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Showing posts with label Miscellaneous. Show all posts

Monday, December 24, 2007

Googles Santa Tracker is here

Googles Santa Tracker is here

Hey Guys !! Guess what !!! The NORAD Santa Tracker is coming live this year in three dimensionds using Google Earth. So you just need to Go to official NORAD Santa Tracker site, NoradSanta.org, after 2 AM MST (9:00 UTC) to get the Google Earth's network link. You can then see Santa's location as and when he delivers his gifts and as he crosses the Earth.

Official Santa Tracker - In 2007, Google has officially ligned with Norad (the US North American Air Defense Command), which has been keeping a track of Santa on their radar systems for eons, to officially provide tracking for Santa in Google Earth. Well, ofcourse Santa wont start his journey till 24 Dec eve. But, can visit NoradSanta.org site to enjoy some games and get some other information regarding the tracking system.

Friday, December 21, 2007

Winter Solstice wishes



Hey People !!
I came to know something interesting !! Its called Winter Solstice !!

The winter solstice occurs the instant when the Sun's position in the sky is at its greatest angular distance on the other side of the equatorial plane as the observer. Depending on the shift of the calendar, the event of the Winter solstice occurs sometime between December 20 and 23 each year in the Northern hemisphere, and between June 20 and 23 in the Southern Hemisphere, and the winter solstice occurs during either the shortest day or the longest night of the year.

Though the Winter Solstice lasts an instant, the term is also used to refer to the full day and night (24hrs) within which the event occurs. A more accurate usage might be the "day of the winter solstice" or the "night of/before the winter solstice". Winter Solstice is a controversial subject, since it is sometimes said to astronomically mark the beginning or middle of a hemisphere's Winter and so there is much argument about when it starts.

Here is a video on Winter Solstice that captures its religious significance.

Source: Wikipedia

For more information, here is the direct link from wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

My GOOGLE Word Challenge !!!


Do you have what it takes to make it in a challenge ??


If yes, then let me introduce you to my Google Word Challenge.


Concept of My GOOGLE word Challenge:


The challenge is that you just need to type two random words in google and the results that you get should be exactly 5.


See the picture for reference, that is - if you type in google "dinosaur dandruff" and click on search, you will get exactly 5 results.


So the challenge is: You have to use exactly 2 dictionary words and get the number of results as 5.



Hint: Use completely unrelated words to make it in this challenge just as i did.


If you can make it in this challenge, then Please let me know by posting it in comments.


Enjoy GOOGLING around !!!!