Charlie Brown's tree

Get your own version of Charlie Brown's pathetic (but heartwarmingly needy) Christmas tree. This one is 18" - which is still bigger than it looked on TV to me on our little TV set.

It's selling well (after a promo on The Daily GizWiz podcast).

No guarantee that your tree will look amazingly better after your own Peanuts gang of friends helps decorate and put their cherished blanket underneath it.

In case they are all sold out, alternatives below...

Did you know that you can use the high tech of NORAD to track Santa's journey around the world?

The NORAD Tracks Santa Web site is a kind of public relations effort by the extremely serious people at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

Every year for the past fifty Christmas Eves, NORAD has told stories of how their powerful tracking systems (such as the Distant Early Warning Line or DEW Line) detected Santa Claus leaving the North Pole to deliver presents. The past few years they have also been using Google Earth to display the trip in 3D.

The action really starts on Christmas Eve as the long journey begins. Prior to that you can get updates from the North Pole, and there are also things being added to the Kids' Countdown.

You can even track the journey on your cell pho

Got kids? Maybe you can use the tech as a lesson too. It's available in different languages. How about a Google Earth geography lessons from it? Or, you can just have fun with it and not spoil it with a lesson!