Month: December 2006

Google Earth Blog reports on Santa’s Toy Hunt and Santa Tracker in Google Earth:

Santa has hidden a treasure trove of presents somewhere in Google Earth (actually, it was a few of his elves, but you get the idea) . Every day from December 12th until Christmas Eve, a clue will appear outside Santa’s North Pole workshop which, if you can solve it, will lead you to a toy hidden in a Google Earth satellite image. And every day, the location of the previous day’s toy will be revealed.

To play, make sure you’ve downloaded Google Earth version 4 if you haven’t already…

The new trailer for 300 looks pretty awesome. For those of you that haven’t heard about it, 300 refers to the 300 Spartan soldiers remaining in the legendary Battle of Thermopylae; the movie is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel.

The new trailer for 300 looks pretty awesome. For those of you that haven’t heard about it, 300 refers to the 300 Spartan soldiers remaining in the legendary Battle of Thermopylae; the movie is based on Frank Miller’s graphic novel.

CNN reports that actor Peter Boyle died yesterday at the age of 71 from multiple myeloma and heart disease. Although Peter Boyle was perhaps best known for his role of “The Monster” in Young Frankenstein (check out a video clip of the classic tapdancing scene) and more recently as Frank Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond, his TV and movie career spans almost 40 years. This is quite sad news… 🙁

The cast of Scrubs redubbed A Charlie Brown Christmas (YouTube video), apparently a couple of years ago. How did I miss this one?!

Drivl.com list of the Top 20 Hackers in Film History is pretty good…

JibJab presents Nuckin’ Futs – A Year in Review. Definitely worth the watch… 🙂

As with most Orisinal creations, Winterbells is an elegant, addictive game.

It’s time once again for year-end “best-of” lists, and as usual Fimoculous.com is diligently compiling the 2006 list of lists. Definitely worth visiting and bookmarking…

Canongate presents 33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names.