You can track Santa’s journey around the globe using NORAD’s radar systems here

This is a picture of a rather festive art installation in Antartica. You can follow its progress here

Here is Mrs Aldous modelling a typical Christmas jumper – you can design your own jumper here

Mr Collins seems to prefer an elf outfit. Click here for animation.

There is a new official version of Line Rider with line and eraser tools, acceleration and scenery lines, and a flag tool that lets you save current position and speed of the rider while designing your game. link

In Victorian times, Santa seems to have had a wider range of coloured hats and cloaks. Here is a blue Santa. For other colours click here.

Here is a stop-motion animation made by Ladislaw Starewicz in 1913.

After our performance of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the end of term (video clips here) – you might like to listen to another version of the story. This sample is from a performance by Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre on the radio in 1938.

You can download the entire radio play (and many others) at www.mercurytheatre.info

Here is a trailer for a machinima version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ created using Sims 2:

The full version can be downloaded (in 2 parts) here

And here is the first part of the 1935 film version (the full film is now in the public domain and can be downloaded here):

You can also see the Richard Williams animated version on Youtube. It’s in four part – first part here

‘The Night before Christmas’ read by Harry E. Humphreys in 1914.

For a jukebox full of cylinder music click here

Putting up your Christmas lights? Why not synchronise them with some music?