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Sason:
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Cute!
Fran:
From PCMag:
Wisconsin Second-Grader Wins 2012 'Doodle 4 Google' Contest
By Mark Hachman
May 17, 2012 03:19pm EST
Wisconsin second-grader Dylan Hoffman won Google's latest "Doodle 4 Google" national contest, and will enjoy a $30,00 college scholarship, Google said Thursday.
Hoffman's doodle, "Pirate Times," will be featured on the U.S. Google homepage tomorrow, May 18. It depicts a pirate resting on an island, surrounded by a parrot and treasure, and is in response to the Google's theme: "If I could travel in time I'd visit.."
Hoffman, age 7, also won $50,000 in technology for his school, the Prairie School in Racine, Wisc., a free Chromebook, as well as the honor of being selected for the front of a special edition of the Crayola 64-crayon box.
Four finalists were also chosen from the 114,000 submissions: Talia Mastalski, Grade 5, East Pike Elementary School, Indiana, Penn., for her doodle "Traveling to me"; Herman Wang, Grade 6, Suzanne Middle School, West Covina, Calif., for his doodle "Retro City"; Susan Olvera, Grade 8, SOAR Alternative School, Lafayette, In., for her doodle "Traveling Back to the Future"; and Cynthia Cheng, Grade 11, Edison High School, Edison, NJ, for her doodle "A World of Adventure".
All of the winning doodles will be on display at the New York Public Library from May 18 until July 19, while the state finalists' artwork will be on display within their home states.
Last year, Google had 107,000 entries for the contest, which was themed "What I'd like to do someday." California second grader Matteo Lopez won the grand prize with a doodle that depicted a trip into space, walking on the moon.
ifyoucantfixit:
That is so adorable, and so summer's beginning friendly.. I just love it.
Sheriff Roland:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgZL0iVU7SA[/youtube]
Robert Moog's 78th Birthday
If you were a little less productive at work the day Google had that cool Les Paul Doodle on its homepage — you know, the one that let you record your own guitar riffs — be prepared to lose even more time today.
In celebration of Robert Moog, the musical innovator who would have turned 78 today, Google has dedicated today’s Doodle to the inventor of the electronic Moog Synthesizer.
“The new Doodle really came out of the love for what Bob Moog did by creating the Moog digitizer,” Ryan Germick, Google’s chief doodler (his real title!), told ABC News.
And the tribute comes in the form of a cool Internet musical instrument on Google’s homepage today. As with the Les Paul Doodle, you’ll want to have the volume on your computer turned up. When you click the mini-synthesizer’s keys you’ll hear the sweet sounds of electronic tones. Even sweeter, you can tweak the oscillators and modulation.
“This is our most technically ambitious Doodle yet,” Germick said. The chief software engineer of the Moog Doodle, Joey Hurst, even designed it so you can use your keyboard and the number row to play the keys. You can record, play back, and share songs with a link or on Google+.
Sheriff Roland:
Stangely enough, about 6 hours ago, I went for a walk while listening to my i-pod and the Minotaur, by Dick Hyman was one of the songs that came on (it's from mid-1969). It dawned on me at the time that it would have been interesting to have had my students try and identify the instrument(s) heard on this recording. Don't think any of them would have said a moog organ (though I suspect they would have been able to identify it as an organ sound).
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25IiJ5JgBtM[/youtube]
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