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“The Portland International Airport in Oregon understands holiday travel is stressful. So this season, it invited a few specialists…” writes the Washington Post.
One TV station describes them as “therapy llamas… two 400-pound fluffballs serving a… Continue reading ‘Therapy Llamas’ Visit Portland Airport to Lower the Stress of Travellers
“Share this holiday fairy tale with your loved ones,” urges the Free Software Foundation.
A company offers you a tool to make your life easier, but, when you use it, you find out that the tool forces you to use it only in the way the tool’s manufactu… Continue reading FSF Shares Holiday Fairy Tale Warning ‘Don’t Let Your Tools Control You’
For Epic’s Christmas special this year, they’re giving away for free “an AAA game that only launched back in 2022…” reports ComicBook.com — a game that invites players to “ally with a powerful spectral entity on theirâquest for vengeance.”… Continue reading Epic’s Free Game Giveaway Continues with Bethesda’s ‘Ghostwire: Tokyo’
“It’s like visiting an old friend for the holidays,” according to this article:
Approaching his 86th birthday, Donald Knuth — Stanford’s beloved computer science guru — honored what’s become a long-standing tradition. He gave a December “C… Continue reading 30 Years of Donald Knuth’s ‘Christmas Lectures’ Go Online – Including 2023’s
“Millions of Star Wars fans get nostalgia pangs during the holiday season,” reports the Washington Post, “when they are accustomed to seeing broadcasts of their beloved movies…. FX, now owned by Disney, has multiple Star Wars marathons on tap this mo… Continue reading ‘Star Wars Holiday Special’ Upscaled To 4K 60fps
It’s a geek tradition that started online back in 2000. Programming language “advent calendars” offer daily tips about a programming language (if not a Christmas-themed programming puzzle) — one a day through December 25th.
And 2023 finds a wide var… Continue reading 2023’s Online ‘Advent Calendars’ Challenge Programmers With Tips and Puzzles
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: It’s a question that comes up all the time on Reddit. Etsy even created a special page for programmer-themed gift suggestions (showing more than 5,000 results). While CNET sticks to broader lists of “tech g… Continue reading Amazon, Etsy, Launch Categories With ‘Gifts For Programmers’
“Advent of Code” has begun. New programming puzzles will appear every day until Christmas at AdventOfCode.com — and the annual event (first started in 2015) has grown into a worldwide phenomenon. This year’s first puzzle has been completed by ov… Continue reading 150,000 Programmers Tackle ‘Advent of Code’ in Event’s 9th Year
CNN shares the historic close-up snowflake photos of Wilson Bentley, the first person to capture the details of the individual “snow crystal” ice that makes up snowflakes.
It was 1885, just 69 years after the invention of the camera, and after years … Continue reading How One Man Proved No Snowflakes Are Alike
The North American Aerospace Defense Command is a US/Canada organization protecting the air sovereignty of the two nations.
But every year on December 24th, they also tell you where Santa is. From NORADSanta.org:
The modern tradition of tracking Sa… Continue reading NORAD Answers Questions About Their Annual Santa-Tracking Operation