Amazing Google Logo !
 

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

Damn you for getting to the Vernian future before us!

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

Vaguely nifty.

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

Sigh. Gotta wait...

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

Vaguely, Alex?

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

Huh? I only see the regular Google logo

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!

You have to click on the AU link that Alex gave. Or wait until tomorrow.

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.

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

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

...but did you find the treasure chest ?

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

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.

Spiral cut ham? I thought that was Leo !

Happy 146th Birthday Thomas Edison

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.

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

today (Charlie Chaplin's Birthday) has a fun movie Logo !!!! I love the soundtrack. Get your Glimpse of the future here !

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:

Check it today. It's made of magic.

Love it when they're interactive.

Check today, it's Murakami!

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

Today!? TODAY?!?

That's too long.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

This is awesome... (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. Thanks a lot!

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

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.)

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

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!!!

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

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

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.

Say Gumby.
POKEY!

Google has a Mary Blair tribute up

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.

That she was!

Carved pumpkins today!

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?

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.

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

This one's better-

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

Perhaps carving tools were already involved.

Gaggle? OH, GARgle!

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.

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

80th Birthday of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
 

Zoopraxiscope!

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

Nice to see Google honoring a murderer!

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.

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

From the always reliable Wikipedia
Fascinating! Leland Stanford paid for his defense.

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

Unless the guy was wearing a hoodie.

vmlm

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.

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

Cool!

Interested, not qualified :(

I love today's interactive zipper!

Not a logo... Google "Zerg Rush"

fjd;akl;!!!!!!!

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

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

This.


(if you have hours to play)

Were you shooting for the Moog Doodle? All I got was the regular Google Australia site.

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.

I dunno - mine says Google Australia also.

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

Domo arigatoo gozaimasu!

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.

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

Lashbear lives in our future!

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

Carl Faberge, jeweler and artisan for the Tsars

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

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

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

OMG! Geekasim!

LOVE it! Vasquez Rocks, too! LOVE

Vazquez Rocks cracked my sh!t up!

Ooh! I just found the Tribbles. Yea!

Winsor McKay's Little Nemo in Slumberland is today's awesome google doodle. My cheese is very happy! :D

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, overlooked again. Maybe next year.

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

Very cool

Eight total levels (with three dropping with one mouse click), eighteen frames.

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

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

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

Loving the one for Winter Solstice.

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

One D makes all the ifference.

...just ask Dolly Parton.

Who's Olly Parton?

Fun Doodle today for Erwin Schrödingers 126th birthday.
 

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

They're all ice-related events?

I think so?

Gay

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

Google is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Rubik's Cube with this.

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