I thought it’s just a single image appearing on my Google search page. They are actually 5 images – from Google holiday doodle

IHOP or International House of Pancakes has announced plans to give millions of pancakes for free in celebration of the National Pancake Day on the 24th of February 2009. IHOP is world-renowned for its buttermilk pancakes plans to set a goal to raise $1 million for Children’s Miracle Network, a non-profit organization helping children’s hospitals.
From 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., IHOP restaurants nationwide will offer their guests a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes and, in return, ask guests to donate what they would have paid for the pancakes, or …

MANILA, Philippines–A magnitude-6.1 quake rocked General Santos City before noon of Christmas Day but no damage or injuries have been reported.
In a live interview on radio dzMM, Phivolcs director Renato Solidum said the earthquake struck at 11:20 a.m., 85 kilometers, south of General Santos.
Earlier, USGS reported another quake in Mindanao. The 4.9-magnitude quake was recorded at 07:56 a.m. local time (2356 GMT), with the epicenter 900 kilometers southwest of Manila at a depth of 96.5 kilometers.
The Philippine archipelago lies in the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a line of interconnected …

The Nakagin Capsule tower

The snow, combined with tremendously low visibility and strong wind gusts caused widespread delays and cancellation of flights across the U.S.
About 500 travellers had to spend overnight Tuesday at Chicago’s O’Hare International, the second busiest airport in the United States, after stormy weather cancelled more than 500 flights Tuesday, said Chicago Aviation Department spokeswoman Karen Pride. More than 100 flights were cancelled at O’Hare on Wednesday.

Travelers to San Francisco were warned that arriving flights could be delayed up to one hour and 47 minutes because of strong winds.
Area roads have …

Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch) collaborate to produce director Shane Acker’s unique and breathtaking story “9”.

“9″ takes place in a world parallel to our own, in which the very legacy of humanity is threatened. A community of fully mobile rag dolls living a post-apocalyptic existence find one of their own, 9 (Elijah Wood), displaying leadership qualities that may help them to survive. The conflicted but resilient community includes 1 (Christopher Plummer), a domineering war veteran; 2 (Martin Landau), …

I wonder if all surfers from Huntington Beach talk this way.

The Daily Contributor Team wants to greet all of our readers a Merry Christmas! Majority of our readers come from the US and Canada but we don’t want to miss out someone here, so here’s a list on how to say Merry Christmas in different languages:

Mark Everett born as Manuel Benitez, was a former American child actor in Hollywood films. He was a fugitive wanted by the FBI for the bludgeoning murder of Stephanie Spears in Hawthorne in 2004. He was reported shot and killed by police officers responding to a hostage situation in El Monte, California on Wednesday.
Everett was killed after a 2-hour standoff as he held his 7-year-old son hostage in a restaurant, the authorities said. The boy was reported wounded.
El Monte police Detective Ralph Batres said the standoff began after an officer …

Wal-Mart agreed Tuesday to pay as much as $640 million to settle allegations that the company didn’t pay workers for overtime or let them take breaks.
The world’s largest retailer, which has more than 1.4 million employees, said the amount it pays will depend on how many claims are submitted by eligible workers and could range from $352 million to $640 million.
“After many years of hard fought litigation, the parties have reached an agreement that values the work of Wal-Mart’s employees by providing both economic and injunctive relief,” said Carolyn Burton …