My Moo Cards arrived today!

They are smaller than I imagined – about half the size of a conventional business card.

The unusual size and shape makes them distinctive for a start. How much more distinctive depends on how well you choose the pictures to go on them.

The quality is very good. They are well-printed on nice thick card.

Since they are so well-produced and everything I should be very happy with them, but there is one small fly in the ointment – I don’t recognise any of the photos. Not only that, but the name and address on the back is not mine, but that of a student in Florida. Obviously the wrong set of cards went in the envelope.

I wonder who has got mine?

Since these cards had web site on them I got in contact with the American student, who was quite bemused, but not too bothered since it was all free anyway. If this was a film it would turn out that at least one of us had included obscene and/or incriminating photos on the cards, but unfortunately we are both a bit too boring for that.

I dropped Moo.com a line. Maybe they can re-print them or something. I hope Andrew has more luck with his.

In the meantime, I have found something similar but even groovier – FlipClips. On this site you can upload a video clip (up to 30 seconds) and they will turn it into a flip book for you. I remember as a child drawing stick figures on the corner of exercise books so they would appear to walk when you flipped the pages: this does the same thing but by printing a little book of freeze frames from your video clip.

Brilliant! I can’t think of a use for it, but the idea is enormously appealing.