We received updates from die-hard survivor fans that it’s Jeff Probst’s birthday today. You know that guy from Survivor right? Yes. THAT Jeff Probst. The iconic Survivor host turns 46 today.

Mister Matthew Mac-co-na-hey is also celebrating his birthday today! Yay!

So what do these two men have in common aside from their mothers’ date of labor? It just so happens that these guys also have dead-smokin bodies. Matthew McConaughey comes as no surprise of course. If I tossed a penny for every film he made wherein he took his shirt off, I’d probably be broke right now.

But Jeff Probst? Who would’ve thought that under that stinking polo shirt is a beach body just dying to come out?

Anyway, why are we talking about their bodies? Simple. They remind us of one of our more famous birthday cards. Our Birthday Macho Dance Card. (sometimes referred to as our Striptease Card)

So in honor of these two dudes celebrating their birthdays today, we offer this Striptease Birthday Card:

Create your own Striptease Birthday Card with your own photo!

This funky card is created by CardFunk Family.
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So how was Halloween for you guys? Here in CardFunk, people are still trying to sweat off all the candy and chocolate they consumed during the party. The office was literally hopping with over-enthusiastic sugarholics. The creative team of CardFunk was bouncing off the walls. Why not? For one thing, our animated halloween card was a success! Thank you everyone for supporting us.

This was what we had to eat during Halloween:

image from: http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/

Of course we’re kidding. But at the rate we’re going we might as well consume five big tubs of those! After Halloween, we are now preparing for the next big season in the whole world. What is it? You guessed it! Christmas! There are a lot of ideas going on about the kind of Christmas card that we’d be putting out this year.

Here’s some clues of what’s in store for you this Christmas. We’re going to use some photos just to give slight clues:

Excited yet? We sure hope so. Around this time we’re already preparing for an awesome Christmas. We hope to give you something that you’ll gladly send once the time comes!

In the meantime, let’s all chill. 8>

When we read “Halloween Safety” we usually think of sick, sex offenders who use Halloween to lure unsuspecting children into their homes. There is nothing wrong to be prepared for this but we tend to overlook the fact that most Halloween accidents are unrelated to these offenses but are more on the children’s costume, car accidents and fire accidents.

We here at CardFunk who like to have as much fun as the next person in the awesome season that is Halloween, would like to give out a few reminders to everyone. Especially those who have kids.

1. If your kids are too young to be going out by themselves, make sure they have bigger kids in the group.

2. If there are no bigger kids, accompany your little ones door-to-door. If they’re too young, they wouldn’t mind their parents tagging along.

3. Make them bring glow sticks for walking around at night instead of lanterns. Lanterns may look better but it also increases the risk of fire accidents.

4. Teach kids to don’t go inside stranger’s houses and go to lots that are not well-lit. Also, in-line with this, you have to teach your kids how to go kicking and screaming if a stranger does something aggressive to them. Even though this comes out naturally, it is still a good idea to reinforce this instinct.

5. Advise your children to keep the treats in the bag and just eat it when they come home. This way you will be sure of what the kids will be getting and you will be preventing some tummyaches from bad candy. We all know what else you will be preventing though.

And now, here’s a TOTALLY safe way to be thoughtful this Halloween.  (OH you knew this was gonna come up sooner or later!) Send funny animated Halloween cards to your loved ones. You won’t be causing accidents for anyone. Not even heart-attacks because our Halloween Thriller Card is cute and all kinds of awesome:

Create your own
CardFunk Animated Halloween Card for free!

This funky card is created by CardFunk Family.
Create your own funky card at CardFunk.

Funny Animated Halloween Card to the Rescue!

Halloween is just another one of those seasons that make you get off your chair and actually do some decorating around the house. For families with a lot of children, Halloween is a major event greeted with cake, candy and elaborate costumes. With all the stuff going on, do you even have time to be creative?

If you’re going to greet folks from far away a dear, Happy Halloween, and you absolutely have no time to be crafty, you can send them funny animated Halloween cards instead. This idea sounds a whole lot better than picking out boring cards from the supermarket and sending it through snail mail.

Create your own Happy Halloween Animated Card

This funky card is created by CardFunk Family.
Create your own funky card at CardFunk.

Out of time? Out of ideas? Create your own funny animated Halloween cards and use photos of the people you care about. You don’t have to go completely out of your way to make kids and loved ones laugh, the Halloween Thriller Card will save the season! Don’t be a grumpy little scrooge and be left out of the Halloween celebrations.

As the Halloween season is fast approaching, so are the movies that will take advantage of everyone’s scare-mood. Halloween is the best time to be launching horror movies since people are pretty much receptive to it. Why not? The whole point of Halloween is to be freaked out by something. Show this movie in any other day of the year and it would not have mattered as much.

The most talked about Halloween movie of 2009 is none other than Paranormal Activity. Part of us believe that the big reason why it has become so hyped up is because of the brilliant viral marketing strategy. There are quite a few films that tried to use such strategy to sell more in the box office. One of the more famous examples is the disappointing Cloverfield and the surprise hit The Blair Witch Project.

But did it really start that way? Well, not exactly. When Paranormal Activity first came out, it was doing good when it first came out. But only when they employed a brilliant internet marketing strategy did Paranormal Activity get the wildfire treatment.

Like it predecessors, PA relied on the realism of “real” footage to deliver their point across. Horror movie junkies who grew up in a Stephen King scenario would scoff at the treatment since for most people, no blood and gore = not a horror movie.

So why is PA such a hot Halloween movie for 2009?

Realism. There is now finally a horror movie director who believed in the adage “less is more”. Writer/Director Oren Peli is concerned with the fear that lurks in the subconscious. Not the ones found externally. You can show monsters to the audience, you can show them big foot, you can use the myth of Friday the 13th to scare your audience but Peli decided to use the subconscious.

These are images and events that we push right at the back of our minds because it’s easy. Because it’s completely unnecessary to brood over the trivial things. So what if the door flew open and then flew back? It’s probably just the wind.

… or the mind playing tricks again.

That is exactly it, ladies and gents. The biggest scare that you can ever get comes directly from your own mind. Not someone else’s and certainly not from a couple of writers and producers.

It’s about time that horror/suspense movies take this dramatic route. Don’t you think so too?