If there’s one thing I know for sure, it’s that parodies have a large place in my heart. It could be because I grew up with a brother who constantly cranked up Weird Al Yankovic (I love Rocky Road!), or it could be for another reason altogether. Either way, I am so excited to have discovered woofertime.com—a Twitter parody site that requires posts to be a minimum of 1,400 characters. The definition of a woofer? “When 140 characters is not nearly enough,” the website states. Popular posts begin with “Four scores and seven years ago” and “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

All fun and games aside, these communication parodies are actually a proposed trend for the 2010 year ahead. Slow Communication, as it’s referred to, is making way its in our tech-crazy, overstressed society. And as our Associate Editor, Talia Salem, spoke about last week in her blog post, sometimes you just need to let it go and disconnect. And she’s not the only one that thinks we need to slow it down a tad. Even Google Labs has a product called Email Addict that forces users to take 15-minute e-mail breaks from their work.

Maybe it is time to slow things down a bit—or at least pick up a Weird Al CD and get a little laugh. I highly recommend it.