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>NORAD Tracks Santa
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>Today's stop is at my favorite holiday Web site: "The Annual NORAD
>Tracks Santa" site at
>
><A HREF="http://www.noradsanta.org/">
>http://www.noradsanta.org/ </A>.
>
>Folks, if you loved Elf Bowling you will absolutely ADORE this!  For
>the 45th year in a row, the North American Aerospace Defense Command
>(NORAD) will be tracking Santa Claus as he makes his annual Christmas
>Eve journey around the world.
>
>We talked about this site last year, but folks at NORAD (with the help
>of IBM and Analytical Graphics, Inc.) completely redesigned the site
>for the 1999 holiday season.  The new NORAD Tracks Santa site relies
>heavily on Macromedia Flash to provide interactive menus and screens.
>This means that you'll have to have Macromedia's free Flash Player
>(a.k.a. Shockwave Player) to be able to view this site.  Don't panic
>though.  Shockwave Player is probably already installed on your
>computer and you don't even know it -- it ships with Windows 95, 98,
>MacOS, Internet Explorer CD, America Online, and Netscape Navigator.
>
>How can you tell if you have the Shockwave Player installed on your
>computer?  Easy!  Go to the NORAD Tracks Santa site
>[ http://www.noradsanta.org/ ] and click on the "Enter" button (the
>one with the giant wreath on it).  If you already have the player, an
>introductory movie will pop up.  If you don't have the player, though,
>you will be instructed on how to download and install the player for
>free.  (And, yes, you need Shockwave Player.  More and more Web sites
>are starting to use it.)
>
>Anyway, back to the site.  Using the latest satellite data and
>digitized imagery (and a heck of a lot of Macromedia Flash and
>streaming Real Video), the Norad Tracks Santa site will show you
>Santa's Christmas Eve (December 24th) flight around the world.  Prior
>to the 24th, this site will give you information about NORAD, show you
>how NORAD tracks Santa, and even give you few extra surprises.
>
>Because Santa's journey will take him to many different countries, the
>NORAD Tracks Santa site is available in English, Francais, Italiano,
>Japanese, and Espanol.  The first Flash-generated page of the NORAD
>Tracks Santa site is a clickable map of the world.  Click on the flag
>that corresponds to the language that you speak.  [If you click on the
>Canadian, American, British, Australian, or New Zealand flag, you are
>taken to a page written in English; if you click on the French Flag,
>you are taken to a page written in Francais; and so on.]
>
>This launches an absolutely charming introductory movie that your kids
>-- and, for that matter, kids of all ages -- will enjoy.  The "fly-by"
>is particularly amusing.
>
>Once the movie has completed, you are taken to a page with an
>annoying, green, bug-eyed snowman flying across the screen.  Ignore
>him and move your mouse over the red "menu" button in the upper right-
>hand corner of the screen.  If you know how to use the Start menu on a
>PC or the Apple menu on a Mac, you'll have no problems navigating
>around the NORAD Tracks Santa site.  :)
>
>As you scroll through the menu you'll learn a little bit about NORAD,
>find information about Santa's sleigh, and even see Santa's take on
>this whole Y2K thing (which is also quite amusing).
>
>It is obvious that the folks at NORAD had a lot of fun putting this
>site together, and if you are looking for a good chuckle this holiday
>season -- and especially if you have kids who are convinced that Santa
>will be bringing them more than coal and twigs for Christmas -- you
>really should visit the NORAD Tracks Santa site over the next couple
>of days.  :)
>
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