Since we want to do our part to de-commercialize of the holiday season, we're going to skip the usual consumer products and give the gift of art instead -- tiny digital trophies, lovingly assembled one pixel at a time by licenseplate. They're going out to all of you who have given back to the reddit community this year.
For instance, if you donated time, money, and / or lodging to send two of your own on a monthlong, continent-crossing adventure last fall, we'd like to recognize you as a "Fantastic Voyager".Honorees include: 77or88 draynen arunan askedrelic cdawzrd darthnut deserted doubleD fortheloveofthesong hiS_oWn hueypriest jrkp karmanaut kickme444 LastThought licenseplate obizuth oilytheotter P-Dub pteridine Saydrah stilesjp Talking_Head tbarlow13 Xfocus Xyre Yossarian42 ZanshinJ zmann
Voyagers, we salute you. There's a little something special waiting in your
Next up, our Calendar Girls -- the ladies of reddit who starred in our 2010 charity calendar. Plus heartfence, who's a dude but helped put it all together. The calendars have been selling like the proverbial hotcakes, and a lot of good charities are benefiting. (It's not too late to get one, BTW)
A round of applause (and trophies) for:
- jessicalbarry (Cover Girl)
- nixg (Ms. January)
- HiFructoseCornFeces (Ms. February)
- INTPLibrarian (Ms. March)
- MaryjaneBrewington (Ms. April)
- animalcrackers (Ms. May)
- aennil (Ms. June)
- Saydrah (Ms. July)
- lalinoir (Ms. August)
- blindingstars (Ms. September)
- sundogdayze (Producer / Ms. October)
- krispykrackers (Producer / Ms. November)
- nerve (Ms. December)
- danpark (Ms. January 2010)
Finally, and most timeliestly, hats off to everyone who helped us blow away the record for the largest secret santa exchange ever held. Once again, this was something you came up with, you organized, and you pulled off. Way to ****ing go, everyone!We don't have the final list of winners for this one yet, and this blog post is already approaching a length at which one might declare its verbiage so excessive that perusal becomes untenable (a.k.a., "ve;pu"), so we're just going to hand these trophies out as the data rolls in and post the complete list later, when it's finalized.
Whether you participated or not, we heartily recommend you should check out the gift gallery: it's great fun to browse through photos of all the cool stuff redditors sent each other.
Merry What-Have-You to all, and to all a night of some sort!
