It’s inevitable. Every holiday, Christmas is no exception, marketing agencies and big corporations shell out the big bucks and long hours to make a splash in people’s busy holiday lives.

I keep stumbling across various holiday greeting card sites (or colossal wastes of time, whatever you want to call them) and thought I would share a few. They may not be the most tasteful, and certainly not in the spirit of what I consider Christmas to be, but their technical merit alone warrants a look.

First, and most impressive (though disturbing on many levels) is R/GA’s Tattoo Santa. I have no idea how they figured out how to map text and images to moving video, but it’s impressive.

If you’re feeling scroogey, you can plaster your face on a dancing Scrooge at OfficeMax’s Scroogeyourself.com. They also have (I think it was last year’s campaign) Elfyourself.com, where you plaster your face on a dancing elf, and can even call in to leave an audio message that will get included in your message. Interesting… all I can say.

AdMission put together a matching game.

Thought has an evil looking santa with a chainsaw game (Red Christmas). Not one for the kids for sure!

Hmmm. You know… All of this is not leaving me feeling very festive on this last day of work before vacation. Maybe I should call it quits here.

Anyone have any others worth sharing? Post ‘em below. And do have a Merry Christmas!