmas.’ And this card is for those who prefer the word ‘Holiday.’

Cheers!

I can’t stop thinking about this. In a previous post, I had a crazy idea that giving a cool million to each citizen makes more sense than bailing out faulty banks and companies.

Now that they’re in line to receive almost $8 trillion and still counting, I still think so. And everytime I hear about one more of these bailouts this idea keeps coming back.

With the U.S. population at about 300,000,000, if we each received $1 million that would add up to about $3 trillion instead of the $7.7 trillion currently in the works.

There would be no poverty, the toxic mortgages could be paid off and taken off of the books, the banks would be flooded with new accounts and money to lend, credit cards could  be paid off, everyone could have health care, and an education of their choice, the taxes on the money would fill the coffers of the government, new cars and homes could be purchased, gas tanks filled, struggling businesses saved, new businesses started, retirees would have enough to live on, the malls would be filled, the government wouldn’t need all the spending, and the media would thrive covering it all. Talk about a stimulus package?!

One negative for the country is that some of us might not want to work anymore. So there might be a work requirement attached to the payment.

What do you think?

The Paulson plan is now estimated to cost $1 trillion. UPDATE — it’s now $5 trillion! – Wow, now it’s $7.7 trillion!!!

There are about 300,000,000 people in the US.

Why not ‘bailout’ each citizen with $1 million each, with some requirements — that the mortgages be paid off and those without homes would buy one? Granted, we might need a few other fine tunings in the details.

As a stimulus package it would totally eliminate poor people who would now be able to afford health care, a new car and facials at the spa!

Just food for thought. It’s our money after all.

Let me know what you think.