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Feb 3, 2008

Truly, Madly, Anti

I’m chuffed to bits to announce the relaunch of the Anti-Valentine cards for silly season 2008.

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There’s been a lot of work behind the scenes by the lovely P to make the card-sending functionality scale, which hopefully means that this year there’ll be no server drama (just the ginormous bandwidth bill, as usual).

You’ll notice, too, that I’ve revamped the card designs, so they’re clearer and bigger than before. The old designs had been cobbled together so long ago (2001!) that it was definitely time for a fresh coat of paint.

The keen-eyed among you may also spot that I’ve removed some of the old cards from the pack - there were some which were just mean, and while I still think certain people might benefit from a card saying “stop talking about your fucking wedding” (not you, though - you’re lovely), I don’t want to propagate people being mean or hurtful to each other via the internet. It’s not cool, and no-one thinks you’re cleverer for it.

Anyway, it’s up, as ever at http://meish.org/vd/ (though you’ll notice that this redirects to vd.meish.org - something to do with the way we’re serving the application this year, don’t worry about that) and since this site’s still waiting re-insertion into google, please link link link. Thank you!

(Oh, and if you want to link to it graphically, please steal the image above, or one of the smaller ones, below the fold!)

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9 Responses

  1. Alex says:
    February 3, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    Brilliant, as ever, Meg. I hope this year is the biggest yet for anti-VD.

  3. Joanna says:
    February 11, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    I loved last year’s “I didn’t need that particular ventricle anyways.”

  4. jen says:
    February 12, 2008 at 1:21 am

    Always so cool !

  5. scott says:
    February 13, 2008 at 6:04 pm

    I really miss “I didn’t need that particular ventricle anyways.” You might not know this, but that one was a bit of a legend with those of us who have actual heart anomalies where we’re missing or have blown a chamber, especially if it’s a ventricle. It was bitter in the most perfectly hilarious, smart, cunning, beautiful way. So I will truly miss that opportunity, especially now that you’ve got them teamed up with cards and stickers from moo.

    (if you caught the unsubtle beg for you to bring that one back — bingo. :-)

    In any event, thank you for so many years of brilliant bitterness. They weren’t mean, they were savagely funny and spot on.

  6. Joanna says:
    February 14, 2008 at 8:42 am

    “(if you caught the unsubtle beg for you to bring that one back — bingo. :-)”

    Same here :-D

  7. Meg says:
    February 14, 2008 at 9:22 am

    Scott & Joanna - It’s a bit late to bring it back for today, but I’ll try and get it up quickly. In the meantime, since you asked so nicely…

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  8. Joanna says:
    February 14, 2008 at 1:23 pm

    Thanks!!

  9. Jeremy says:
    February 14, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    Great stuff. It’s only a matter of time before anti-valentines overtakes valentine’s day.

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