The legend of Saint Nicholas and the History of a Holiday Icon, and Why He Looks the Way He Does

If your entertaining for the holidays be sure to pickup 10 Merry Christmas Cocktails.

For a Jolly Good Time, Chat With Santa on Windows Live Messenger – You can simply add Santa’s address, Northpole@live.com, to their Windows Live Messenger contact list and instantly open a conversation window to communicate with Saint Nick.  Pretty cool give it a try.

NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) has been tracking Santa Claus since 1955.

OBERLIN, Kansas (AP) – A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was slower than Christmas. It just arrived in northwest Kansas. The Christmas card was dated December 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Nebraska.It’s a mystery where it spent most of the last century, Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said.“It’s surprising that it never got thrown away,” he said. “How someone found it, I don’t know.”

Cocktail Recipe: Jesse’s Christmas Jizz
1 oz Egg Nog
1/2 oz Amaretto
1/2 oz Kahlua

Pour Egg Nog in shooter glass. Slowly add Amaretto (this will make the jizz rise to the top). Slowly add Kahlua (Kahlua will settle between Amaretto and Egg Nog). Take the glass in hand, swallow, don’t spit. Enjoy, and wipe your chin off.

Here are some links for quick and easy ways to research that gift idea before you wrap it up (provided by Wisebread):

Epinions — Users review everything including electronics, toys and books. It even has a Gifts section with perfumes, flowers, watches and wines.

CNET — The authority on electronics, with professional and user reviews of cameras, computer, TVs and the like. Especially helpful are the site’s boiling each product down to a single rank number and its ability to compare multiple items all on one page.

Amazon — Even if you’re not shopping online, it’s a good idea to look up your target product on a major retailer site such as Amazon, where others who bought the same thing will share their views. And by the way, check out this amusing review.

Consumer Reports — The best stuff is for members only, but its worth the investment, especially since you can join for one month for just $5.95. Holiday-related reviews featured on the site right now include GPS systems and sparkling wines.

Merry Christmas Video a little rude but hey spread the cheer.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL! 

Looking through my Entrecard dashboard and found this video on JoeTech.com.  It’s about the highly anticpated Gphone, oh wait, I mean Google mobile platform called Android.

Steve Horowitz, Engineer Director for Google said

there is actually NO GPhone. 

He does go on to say

they hope the (Android) platform will enable people to create thousands of GPhones.

So which is it, no gphones or gphones?

These are the times I wish I was a developer.  To maybe collect on some of that $10 million Android challenge. 

For all you Firefox users out there.

I have stuck with IE and migrated to the latest version when it come’s out.  I have FireFox installed but do not use it that much.  I did have Netscape installed only for testing website’s that I have built.  I guess I get set in my ways and stick to it good or bad.

How about you, what browser do you use the most?

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