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Reddit Secret Santa 2009 – Oh my.

This year, kickme444 and an assorted group of Redditors decided to put together one of the largest communal holiday gift exchanges on the internet for the Reddit community. This was no slap-dash operation, it led to the creation of redditgifts.com with over four thousand members participating in the exchange. You can read more about it at the website and on the /r/secretsanta subreddit. And yes, I finally sent mine today, so please stop sending me guilt-inducing emails, kickme444.

Today, I received a nondescript brown parcel from the UPS guy. Little did I know that it was in fact my Secret Santa gift. Please join me in the unboxing, don’t skip to the end – spoilers stink.

Will do.
Sure thing, internet stranger.

It's a book.
It’s a book. Not another copy of “Freakonomics”, please.

Meyer Recycling.
This poorly written dialogue looks familiar. I’m glad somebody finally found a good use for a printed copy of Twilight.

Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
Sh**, it’s the third Twilight book. Dick move, sir.

New Reddit killed my dog and slashed my tires…

Reddit users are in a tizzy because of a redesign is, arguably, not as streamlined as before. Also, it seems to fail miserably in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows. The first argument can be remedied by going to Preferences, then checking the “compress link display” option. The second, well – you probably shouldn’t still be using IE6, but some don’t have a choice, which makes it a pertinent point of contention.

The question being overlooked is – won’t somebody think of the children? Oh, it doesn’t render well in Internet Explorer 5 for Mac.

Stop whining and update your browser.