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"Bah! Humbug!"

A secret cabal of Google engineers upvoted it. Orrrrr . . . the hackers who frequent this site like this sort of stuff.

Or the hackers who frequent this site are from Google. Ah!

I must say, I found it cool too. Nothing special etc, but, it's winter and stuff. So yea.

Coz it is Dec, and it is Google. ;)

Can someone extract and de-obfuscate (or de-compress) the snow JS here so other people can use this on their sites?

You could search on Altavista for nice Javascript snow effects.

There's a great open source snow JavaScript available here: http://www.schillmania.com/projects/snowstorm/