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NORAD booting up Santa Tracker for 2006
NORAD's Santa Tracker site is up and running for 2006 and counting down the seconds until Christmas Eve. The site has been beefed up over previous years with info and history about NORAD and the Santa Tracker, some downloads, maps, music, and activities. Most interesting, perhaps (until the actual tracking begins, at least), is the Celebrities section, which features video greetings from folks like Dick Van Patten, Edward James Olmos, George Lopez, Joey Lawrence, Leeza Gibbons, Michael Bolton, and many more who I think will be far more recognizable to people younger than myself.Last year Google got in on the act with a Google Earth Santa tracker,
Update: That was fast. Commenter Chris points us to Google's Santa Tracker and Toy Hunt site for 2006.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
