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The MacInquirer is looking for the best Mac humor video on the planet to feature on our blog. We don't have time to produce it ourselves, so we're asking for your help. If your video is the best, we’ll reward you for your efforts with some Mac software goodness in the form of a free-as-in-beer copy of iWork 09. (Because, y'know, don't you have some REAL work to do?)

Tutorial parodies, TV and movie spoofs, personal rants -- we’ll leave the content up to you. Just make it funny -- and keep it to 2 minutes or less. The exact Macintosh-relatedness of your video is something we’ll leave in your capable hands. If snarky-blog-lovin’ Mac users would find it entertaining, then that’s good enough for us.

Fire up your copy of After Effects, Motion, Final Cut or your favorite movie app and create an entertaining Macintosh-related video. (Actually, you can use any hardware/software you want, as long as the final output meets our format guidelines as described below.)

Submit your video (along with your name, mailing address, and email address) to the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page. Of course, if you really loved us, you'd post it online to YouTube or Vimeo and just send us the link. As long as we can view and embed the vid, you’re good to go. To make things as fun for our mobile users as possible, all submissions should be in Quicktime or other iPhone friendly format. In other words, please don’t use any of that off-brand video horsepucky that makes iPhone users see the little blue Lego where the video should be.

The best video submissions in our completely subjective opinion will be featured on MacInquirer. The producer of our choice for Best Video will also receive a free copy of iWork 09, Apple’s Keynote/Pages software combo. iWork: Because Microsoft Office will eventually eat your brains.

We’ll keep the ugly CYA legalese as simple and human-understandable as possible:

Contest begins October 1, and closes October 31, 2009 at 5 pm EST. You agree to allow MacInquirer to post your video submission on our website, but Macinquirer will make no copyright claim on your work. All videos must be in Mac- and Phone-friendly format such as Quicktime, with a total running time of two minutes or less. Previously posted submissions are okay, but you’re only eligible to win the iWork 09 prize for a video you are the actual copyright holder to. Only one Best Video grand prize will be awarded.

Decision of the judges is final. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Bla bla bla. And that includes anything else we forgot to mention that might get us sued or otherwise make our life a pain in the ass. Life's too short, y'know?

And we hate to get all Sgt. Hulka on y'all, but if ~~some ahole~~ anyone attempts to hijack our site or email address for spam, viruses or malware activitiy in conection with this contest, we reserve the right to pull the plug on the whole idea with no prize giveaway. And if you're evil enough to try to screw with us as described above, then not only are you not eligible for the prize, but we'll hunt you down and give your personal info to every space cult, Nigerian banking scheme, and erectile dysfunction product vendor in this sector of the galaxy. Don't be a bozo.

Namaste, and happy videoin'!