Advent Calendar for Geeks #24

Every day of Advent I'm going to post a geeky link to something you can play with online until it is time to open your presents.

NORAD tracks Santa

Every year North American Aerospace Defense Command devote bazillions of taxpayer dollars to tracking Santa. If you need to know Santa's exact location then this site will help you find out when your presents will arrive.

It is also rumoured that the United States military guards Santa on his journey around the world, against those who do not believe in Christmas.

Advent Calendar for Geeks #23

Every day of Advent I'm going to post a geeky link to something you can play with online until it is time to open your presents.

Listen to Wikipedia

What would it sound like if you could listen to Wikipedia? What if every new page addition, subtraction, new user and edit played a tone or plucked a string? Well, I guess it would sound something like this...

+1 Geek Experience Point awarded to Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi

Advent Calendar for Geeks #22

Every day of Advent I'm going to post a geeky link to something you can play with online until it is time to open your presents.

Geek Typer

Geek typer is a site where you can make it look like you are a super-awesome hacker, even if all you know how to do is mash the keyboard, like me.

Wow, it looks like the killer has followed them on vacation. If only we knew someone who could make a GUI in Visual Basic to track the IP.

There are loads of themes to choose from...

+1 Geek Experience points awarded to fediaFedia and Lexuzieel.

Advent Calendar for Geeks #21

Every day of Advent I'm going to post a geeky link to something you can play with online until it is time to open your presents.

Modular Multiplication Around a Circle

Inspired by a Vsauce T-shirt, the Modular Multiplication around a circle is a graphical representation of the times table for any number.

The concept is explained in this Mathologer video.