Hi!
In case you don't already know this, NORAD tracks Santa for us...at least
something useful is done with our tax money.
http://www.noradsanta.org
The story behind this is funny. Some time in the 50's a department store
started an ad campaign before christmas that allow children to call a number
and talk to Santa. Unfortunately, the paper misprinted the number and the ad
showed a secret, unlisted number of the NORAD command center. The officers
there were quite suprised when out of a sudden the red telephone rang off the
hook with children at the other end asking to talk to Santa. Since then NORAD
uses its gear each year to track Santa....and not the moon mistaken it for a
squad of russian bombers until some low level tech noticed that the distance
was quite off and was equal to that between earth and moon. It's a nice page
and kids love it...needs Flash though.
In any case, meery christmas ...or whatever you want to celebrate around this
time...yea, like festivus, isn't that today?
David
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