Nathan Key

Matt was kind enough to allow me to use one of his photos as my banner this week. Here it is without my 880x250 crop:

Courtesy of Matt Addington

This week's banner winner prefers to remain unnamed and is "donating" his/her link to KIVA.

KIVA is a microfinancing organization that helps individuals living in third world nations secure small, interest free loans that they can pay back whenever their business takes off.

It's amazing what $1000 can do in a third world country. That may not seem like much to us here in the US, but it's literally enough seed money to begin a small business with the right hands.

This week's winner is Seth.

He's an amazing minimalist and a very thoughtful guy. I'm hoping that he gets Halo3 sometime soon because I want to play some Team Slayer with him.

Go check out his site! Now!

Our good friend Chris Cocca sent this over to me last night and I laughed so hard that I almost cried.

I'm going to say in all sincerity that I'm glad that it's only going to be up for a week. I'm not sure that I can relive my elementary school photos for much longer than that!

Check out the Banner Contest page for more details on how you can submit your own design.

If you're planning to participate in this week's banner contest, be sure to have your entry in by tomorrow (THURSDAY) @ 11:59PM (EST). Anything submitted after that will be entered into the following week's competition.

Submit Entries HERE.

OH, and please make the banners 880px X 250px (I don't really want to resize them).