Amazing Google Logo !

[lashbear]

The Google Logo for today (Jules Verne's Birthday) is AWESOME !


Pilot your own 20k Sub !! Search for the hidden treasure ! Avoid the squid !

[Ghoulish Delight]

Damn you for getting to the Vernian future before us!

[Not Afraid]

Maybe it's not Jules Verne's BD in America yet.

[Alex]

Vaguely nifty.

www.google.com.au if you don't want to wait.

[Kevy Baby]

The Google Logo for today (Jules Verne's Birthday) is AWESOME !


Pilot your own 20k Sub !! Search for the hidden treasure ! Avoid the squid !
Sigh. Gotta wait...

Since you are already there, can you tell me what the weather is looking like for Tuesday?

[innerSpaceman]

Vaguely, Alex?

Ok, I don't check out Google daily. But that's the most Rad logo I've ever seen them do.

[Kevy Baby]

Huh? I only see the regular Google logo

[BarTopDancer]

OMG that's amazing! I sense another lost workday thanks to Google. I wonder how much productivity goes down when they do an interactive logo (like PacMan).


Don't forget the .au Kevy!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Huh? I only see the regular Google logo
You have to click on the AU link that Alex gave. Or wait until tomorrow.

[Kevy Baby]

Don't forget the .au Kevy!

You have to click on the AU link that Alex gave.Ah - thanks

I hadn't seen Alex's post - must have missed it because of my post.



ETA: Cool. Can you line anything specific up in the windows - do the fishies spell out Google? I tried, but am extremely impatient.

[Disneyphile]

OMG. The controls even work. Be sure to click and drag 'em.

[Alex]

Vaguely, Alex?

Ok, I don't check out Google daily. But that's the most Rad logo I've ever seen them do.

Yes, vaguely. Kind of cool as a logo. Kind of dull as something to spend much time playing with.

[lashbear]

...but did you find the treasure chest ?

[Cynthia]

Thanks for pointing this out, I never even look at the logo
http://www.google.com/logos/

[Alex]

...but did you find the treasure chest ?

Yes I did, it's right next to the kraken. Did you find the spiral cut ham.

The image is only slightly wider than the logo so really all you can do is go up and down. Hard to miss anything.

[lashbear]

Spiral cut ham? I thought that was Leo !

[Kevy Baby]

Happy 146th Birthday Thomas Edison (http://www.google.com/search?q=Thomas+Edison&ct=edison11-hp&oi=ddle)

http://www.google.com/logos/2011/edison11-hp.gif (http://www.google.com/webhp?rls=ig)

[Alex]

Sometimes I wonder about the guy somewhere in the bowels of Google who is stuck trying to figure out how to get the automatic face fuzzying logic to work in StreetView and what he thinks about the fact that the most famous product of Google (at times) is from the guy who spends all of his time drawing new logos.

[innerSpaceman]

When I saw Edison's today, all I could think is what a raw deal he got compared to Verne.

[lashbear]

today (Charlie Chaplin's Birthday) has a fun movie Logo !!!! I love the soundtrack. Get your Glimpse of the future here ! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NGSU2PM9dA&feature=player_embedded)

[Snowflake]

today (Charlie Chaplin's Birthday) has a fun movie Logo !!!! I love the soundtrack. Get your Glimpse of the future here ! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NGSU2PM9dA&feature=player_embedded)

Good thing you are a day ahead, the birthday is April 16th. For us that means tomorrow. In any case, it's a cool thing, they did film it in Niles Canyon, too. :snap:

[BarTopDancer]

Check it today. It's made of magic.

[innerSpaceman]

Love it when they're interactive.

[Snowflake]

Check today (http://www.google.com/), it's Murakami!

[lashbear]

Beautiful tribute to Freddie Mercury today - Not sure how to find the direct link so you'll have to wait until today and see for yourselves !! :D

[Gn2Dlnd]

Today!? TODAY?!?

That's too long.

[CoasterMatt]

In the U.S., it won't be shown until tomorrow (because of Labor Day today) - but go to http://www.google.co.uk to be amazed today. Turn your speakers up, and press play.

[Kevy Baby]

Not a Google logo, but in honor of Freddie's 65th birthday, You Tube is supposed to have an entire concert available. So far, I have not found it, but I did find the official Freddie's 65th Channel (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3C1EFC4D34B2C5DC&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_157941)

[Not Afraid]

Great Google logo. Funny, but that's the song that was in my head all day yesterday and I couldn't figure out why.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Freddie Mercury was, and remains, the only celebrity whose death caused me to bawl uncontrollably. I so identify him with my high school years, dating, and the world before AIDS. I loved Freddie Mercury. Goddam google logo made me cry again.

I think we'll be listening only to Queen in the kitchen today.

[JWBear]

It's hard to believe he'd be 65 now. I just can't wrap my brain around that.

[Betty]

I grew up listening to Queen. It was tradition that we would BLAST it while cleaning house. I mean BLAST IT! And then I would dance around the living room in some old white sheer nightgown robe thing with balloon sleeves (my Mom's old lingere or something guess - ha ha. It was like a fairy princess dress.)

I remember the house vibrating with We Will Rock You.

I LOVE the google doodle. That might be their best one yet.

[Chernabog]

And then I would dance around the living room in some old white sheer nightgown robe thing with balloon sleeves (my Mom's old lingere or something guess - ha ha. It was like a fairy princess dress.)


This is awesome... (And for some reason I had a flash of Kevy Baby doing the same thing. :D )

[JWBear]

(And for some reason I had a flash of Kevy Baby doing the same thing. :D )

Now I have a mental image of Kevy in a pink sweater and leather skirt. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hMrY8jysdg) Thanks a lot!

[Betty]

I haven't listed to Fat Bottom Girls in years. I need to put that on a new CD for the car.

[innerSpaceman]

Not to be a pill, but the Google banners that are simply links to films (Chaplin was the other one) are, imo, lazy.

I think the most elaborate and successful one to date was the Jules Verne, which was an interactive version of the banner. But a link to a film? So what? No creativity in that, though the films themselves may be cute. (And, as I see it, it just so happens that the Chaplin film was a thousand times better than the Mercury film.)

[Gn2Dlnd]

You're entitled to your "as you see it," but the Chaplin film didn't make me cry.

[innerSpaceman]

But did that have anything to do with you being alive during Freddy Mercury's career and not yet alive during Chaplin's?

Regardless. The Google banner could link to a print of Star Wars, and I would still yawn. Ooooh, it's a link. WOW Google, Amazing!!!

[innerSpaceman]

September 24, 2011 - Today's interactive for the birthday of Jim Henson is one of the banners I'ma talkin' 'bout ... and applaud.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

There's no sound, right? I was a bit disappointed at that but it's nice anyway.

[Betty]

I thought it was great. If you see it in Chrome at least, it does a bit more when you click on the microphone button. But the funny part was when I was just sitting here doing nothing and suddenly the red guy on the end ate the guy next to him. It was so unexpected after them doing so little.

[BarTopDancer]

Say Gumby.
POKEY!

[Morrigoon]

Google has a Mary Blair tribute up

[innerSpaceman]

I was pleased to learn about that at the Mary Blair tribute last night, held at the Samuel Goldwyn. Alice Davis and her neice had some fantastic reminiscences about Mary. The clips shown were cool. The panel discussion was alright.

Best things I learned was that Mary Blair could barely see, and she would sometimes wear as many as five pairs of eyeglasses, one on top of the other - - on top of her contact lenses - to do her art work.

Oh, and the one thing I had no idea she worked on was costumes for the original production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

And she was painfully shy - but so obviously rad.

[Snowflake]

but so obviously rad.

That she was!

[alphabassettgrrl]

Hey, the Mary Blair Google logo is pretty! :)

[Stan4dSteph]

Carved pumpkins today!

[Alex]

Seems slightly shoddy business practice to intentionally put their company logo behind what they know is a common firewall block (YouTube).

[alphabassettgrrl]

I liked the pumpkins. :)

[Stan4dSteph]

Seems slightly shoddy business practice to intentionally put their company logo behind what they know is a common firewall block (YouTube).The video on the homepage loaded fine for me. Usually I have to click through a "social networking" page. Was it blocked for you?

[Alex]

It was weird, I never got a blocked message.

On load it was a picture of five pumpkins on the Google campus with a play icon over it makign it clear it was a video of some sort. On mouseover it indicated a YouTube video of some sort. When I clicked it, it just sat there for 10 seconds and then took me to a search results page.

I assume the video showed something like the pumpkins getting carved to say Google but that somehow my firewall was blocking something from YouTube.

[Capt Jack]

exactly what I got. I saw a picture of it later on with the carved out letters, but otherwise, just what you described.

I am sadly unimpressed

[CoasterMatt]

This one's better-

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/3384/qfgoi.jpg

[Moonliner]

This one's better-

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/3384/qfgoi.jpg

You'd think, but I'd bet as soon as you pulled out your carving tools all sorts of hell would break out.

[Alex]

Perhaps carving tools were already involved.

[Gn2Dlnd]

This one's better-

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/3384/qfgoi.jpg

Gaggle? OH, GARgle!

[Alex]

If you haven't seen it yet, go to Google and enter "Do a barrel roll" as your search. Demonstrating the power of HTML5/CSS3.

[mousepod]

If you haven't seen it yet, go to Google and enter "Do a barrel roll" as your search. Demonstrating the power of HTML5/CSS3.

Very cool.

[Morrigoon]

Haha, I got as far as "do a barre" and it did it.

[lashbear]

https://www.google.com/logos/2012/harbor_bridge-2012-hp.jpg

[alphabassettgrrl]

Cool!

[blueerica]

Zoopraxiscope!

[Snowflake]

Muybridge today! Not to be confused with Sydney Bridge and apologies to Lashbear

[Kevy Baby]

Nice to see Google honoring a murderer!

[JWBear]

Nice to see Google honoring a murderer!

Acquitted!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Acquitted!

If by acquitted you mean, "Yeah, he totally did it and admitted it but because the man he murdered had boinked his wife and got her pregnant the jury decided it was justified and let him go," then yeah he was acquitted.

[JWBear]

All true. But since he was aquitted and not convicted, he therefore was not technically a murderer.

[Snowflake]

All true. But since he was aquitted and not convicted, he therefore was not technically a murderer.


From the always reliable Wikipedia
In 1874, while still living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Muybridge discovered that his young wife Flora had a lover, a Major Harry Larkyns. On 17 October, he sought out Larkyns and said, "Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here's the answer to the letter you sent my wife." He shot and killed the major pointblank.[15]

Muybridge was tried for murder. His defense attorney pleaded insanity due to a head injury that Muybridge had sustained following his stagecoach accident. Friends testified that the accident had dramatically changed Muybridge's personality from genial and pleasant to unstable and erratic. The jury dismissed the insanity plea, but he was acquitted for "justifiable homicide". The episode interrupted his horse photography experiment, but not his relationship with Stanford, who paid for his criminal defense.[16]

After the acquittal, Muybridge left the United States for a time to take photographs in Central America, returning in 1877. Having divorced his wife and been awarded custody of their son, Florado Helios Muybridge (nicknamed "Floddie" by friends), as was customary at the time, he had the boy put in an orphanage while he was out of the country. Muybridge believed Larkyns to be the boy's biological father but, as an adult, Florado was reported as bearing a remarkable resemblance to Muybridge. Florado Muybridge worked as a ranch hand and gardener. In 1944 he was hit by a car in Sacramento and killed.

Fascinating! Leland Stanford paid for his defense.

[Kevy Baby]

Technically (and only by warped 1874/75 logic). He would have been convicted in modern times.

[Moonliner]

Technically (and only by warped 1874/75 logic). He would have been convicted in modern times.

Unless the guy was wearing a hoodie.

[Snowflake]

vmlm

[Alex]

Unless the guy was wearing a hoodie.

Or just trying to return some forgotten sunglasses.

I'd say anybody who so expressly wants more bridge (what a boring game) is clearly insane and should be acquitted of all crimes.

[Morrigoon]

He was awarded custody, then stuck the kid in an orphanage? What an a$$hole.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Anyone interested? (http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/ux/doodler-mountain-view/index.html)

[cirquelover]

Cool!

[Morrigoon]

Interested, not qualified :(

[SzczerbiakManiac]

I love today's interactive zipper!

[alphabassettgrrl]

I do, too!

[blueerica]

Not a logo... Google "Zerg Rush"

fjd;akl;!!!!!!!

[Gn2Dlnd]

fjd;akl;!!!!!!!

Zerg rush creeped me out, but this just mystified me. Google was no help.

[lashbear]

Jim, did you shoot em with your mouse? They're less creepy when being decimated.

[innerSpaceman]

This. (http://www.google.com.au/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww)


(if you have hours to play)

[Kevy Baby]

This. (http://www.google.com.au/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww)


(if you have hours to play)Were you shooting for the Moog Doodle (http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Music/2012/0523/Bob-Moog-How-to-play-the-Moog-doodle)? All I got was the regular Google Australia site.

[innerSpaceman]

Yes, I was. Guess I should have checked that link. But I was never on Google Austraila, so I don't know how that happened. I blame the Lashpair.

[blueerica]

I dunno - mine says Google Australia also.

[lashbear]

I get it if I go to https://www.google.com/doodles/robert-moogs-78th-birthday

[blueerica]

Domo arigatoo gozaimasu!

[cirquelover]

Actually the boy was playing with it on Google Australia the day before and was thrilled it showed up on US the next day. Now we know they get the cool global stuff the day before.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Actually, they got it the same day as us. They're just time travelers.

[CoasterMatt]

'Aerodynamic' - Daft Punk cover performed on the Moog Google Doodle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qROP_RRD00Y#!)

[BarTopDancer]

Actually, they got it the same day as us. They're just time travelers.

Lashbear lives in our future!

[lashbear]

I knew you were going to say that before you said it.

[Snowflake]

Carl Faberge, jeweler and artisan for the Tsars

1680

[Gemini Cricket]

I love the Drive-In Google Doodle that is up right now. :)

[lashbear]

LOVING the Google Doodle for the 46th Anniversary of Star Trek. LOL.

[innerSpaceman]

Heheh, just came here to post about that. Best Doodle Evar!

[Snowflake]

OMG! Geekasim!

LOVE it! Vasquez Rocks, too! LOVE

[innerSpaceman]

Vazquez Rocks cracked my sh!t up!

[Moonliner]

Ooh! I just found the Tribbles. Yea!

[Snowflake]

Winsor McKay's Little Nemo in Slumberland is today's awesome google doodle (https://www.google.com/). My cheese is very happy! :D

[flippyshark]

Yay! I just came over to post about the Winsor McKay doodle as well. It's gorgeous!

[€uroMeinke]

Friedrich Nietzsche, overlooked again. Maybe next year.

[Alex]

How many levels did it go? I got bored after three and gave them a mental nod for having fun and moved on.

[Kevy Baby]

Winsor McKay's Little Nemo in Slumberland is today's awesome google doodle (https://www.google.com/). My cheese is very happy! :DVery cool

How many levels did it go?Eight total levels (with three dropping with one mouse click), eighteen frames.

[lashbear]

Yay ! I get a special Doodle today. The 200th Anniversary of Grimms Fairy-Tales. Fairy Tales... Seems appropriate for today. :D

[Kevy Baby]

Me suspects that a lot of time will be wasted with today's Zamboni Google Doodle!

[alphabassettgrrl]

Zamboni? Gonna have to check that out!

[Alex]

I wasted 72 seconds, did two levels before deciding that was enough of that.

[alphabassettgrrl]

I'm just glad for Google doing these little doodles. I spent a little bit of time playing the game.

[lashbear]

Loving the one for Winter Solstice (http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=first%20day%20of%20winter%202013&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDgQqQIwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2F3d-car-shows.com%2F2013%2Ffirst-day-of-winter-2013%2F&ei=YJPDUczrAY3uiAe8kYGQCw&usg=AFQjCNG-UE6OJP13JVXdKjEw4QtvV8OvuQ&sig2=TMP4mfGoN-fVnEPbvottlA&bvm=bv.48293060,d.aGc).

[alphabassettgrrl]

Awesome. :)

[€uroMeinke]

I'm impressed by the 3D car shows - those 2D car shows are so dated

[Gn2Dlnd]

One D makes all the ifference.

[lashbear]

...just ask Dolly Parton.

[Gn2Dlnd]

Who's Olly Parton?

[lashbear]

http://www.google.com.au/logos/doodles/2013/erwin_schrdingers_126th_birthday-2002007-hp.jpg

[alphabassettgrrl]

Cool!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Anyone notice what I notice about Google's Olympic doodle?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

They're all ice-related events?

[katiesue]

I think so?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Gay

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Don't say that word around children GD! It might convert them! :eek:

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Google is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube with this (https://www.google.com/webhp?client=googlet).

[Alex]

Weird, turns out i find virtual Rubik's Cubes as dull as I found real ones.