When is Easter Sunday 2012? Easter, the central feast day in the Christian calendar, celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, who rose according to the Bible on the third day after his crucifixion.
An annual cleaning ritual of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, one of the most scared and oldest continuously operating churches in the world, ended up in a broom fight between the clergy belonging to three separate monastic communities.
How to celebrate the holidays Google style with let it snow, Christmas and Hanukkah trimmings and other fun Easter eggs.
YouTube is jumping on the Let it Snow sleigh, adding an Easter Egg that causes snowflakes to stream across the screen when web browsers type Let it Snow into the search bar on the site's homepage.
Just visit the Google search bar, type in let it snow, and watch the screen fill with flakes. After the snow falls, frost begins to fill the screen. Users can use their cursor as an ice scraper to clear the screen, or they can simply press the Defrost button.
First Google had the Do a Barrel Roll Easter Egg, then it introduced a Let it Snow feature, and now it seems the holiday cheer has spread to the Bitly.com link-shortening website.
As Apple's new ad shows Santa using Siri on his iPhone 4S, Google is using the Christmas elf to bring back Send A Call to Santa, where kids can get voice messages from Santa Claus, and to shower Google users Christmas easter eggs like Let It Snow. Here, watch a boy get a note from Santa via Google Voice, see Santa use Siri, and learn the Christmas easter eggs.
If you enjoyed seeing your search results doing a complete 360 flip when you typed in do a barrel roll then you will most certainly enjoy these two new holiday Easter eggs from Google: let it snow and Hanukkah.
Google has launched a customizable turkey design for its Thanksgiving 2011 Google Doodle. Thousands of looks are possible, but 12 special combinations yield a complete look with animated accessories, from Wizards and Pirates to a Turkey Astronaut. Find out how to get all 12 easter eggs, and see each Google Doodle look.
For those not keen on hashtags and trending topics, Do a Barrel Roll has been sweeping social networking sites for the past 36 hours. Thanks to the behemoth Google, Do a Barrel Roll became one of the hottest search terms on the site, as individuals across the world wanted to see what exactly a barrel roll was.
You've googled barrel roll, but what about finding Steve Irwin on Google Earth, or what happens when you type recursion into Google search? Find out ten more tricks and easter eggs hidden by Google engineers and how to work them, from making your computer fluent in Pig Latin or Klingon to making Google Reader ninja-themed and tricking your Gmail spam filter.
Hijinks at Google headquarters create endless fun for the rest of us
A rare October snowstorm blanketed much of the U.S. Northeast on Saturday, as a deadly nor'easter rolled into the region just in time for Halloween.
ThinkGeek has unveiled a new, incredibly geeky addition to the Siri app on Apple's iPhone 4S: a docking bay and speaker system called the IRIS 9000, equipped to look exactly like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Learn what IRIS 9000 can do and watch ThinkGeek's promo video for the eerie iPhone companion, running for $59.99 and already sold out at thinkgeek.com.
Despite (and because of) some technical flaws, Apple users find the Siri app for the iPhone 4S to be endlessly entertaining.
With their third pool B game against Romania nearing, England have a mounting injury list and will hope no more players join the sick bay.
A Kansas City-area Catholic priest was charged Tuesday with several federal counts of producing and possessing child pornography, including allegations that he took explicit photos of a 2-year-old and tried to take some of a 12-year-old girl on Easter Sunday.
At least one died and three injured when a young man fired a gun during a fight near a family unity festival in Cleveland, police said on Sunday.
A fistfight that began near a family unity festival headlined by funk musician George Clinton ended in gunfire, killing one and injuring three, Cleveland police said on Sunday.
During the fight in a parking lot near the concert venue on Saturday, one teenager produced a handgun and shot four people. One victim, a 16-year-old male, died from a wound to the head Sunday morning, Cleveland police spokesman Sammy Morris said.
Kate Middleton’s stunning wedding dress along with her satin, earring and lacy shoes will be on display at the Buckingham Palace during the summer annual exhibition.
Memorial Day is one of those tricky holidays that falls on a different date from year to year, but unlike Easter, which jumps all over the spring, Memorial Day is always on the last Monday in May.
Barclays Capital said Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) launched new MacBook Pro products on February 24, which boosted the March NPD data. Similarly, the brokerage expects a re-acceleration in May data driven by new iMacs launched on May 3.
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