Wednesday, December 10, 2008
News Clickable Advent Calendar, 10: A BetamaXmas
Posted by Curt Holman @Curt_Holman on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Monday, The Daily Dish, The Vulture and Alejandro all drew my attention to A BeTaMaXMaS. I'm clearly behind the times to be posting it today (but yesterday I just had to plus Silent Night, Deadly Night). Anyway, dressed up to look like a basement rec room, the site uses Youtube to simulate different channels during the pre-cable era, and they're all showing holiday programming (including vintage commercials). The attention to detail is spot-on: you can fiddle with the antennae to improve the "reception," you can adjust the settings with the old-school remote control, and to find out what's currently playing, when you click on the TV Guide logo, an exact imitation of a magazine's program guide style pops up. While most holiday nostalgia tends to focus on entertainment from before the 1970s, the BetamaXmas aims primarily at the kitschy 1980s. It's a great chance to randomly hear, say, Pee-Wee Herman exclaim, "Hey! It's Little Richard on ice!" It also offers an opportunity to waste a massive, massive amount of time on the Internet. So check it out, won't you?
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