Last week, Google released SendACallFromSanta.com, a fun way to overexcite children and irk friends and colleagues with a personalized phone call from Santa himself.

By just answering a series of questions about someone and giving Google their phone number, the automated Santa gives them a buzz. It’s kind of cool, actually.

Phone calls weren’t enough apparently, so Google has upped the Holiday anti with personalized videos from a cartoon Santa. The script that he reads is the same from the phone call, but this time you get the visuals.

According to Google, the site has been a huge success:

Last Friday Santa opened up the Ho Ho Hotline and teamed up with Gmail to send personalized holiday phone calls to anyone you know who has been nice (or naughty, for that matter) in the U.S. or Canada. In just a few days Santa has made hundreds of thousands of calls to your friends, family and loved ones, and received many a message from you at his Google Voice number (855-34-SANTA).

Santa even has a Google Voice number.

Here’s a sample of the video that your special someone will get in an email:

Happy Holidays, now go annoy delight everyone you know with Santa greetings from Google!

At least the videos aren’t creepy like the ones we wrote about yesterday.

I think everybody who has ever written code must recognize this:

via 9gag.

The Joy of Tech did another take on the iPad 2 preview we did a few days back. How could I have missed the hoverboard functionality!? It makes so much sense! Tsk.

via Joy of Tech.

Here is a video mock-up done by fast company, from the earlier post. Realistic enough?

The only questions left to ask is; will you buy the new iPad?

We have seen some amazingly great and to the point cartoons again from the geniuses at The Joy of Tech. This one wraps up the year, with a bang. Enjoy:

There has been a LOT of talk around the issue of using Ad Blockers lately. The main thing that sparked the discussion was this post titled “Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love” by Arstechnica CEO Ken Fisher.

That post led to 1800+ comments and has been widely debated on blogs all over the world. So far we haven’t gotten involved in the discussion but I couldn’t ignore this cartoon.

Guilty as charged?

via geekculture.com

Via Geek and Poke.

Thanks to a tip from @HeelBijzonder