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What better way to keep the little ones occupied while you do
whatever it is you do around Christmas—binge drinking perhaps—than the
Norad Santa tracker?

As is the tradition every year, Norad uses their fancy satellites,
which are supposed to warn us about incoming North Korean nukes, to
track Santa’s progress in delivering Wiis and PS3s to good little boys and girls.

So if half of our population is gone on the morning of December 25 thanks to some Kim Jung Bombs, you know who to blame. – Jason Chen

Norad Santa

I was happy just being able to construct trucks from the Lego manual, never mind getting all technically brilliant like the boys who have created a Lego record player. Even the engine is made from a robotics invention system.

Lego was never this cool when I was a 4ft tall demon child but then if it had I would never have learned to love the Sinclair Spectrum 48k, wasted months of my precious life on frustrating text-only adventures, and laid the ground-work for scribbling about all this wonderful junk we can play with today.

Mark and Ralph in the video might prove the geek stereotype but hats off to their ingenuity. The sound is certainly not hi-fi but you can still hear Ozzy wailing like two cats in a bag on the classic Iron Man.

Happy Christmas fellas.-Martin Lynch

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LONDON (Reuters) - The Queen’s televised Christmas message
is being offered as a podcast for the first time, Buckingham
Palace said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Queen’s televised Christmas message
is being offered as a podcast for the first time, Buckingham
Palace said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Queen’s televised Christmas message
is being offered as a podcast for the first time, Buckingham
Palace said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Queen’s televised Christmas message
is being offered as a podcast for the first time, Buckingham
Palace said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Queen’s televised Christmas message
is being offered as a podcast for the first time, Buckingham
Palace said on Thursday.

LONDON (Reuters) - The Queen sent a special Christmas
message on Sunday to her armed forces serving overseas,
praising their courage and mourning their losses.

Mortal Kombat. Anyone that ever fed money into this game at the arcade will know that the worst way to die – or – the coolest way to annihilate someone – will smile with fondness at those spinal cord ripping moments. Yuck, but there you go.

Now Screwattack has compiled its Top 10 worst Ways to Buy The Farm. Some are plain silly but there are some doozys too. Frog’s Giant Fist, the embarrassment of being ‘Teabagged’ in Halo 2, God of War’s interesting use of a ship mast and Mortal Kombat’s Decapitation.

I’d like to have seen some Gears Of War chainsaw action in there so I went and found some here. Happy Bloody Christmas.

Feel free to let us know what tweaked your Killometer.-Martin Lynch

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X Factor victor Leona Lewis is sure to top the Christmas singles chart, sales figures suggest.