Animate Yourself - or Your Friends or your Enemies

No really, this is great fun. Gizmoz is a DIY avatar or photo animation site. You can make your own animations and stick them .. we'll where ever you like - like on your friend's blogs, or on your own. They have new animated stickers and I believe there's an answering machine widget.

I don't want to get too involved because I think that this can lekker waste of time.

In the USA, Taco Bell and DraftFCB, Irvine enlisted Gizmoz and MTV, to launch a "virtual casting call." Future digital celebrities will have the pleasure of appearing on a late night commercial in the MTV Video Music Awards.

According to Adrants three "virtual consumer actors" will appear as talking avatars in a :30 spot for Taco Bell's "Fourthmeal," a clever new term for the fare you grub between dinner and breakfast. (You may know it better as the munchies.)

The ad, or "avatarsment," will debut during the VMAs on September 9.

Audition for the spot by uploading your digital photo onto tacobell.com between July 9 and 22. Gizmoz will then bake your head onto a personalized body. After that, you've got 15 seconds to lip-sync your audition into a mic.

Entries will be judged on personality, appeal and self-expression.