Tracking Santa with help from NORAD, Google

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Washington Post

By Hayley Tsukayama,

Those looking to get the timing just right for setting out the milk and cookies have a few tools to make sure everything is ship-shape when Santa makes his way down your chimney. Continuing multiyear traditions, both Google and NORAD have launched their Santa trackers so that parents can answer that persistent question from their kids on Christmas Eve — “Where’s Santa?”

Google used to partner with NORAD on the tracker, but the two parted ways last year, saying they had different visions for how the program would work. NORAD now works with Microsoft, but Google has continued its own version of the Santa Tracker using Google Maps. Courtesy of Google’s virtual Santa village, kids and parents can play games, chat with Santa to leave personalized voicemail messages and learn about Christmas traditions around the world. Google will also let parents track Santa with a Chrome plug-in, Android app and, if you want to go big-screen, an app for the Chromecast.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/tracking-santa-with-help-from-norad-google/2013/12/23/93ad6fa0-6be5-11e3-aecc-85cb037b7236_story.html

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1. 'Santa is most definitely not a threat..' - *VIDEO*

Not my cup of tea, but would love to see what kids think of it -- I saw it as too heavy and dark, but I can see what folks are saying on both sides -- especially that kids don't read into it the same things adults might.

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2. Isn't he flanked by fighters this year?

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3. Santa shares a condo with Jeezus at the North Pole. The Easter Bunny told me so.