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Title: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 11, 2008, 07:47:54 pm
Because some of these are just too clever to let disappear forever, I figured this is as good a place as any to collect them.

So here goes:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture3.png)


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on August 11, 2008, 08:03:51 pm
YaY, Fran!!! I love those creative little google pictures!  
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 11, 2008, 08:14:44 pm
Thanks for dropping in, Shasta.  I'm glad to see I'm not the only one amused by these things.

This AOL image made me smile, too:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture3-1.png)


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: KristinDaBomb on August 12, 2008, 05:39:10 am
Yeah I love seeing those when I start Firefox, they are so creative. :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 12, 2008, 10:34:15 am
Yeah I love seeing those when I start Firefox, they are so creative. :)

I especially like the ones for holidays.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 12, 2008, 10:35:14 am
In keeping with the Olympic theme, a salute to the sport of rhythmic gymnastics:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture5.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: brokeplex on August 12, 2008, 12:34:19 pm
these daily google images are cute, and I have sometimes either laughed or been perplexed by them as well.  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 13, 2008, 10:56:47 am
Hi, brokeplex!

Today we have a monkey on the still rings:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture5-1.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on August 13, 2008, 03:46:30 pm
I love these little google images too!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 14, 2008, 12:20:31 pm
Hi, Kelda!

Today we have basketball:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture5-2.png)

I'm wondering about the significance of that red box that keeps appearing under the "e".  After I enlarged it, what's written inside there doesn't appear to be letters.  I wonder what it's supposed to mean or why it's there.  (What silly stuff occupies my mind!  LOL)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on August 14, 2008, 01:05:18 pm
Chinese for Google?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 14, 2008, 02:17:27 pm
Chinese for Google?

You may be right, Kelda.  I'm still Googling to find out for sure.

So far, my Google search has revealed that Dennis Hwang is the Google doodler.  Here's a video of him at work:
 
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOOY0xuQ3TU[/youtube]

And since the Google drawings are really doodles, not images, and since they're not always a daily occurrence, I've changed the subject of this blog to "Google Doodles." 

:)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 14, 2008, 02:26:35 pm
Google Doodles (Wikipedia) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_logo)

Dennis Hwang (Logoogle.com) (http://www.logoogle.com/dennishwang.htm)

Google Holiday Logos (http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html) (really awesome!)

Who's Behind the 'Google Doodles'? (http://cbs5.com/local/google.doodle.artwork.2.783306.html) (video)


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 14, 2008, 02:35:06 pm
Chinese for Google?

Dennis Hwang is of Korean descent, so maybe it's something written in Korean.

I'm still searching....
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 15, 2008, 02:38:36 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture5-3.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 17, 2008, 06:58:41 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture3-3.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on August 17, 2008, 07:49:53 pm
Fran, I wonder if the little red box is a sort of signature, or cartouche you sometimes see in Asian prints.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 18, 2008, 08:56:43 am
Fran, I wonder if the little red box is a sort of signature, or cartouche you sometimes see in Asian prints.

Could be. 

Today there's a salute to table tennis:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture5-4.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on August 18, 2008, 10:28:25 am
Dan Rupe is a Provincetown artists who signs his name like that:

(http://www.erndengallery.com/art/popup/rupe3.jpg)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 18, 2008, 11:05:00 am
Now I'm wishing I had started posting the doodles earlier.  I not sure that red box was there on earlier ones.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 18, 2008, 11:21:07 am
Mystery solved!  A Google search has revealed the following:

Hi. There are 2 chinese words in the stamp, which, if read out in chinese, sounds like "google". The stamp is commonly used by the Chinese as a form of signature, it's made by carving a stone, every one is unique as the hairline cracks created by hitting it on each of these stamps are, of course, different.

Apparently the red box has only appeared on the doodles related to this year's Olympics.

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/137594.html

Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE Google?  :)


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 18, 2008, 11:28:25 am
I see I have some catching up to do:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture5-5.png)

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-1.png)

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on August 18, 2008, 10:53:20 pm
These are great to have saved -- thanks Fran!  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 19, 2008, 09:05:45 am
These are great to have saved -- thanks Fran!  :)

You're welcome! 

I think my favorite Olympic ones are the weight-lifting mouse or the cow doing rhythmic gymnastics.  But they are all pretty clever, particularly the one for rowing, which utilizes the rarely used "e"!

Here's today's:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-2.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on August 19, 2008, 02:08:01 pm
I love this thread! and good google sleuthing Fran!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 20, 2008, 08:59:44 am
I love this thread! and good google sleuthing Fran!

Thanks, Kelda!

Here's today's:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture3-4.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 21, 2008, 09:45:02 am
Pole vaulting:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-2.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 22, 2008, 10:44:13 am
Taekwondo:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture3-5.png)

For whatever reasons, karate is not an Olympic sport....
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 23, 2008, 08:59:18 am
Baseball:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-3.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 24, 2008, 06:19:14 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8.png)

Just look at all the gold medals!!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 25, 2008, 10:03:04 am
Yeah, the Olympics are officially over.  :(

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture3-6.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on August 25, 2008, 01:42:55 pm
I miss the google doodles.. it was plain old google today with me too.  >:(

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on August 25, 2008, 01:49:32 pm
Thanks for posting the special google doodles, Fran.  They were a lot of fun.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 25, 2008, 09:56:58 pm
Thanks for posting the special google doodles, Fran.  They were a lot of fun.

You're welcome.

Now we'll just have to wait till the next holiday or random birthday tribute....
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 25, 2008, 09:58:39 pm
I miss the google doodles.. it was plain old google today with me too.  >:(

Since you're not in the U.S., it's possible your doodles will be different than mine.  Feel free to post them.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 25, 2008, 10:04:42 pm
I somehow missed this one, too:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture3-7.png)

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on October 16, 2008, 05:47:00 pm
The royal google doodle...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7672149.stm

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Lumière on October 21, 2008, 12:13:44 pm


Last year's Halloween Doodle:

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i285/Lucise/Animes/halloween07.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 31, 2008, 01:41:40 am
And here's this year's:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-4.png)

Happy Halloween!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 21, 2008, 11:48:53 pm
Thanks to Paul (southendmd) for alerting me to this one:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-1.png)
A tribute to Belgian surrealist artist René François-Ghislain Magritte,
who was born in Lessines, Hainaut (Belgium) on November 21, 1898

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture13.png)
Golconde, 1953

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture11.png)
The Son of Man, 1964


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on November 22, 2008, 02:15:18 am
Thanks for posting this one, Fran. I love Google doodles!!! I like looking at Magritte's paintings too.

These are fun:


(http://www.follydiddledah.com/images/rene_magritte.jpg)

(http://4umi.com/image/art/Rene_Magritte_-_The_Human_Condition_(1935).jpg)

Sorry--OT.

More Google Doodles!!!!! 
 ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 22, 2008, 11:03:27 am
Sorry--OT.

More Google Doodles!!!!! 
 ;D

OT is good, too. Thanks for posting the paintings.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on November 22, 2008, 11:55:22 am
OK, one more.  My favorite "Empire of Light" is at Peggy Guggenheim's palazzo-museum in Venice.


(http://siteimages.guggenheim.org/gpc_work_large_547.jpg)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on November 27, 2008, 10:24:48 am
Here is the Happy Thanksgiving Google Doodle.   :)

(http://www.google.com/logos/thanksgiving08.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on November 27, 2008, 11:49:20 am
Here is the Happy Thanksgiving Google Doodle.   :)

(http://www.google.com/logos/thanksgiving08.gif)



On the google page it doesn't show for me. Darned google knows my IP is not located in the US >:(.
Anyway, thanks for sharing here Shasta.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on November 30, 2008, 06:28:58 pm
google is celebrating st andrews day!!

Happy St Andrews Day everyone!!!

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on December 21, 2008, 07:12:03 am
Google doodle of today, Dec. 21st.

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/Sonstige/holiday08_1.gif)


It looks a bit Christmas-y, but the guy looks like an inventor in his garage, not like Santa assembling toys.
Does anyone know the meaning of it? Any famous inventor born on Dec. 21st?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 22, 2008, 10:23:57 am
Here's today's:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture13-1.png)

I'm not really seeing the G-o-o-g-l-e.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 22, 2008, 10:30:18 am
I clicked on the image, and this came up:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture16.png)

I can't wait to see the third one.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on December 22, 2008, 10:30:42 am
Mine was just like Chrissi's for a couple of days, but now it's like Fran's.

Yeah---the "Google" is better in the first one.
 
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on December 22, 2008, 01:45:21 pm
It looks like Gepetto to me. 
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on December 22, 2008, 02:46:40 pm
It looks like Gepetto to me. 

Hm. Gepetto was carpenter. And the story has nothing to do with Christmas, but the pics look Christmasy to me.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see the next pics. I like this :).
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 23, 2008, 02:19:40 am
Here's the third one:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-3.png)

For sure, there's going to be a fourth one.  Maybe they'll keep posting new ones all the way to Christmas.


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Ellemeno on December 23, 2008, 02:48:14 am
I just discovered this thread.  Thanks Fran, Kelda and others who have saved these.  I love them too.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on December 23, 2008, 05:25:47 am
Here's the third one:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-3.png)

For sure, there's going to be a fourth one.  Maybe they'll keep posting new ones all the way to Christmas.




YaY--I want to see what the machine is going to crank out. Google made a mystery pic! Very cute.  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 23, 2008, 02:52:54 pm
I just discovered this thread.  Thanks Fran, Kelda and others who have saved these.  I love them too.

Nice to see you here, Elle!  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 24, 2008, 08:25:28 am
The fourth one:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-4.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 25, 2008, 02:17:13 am
And the fifth:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-6.png)

Right now I'm thinking:  That's all?? 

BTW, I really liked last year's:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-5.png)

In any event, happy holidays, everyone!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on December 25, 2008, 02:25:55 am
What I've thought the whole time is....that thing in the front left looks like a butt. LOL!!

So, the whole time they were building....nutcrackers? Maybe one of the Google artists is a fan.
 
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on January 01, 2009, 02:59:16 pm
(http://www.google.com/logos/newyear09.gif)

Happy 2009 from Google. Cute.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 01, 2009, 07:41:20 pm
Thanks for posting the New Year's doodle, Shasta.  I'm away from home and, for the life of me, can't figure out how to do screen captures on this computer.  :(

Yes, it is cute.  I like the backward "G".

Happy New Year, everyone!



Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on January 01, 2009, 08:32:40 pm
Hi Fran. On vacation? Have fun!!

I think they constructed the "Goog" part to look like 2009. Clever.


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 03, 2009, 10:40:06 pm
Hi Fran. On vacation? Have fun!!

Thanks, Shasta.  We were in Whistler, near Vancouver.

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-6.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 19, 2009, 04:39:15 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture10.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 28, 2009, 11:01:14 am
In honor of Jackson Pollock, who was born on January 28, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming!!!

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-7.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on January 28, 2009, 11:14:07 am
In honor of Jackson Pollock, who was born on January 28, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming!!!

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-7.png)



You beat me to it, Fan. I've already saved the pic on my photobucket account. Thanks for the piece of info that he's from Wyoming. I was in Cody last summer! :D With a whole gang of Brokies no less ;D.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 28, 2009, 03:23:01 pm
I saw the "Cody" and immediately thought of the rodeo announcer saying, "Here's Chyenne Hodson from Cody, Wyoming...."  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on January 28, 2009, 03:27:34 pm
Speaking of "doodles", if you want to try something fun and topical, click here:

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ (http://www.jacksonpollock.org/)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on January 28, 2009, 03:53:18 pm
Speaking of "doodles", if you want to try something fun and topical, click here:

http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ (http://www.jacksonpollock.org/)

It's fun! :D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 31, 2009, 12:46:00 pm
It's fun! :D

It sure is!  Thanks, Paul.

Here's my attempt:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture9.png)

:)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on January 31, 2009, 06:54:42 pm

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/Sonstige/theodorheuss09.gif)


From Jan31st. It's Theodor Heuss, the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany. Today is his 125. birthday.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 12, 2009, 02:40:14 am

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/Sonstige/charlesdarwin_09.gif)


Darwin finchs for Darwin's 200 birthday.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 12, 2009, 11:25:03 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-9.png)

I do like the Darwin doodle!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 14, 2009, 08:09:01 am
And yet another one today :)


Valentine's Day
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/valentines09v2.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on February 14, 2009, 10:34:06 am
(http://www.google.com/logos/valentines09.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 14, 2009, 11:56:29 am
Happy Valentine's Day!  Hope everyone has a lovely day!

Valentine's Day
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/valentines09v2.gif)

Chrissi, does "XO" have any significance in Europe?  (Here an "X" is a kiss and an "O" is a hug.)

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 14, 2009, 12:02:49 pm
OT:  AOL is all pink and red today:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture10-1.png)

:)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 14, 2009, 12:55:27 pm
(http://www.google.com/logos/valentines09.gif)

Hunh? Shasta, do you Americans have the above one today, for Valentine's? Diffenerent one from ours?



Chrissi, does "XO" have any significance in Europe?  (Here an "X" is a kiss and an "O" is a hug.)

Hm, dunno. I've only seen it on American sites or in emails from English speaking people. But then, it's years ago I was on a German speaking message board/social network. Maybe it has been adopted meanwhile.
But maybe not. Maybe that's the explanation why you have a different Valentine's Google Doodle than I have.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Ellemeno on February 16, 2009, 01:18:03 am
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/doodle-4-google-tell-us-what-you-wish.html

Doodle 4 Google — tell us what you wish for the world
2/03/2009 06:00:00 AM
Today, we're announcing our second annual Doodle 4 Google contest in the U.S. Google doodles are the special "dressed-up" logos we run on our homepage for holidays and other events, and Doodle 4 Google is an opportunity for one child to have his/her artwork displayed on our homepage as a doodle for hundreds of millions of people to see. This year's theme is "What I Wish for the World," as we really want to tap into not only children's creativity but also what they want their future to look like.

We're very excited this year to be partnering with the Smithsonian's, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Since Cooper-Hewitt is focused on design and education and fostering the brightest design minds of tomorrow, they were a natural partner for Doodle 4 Google. Their partnership also means that this year's prizes not only include having your artwork on the Google homepage for a day, a college scholarship, and a technology grant for your school, but also having your work (and that of all 40 finalists) exhibited at a Smithsonian museum!

Most of this year's contest remains the same as last year's. (For inspiration, you can see Grace Moon's beautiful winning doodle "Up In the Clouds" in our Doodle Gallery). However, there are a few changes. First, we've increased the college scholarship prize for the national winner to $15,000. We've also added a $10,000 prize for the school district that submits the most high-quality entries. Finally, in partnership with Cooper-Hewitt, we'll be celebrating the 40 finalists and announcing the national winner in New York City, to coincide with the opening of the exhibit. Please visit the official competition website for a full listing of all contest rules and requirements.

Only students from registered schools can enter, so teachers, if you want to participate please register your school by March 17, 2009. All doodles must be submitted by March 31, 2009.

Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on February 16, 2009, 02:20:53 am
Hunh? Shasta, do you Americans have the above one today, for Valentine's? Diffenerent one from ours?

Yes. That is the one we had for Valentime's Day. "X" is for kisses and "O" is for hugs. People used to write them at the end of letters. Maybe still do.  I liked your heart-shaped "O' and the lovebirds, too.  
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Lynne on March 03, 2009, 12:35:53 am
I saw a neat one today...honoring Dr. Seuss:

(http://www.divshare.com/img/6703815-956.gif)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss

He was born on March 2, 1904, according to Wikipedia.

My favorite is the star-bellied sneetches book.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on March 14, 2009, 10:14:43 am
Today's doodle marks the 174th birthday of Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/movies/Picture7-14-1.png)

From The Columbia Encyclopedia:

Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio (jōvän'nē vērjē'nyō skyäpärĕl'lē), 1835–1910, Italian astronomer. He was director (1862–1900) of the Brera Observatory, Milan. He is especially noted for having detected (1877) on the surface of the planet Mars the markings that he called canali (channels), later misinterpreted as canals. He showed that meteor swarms travel through space in cometary orbits and suggested that Mercury and Venus rotate on their axes. He discovered the asteroid Hesperia (1861) and several double stars.

I saw a neat one today...honoring Dr. Seuss:

(http://www.divshare.com/img/6703815-956.gif)

Now how cool is that!?!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on March 17, 2009, 09:28:32 am
Happy St. Patrick's Day!

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-10.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on March 20, 2009, 05:28:40 am
        Happy beginning of spring! :D

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/spring09.gif)


I love The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on March 20, 2009, 07:41:13 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5021384/Google-celebrates-Eric-Carles-Very-Hungry-Caterpillar.html

Google celebrates Eric Carle's Very Hungry Caterpillar

The book, published in 1969, still sells one copy every 30 seconds in the world, 40 years after it was originally published.
Written and illustrated by Eric Carle (a graphic designer who later became art director of an advertising agency before moving into book illustration), it has sold more than 29 million copies, and is published in 47 languages.
 
Mr Carle, who turns 80 this year, said he got the idea from a hole puncher.

"One day I was punching holes with a hole puncher into a stack of paper, and I thought of a bookworm and so I created a story called "A Week with Willi the Worm". Then my editor suggested a caterpillar instead and I said "Butterfly!" That's how it began," he said.

"I think The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a hopeful story, because it says 'you too little caterpillar can grow up, spread your wings and fly'. I think it is this message of hope that resonates for many readers."

Mr Carle has written and illustrated more than 70 picture books.

He said his childhood – he moved from the United States to Germany at the age of six – has been influential in his work.
"When I was a boy, my father would take me on walks across meadows and through woods. He would lift a stone or peel back the bark of a tree and show me the living things that lived underneath. These were very magical times and I think in my books I honour my father by writing about small creatures and the natural world. And in a way I recapture those happy times we had together."
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on April 22, 2009, 08:10:00 am
(http://www.google.com/logos/earthday09.gif)

Earth Day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on April 23, 2009, 02:10:19 am

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/girlsday09.gif)

Girls' Day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on April 23, 2009, 06:09:33 am
That's cute! We must not have Girls' Day here. It's just plain ol' google for us.  8)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 10, 2009, 01:00:48 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture32.png)
Mother's Day

How lovely!

The modern Mother’s Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor their mother, and it’s now celebrated on various days in many places around the world.

-- Wikipedia

AOL is remembering "Mom," too:  :)

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture34.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on May 10, 2009, 07:04:02 am
Bah! Mothers day was 2 months ago!  ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: brokeplex on May 10, 2009, 09:24:15 pm
Giovanni Schiaparelli

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/movies/Picture7-14-1.png)


this I like!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on May 21, 2009, 07:06:03 pm
(http://www.google.com/logos/us_doodle4google09.gif)

From the national "Doodle for Google" winner. She is in school---I don't know which grade. The theme was something like -- My wish for the world.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on May 22, 2009, 03:31:58 am
(http://www.google.com/logos/us_doodle4google09.gif)

From the national "Doodle for Google" winner. She is in school---I don't know which grade. The theme was something like -- My wish for the world.



Another case of different countries having different google doodles. Yesterday, we had this one:



(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/missinglink.gif)


Darwin, of course, and something about missing link. I don't know if something has been
in the news lately (if they recently found another missing link or something)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on May 22, 2009, 03:36:35 am


(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/marycassatt09.gif)

Google Doodle of today, May22nd. Birthday of Mary Cassatt.




From wiki:
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) (pronounced [kəˈsæt]) was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.

Cassatt often created images of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children.

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on May 22, 2009, 08:49:42 am
We have that one today. I think it's so pretty with the muted pastels.

The missing link one was up here the day before the little prize winner's doodle, so I did see that one too.

Yes--there was a news story just this week that those bones were found---don't recall where.  :P
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 22, 2009, 09:29:27 am
As for the "missing link" story, here you go:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Missing-Link-Scientists-In-New-York-Unveil-Fossil-Of-Lemur-Monkey-Hailed-As-Mans-Earliest-Ancestor/Article/200905315284582

Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution

10:16pm UK, Wednesday May 20, 2009
Alex Watts, Sky News Online

Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.

The search for a direct connection between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom has taken 200 years - but it was presented to the world today at a special news conference in New York.

The discovery of the 95%-complete 'lemur monkey' - dubbed Ida - is described by experts as the "eighth wonder of the world".

They say its impact on the world of palaeontology will be "somewhat like an asteroid falling down to Earth".
Researchers say proof of this transitional species finally confirms Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and the then radical, outlandish ideas he came up with during his time aboard the Beagle.

Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-7PFN_4wE[/youtube]

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on May 22, 2009, 09:33:29 am
Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.

Not me.  :P 8) ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 22, 2009, 09:35:03 am
I think it's so pretty with the muted pastels.

I totally agree. 
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 22, 2009, 09:36:33 am
Sir David Attenborough said Darwin "would have been thrilled" to have seen the fossil - and says it tells us who we are and where we came from.

Not me.  :P 8) ;D

Shasta, as they say, you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.   ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on May 23, 2009, 09:59:11 am


(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/grundgesetz09.gif)

60 years anniversary of the Grundgesetz (constitution) of Germany
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 23, 2009, 11:12:59 am
Chrissi, is today a holiday in Germany?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on May 23, 2009, 02:46:49 pm
Chrissi, is today a holiday in Germany?


Nope, no holiday. The German National Holiday is on Oct 3rd (it used to be on June 17th, but they changed it after the reunification of the two Germanies).
But we have a nice long 4 day weekend nonetheless: at Thursday was a public holiday: Christi Himmelfahrt (Ascension Day), so most people took a bridge day on Friday (and schools and kindergartens were closed) and then the normal weekend.
Nice. I could get used to it :D.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on May 27, 2009, 05:39:17 am
And yet another Google doodle today:


(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/championsleague09.gif)

Finals of the UEFA Champions League today



FC Barcelona and Manchester United will play for the crown in European football (soccer) tonight in in the Stadio Olimpico, Rome.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on June 06, 2009, 07:33:07 am
Today is the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Google is celebrating 25 years of the Tetris Effect. Well, it's colorful.  

(http://www.google.com/logos/tetris09.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 06, 2009, 10:10:47 am
I've spent more time playing Tetris than I care to admit.  It's one of my favorites.  :)

Today is also the 65th anniversary of D-Day.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on June 06, 2009, 11:46:45 am
I've spent more time playing Tetris than I care to admit.  It's one of my favorites.  :)

Today is also the 65th anniversary of D-Day.

I think I've played it twice.  :P PacMan was my game. LOL.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on June 06, 2009, 12:02:24 pm
I think I've played it twice.  :P PacMan was my game. LOL.


Funny, it's vice-versa with me. I'm with Fran, I still play Tetris on my cell-phone ( ::)). I tried PacMan, but it wasn't for me. And of course I loved the very first game I ever saw: tennis.

I just looked it up, and I think officially it was called "Pong". Never heard the name before, even though it was the official name in Germany, too. You live and learn...   :laugh:
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Ellemeno on June 10, 2009, 02:09:24 am
I've had phases where I played so much Tetris, that when I went outside, I would see the world and think, if I tipped that tree over, the top of it would fit between that car and that house.  I'm not kidding.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on June 17, 2009, 01:53:52 am



June, 17th, 2009:

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/stravinsky09.gif)

Birthday of Igor Stravinsky



I like this one :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on June 17, 2009, 10:48:45 am
That's a pretty one. We have that one too.  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: brokeplex on June 17, 2009, 10:40:27 pm


June, 17th, 2009:

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/stravinsky09.gif)

Birthday of Igor Stravinsky



I like this one :)
thanks for the explanation, I saw that googledoodle and was puzzled.

 :laugh: the "firebird" in the doodle looks like a flaming duck!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on June 18, 2009, 04:47:30 am
I'd be interested - is there a page somewhere which tells you the ispiration behind that days google doodle?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on June 19, 2009, 12:56:20 am
I'd be interested - is there a page somewhere which tells you the ispiration behind that days google doodle?


Just hover with the mouse over it and you'll get the explaining text  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on June 19, 2009, 04:02:43 am

Just hover with the mouse over it and you'll get the explaining text  :)

ahhhh-haaaa!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 21, 2009, 01:03:01 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture24.png)
Happy Father's Day!







Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Ellemeno on June 21, 2009, 01:21:34 am


June, 17th, 2009:

(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/stravinsky09.gif)

Birthday of Igor Stravinsky



I like this one :)

It would be even cooler if the written music actually were those opening notes of The Firebird.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on June 21, 2009, 01:01:46 pm



(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/firstdaysummer09.gif)

First day of summer


Does everybody have the same doodle today?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on June 21, 2009, 02:11:14 pm
No--mine is Father's Day.  :) I like the summer one too!  
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on June 27, 2009, 09:35:13 am


(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/sevensleepers09.gif)

Sevensleeper's Day



Only today I learned there is a legend in  Roman Martyrology about seven sleepers. I only ever attributed the day to the animal of the same name (wich is Edible Dormouse in English, but Siebenschläfer= Sevensleeper in German).
Anyway, today is Sevensleepers Day and it's said the the weather will stay the way it is on this day for the next seven weeks.
I sure hope not. It's nicely warm, but not hot today and sun and rain alternate. I want a real, hot, sunny summer.

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 27, 2009, 11:11:23 am
Only today I learned there is a legend in  Roman Martyrology about seven sleepers. I only ever attributed the day to the animal of the same name (wich is Edible Dormouse on English, but Siebenschläfer= Sevensleeper in German).
Anyway, today is Sevensleepers Day and it's said the the weather will stay the way it is on this day for the next seven weeks.

Interesting, Chrissi.  Thanks for the explanation.

The rainy half of the doodle doesn't look very summery to me.  Hopefully, you'll have seven weeks of very brief periods of rain -- just enough to keep the plants watered. 
Title: Re: Google Doodles - Canada Day
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 01, 2009, 11:17:38 pm
At last I get to contribute to this thread - and by doing so, will be more easily able to find it in the future.

Here's Google's contribution commemorating Canada Day - in Canada.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/banners/canadaday09.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on July 02, 2009, 12:21:45 am
Happy Canada Day, Roland!
Title: Re: Google Doodles - Canada Day
Post by: Penthesilea on July 02, 2009, 01:49:36 am
At last I get to contribute to this thread - and by doing so, will be more easily able to find it in the future.

Here's Google's contribution commemorating Canada Day - in Canada.

(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g14/roboy-0/banners/canadaday09.gif)


Our first Canada-specific Google doodle :D.
Thanks for sharing Roland and Happy Canada Day!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on July 02, 2009, 02:22:19 pm
Yay!! Happy Canda Day Roland!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on July 04, 2009, 05:20:09 am
(http://www.google.com/logos/july4th09.gif)

Happy 4th of July!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on July 04, 2009, 09:00:37 am
(http://www.google.com/logos/july4th09.gif)

Happy 4th of July!


Happy 4th of July Shasta, and all US Brokies! :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on July 04, 2009, 02:12:51 pm
I just see that we also have a Google doodle for today:


(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/miracleatberne09.gif)

55th anniversary of "The Miracle of Berne"



The Miracle of Berne was a football/soccer game, which is viewed as a turning point of (West-) Germany's history. It took place years before I was born, but I know the famous words of the reporter by heart, they ring in the ears of all Germans, even 55 years later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_FIFA_World_Cup_Final#Impact_on_German_history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_FIFA_World_Cup_Final#Impact_on_German_history)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on July 04, 2009, 02:19:25 pm

Happy 4th of July Shasta, and all US Brokies! :)

Thanks!!

I read the words of the German reporter about the game and I got chill bumps!! I know very well the feeling of elation that something like that can bring~~and the sense of "country". Thanks for sharing. I had never read about the miracle of Berne and I think it's great. We all need a thrill like that every few years.  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on July 10, 2009, 02:03:20 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-1.png)

Nikola Tesla’s Birthday

From InEntertainment.co.uk:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture10-2.png)

We now celebrate the birthday of Nikola Tesla, an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer who was born on 10 July 1856 and died on 7 January 1943. Many have described Telsa as being an inventor and important scientist of the modern age.

Nikola Tesla is better known for his work with a number of revolutionary contributions to do with electricity and magnetism. Tesla’s patents and theoretical work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries forms the basis of modern alternating current electric power systems.

Nikola Tesla was respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in the U.S. This was a direct result of all his hard work in the field of wireless communication (radio) in 1894
.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on July 21, 2009, 02:00:17 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-2.png)

The 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

The Apollo 11 Mission (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo11/index.html)

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on July 23, 2009, 03:43:11 pm
Today's doodle promotes iGoogle's recently introduced comics themes:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture11-1.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on July 23, 2009, 05:30:38 pm
Today's doodle promotes iGoogle's recently introduced comics themes:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture11-1.png)

Chuck will love this one!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on July 23, 2009, 06:59:37 pm
very cool!

Thanks for the link, Kelda!

Would've been nice to see the Wonder Twins on it!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 12, 2009, 09:36:40 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture11-2.png)

http://www.examiner.com/x-8054-St-Louis-Astronomy-Examiner%7Ey2009m8d9-The-Perseid-Meteor-Shower-is-Here

The Perseid Meteor Shower is Here

Have you ever been outside after dark during the summer months and you happened to see an object briefly streak across the sky? If so, then chances are you saw a meteor from the Perseid meteor shower.
The Perseid meteor shower is the biggest shower of the summer and it is currently building in strength, with its peak expected on the night of August 12/13. When this peak occurs, observers far from city lights will be able to see 50-80 meteors every hour.

Many people refer to meteors as shooting stars. But meteors are not stars. They are, instead, little pieces of material ejected from comets. Meteors belonging to the Perseid shower were ejected from the periodic comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 135 years. The particles range in size from a grain of sand to a pea. So, why are they so bright? Because these little particles are slamming into Earth's atmosphere at over 132,000 mph! Each meteor you see is not actually the particle itself, but the reaction of atmospheric gases to the tremendous friction caused by the particle.

The first written records referring to the Perseids appeared in Chinese historical texts and date back to AD 36 when "more than 100 meteors flew thither in the morning." Although activity from the Perseids was mentioned in various Asian and European texts during the following centuries, it was not until 1835 that Adolphe Quetelet (Brussels, Belgium) brought this meteor shower to the attention of astronomers, noting a shower occurring in August that emanated from the constellation Perseus. During the years that followed, the Perseids became one of the most studied meteor showers.

To enjoy the Perseids to the fullest, it is best to be as far from city lights as possible. The best equipment to use is a lawn chair that flattens out to allow a view of as much of the sky as possible. Don't stare at one area of the sky, but let your eyes drift about. Enjoy the stars, as you will note that some are bluish, yellowish, and orangish. While you enjoy the sky, you will catch occasional Perseids. Several minor meteor showers are also active around this same time, but the Perseids will be the most numerous and will be the fastest you will see during the night. To really enjoy the display, try observing after midnight, as that is when meteors are most numerous.


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on August 12, 2009, 02:04:23 pm
very pretty!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on August 12, 2009, 06:01:14 pm
I love today's Google Doodle!!!

I meant to look at the sky early this morning---I was up letting the dogs out. But I forgot. Guess I need to write myself a note.  :P 8)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on August 14, 2009, 01:45:07 am
(http://www.google.com/logos/orsted09.gif)

For the birthday of Hans Christian Orsted. I was reading it thinking it was going to say "Andersen". LOL.  

Hans Christian Ørsted (14 August 1777 – 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who is best known for discovering that electric currents can create magnetic fields, which is an important part of electromagnetism. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late 19th century.[1] He was also the first modern thinker to explicitly describe and name the thought experiment.

Well. He and I would have had so much in common. NOT.  ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 14, 2009, 12:19:21 pm
(http://www.google.com/logos/orsted09.gif)

What a clever doodle!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 25, 2009, 09:25:30 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture21.png)

http://www.rferl.org/content/Four_Hundred_Years_Ago_Galileos_Telescope_Changed_The_World/1807134.html

Four Hundred Years Ago,
Galileo's Telescope Changed The World

By Breffni O'Rourke

Despite the summer heat, the Senate of Venice assembled on this day in 1609 to view a remarkable scientific instrument. It was built by the well-known astronomer and philosopher from Pisa, Galileo Galilei, and could make distant objects appear closer when viewed through one end of its long pipe. It was a telescope.

Not that Galileo had invented the instrument. Credit for that is generally given to a Dutch stargazer who is almost forgotten today, Hans Lipperhay, who unveiled his basic telescope only the previous year, in 1608.

But Galileo, ever the practical perfectionist, had already improved upon the basic essentials and produced a variable-focus instrument that increased the size of the observed object by eight times.

Why he presented it first of all to the assembled Venetian senators is not clear. But perhaps the Venetians, who had business and commerce in their marrow, saw this instrument as a way to boost their glass lens industry. After all, Venice along with Florence, was the leading center for high-quality ground glass for spectacle lenses and magnifying glasses.

Certainly Galileo made money building and selling his telescope to eager customers, until his designs were overtaken in a relatively short time by more sophisticated types.

The telescope, of course, revolutionized astronomical observation and had a profound impact on overall scientific methodology, by allowing more exact mathematical calculations.

Blasphemous 'Suncentricity'

It also brought into sharp focus the simmering dispute between those who followed the ancient belief of Greek and Egyptian proto-scientists that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that the planets revolved around it, and those who followed the Copernican theory that in fact our Earth is just one of a number of planets revolving around the sun.

Nicolaus Copernicus, the great Polish astronomer, had summarized his theories that the Earth revolved around the sun, instead of the other way around, some 60 years before Galileo intrigued the Venetian senators with his telescope.

Galileo, with his passion for exact observation and independent analysis, became ever more convinced through the use of his telescope that Copernicus was right. But it wasn't long before this brought him into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.

Some churchmen began attacking Galileo in 1610, arguing that God had made the Earth the center of the universe as a home for man.

By 1616, the matter had come to the official attention of the church, with the formal condemnation of "suncentricity" as "false and contrary to scripture."

Galileo was warned to steer clear of such heresy, which he did for a number of years. But in 1632 he published a defense of his views. This landed him in front of that sinister body, the Inquisition. The Holy Office, as it preferred to be known, tried him, found him guilty of being "vehemently" suspect of heresy, and placed him under house arrest.

It also forced him to recant, which he did. Not very brave perhaps, but practical to the end, he may have thought it best to be a live astronomer than a dead ideologue.

It took the church 359 years to rehabilitate Galileo Galilei. Only in 1992 did the Vatican formally acknowledge that it had been wrong and Galileo right.

The astronomer died at his home outside Florence, still under house arrest, in 1642.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on August 29, 2009, 12:50:56 am
(http://www.google.com/logos/michaeljackson09.gif)

The King of Pop's Birthday

RIP, MICHAEL  :'( :'(
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 29, 2009, 01:26:35 am
Today would have been Michael Jackson's 51st birthday.

Isn't he supposed to be buried today?  Finally....

The doodle reminds me of this:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/movies/Picture6-26.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on August 29, 2009, 03:43:08 am
(http://www.google.com/logos/orsted09.gif)



I like this one.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 29, 2009, 11:51:47 am

(http://www.google.com/logos/orsted09.gif)

I like this one.

Me, too.  I like the ones where you have to look for the G-o-o-g-l-e.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on September 05, 2009, 05:48:50 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/go_gle.gif)


" Mysterious phenomenon raises questions - Google doesn't offer an explanation for today's Google Doodle. Usually Google marks anniversaries of important events or famous persons with its Google Doodles. The fact that today's Google Doodle doesn't seem to go with this custom and that Google doesn't offer any explanation sparks curiosity and leads to discussions on the world wide net."

~ paraphrased from a German news article (http://www.topnews.de/raetselhaftes-phaenomen-wirft-fragen-auf-372470 (http://www.topnews.de/raetselhaftes-phaenomen-wirft-fragen-auf-372470))
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 09, 2009, 09:51:18 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture3-9.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on September 09, 2009, 02:01:51 pm
Speaking of which...



On 070707 I saw Brokeback for the very first time....
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 15, 2009, 01:42:14 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture4.png)

Google Crop Circles Logo, Missing "L" (http://searchengineland.com/google-crop-circles-logo-missing-l-25857)
Sep 14, 2009 at 9:07pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Currently, most Google search properties that are currently in a time zone that is September 15th, such as Google UK, are sporting a special Google Doodle that links to a search result for crop circles. It seems likely this logo will appear in the US soon.

The logo shows a flying saucer above a series of crop circles that spell Google. Well, almost — the L has been abducted. That similar to the last Google flying saucer logo from ten days ago, where an O was taken.

If you look at today’s logo’s file name, it’s goog_e.gif — reflecting the missing L. The last logo was go_gle.gif – reflecting the missing O. So that’s O, then L — what are they going to spell?


[Note:  See Reply No. 143 above (by Penthesilea) to see the recent Google flying saucer logo mentioned in the article.]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on September 15, 2009, 03:38:54 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture4.png)

Google Crop Circles Logo, Missing "L"
Sep 14, 2009 at 9:07pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Currently, most Google search properties that are currently in a time zone that is September 15th, such as Google UK, are sporting a special Google Doodle that links to a search result for crop circles. It seems likely this logo will appear in the US soon.

The logo shows a flying saucer above a series of crop circles that spell Google. Well, almost — the L has been abducted. That similar to the last Google flying saucer logo from ten days ago, where an O was taken.

If you look at today’s logo’s file name, it’s goog_e.gif — reflecting the missing L. The last logo was go_gle.gif – reflecting the missing O. So that’s O, then L — what are they going to spell?


[Note:  See Reply No. 143 above (by Penthesilea) to see the recent Google flying saucer logo mentioned in the article.]

You beat me to it.
I'm definitively curious about it (just what they want, I know ::)).

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So that’s O, then L — what are they going to spell?

I know it! OLIVER, the name of my son!
 ;) :laugh:


Or maybe: OLIVES ARE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH?
Or: OLIGARCHY IS OUTDATED?
Or: OLL UMENZ R REQUIRED BY NU LAW TA FEED CATZ TEN TIMZ A DAY!

Yes, that must be it. The LOL cats have taken control over the internet and are sending subliminal messages. :laugh:
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 15, 2009, 08:23:31 am
Another theory:

Google crop circle doodle mystery: Coordinates clue (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6192586/Google-crop-circle-doodle-mystery-Coordinates-clue.html)
Coordinates posted to Google's Twitter account could provide clues to the meaning of the company's new crop circle logo
 
Published: 10:57AM BST 15 Sep 2009

A new post on Google's Twitter feed has provided a clue for web users seeking to uncover the meaning behind the search giant's recent series of UFO-related Google doodles.

The Twitter message simply reads: "51.327629, -0.5616088", and links to an image of the crop circle logo on the Google homepage, showing the letter "L" being abducted by a flying saucer.
 
Web sleuths have found that the string of numbers is actually the latitude and longitude for Woodham Road in Woking, Surrey (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=51.327629,+-0.5616088&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=44.879582,79.013672&ie=UTF8&z=16), sparking intense speculation about what the message could mean.

Diabolik posted one theory on Twitter: "The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, based in Horsell Common north of Woking, was an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion."

"H.G. Wells birthday is Sept 21. This is a 'lead-up' as was Sept 5th logo," tweeted Joshgjohnson.

Another Twitter user, Rajeshshenoy, noted that on this day in 1985, a family in Surrey spotted two large, flying saucer-shaped objects in the sky.

The crop circle doodle has appeared online 10 days after Google revealed a new logo showing a flying saucer hovering over the word "Google", and "abducting" the letter "O" in the ship's tractor beam.

Today's doodle, which is currently only visible on Google's UK homepage, has been dismissed by some internet users as a publicity stunt for an upcoming film, while others believe the "abducted" letters will spell out the name of a new Google product or service.

Google has refused to comment on the rumours and speculation, saying only that the mystery of the doodles would be revealed
"in time". It also confirmed that its doodles were never used for commercial advertising, exploding the myth that the doodles could in some way be related to a film release.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 15, 2009, 08:42:42 am
I also found this, which relates to the earlier UFO doodle:

Google statement on its unexplained phenomenon doodle (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6145346/Google-statement-on-its-unexplained-phenomenon-doodle.html)
Google has added to the mystery surrounding the appearance of a UFO on its home page on Saturday by releasing a statement which does nothing to end the speculation surrounding it.
 
Published: 8:08AM BST 06 Sep 2009

The UFO, which appeared to be abducting the second O in the word Google, referred the user to the search term "unexplained phenomenon" when clicked. The term was, throughout Saturday, one of the most searched-for phrases on the search engine.

Google tends to use its so-called doodles - the adaptations of its logo - to mark major calendar events or the birthdays of large organisations. But Saturday's doodle appeared to have no commemorative tie-in and the web was alive with speculation as to its purpose.
 
During the morning, a numeric code - 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19 - appeared on Google's Twitter stream. The code, which translated to the phrase "all your O are belong to us", was an echo of a famous internet meme from 2000.

But late on Saturday Google released the following statement: "We consider the second ‘o’ critical to user recognition of our brand and pronunciation of our name. We are actively looking into the mysterious tweet that has appeared on the Google twitter stream and the disappearance of the “o” on the Google homepage. We hope to have an update in the coming weeks.”

What do you think the real reason is behind Google's unexplained phenomenon?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on September 15, 2009, 11:04:34 am
What do you think the real reason is behind Google's unexplained phenomenon?


I go with this explanation:

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"H.G. Wells birthday is Sept 21. This is a 'lead-up' as was Sept 5th logo," tweeted Joshgjohnson


For now.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on September 15, 2009, 02:25:28 pm

[Note:  See Reply No. 143 above (by Penthesilea) to see the recent Google flying saucer logo mentioned in the article.]

 ??? ???

I can see no reply #143 at all. It goes from 142 directly to 144....
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on September 15, 2009, 02:27:40 pm

(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/go_gle.gif)


" Mysterious phenomenon raises questions - Google doesn't offer an explanation for today's Google Doodle. Usually Google marks anniversaries of important events or famous persons with its Google Doodles. The fact that today's Google Doodle doesn't seem to go with this custom and that Google doesn't offer any explanation sparks curiosity and leads to discussions on the world wide net."

~ paraphrased from a German news article (http://www.topnews.de/raetselhaftes-phaenomen-wirft-fragen-auf-372470 (http://www.topnews.de/raetselhaftes-phaenomen-wirft-fragen-auf-372470))
This is it, Sonja.  Can you see it?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on September 15, 2009, 02:34:00 pm
Yes. Thanks.

How come I can't see it in the thread?? ??
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on September 15, 2009, 02:35:38 pm
Actually, come to think of it, it happened before.

I see posts quoting previous posts, but I can't see the posts quoted.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on September 15, 2009, 09:41:41 pm
Uummmmm....I see an "L" there, it's not missing.

If you look at the image, after the "g" there is a space, there is a little green tractor on the field, and the trail it's leaving behind is the "L".  It's much thinner than the other letters in the crop circle formations, but it's there.


(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture4.png)

Google Crop Circles Logo, Missing "L" (http://searchengineland.com/google-crop-circles-logo-missing-l-25857)
Sep 14, 2009 at 9:07pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Currently, most Google search properties that are currently in a time zone that is September 15th, such as Google UK, are sporting a special Google Doodle that links to a search result for crop circles. It seems likely this logo will appear in the US soon.

The logo shows a flying saucer above a series of crop circles that spell Google. Well, almost — the L has been abducted. That similar to the last Google flying saucer logo from ten days ago, where an O was taken.

If you look at today’s logo’s file name, it’s goog_e.gif — reflecting the missing L. The last logo was go_gle.gif – reflecting the missing O. So that’s O, then L — what are they going to spell?


[Note:  See Reply No. 143 above (by Penthesilea) to see the recent Google flying saucer logo mentioned in the article.]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on September 15, 2009, 09:45:34 pm
Used my computer to blow it up a bit.

(http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k463/dcfmod/Picture4.jpg)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on September 21, 2009, 02:08:43 am
Ta-da! Last part of the puzzle:


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/hgwells09.gif)
Birthday of H.G. Wells


They mystery is solved: the other google doodles were indeed a lead-up to Wells' birthday.
Chuck: both the missing o and the missing l were still to be seen in the previous logos, but in the url of the pics they were indeed missing.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on September 21, 2009, 04:37:32 pm
Here we go again....

Chuck's post is # 156, and mine is # 158. I can't see any post inbetween......

Can anyone explaing that?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 21, 2009, 05:55:16 pm
I did enjoy the lead-up to Wells' birthday.  Google should surprise us again sometime.

Here we go again....

Chuck's post is # 156, and mine is # 158. I can't see any post inbetween......

Can anyone explaing that?

Can you see any of Chrissi's (Penthesilea's) posts?  It seems hers are the ones that you're not seeing (#143 and #157).  Do you accidentally have her on ignore?  Otherwise, I have no idea what could be causing this.  Maybe Phillip can help if you PM him about what's happening.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on September 21, 2009, 06:16:32 pm
I did enjoy the lead-up to Wells' birthday.  Google should surprise us again sometime.

Can you see any of Chrissi's (Penthesilea's) posts?  It seems hers are the ones that you're not seeing (#143 and #157).  Do you accidentally have her on ignore?  Otherwise, I have no idea what could be causing this.  Maybe Phillip can help if you PM him about what's happening.

Thank you so much!!!

I checked, and it was like you said: I had her on ignore. Have no idea why, I must have accidentaly hit that button.
Now I've un-ignored her, and everything is fine.

Thanks again!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 21, 2009, 07:18:19 pm
Thank you so much!!!

You're welcome.  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on September 21, 2009, 07:53:34 pm
That was very clever of Google! And I'm impressed--Chrissi figured out the mystery before the revelation!  :) Cool!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on September 21, 2009, 08:08:59 pm
Fran--our own Sherlock Holmes!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on September 22, 2009, 12:00:53 pm
That was very clever of Google! And I'm impressed--Chrissi figured out the mystery before the revelation!  :) Cool!


As much as I'd like to take this credit - but I just went with the one explanation I found the most plausible. I didn't figure it out all on my own.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on September 27, 2009, 10:06:12 pm
(http://www.google.com/logos/11th_birthday.gif)

Happy 11th birthday to Goog11e!  
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 02, 2009, 05:40:27 am
Gandhi

(http://www.google.ca/logos/gandhi09.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 02, 2009, 11:31:21 pm
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 07, 2009, 01:30:14 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture4-1.png)
57th Anniversary of the Invention of the Bar Code

http://www.adams1.com/history.html

A Short History of Bar Code

In 1932 an ambitious project was conducted by a small group of students headed by Wallace Flint at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. The project proposed that customers select desired merchandise from a catalog by removing corresponding punched cards from the catalog. These punched cards were then handed to a checker who placed the cards into a reader. The system then pulled the merchandise automatically from the storeroom and delivered it to the checkout counter. A complete customer bill was produced and inventory records were updated.

Modern bar code began in 1948. Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, overheard the president of a local food chain asking one of the deans to undertake research to develop a system to automatically read product information during checkout. Silver told his friend Norman Joseph Woodland about the food chain president's request. Woodland was a twenty seven year old graduate student and teacher at Drexel. The problem fascinated Woodland and he began to work on the problem.

Woodland's first idea used patterns of ink that would glow under ultraviolet light. Woodland and Silver built a device which worked, but the system had problems with ink instability and it was expensive to print the patterns. Woodland was still convinced they had a workable idea. Woodland took some stock market earnings, quit his teaching job at Drexel, and moved to his grandfather's Florida apartment to have more time to work on the problem.

On October 20, 1949, Woodland and Silver filed a patent application titled "Classifying Apparatus and Method." The inventors described their invention as relating "to the art of article classification...through the medium of identifying patterns".

Most bar code histories state that the Woodland and Silver bar code was a "bull's eye" symbol, a symbol made up of a series of concentric circles. While Woodland and Silver did describe such a symbol, the basic symbology was described as a straight line pattern quite similar to present day linear bar codes like UPC and Code 39.

The symbology was made up of a pattern of four white lines on a dark background. The first line was a datum line and the positions of the remaining three lines were fixed with respect to the first line. The information was coded by the presence or absence of one or more of the lines. This allowed 7 different classifications of articles. However, the inventors noted that if more lines were added, more classifications could be coded. With 10 lines, 1023 classifications could be coded.

The Woodland and Silver patent application was issued October 7, 1952 as US Patent 2,612,994.

In 1962 Silver died at age thirty-eight (in an automobile accident) before having seen the commercial use of bar code. Woodland was awarded the 1992 National Medal of Technology by President George Herbert Walker Bush. Neither Silver nor Woodland made much money on the idea that started a billion dollar business. That was because they sold the patent to RCA in 1952 for a small sum of money, long before any commericalization of the technology. The patent expired in 1969, 5 years before the first industry wide use of barcode in grocery stores. It was an invention ahead of its time.

The National Association of Food Chains (NAFC) put out a call to equipment manufacturers for systems that would speed the checkout process. In 1967 RCA installed one of the first scanning systems at a Kroger store in Cincinnati. The product codes were represented by "bull's-eye barcodes", a set of concentric circular bars and spaces of varying widths. These barcodes were not pre-printed on the item's packaging, but were labels that were put on the items by Kroger employees. But there was problems with the RCA/Kroger code. It was recognized that the industry would have to agree on a standard coding scheme open to all equipment manufacturers in order to getl food producers and dealers to adopt the technology.

In 1969, the NAFC asked Logicon, Inc. to develop a proposal for an industry-wide bar code system. The result was Parts 1 and 2 of the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code (UGPIC) in the summer of 1970. Based on the recommendations of the Logicon report, the U.S. Supermarket Ad Hoc Committee on a Uniform Grocery Product Code was formed. Three years later, the Committee recommended the adoption of the UPC symbol set still used in the USA today. It was submitted by IBM and developed by George Laurer (see the history at his web site), whose work was an outgrowth of the idea of Woodland and Silver. Woodland was an IBM employee at the time.

In June 1974, one of the first UPC scanner, made by NCR Corp. (which was then called National Cash Register Co), was installed at Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio. On June 26, 1974, the first product with a bar code was scanned at a check-out counter. It was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum. The pack of gum wasn't specially designated to be the first scanned product. It just happened to be the first item lifted from the cart by a shopper whose name is long since lost to history. Today, the pack of gum is on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on October 07, 2009, 06:07:08 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture4-1.png)

I see the "L", but I can't find the other letters.  :P 8) ::) :D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 07, 2009, 09:14:20 am
I see the "L", but I can't find the other letters.  :P 8) ::) :D

LOL

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6267562/Google-doodle-57th-anniversary-of-invention-of-the-bar-code.html

According to a Washington Post report, the doodle bar code appears to have been created by encrypting the word 'Google' using Code 128, a standard symbology.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 12, 2009, 10:02:12 am
Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving. - Our crops need to come in earlier than for our neighbours to the south.

(http://www.google.ca/logos/cdn_thnksgiving09.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on October 12, 2009, 08:06:12 pm
Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving. - Our crops need to come in earlier than for our neighbours to the south.

(http://www.google.ca/logos/cdn_thnksgiving09.gif)

That's a really pretty one. I love fall colors.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Ellemeno on October 13, 2009, 02:55:08 am
I see the "L", but I can't find the other letters.  :P 8) ::) :D


Good one!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 29, 2009, 05:09:47 am
Astérix au Canada?

(http://www.google.ca/logos/asterix09.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on October 29, 2009, 05:31:11 am
Ha, you beat me to it, Roland :).
I just came here to post the Asterix one. The subtitles read "Asterix and Obelix celebrate their 50th birthday".
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 29, 2009, 05:34:25 am
they don't give us subtitles in Canada  :-\
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on October 29, 2009, 05:41:05 am
they don't give us subtitles in Canada  :-\

Never any explanations of the doodles? :o
It's not really subtitles, you have to hover the mouse over the pic.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 29, 2009, 06:26:57 am
All I got by hovering over the image was the following:

'Asterix (http://www.counterfeitchic.com/Images/copyright%20symbol.jpg)2009 Goscinny Uderzo'

We're left to wonder about the reasons for the special attention.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 31, 2009, 05:55:02 am
Happy Hollowe'en

(http://www.google.ca/logos/clickortreat1.gif)
"click or treat"
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on October 31, 2009, 06:35:43 am
Happy Hollowe'en

(http://www.google.ca/logos/clickortreat1.gif)
"click or treat"

Happy Halloween Roland! Same Google Doodle here in Germany. Now I'm curious if the US people also have the same, or maybe something even more halloween-ish.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on October 31, 2009, 06:38:34 am
Whoa!

You must indeed click on it! Then you get another Goole Doodle. The treats :D.


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/Sonstige/clickortreat2.gif)



How cool is that? I love knickknack like this :D.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 31, 2009, 07:16:47 am
You're right!!!

And the more you click, the more treats you get   :o

(http://www.google.ca/logos/clickortreat3.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 31, 2009, 07:18:03 am
Until there are no more ...  :D

(http://www.google.ca/logos/clickortreat4.gif)

That was fun
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on October 31, 2009, 09:36:09 am
You're right!!!

And the more you click, the more treats you get   :o

(http://www.google.ca/logos/clickortreat3.gif)


Oh, I hadn't discoved that you get more treats for more clicks. Great teamwork Roland, together we unwrapped all layers of the Google Halloween Doodle :D.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on October 31, 2009, 10:07:16 am
That is the one we have in America, Chrissi. It's so cute.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 31, 2009, 11:21:52 am
Loved the "treat" from the folks at Google.  So clever!

Happy Halloween, everyone!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on November 04, 2009, 02:06:36 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/wallaceandgromit09.gif)

20. Anniversary of Wallace and Gromit
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on November 04, 2009, 07:43:30 am

(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/wallaceandgromit09.gif)

20. Anniversary of Wallace and Gromit


That's a very cute one! Here is another cute one that we have today--40th anniversary of Sesame Street.



(http://www.google.com/logos/bigbird-hp.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on November 04, 2009, 07:51:42 am
That's a very cute one! Here is another cute one that we have today--40th anniversary of Sesame Street.


Wonder why we have Wallace and Gromit instead of Sesame Street.
Sesame Street is far more well-known here than W&G.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 05, 2009, 06:51:15 am
Yet another today:

(http://www.google.ca/logos/cookie_monster-hp.gif)
40th Anniversary of Sesame Sreet
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 05, 2009, 09:53:31 am
Love the Cookie Monster doodle!!!

(http://www.google.com/logos/bigbird-hp.gif)

From the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/04/google-doodle-sesame-street-bigbird-40):

The Big Bird Google Doodle celebrates 40 years of Sesame Street

It's somewhat shocking to discover from a Google Doodle that Sesame Street is 40 years old. The educational show created by the Children's Television Workshop certainly has legs, as they say, and Google has chosen to highlight the ones belonging to Big Bird rather than exploit Kermit, Bert and Ernie, Elmo or other likely candidates…

Well, that's true for the US and Canada, though your local version of Google may vary. There are different logos and different characters in different countries, as The Next Web has pointed out. And in the UK, where Sesame Street (as distinct from The Muppets) has not had the same cultural impact, Google has gone with Wallace and Gromit's 20th birthday instead.

Google's Sesame Street celebration is slightly early -- it should be on 10 November, when there will be an anniversary show featuring First Lady Michelle Obama, with or without Hula Hoop. There will also be a couple of books: Sesame Street: A Celebration of Forty Years of Life on the Street, and Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street.

When I was growing up in Canada in the early 1970s*, I almost never missed Sesame Street, and while Big Bird was never the best character, I enjoyed his jousts with Mr Hooper Hooper. In the UK, however, the series was considered too fast-paced and people frowned on its use of advertising techniques. Of course, a series made for disadvantaged inner-city kids also had lots of elements unfamiliar in suburban Surrey, or even Islington. And even the most brilliant of those early episodes would not pass through the Political Correctness barrier today.

* Technically, I was doing an MA at UBC at the time, but I also did some toddler-sitting with some of Sesame Street's biggest fans.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Lynne on November 05, 2009, 04:49:25 pm
I was very happy about Cookie Monster today!   8)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 06, 2009, 02:38:24 am
Bert and Ernie today:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture10-3-1.png)

Speaking of Ernie, here's my favorite Ernie song:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoteMQ6w0SE[/youtube]

I Don't Want to Live on the Moon

Well, I'd like to visit the moon
On a rocket ship high in the air
Yes, I'd like to visit the moon
But I don't think I'd like to live there
Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I might like it for one afternoon
I don't want to live on the moon

I'd like to travel under the sea
I could meet all the fish everywhere
Yes, I'd travel under the sea
But I don't think I'd like to live there
I might stay for a day there if I had my wish
But there's not much to do when your friends are all fish
And an oyster and clam aren't real family
So I don't want to live in the sea

I'd like to visit the jungle, hear the lions roar
Go back in time and meet a dinosaur
There's so many strange places I'd like to be
But none of them permanently

So if I should visit the moon
Well, I'll dance on a moonbeam and then
I will make a wish on a star
And I'll wish I was home once again
Though I'd like to look down at the earth from above
I would miss all the places and people I love
So although I may go I'll be coming home soon
'Cause I don't want to live on the moon
No, I don't want to live on the moon


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 06, 2009, 04:36:45 am
More Bert and Ernie:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk1Y4xo4XJ4[/youtube]

(Love the sheep!!!)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 07, 2009, 05:56:25 am
A new day, a new Sesame Street image

(http://www.google.ca/logos/oscar-hp.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on November 07, 2009, 11:07:56 am

(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/wallaceandgromit09.gif)

20. Anniversary of Wallace and Gromit
F*CK! 20 years? Shit, thats hard!

My fave of the sesame street ones is the cookie monster!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 08, 2009, 01:28:06 am
Elmo:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture1-1.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 09, 2009, 12:49:05 am
In addition to Big Bird and Wallace and Gromit, other Google doodles appeared on November 4th:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture5-6.png)



Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 09, 2009, 01:25:35 am
The Count:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-11.png)

Love how numbers are used as letters!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on November 09, 2009, 01:46:10 am
The Count:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-11.png)

Love how numbers are used as letters!


Clever. Like it! :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on November 09, 2009, 01:47:57 am
In addition to Big Bird and Wallace and Gromit, other Google doodles appeared on November 4th:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture5-6.png)


Where did you find those?
 :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on November 09, 2009, 06:49:18 am
I LOVE "The Count" one too!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 09, 2009, 12:42:34 pm

Where did you find those?
 :)

http://searchengineland.com/google-doodles-for-sesame-street-wallace-gromit-29152
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on November 09, 2009, 01:35:28 pm


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/berlinwall09-hp.gif)

20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 09, 2009, 04:09:07 pm
I'm pretty much Seseme Street-ed out. Wish we had had the wall today. Woulda meant more.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on November 09, 2009, 04:46:07 pm

(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/berlinwall09-hp.gif)

20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
It seems like yesterday... David Hasslehoff singing away as the crowd ripped parts of the wall down.. I remember I got to stay up and watch it all, cos it was also my sisters 18th Birthday.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 09, 2009, 05:11:54 pm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120191822

Hasselhoff says he's heading back to Berlin. He plans to be there as the city celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall — and he says that if anyone asks, he'll be happy to sing "Looking for Freedom."
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on November 09, 2009, 06:49:06 pm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120191822

Hasselhoff says he's heading back to Berlin. He plans to be there as the city celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall — and he says that if anyone asks, he'll be happy to sing "Looking for Freedom."

heee! Thanks Fran!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 10, 2009, 01:49:20 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-10.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 11, 2009, 11:03:53 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-3.png)

Veterans Day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on November 13, 2009, 09:06:34 pm
(http://www.google.com/logos/wateronmoon09-hp.gif)

Water found on the MOON
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 26, 2009, 01:17:01 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-4.png)

Happy Thanksgiving!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on November 26, 2009, 01:47:07 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-4.png)

Happy Thanksgiving!


I've already been waiting for this :).
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on November 26, 2009, 02:05:30 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-4.png)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Cute!! I love the colors. Those colors aren't around very long---with being squished between black and orange; red and green!!! I saw cotton bale toppers in the field yesterday--red and green. Very Christmassy already.  
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 08, 2009, 05:42:39 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/ecsegar09.gif)
E. C. Segar's birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 08, 2009, 07:56:25 pm
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/12/08/ec-segar-why-popeye-popped-onto-googles-homepage/

E.C. Segar: Why Popeye popped onto Google’s homepage

Popeye, the spinach-gulping sailor, celebrates E.C. Segar on Google today.

By Chris Gaylord | 12.08.09

Newscom/WENN.com

E.C. Segar, the man behind Popeye the Sailor, received an appropriately raucous birthday message from Google Tuesday. Its home page features the husky hero smacking around Google’s logo and about to swallow a quick serving of his favorite meal, canned spinach.

Today marks what would be the American cartoonist’s 115th birthday.

Elzie Crisler Segar grew up in Illinois and quickly took to drawing. While holding down a job as a film projectionist and background percussionist at a local theater, he pursued cartooning through a correspondence course.

Segar eventually moved to Chicago and created the Thimble Theatre cartoon strip in 1919. After nearly 10 years of Olive Oyl and others gracing its panels, the series introduced a new character – a balding sailor with a perpetually shut eye, anchor tattoos, preposterous forearms, and a curious vocabulary.

Popeye soon outgrew the Thimble Theatre, earning his own cartoon strip, animated series, and live-action movie starring Robin Williams.

The spinach-gulping mariner is the latest in a long line of Google Doodles. Recent highlights include clay duo Wallace and Gromit, H.G. Wells’s mysterious UFOs, and a week’s worth of Sesame Street favorites.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 15, 2009, 03:49:15 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-5.png)

The Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof

From Biography Base (http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Zamenhof_L_L.html):

Dr. Ludovic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer) Zamenhof (December 15, 1859 - April 14, 1917) was a Polish-Jew ophthalmologist, philologist and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken constructed language to date. His native languages were Russian and Yiddish, but he also spoke Polish and German fluently. Later he learned French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and English, and he also had an interest in Italian, Spanish and Lithuanian.

Zamenhof was born on December 15, 1859 in the town of Bialystok, in the part of Poland which was then a part of the Russian Empire, and the town's population was made up of three major ethnic groups: Poles, Belorusians, and a large group of Yiddish-speaking Jews. Zamenhof was saddened and frustrated by the many quarrels between these groups. He supposed that the main reason for the hate and prejudice lay in mutual misunderstanding, caused by the lack of one common language that would play the role of a neutral communication tool between people of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.

As a student at secondary school in Warsaw, Zamenhof made attempts to create some kind of international language with a grammar that was very rich, but also very complex. When he studied English (along with German, French, Latin and Greek), he decided that the international language must have relatively simple grammar with a wide use of suffixes to make new forms of the words.

By 1878, his project Lingwe uniwersala was almost finished. However Zamenhof was too young then to publish his work. Soon after graduation from school he began to study medicine, first in Moscow, and later in Warsaw. In 1885, Zamenhof graduated from university and began his practice as an ophthalmologist. While healing people he continued to work on his project of the international language.

For two years he tried to raise funds to publish a booklet describing the language until he received the financial help from his future wife's father. In 1887, the book titled as "Lingvo internacia. Antaŭparolo kaj plena lernolibro" (International Language. Foreword And Complete Textbook) was published under the pseudonym "Doktoro Esperanto" (Doctor Hopeful), from which the name of the language derives. For Zamenhof this language wasn't merely a communication tool, but a means of spreading his ideas on the peaceful coexistence of different peoples and cultures.

Dr. Zamenhof died in Warsaw on April 14, 1917.

As for the flag depicted, that's apparently the Esperanto flag.  (Who knew there was a flag!?!)  Per Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_symbols):

The Esperanto flag is composed of a green background with a white square in the upper lefthand corner, which in turn contains a green star. The green field symbolizes hope, the white symbolizes peace and neutrality, and the five-pointed star represents the five continents (Eurasia, North America, South America, Oceania, Africa). The flag was created by the Esperanto Club of Boulogne-sur-Mer, initially for their own use, but was adopted as the flag of the worldwide Esperanto movement by a decision of the first Universal Congress of Esperanto, which took place in 1905 in that town.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 21, 2009, 06:01:02 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/holiday09_1.gif)
Happy Holidays

And when you click the image, you get the message in English, French (Bonnes Fêtes), as well as in 4 other scripts, including Chinese, Japanese(?) and Arab; plus Felices Fiestas (Spanish?), Schöne Feiertage and Auguri di Buono Festa (Portuguese?)

Looks like it might be the first of a series.

Looks kinda Brokebackish, don't it. Maybe we could use it in our banner. Maybe not.


On a personal note, somebody should tell google nobody in my culture world EVER says 'Bonnes fêtes'. MAYbe 'Bon temps des fêtes, but never what they've posted - at least not in my part of the world, which is where the message was captured.

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 22, 2009, 04:33:04 am
Part deux:

(http://www.google.ca/logos/holiday09_2.gif)
Happy Holidays from Google
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 22, 2009, 02:36:28 pm
Are these postcards or Christmas cards?  In any event, they're cool, and I like how they're maintaining the tradition of a series of doodles leading up to Christmas.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 23, 2009, 02:40:04 am
Part 3:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture9-1.png)

Could it be Roy Taylor's cabin down on Lake Kemp?  :)  But with the mountains in the distance, maybe Don Wroe's cabin is a better guess.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 24, 2009, 02:08:00 am
Part 4:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture10-4.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 25, 2009, 02:00:29 am
Part 5:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture10-5.png)

The perfect Christmas wish:  Peace on earth -- and goodwill toward men (and women, too).  :)

Merry Christmas!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 01, 2010, 02:42:01 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture11-4.png)

Happy New Year!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Front-Ranger on January 01, 2010, 05:33:47 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture11-4.png)

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you, Fran!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 01, 2010, 03:31:50 pm
Happy New Year to you, Fran!

Thanks, FRiend Lee.  May 2010 exceeds your expectations!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on January 04, 2010, 05:46:30 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/newton10-tree.jpg)
Birthday of Sir Isaac Newton

**** and the apple actually falls out of the picture!  :) ****
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on January 04, 2010, 06:35:40 am
  :) That one is so cute! The Google people are creative and talented folks!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on January 04, 2010, 07:48:53 am
I love today's doodle, very clever. It took me a moment, but the penny dropped the same second as the apple in the picture :laugh:.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 03, 2010, 02:42:44 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/4016737e.gif)

Birthday of Norman Rockwell


I had never heard of Norman Rockwell, but recognized this pic immediately. It's on the cover of a book I read (Bidie and Finn by Harry Cauley).
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 12, 2010, 06:04:05 am



(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/41a4dcdf.png)
Vancouver 2010
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 13, 2010, 06:09:34 am
The English Canadian Olympics continue today.

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-luge-hp.png)

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 13, 2010, 01:31:45 pm
Two on the same day?

The English Canadian Olympics

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-snowboarding-hp.png)
snowboarding
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 13, 2010, 01:48:49 pm
Two on the same day?


The one before was a pic of a luger. And since the Georgian luger died last night .....
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 13, 2010, 06:37:26 pm
Don't think that that is why. There are more than one event per day.

As a matter of fact, there's already a third image up, but since I'm using Bryan's Mac computer, and I don't know how to copy & paste on this one, I can't.

So, unless someone else shares it before I get home, I'll do it then.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 13, 2010, 06:50:00 pm
Maybe some people thought the luge one was in poor taste in light of the Georgian's tragic accident and that's why they made a substitution.

I wonder if it really was a tribute to him or just purely coincidental that the first Olympic sport highlighted was the luge.  I imagine the Olympic doodles were prepared well in advance.

Quote
As a matter of fact, there's already a third image up, but since I'm using Bryan's Mac computer, and I don't know how to copy & paste on this one, I can't.

So, unless someone else shares it before I get home, I'll do it then.

Roland, I'm still seeing the snowboarding one here.

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 13, 2010, 10:50:14 pm
oops! it is snowboarding. Maybe Chrissi was right ...
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 14, 2010, 05:59:10 am
Day 3

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-prsskating-hp.png)
figure skating
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 15, 2010, 08:54:37 am
Day 4

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-xcskiing-hp.png)
cross country skiing
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 16, 2010, 06:41:04 am
Day 5

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-curling-hp.png)
curling
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 17, 2010, 04:44:13 am
Day 6

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-xcskiiing2-hp.png)
cross country skiing (again)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 17, 2010, 11:14:49 am
Day 6

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-xcskiiing2-hp.png)
cross country skiing (again)

Maybe Alpine skiing?

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 17, 2010, 11:30:24 am
I found the following article, which has some info about the figure-skating doodle -- I admit that it took me a while to see the heart for Valentine's Day! -- as well as the withdrawn luge doodle:

Google Features 2-in-1 Olympics and Valentine's Day Doodle (http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Features-2-in-1-Olympics-and-Valentine-s-Day-Doodle-134985.shtml)

Also pulls luge-themed doodle after backlash

It was bound to happen sooner or later, Google's growing obsession with custom logos, aka doodles, to mark special events and celebrations has reached a point where it had to choose between two major occasions to feature on the homepage.

Since the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics kicked off a couple of days ago, Google has been running a series of themed doodles, with the occasional backlash but more on that later, just like it has for past iterations of the major sporting event. This year though, the event coincided with Valentines Day, a holiday which couldn't go unnoticed. It couldn't choose between the two so Google had a great idea and decided to make just one doodle for both events.

The Google homepage featured a doodle from the Winter Olympics series in the very recognizable style of the previous ones of a pair of ice skaters. If you look closer though, you'll notice that it has some Valentine's Day touches like the heart-shaped tracks left by the ice skates. Obviously the sporting event itself, figure skating, suits itself to the occasion. Finally, the tooltip on the image made it clear that Google was trying to kill two rabbits with one shot.

However, Google's other choices for the Olympic doodles didn't go down so well in one particular case. The search engine had a doodle depicting a luge athlete over the weekend but, in the light of the tragic accident of Georgian luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili, some people found it tacky or even a little disturbing. Google didn't waste any time dealing with the backlash and took down the doodle replacing it with a snowboarding-themed one. There were those who believed that the logo could be seen as a tribute to the late athlete, but Google decided to play it safe and remove the image.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Front-Ranger on February 17, 2010, 11:35:18 am
Day 5

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-curling-hp.png)
curling

Olympic trivia of the day: Curling actually originated in ... Scotland!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on February 17, 2010, 06:20:58 pm
Olympic trivia of the day: Curling actually originated in ... Scotland!

and the current UK womens team is scottish and KICKS ASS!!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 17, 2010, 06:25:43 pm
And I always thought it was a Canadian sport.  ;D

Or at least we OWN the sport .... much like hockey












Well we have in the recent past ...
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 18, 2010, 05:22:42 am
day 7

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-skeleton-hp.png)
skeleton (head first)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 19, 2010, 06:14:55 am
Day 8

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-apskiing-hp.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 20, 2010, 06:46:27 am
Day 9

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-skijump-hp.png)
ski jump
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 21, 2010, 06:39:04 am
Day 10

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-bobsleigh-hp.png)
bobsleigh
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 22, 2010, 06:03:43 am
Day 11

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-icedance-hp.png)
ice dance

And I always thought it took two to do this event (where's her partner?), and the couple were never suppose to stop touching except to change positions  ???

Somebody's getting it wrong ...
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on February 22, 2010, 07:48:29 am
And I always thought it took two to do this event (where's her partner?), and the couple were never suppose to stop touching except to change positions  ???

Somebody's getting it wrong ...

Well, it's odd that they did Ice dancing solo like that. 

However, the rules of the competition have changed in recent years.  They now allow the pairs to break apart for short periods of time, and do different lifts, to help with the judging and give the ability to do different tricks.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 23, 2010, 06:54:50 am
day 12

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-freestyleski-hp.png)
freestyle skiing
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 24, 2010, 05:22:14 am
day 13

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-hockey-hp.png)
(s)he shoots, (s)he scores or
 Canada's game
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 25, 2010, 05:33:17 am
day 14

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-nordic-hp.png)
nordic
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 26, 2010, 08:51:01 am
day 15

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-shorttrack-hp.png)
short track
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 27, 2010, 08:01:21 am
day 16

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-sskating-hp.png)
speed skating
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 28, 2010, 04:44:21 am
day 17

(http://www.google.ca/logos/olympics10-closing-hp.png)
closing ceremony
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 04, 2010, 04:59:56 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/vivaldi10-hp.gif)
Vivaldi on this, his 332nd birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 14, 2010, 04:44:39 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/piday10-hp.gif)
pi day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 17, 2010, 07:10:04 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/stpatricksday10-hp.gif)
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on April 01, 2010, 09:50:33 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-11.png)
Happy April Fool's Day!

From The Official Google Blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/different-kind-of-company-name.html):

A different kind of company name
4/01/2010 12:01:00 AM

Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka.

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-7.png)

We didn’t reach this decision lightly; after all, we had a fair amount of brand equity tied up in our old name. But the more we surfed around (the former) Topeka’s municipal website, the more kinship we felt with this fine city at the edge of the Great Plains.

In fact, Topeka Google Mayor Bill Bunten expressed it best: “Don’t be fooled. Even Google recognizes that all roads lead to Kansas, not just yellow brick ones.”

For 150 years, its fortuitous location at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Oregon Trail has made the city formerly known as Topeka a key jumping-off point to the new world of the West, just as for 150 months the company formerly known as Google has been a key jumping-off point to the new world of the web. When in 1858 a crucial bridge built across the Kansas River was destroyed by flooding mere months later, it was promptly rebuilt — and we too are accustomed to releasing 2.0 versions of software after stormy feedback on our ‘beta’ releases. And just as the town's nickname is "Top City," and the word “topeka” itself derives from a term used by the Kansa and Ioway tribes to refer to “a good place to dig for potatoes,” we’d like to think that our website is one of the web's top places to dig for information.

In the early 20th century, the former Topeka enjoyed a remarkable run of political prominence, gracing the nation with Margaret Hill McCarter, the first woman to address a national political convention (1920, Republican); Charles Curtis, the only Native American ever to serve as vice president (’29 to ‘33, under Herbert Hoover); Carrie Nation, leader of the old temperance movement (and wielder of American history’s most famous hatchet); and, most important, Alfred E. Neuman, arguably the most influential figure to an entire generation of Americans. We couldn’t be happier to add our own chapter to this storied history.

A change this dramatic won’t happen without consequences, perhaps even some disruptions. Here are a few of the thorny issues that we hope everyone in the broader Topeka community will bear in mind as we begin one of the most important transitions in our company’s history:


(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture9-2.png)

Finally, we want to be clear that this initiative is a one-shot deal that will have no bearing on which municipalities are chosen to participate in our experimental ultra-high-speed broadband project, to which Google, Kansas has been just one of many communities to apply.

Posted by Eric Schmidt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Topeka Inc.


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 02, 2010, 03:04:35 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/andersen10-1-hp.gif)
205th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen's birth day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 22, 2010, 11:15:25 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/earthday10-hp.gif)
Earth Day

Can you see 'Google' in this image?  ??? A little too abstact for me.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on April 22, 2010, 02:22:37 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/earthday10-hp.gif)
Earth Day

Can you see 'Google' in this image?  ??? A little too abstact for me.

Ye a wee bit too much for me too.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on April 22, 2010, 02:34:25 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/earthday10-hp.gif)
Earth Day

Can you see 'Google' in this image?  ??? A little too abstact for me.

When I squint and focus on the yellow--the light through the tree canopy--"google" comes through more clearly.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on April 22, 2010, 03:34:05 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/earthday10-hp.gif)
Earth Day

Can you see 'Google' in this image?  ??? A little too abstact for me.


When I squint and focus on the yellow--the light through the tree canopy--"google" comes through more clearly.


I was about to say the same thing.  If you look at the light yellow areas, those are the letters, with formation from the tree branches.

The first "g" is the large curled branch with the blue bird.  The next tree that resembles a "y" , the "o" is in between the branches.  The next "o" is by the branch that's bending down.  The lower case "g" is by the faded tree, the leaf is the space in the top of the "g".  The "e" is formed by a leaf and the branch the two red birds are sitting on.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on April 22, 2010, 03:52:30 pm
ooh! I see now!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 21, 2010, 03:08:04 pm
I've not bothered with the last coupl'a google art, but today's a winner.

You can actually play it  :D It's PAC-MAN's 30th anniversary

however, I don't know how to post it
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on May 21, 2010, 03:09:58 pm
yes its quit fun - it doesnt seem to like firefox but got to play it on google chrome.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on May 23, 2010, 03:56:44 pm
I got to level 4 on that yesterday.  LOL
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 11, 2010, 10:31:59 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture17.png)

FIFA World Cup
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 12, 2010, 06:01:30 am
Did it bother anyone other than me that the image was that of a coupl'a of all-white men's teams?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on June 16, 2010, 08:00:23 am
Not until you mentioned it! Hopefully over the course of the competition that wll change..
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 21, 2010, 12:15:22 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture13-2.png)

Happy Father's Day!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 01, 2010, 05:51:03 am
Joyeuse fête du Canada  :)

(http://www.google.ca/logos/canadaday10-hp.gif)
Canada Day, July 1, 2010
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on July 01, 2010, 10:12:22 am
Happy canada day!

On Tuesday they had a nice google image and I meant to capture it and then totally forgot - it was the 110th anniversary of the guy who wrote story the little prince.


Quote
Born in Lyon on 29 June 1900, Saint-Exupéry was an aviator who flew the mail over North Africa and the Andes. He won awards for several of his novels, but is best-known today for the allegorical children's book The Little Prince, the story of a pilot who crashes in the desert and meets the Little Prince. The fairytale has its roots in the author's own experiences: in 1935 he had an accident in the desert of North Africa, walking for days before he was rescued.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/29/antoine-de-saint-exupery-google-doodle

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2010/6/29/1277806603491)

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 01, 2010, 11:18:36 am
le voici:

(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/Pictures/2010/6/29/1277806603491/Antoine-de-Saint-Exup-ry--004.jpg)

et l'image de la couverture de ce fameux livre:

(http://www.lexpress.fr/images/jaquettes/04/9782070408504.gif)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on July 04, 2010, 01:54:33 pm




Happy Independence Day from GOOGLE. Go to the site. It's animated. CUTE!!!


And also Rube Goldberg's birthday.

http://www.google.com/ (http://www.google.com/)

(http://thenextweb.com/google/files/2010/07/first-500x301.jpg)


Article
http://thenextweb.com/google/2010/07/04/pop-goes-google-rube-goldberg-doodle-puts-on-a-fourth-of-july-display/ (http://thenextweb.com/google/2010/07/04/pop-goes-google-rube-goldberg-doodle-puts-on-a-fourth-of-july-display/)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on July 06, 2010, 03:08:07 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture1-2.png)

Frida Kahlo's 103rd birthday celebrated with Google doodle (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/2010/07/06/2010-07-06_frida_kahlos_103rd_birthday_celebrated_with_google_doodle.html)

BY ANTHONY BENIGNO   
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 9:43 AM

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture3-11.png)

Frida Kahlo's 103rd birthday present? A Google doodle.

In honor of the painter's life appears, Google has designed a Twitter-age homage to the painter's "Self-Portrait With Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird."

In the image, Kahlo is depicted in front of the Google logo; a giant flower blooming behind her with its vines snaking around the "Google" emblem and Kahlo's neck.

Kahlo was one of the most prolific painters of her time. Born in 1907, just a few years before the Mexican Revolution, she survived both polio and a bus crash in her youth.

At 22, she wed painter Diego Rivera -- for the first time -- following a tumultuous ten-year union where both artists carried on numerous affairs. They soon divorced but ultimately remarried before Kahlo died in 1954.

The artist's death was officially attributed to a pulmonary embolism, although no autopsy was performed.

After his wife's passing, Rivera famously wrote, "I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida."

Since her death, Kahlo's celebrity has only grown. In 2001, she became the first Hispanic woman to have her face put on a U.S. postage stamp, and her 1943 work "Roots" set the record for the highest-selling portrait by a Latin-American artist in 2006.

She also was the subject of a 2002 film, "Frida." Directed by Julie Taymor (Broadway's "The Lion King"), the film stars Salma Hayek as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as Diego Rivera, and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including a Best Actress nomination for Hayek.




Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on July 24, 2010, 11:38:59 am
(http://www.google.com/logos/mucha10-hp.jpg)

 
150th birthday of Alphonse Mucha
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on August 30, 2010, 02:03:49 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/a169cda8.jpg)

213th birthday of Mary Shelley
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 27, 2010, 12:19:02 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture1-3.png)

Happy 12th Birthday to Google!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 30, 2010, 12:47:34 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-8.png)

The 50th Anniversary of The Flintstones



Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on September 30, 2010, 06:17:20 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-8.png)

The 50th Anniversary of The Flintstones





Yabba-Dabba-Doo!!!!!

This one is sooooo cute! But, wow, it's hard when you can remember watching the first run of a 50 year old cartoon.   :P  8)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on October 08, 2010, 06:58:03 am
Today is the 70. birthday of John Lennon, and there's a wonderful Google doodle :).

First, there's a clickable doodle, then a thirty second video with the music of Imagine and an animation. Love it :).

But I can't copy or otherwise reproduce it here; too bad. If one of you can, please do so.


(70 already? :o)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on October 08, 2010, 07:26:23 am
My google is plain this morning, darn it.  ???  Maybe it will change later on. I hope so; that sounds neat!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 08, 2010, 09:10:25 am
Thanks, Chrissi.  Without you, we would have missed this one completely it seems.

Shasta, here's what we're missing:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHCeUfoAnw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Or you can go to:

http://www.google.co.uk/

for the real deal.


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on October 08, 2010, 03:49:36 pm
That's a wonderful doodle!

Thanks for pointing it out, Chrissi!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on October 08, 2010, 11:20:25 pm
Thanks, girls! I love it. :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 21, 2010, 09:53:37 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture13-3.png)

Dizzy Gillespie honored with birthday mosaic Google doodle (http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/1021/Dizzy-Gillespie-honored-with-birthday-mosaic-Google-doodle)

Today's Google Doodle pays tribute to American trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie on his 93rd birthday.

By Alicia Pflaumer / October 21, 2010

Jazz great Dizzy Gillespie got a very Google birthday gift this year.

The popular search engine paid tribute to Dizzy Gillespie with a colorful Google doodle mosaic. Today would have been his 93rd birthday.

Mr. Gillespie started playing piano at the age of 4. By age 12, he taught himself how to play the trombone and trumpet.

Gillespie, along with Charlie Parker, started the bebop era, which was one of the first modern jazz styles.

Gillespie's songs, such as "A Night In Tunisia," written in 1942, have influenced popular music today.

During the 1980s, Gillespie made special television appearances on 'The Cosby Show,' 'Sesame Street,' and 'The Muppets.'

This blogger's favorite jazz musicians, Miles Davis and John Coltrane, owe a certain something to the influence of Dizzy.

What beats get you hummin'? Also, what have been your favorite Google doodles? Pac-man (http://www.google.com/pacman/), Wizard of Oz (http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0812/The-Wizard-of-Oz-71st-anniversary-Does-Google-hate-round-numbers), Bouncy Balls[/ur]l?  (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLGCaUsmUhc&feature=player_embedded)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 21, 2010, 10:14:18 am
Google Doodles Through the Years

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYzJhluTS0&feature=related[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 21, 2010, 10:17:22 am
This one has even more:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFi2i4_NCZQ&feature=watch_response[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on October 22, 2010, 03:35:51 pm
Cool, Fran!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 31, 2010, 12:39:29 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture24-1.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 31, 2010, 12:41:05 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture25.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 31, 2010, 12:42:25 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture26.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 31, 2010, 12:43:42 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture27.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 31, 2010, 12:45:01 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture28.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on October 31, 2010, 05:17:46 pm
heee! Multiple today!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 23, 2010, 10:59:37 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture35.png)

Ina Garten's Thanksgiving Recipes from Google

Perfect Roast Turkey w/ Herb & Apple Stuffing (http://www.google.com/landing/thanksgiving/#turkey)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 24, 2010, 03:18:53 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture36.png)

Pumpkin Banana Mousse Tart (http://www.google.com/landing/thanksgiving/#tart)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 25, 2010, 01:54:10 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture38.png)

Smashed Sweet Potatoes (http://www.google.com/landing/thanksgiving/#potatoes)

Popovers (http://www.google.com/landing/thanksgiving/#popovers)

Roasted Brussels Sprouts (http://www.google.com/landing/thanksgiving/#bsprouts)

Cranberry Fruit Conserve (http://www.google.com/landing/thanksgiving/#conserve)

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on November 26, 2010, 10:18:01 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/88b911bb.jpg)

65. Birthday of Pippi Longstocking
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on November 26, 2010, 04:05:01 pm
Pippi Långstrump!!!!

I had no idea it was her birthday today....


When you click the doodle on the Swedish page, there are links that say "Congrats Pippi, you're now retired!"  :laugh:


(http://www.kalastips.com/images/pippi.jpg) (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PwDDF3n5EE4/SSVdYI_itEI/AAAAAAAAATs/scNF5Rv0Yto/s400/pippilangstrumpfmovie.jpg) (http://scenbloggen.com/fantasia/files/2010/04/Pippi_film-291x300.jpg) (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Mn2dtZY10WM/SrvBTpOgoJI/AAAAAAAABHs/qU5OSJH3XUc/s400/pippi2.jpg)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Mn2dtZY10WM/SrvBOQ-HvjI/AAAAAAAABHk/-K3zuz5rDJQ/s400/pippi.jpg)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 01, 2010, 10:48:29 am
From SearchEngineLand.com:

The Google Rosa Parks Logo

Dec 1, 2010 at 8:12am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google is remembering the historic day when Rosa Parks refused to listen to the bus driver when she was told to give up her seat for a white passenger. Today, 55 years ago, was that day in Montgomery, Alabama. Although she wasn’t the first to make such a statement, her action on that day initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Rosa Parks is well known as a African American civil rights activist and was called by the U.S. Congress “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”. So, although today is not her birthday – Google decided to remember the anniversary of the day she refused to move with this logo:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture35-1.png)

There are some people who are upset with Google that they did not post a red ribbon today, in addition to the Rosa Parks logo, to commemorate World AIDS Day. Yahoo has a special ribbon logo but Google has no mention of it on their home page.

Here is the static Yahoo logo:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture36-1.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on December 01, 2010, 03:37:16 pm
Too bad, that doodle doesn't show on the Swedish Google page.  :(
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on December 06, 2010, 02:52:42 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/28d148ab.jpg)

Dec 6th, Nikolaus Day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 23, 2010, 10:11:05 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture53-1.png)

A Holiday Card From Google

Five Artists, 250 Hours, Six Months to Create the Search Engine's 'Doodle'

By KATHERINE ROSMAN
Mountain View, Calif.

Set to be unveiled at 9 a.m. eastern time Thursday, Google's 2010 holiday doodle has 17 interactive images that approximate the logo's letters and colors.

For Micheal Lopez, creating this year's holiday card came down to the wire. The design took five artists about 250 hours. It will be opened by hundreds of millions of people. You're on the list.

Mr. Lopez is in charge of what Google Inc. calls its "doodles," the illustrations that occasionally adorn the search engine's logo in the U.S. and abroad. Doodles appear throughout the year to commemorate holidays, pop-culture touchstones, civic milestones and scientific achievements. The holiday doodle—its most ambitious one yet—will go up on its home page Thursday morning at 9 a.m. eastern time. It will remain on the site for 2½ days.

"We want to end the year with a bang," says Mr. Lopez, whose title is chief doodler.

For Google, the goal is to burnish its brand image and engage the legions of people who conduct more than a billion searches a day, without offending any of them. Google estimates it has created more than 900 doodles since 1998, with 270 of them running in 2010. Some appear globally, and others are tailored for local markets outside the U.S., such as Kenya Independence Day.

In the past, holiday doodles have used gift bows and snowmen to celebrate the season. But since becoming chief doodler 18 months ago, Mr. Lopez, 30-years-old, has upped the ante creatively and technologically. This year marked the first video doodle, videogame doodle and hologram doodle.

On what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday in October, the former Beatle's glasses were the "Os," and clicking on the logo launched a 30-second video with an "Imagine" soundtrack.

Mr. Lopez's concept for the doodle is a representation of the Google logo through 17 interactive portraits of holiday scenes from around the world. For months, Mr. Lopez had envisioned unveiling it in stages over three days, ending on Christmas.

But when executives and others at Google saw the nearly completed doodle last week, they made a key change: the entire doodle needed to go online in one posting. Suddenly, after working for six months, Mr. Lopez and his team were racing to finish.

Discussions about the holiday doodle started back in July. Mr. Lopez met with his team of four artists, who include a recent Rhode Island School of Design graduate and children's book illustrator. They batted around a few ideas, then decided the illustrations of celebrations should focus on food, dance, architecture and textile.

Mr. Lopez divvied up the 17 scenes among his staff, personally taking responsibility for six. As the team met over the following months to discuss regular doodles, artists would give updates on the status of their holiday sketches. Jennifer Hom, who was assigned Italy, drew Venetian gondolas on the wipe board, with the curve of a bridge feeding into a "G."

In mid-December, the doodle team met one morning in a conference room on campus here to weigh in on the illustrations. Some were just being conceived; others were well in progress. A red drawing of three Indian women dancing, with henna accents framing the scene, was projected from a computer onto a wall. Mr. Lopez shared a concept for southern Africa, imagining a solitary man in tribal dress and sandals. "I wanted to keep the shape of the actual body very geometric."

"It's odd for it to be a single person," another artist said.

"Maybe it should be a family. That's more holiday-like," Mr. Lopez agreed.

"If they're really a family, there needs to be a kid playing Game Boy," someone called out.

As the meeting ended, Mr. Lopez was rushed but jocular. His team had about 100 more hours of work to devote to the project—not including the hours Google programmers would put into writing the code and building the interactive infrastructure. But he predicted they might wrap it up even a week before Christmas. "I think we're in good shape," he said.

But last week, some at Google raised concern about how much time people spend on their computer Christmas Day. Many people would miss the completed doodle, they worried.

"I thought, 'Is my mom going to be available to play this on Christmas Day?' " says Mr. Lopez. "The answer is, no, she'll be making me food!" So the team worked past Wednesday afternoon to re-engineer the next day's doodle.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704774604576035500936272100.html#ixzz18wbQH5zF
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 31, 2010, 07:24:46 am
Happy New Year's Eve 2011 (MMXI, roman numeral-ly speaking)

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2010/newyear11-hp.jpg)
New Year's Eve
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on December 31, 2010, 10:45:16 am
cute! I like that one!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 17, 2011, 11:12:09 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture9-3.png)

Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 19, 2011, 02:00:26 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture21-1.png)
Birthday of Paul Cézanne

From One India News (http://news.oneindia.in/feature/2011/google-doodle-captures-paul-cezanne-s-vision-aid0101.html):

Google doodle captures Paul Cézanne's vision
Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 9:40 [IST]

The search engine giant Google never fails to celebrate any special occasion or never fails to pay tribute to the intelligence and talented people through its interesting logo - Doodle.

This time also, Google paid tribute to the famous French artist and Post-Impressionist painter, Paul Cézanne on his 172nd birthday on Wednesday, Jan 19.

Cézanne's great work, one of his paintings has been chosen as the replacement of the today's doodle.

Like previous doodles the "painting" based logo mimics the shape of the letters that make up the usual logo, the g for instance is made up by a jug and cloth where as the two O's are made up by plates that follow a similar style to "Still Life with a Curtain" and "Still Life with an Open Drawer" which were both painted by Cézanne.

This time Google tried to capture the whole life of Paul Cézanne in its doodle as every minute information is available with the background of the logo. If anyone wants to learn more about the French artists and wants to take a glance at his works, just a mouse click on the doodle will reveal everything.

Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic enquiry, Cubism. He has been described as a visionary who was ahead of his time, like many artists his work was not fully appreciated until well after he had died.

Cézanne's work demonstrates a mastery of design, colour, tone, composition and draftsmanship. His paintings convey his intense study of his subjects, a searching gaze and a dogged struggle to deal with the complexity of human visual perception.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 20, 2011, 10:22:30 am
Wow!  The third one this week:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-12.png)

John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address
Friday, January 20, 1961

From:  Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres56.html):

Heavy snow fell the night before the inauguration, but thoughts about cancelling the plans were overruled. The election of 1960 had been close, and the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts was eager to gather support for his agenda. He attended Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown that morning before joining President Eisenhower to travel to the Capitol. The Congress had extended the East Front, and the inaugural platform spanned the new addition. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Earl Warren. Robert Frost read one of his poems at the ceremony.

Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom—symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning—signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.   

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.   

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.   

This much we pledge—and more.   

To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do—for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.   

To those new States whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom—and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

To those peoples in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required—not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.   

To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge—to convert our good words into good deeds—in a new alliance for progress—to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this Hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.   

To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support—to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective—to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak—and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.   

Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.   

We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.   

But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course—both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.   

So let us begin anew—remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.   

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.   

Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms—and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.   

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.   

Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah—to "undo the heavy burdens ... and to let the oppressed go free."   

And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than in mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded, each generation of Americans has been summoned to give testimony to its national loyalty. The graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe.

Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.   

Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?   

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.   

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.   

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.   

Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Front-Ranger on January 20, 2011, 12:04:36 pm
Loved this! Thanks for preserving it!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 08, 2011, 01:16:27 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-10.png)

Jules Verne's Birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 08, 2011, 05:40:47 am
and it's interactive ... the leaver on the right allows you to see the underwater by moving it down and again right and left, and to go back up to the surface by moving it up.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on February 08, 2011, 07:33:35 am
It's fun to play with!  :D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 08, 2011, 12:49:19 pm
Thanks, Roland. I didn't realize it was interactive. So cool!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on February 08, 2011, 09:50:10 pm
Thanks, Roland. I didn't realize it was interactive. So cool!


Me neither!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 11, 2011, 04:49:58 am
again a new one

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/edison11-hp.gif)
Thomas Edison's 164th

me thinks they're just 'celebrating' any ol' thing - 164th birthday? Is that a square root of somethin?

I like the way they got the light turning on though ...
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 14, 2011, 02:41:34 am
Happy Valentine's Day

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/valentines11-hp.jpg)
artwork by Robert Indiana
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 19, 2011, 02:02:05 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture36-2.png)

Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi
February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on March 06, 2011, 11:21:10 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture39.png)

From The Washington Post (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2011/03/will_eisners_google_logo_doodl.html):

WILL EISNER'S GOOGLE LOGO: Doodle marks 'The Spirit' creator's 94th birthday
By Michael Cavna

For comics fans, today's image may well be Google's greatest "Doodle" yet.

The latest Google logo celebrates what would have been the 94th birthday of one of the cartooning world's towering legends, Will Eisner. The home-page "doodle" -- as the company calls each of them -- features Eisner's iconic character The Spirit, as well as the Bronx tenement buildings that the pioneering cartoonist rendered so elegantly in his ever-influential '70s graphic novel "A Contract With God (and Other Tenement Stories)."

"Eisner was one of the first cartoonists to understand the power of visual education, and wrote eloquently about the process of making comics in 'Comics and Sequential Art' (1985) and 'Graphic Storytelling' (1996)," writes noted comics artist/author Scott McCloud, who was invited by Google to remember his mentor and help design the doodle.

"For most of his career," McCloud writes, "Eisner was years, even decades, ahead of the curve."

Eisner's masked Central City criminologist The Spirit -- aka Denny Colt -- debuted in American newspapers in 1940 and ran for 12 years as part of "the Spirit Section." Among the great talents who worked on "The Spirit" -- which also was published in comic-book form -- were Pulitzer-winning Village Voice cartoonist/author Jules Feiffer, MAD co-founder Wally Wood and Plastic Man creator Jack Cole.

In 2008, Hollywood tapped Eisner's Wildwood Cemetery crimefighter for "The Spirit," starring Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson.

The Brooklyn-born William Erwin "Will" Eisner died in 2005. The industry's esteemed Eisner Awards -- handed out each year at San Diego Comic-Con International -- pay tribute to his legend and inspiration.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on March 08, 2011, 02:35:40 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture40.png)
The 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Lynne on March 08, 2011, 06:23:22 pm
Fran - and the rest who contribute to this thread regularly - thank you!  It's one of my very favorites.

 :-* :-*
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 24, 2011, 04:21:47 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/houdini11-hp.jpg)
Harry Houdini's 137th anniversary
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 31, 2011, 04:11:30 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/bunsen11-hp.png)
(inventor) Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday
(he of the bunsen burner 'fame')
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on March 31, 2011, 04:46:12 pm
I remember bunsen burners from school!

Didn't know that "bunsen" was a name, though.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on April 03, 2011, 10:18:12 am
(http://www.google.com/logos/2011/icecreamsundae11-hp.jpg)

119th anniversary of the first documented ice cream sundae.


I may have one to celebrate!  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on April 03, 2011, 05:21:06 pm
And...I did.  ;D  At Sonic. Hot fudge and strawberries combination. Delicious.  
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on April 03, 2011, 06:07:24 pm
sounds yummy!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on April 03, 2011, 07:51:33 pm
sounds yummy!

(http://www.discountcandleshop.com/images/sans/icecreamsundayhotfudge.jpg)

It was...I scraped the cup clean.  :D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on April 03, 2011, 08:02:11 pm
(http://www.discountcandleshop.com/images/sans/icecreamsundayhotfudge.jpg)

It was...I scraped the cup clean.  :D


Adn now, this is my kind of sundae!

;D


(http://29.media.tumblr.com/tBy9xflrtqtpdt34CZ8Toazco1_400.jpg)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Shasta542 on April 03, 2011, 09:21:18 pm
Ahhh--you got your peanut butter in my chocolate!!! That looks amazingly scrumptious!  8)


Adn now, this is my kind of sundae!

;D


(http://29.media.tumblr.com/tBy9xflrtqtpdt34CZ8Toazco1_400.jpg)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on April 04, 2011, 06:41:53 am
Ahhh--you got your peanut butter in my chocolate!!! That looks amazingly scrumptious!  8)


You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!   ;D

I've had something similiar to this sundae, it is tasty!  ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on April 12, 2011, 02:31:42 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture2.png)

The 50th Anniversary of the First Man in Space

On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft.  (Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later.)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMCLejh_CyM[/youtube]



Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on April 12, 2011, 02:50:06 pm
I like how the wee spaceship taking off!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on April 15, 2011, 08:29:59 pm
Charlie Chaplin's 122nd Birthday

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NGSU2PM9dA[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on April 22, 2011, 01:20:36 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture2-1.png)

Earth Day 2011

It's interactive, too.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on April 22, 2011, 05:40:43 am
I like this one!

Lotsa things happening when you move the cursor across it.

Even a bear appears and catches the salmon!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on April 22, 2011, 05:44:56 am
Oh, I found even more animals!  :D

So far I've found 9 different kinds of animals that will move when you "touch" them.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sophia on April 22, 2011, 06:28:22 am
Oh, I found even more animals!  :D

So far I've found 9 different kinds of animals that will move when you "touch" them.

 ;D mee to
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on April 23, 2011, 05:55:25 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture2-1.png)

Earth Day 2011

It's interactive, too.

Boo! I wish I had seen this one!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on April 23, 2011, 02:07:04 pm
Boo! I wish I had seen this one!

Here you go, Kelda:  :)

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkhUr3mVV9A[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on April 23, 2011, 02:12:45 pm
Here you go, Kelda:  :)

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkhUr3mVV9A[/youtube]

Heee... cool thankyou!
Title: Re: Google Doodles - Audubon
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 26, 2011, 05:01:34 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/audubon11-hp.jpg)
226th birthday of John James Audubon
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on April 26, 2011, 01:56:23 pm
cool....
Title: Re: Google Doodles - Audubon
Post by: Penthesilea on April 26, 2011, 02:41:20 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/audubon11-hp.jpg)
226th birthday of John James Audubon


This one is really pretty. :)
(even when a 226. birthday is a bit ... farfetched)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on April 26, 2011, 10:00:37 pm
I was able to see the "Google" on this one. 

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture1-4-1.png)

:)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on April 27, 2011, 03:19:40 am
I was able to see the "Google" on this one. 

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture1-4-1.png)

:)


Cool 8)
I was able to see the G and g, but not the others. Of course, now that you've showed them, it's hard to NOT see them. What was seen, can not be unseen. :laugh:
Title: Re: Google Doodles - Royal Wedding
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 29, 2011, 05:40:41 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/royalwedding11-hp.png)
The Wedding of Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on April 29, 2011, 10:45:30 am
Very nice.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 01, 2011, 12:18:22 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture4-2.png)


The 160th Anniversary of the First World's Fair

(If you run your cursor over the image on the Google home page, the image is magnified, and there is also a little animation.)

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_fair):

World's Fair, World Fair, Universal Exposition, and World Expo (expo short for "exposition"), are names given to various large public exhibitions held in different parts of the world. The first Expo was held in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom, in 1851 under the title "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations". "The Great Exhibition", as it is often called, was an idea of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's husband, and was the first international exhibition of manufactured products. As such, it influenced the development of several aspects of society including art and design education, international trade and relations, and even tourism.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on May 01, 2011, 02:20:34 pm
We have a different one today:


Labour Day


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/18619415.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 02, 2011, 03:35:43 am
Another day, another doodle ...

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/canadaelections11-hp.png)
Canadian federal election day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on May 08, 2011, 05:00:34 am


Happy Mother's Day!

(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/028fb576.jpg)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 09, 2011, 12:26:39 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-12.png)

The 76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves

From Newstabulous.com (http://newstabulous.com/76th-birthday-of-roger-hargreaves-celebrated-via-google-doodle/11964/):

If you visit today’s homepage of Google, you will be struck with another image of a Google Doodle.

Apparently, today is the 76th birthday of Roger Hargreaves, an English author and illustrator of children’s books, notably the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for very young readers.

You may have not noticed it but today’s Google Doodle does not only contain one image but 16 images, all featuring the works of Roger Hargreaves. Some of Robert Hargreaves’ characters featured in today’s Google Doodles are Mr. Forgetful, Mr. Happy, Mr. Bump, Mr. Messy, Mr. Slow, Little Miss Magic, Little Miss Shy and Little Miss Tidy.

There’s a different image every time you go to Google.

Since he was a child, Robert Hargreaves’ ambition was to be a cartoonist. In 1971, while he was working as the creative director at a London firm, Hargreaves wrote the first Mr. Men book, Mr. Tickle.

He initially had difficulty finding a publisher; but, once he did, the books became an instant success, selling over one million copies within three years. In 1975, it spawned a BBC animated television series called Mr. Men Show, Mr. Tickle being voiced by Arthur Lowe.

The first of the Mr. Men characters is said have been created when his son Adam Hargreaves asked him what a tickle looked like. Robert Hargreaves then drew a figure with a round orange body and long, rubbery arms. Mr Tickle had been born!

Robert Hargreaves’s stories have been adapted into four animated television series, most recently airing in the UK on Channel 5 in 2008 and 2009. A total of 46 Mr. Men and 33 Little Miss characters were created.

Happy 76th birthday, Roger Hargreaves! Thanks for all your contribution in the world of art for children!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 09, 2011, 12:39:25 am
More googles than you can count, today ...

#1(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-1.jpg)
#2(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-2.jpg)
#3(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-3.jpg)
#4(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-4.jpg)
#5(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-5.jpg)
#6(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-6.jpg)
#7(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-7.jpg)
#8(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-8.jpg)
#9(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-9.jpg)
#10(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-10.jpg)
#11(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-11.jpg)
#12(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-12.jpg)
#13(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-13.jpg)that's me, Mr Messy
#14(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-14.jpg)
#15(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-15.jpg)
#16(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-16.jpg)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 09, 2011, 12:43:59 am
Hey, Roland, you're way faster than me at doing this.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 09, 2011, 12:51:03 am
I cheated!!  ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on May 09, 2011, 12:53:44 am
 :laugh: When Fran said there are 16 different ones, I thought, oh great, let's see if we can catch them all over the day, between the few of us.
And bang, there they were, posted by Roland. :)


I cheated!!  ;D


How?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 09, 2011, 12:59:28 am
How?

Just posted two and noted the difference

google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-11 .jpg

the last two numbers (11) is the number of the image. I just changed them to 1 or 2 or 3 ...
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on May 09, 2011, 01:03:12 am
Just posted two and noted the difference

google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-11 .jpg

the last two numbers (11) is the number of the image. I just changed them to 1 or 2 or 3 ...


Tricky you! 8)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 09, 2011, 10:34:05 am
I loved reading these little books to my girls! 

I particularly liked the Mr. Lazy book.  Here's an excerpt:

Mr. Lazy lives in Sleepyland, which is a very lazy-
looking and sleepylike place.

The birds in Sleepyland fly so slowly they sometimes
fall out of the sky.

The grass takes so long to grow that it only needs
cutting once a year.

Even the trees are lazylooking and sleepylike.

And do you know what time everybody gets up in
Sleepyland?

The answer is, they don't get up in the morning.

They get up in the afternoon!


:)

And in case anyone is wondering who's who in the Doodles, I think:

#1 features Little Miss Chatterbox
#2 features Little Miss Curious
#3 features Little Miss Magic
#4 features Little Miss Naughty, who stole the hat of Mr. Uppity
#5 features Little Miss Shy
#6 features Little Miss Sunshine
#7 features Little Miss Tiny
#8 features Mr. Bump
#9 features Mr. Dizzy
#10 features Mr. Forgetful, who apparently left the "e" in Google outside
#11 features Mr. Funny
#12 features Mr. Bounce
#13 features Roland Mr. Messy   ;D
#14 features Mr. Rush
#15 features Mr. Slow
#16 features Mr. Tickle

Thanks, Roland, for posting the series.

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 11, 2011, 12:23:44 am
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-1YO1GGxU[/youtube]

Martha Graham's 117th Birthday

From Wikipedia:

Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American dancer choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.  Graham was a galvanizing performer, a choreographer of astounding moves. She invented a new language of movement and used it to reveal the passion, the rage, and the ecstasy common to human experience. She danced and choreographed for over seventy years and during that time was the first dancer ever to perform at the White House, the first dancer ever to travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and the first dancer ever to receive the highest civilian award of the USA: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on May 11, 2011, 09:45:41 am
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-1YO1GGxU[/youtube]

Martha Graham's 117th Birthday

Love it!  8)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on May 11, 2011, 05:49:41 pm
More googles than you can count, today ...

#1(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-1.jpg)
#2(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-2.jpg)
#3(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-3.jpg)
#4(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-4.jpg)
#5(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-5.jpg)
#6(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-6.jpg)
#7(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-7.jpg)
#8(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-8.jpg)
#9(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-9.jpg)
#10(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-10.jpg)
#11(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-11.jpg)
#12(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-12.jpg)
#13(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-13.jpg)that's me, Mr Messy
#14(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-14.jpg)
#15(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-15.jpg)
#16(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/hargreaves11-hp-16.jpg)

cool!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on May 11, 2011, 05:51:34 pm
At my computer at work the animation didnt work - I did wonder why it was one wee figure on the right hand side.. now I know!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-1YO1GGxU[/youtube]

Martha Graham's 117th Birthday

From Wikipedia:

Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American dancer choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.  Graham was a galvanizing performer, a choreographer of astounding moves. She invented a new language of movement and used it to reveal the passion, the rage, and the ecstasy common to human experience. She danced and choreographed for over seventy years and during that time was the first dancer ever to perform at the White House, the first dancer ever to travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and the first dancer ever to receive the highest civilian award of the USA: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on May 20, 2011, 01:00:59 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/d62f3be9.png)


160th birthday of Emil Berliner, inventor of the gramophone.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 20, 2011, 10:34:08 am
Here in the U.S. we have:

(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture1-5.png)

From Digital Life (http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/05/20/6676677-doodle-4-google-winner-matteo-lopez-7):

Doodle 4 Google winner: Matteo Lopez, 7

"Space Life," winner of this year's Doodle 4 Google competition, by 7-year-old Matteo Lopez

By Athima Chansanchai

This year’s Doodle 4 Google competition is at an end, and after 5 million votes and 107,000 submissions, seven-year-old Matteo Lopez of South San Francisco, Calif. emerged as the national winner with “Space Life.” The Monte Verde Elementary School second-grader, whose inspiration is astronaut Neil Armstrong, told TODAY that his dream is to "meet other people in different planets and go to other planets I haven't been to ... I've only been to Earth."

For his drawing, which will be featured on the search engine's U.S. homepage all day today, he receives a $15,000 college scholarship, a netbook computer and a $25,000 technology grant for his school.

Matteo shows the unabashed pride he has in his own hard work: "I drew with color pencils and drew it for 3 weeks and threw out lots of paper until I got it perfect." While he liked other entries, he told TODAY, "I like mine the best."

In this fourth annual version of this contest, which began January 19, kids sent entries from all over the country with their hand-drawn renderings of the Google logo. This year's theme is "What I'd Like To Do Someday," which prompted Matteo's imagination about the world beyond ours.

Matteo beat out kids more than twice his age, as submissions ran from grades K-12, who swamped the competition with three times as many entries as Google received last year.

A panel of celebrity judges — which this year included Whoopi Goldberg, Olympic ice skating gold medalist Evan Lysacek (who was not the only Olympian judge, with swimmer Michael Phelps also in the mix) and beloved children's author Beverly Cleary — narrowed the entries down to 400 State Finalists in four grade appropriate groups of 100 (K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12), who are then narrowed down to 40 Regional Winners. They judged based on the following criteria:

        * Artistic merit: based on grade group and artistic skill
        * Creativity: based on the representation of the theme and use of the Google logo
        * Theme communication: how well the theme is expressed
        * Appropriateness of the supporting statement

Each Regional Winner received a visit from a Google employee to their school, and were also flown to New York for yesterday's announcement of the national winner. It was Matteo's first time in the Big Apple, and he enjoyed going to the M&M store and Times Square.

Matteo's work joins the gallery of Google doodles that regularly toss a little variety in the simple logo that has become such a part of our daily lives. Recently, Google doodles have riffed on American dance icon Martha Graham, illustrator/author Roger Hargreaves and author Agatha Christie. Kids no doubt were able to draw at least some inspiration for the contest from these past logos.

The doodle team has created over 300 doodles for Google.com in the U.S., while the world has seen more than 700 designs.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on May 20, 2011, 12:15:34 pm
Wow!

That's incredibly well done by a 7 year old!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 05, 2011, 10:41:06 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture2-2.png)

Richard Scarry's 92nd Birthday

From Nicholas Jackson at The Atlantic (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/richard-scarrys-busytown-gets-the-google-doodle-treatment/239930/):

Richard Scarry's 'Busytown' Gets the Google Doodle Treatment

This morning, Google switched its homepage logo over to one of a fantastical cityscape featuring mice riding motorcycles and other anthropomorphic animals peaking out from windows and managing the rescue of a second-floor cat from a burning house.

The design is meant to celebrate the 92nd birthday of famed children's book illustrator and author, Richard Scarry. Scarry passed away in Switzerland at the age of 74, but his work continues to live on in the hearts of children as their bookshelves often include at least a few volumes of the more than 300 that Scarry helped to create. As a child, I often watched The Busy World of Richard Scarry, an animated series that aired on Nickelodeon until 2000, long after I outgrew it.

"Scarry's first book, Two Little Miners (1949), was published in the Little Golden Books series; decades later, he would make a key move to Random House," the Washington Post notes. "His breakthrough book commercially was 1963's Best Word Book Ever, which labeled roughly 1,400 pictures." A 1989 list assembled by Publishers Weekly of the 50 bestselling hardcover books of all time included Scarry as the creator of eight, according to Brian Gillie.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 09, 2011, 05:11:50 am
today's google is interactive
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgzL2E_4POE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Happy birthday LES PAUL,

the inventor of the Les Paul Guitar, pioneer in muti-track recording and a recording star both as a solo artist and with Mary Ford in the 40's and 50's
He also recorded the #1 hit It's been a long long time with Bing Crosby (1945) and the #4 hit Rumours are flying with the Andrews Sisters (1946).

Had he not dies 2 years ago, he would have been 96 years old today.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on June 09, 2011, 07:20:44 am
today's google is interactive
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgzL2E_4POE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Happy birthday LES PAUL,

the inventor of the Les Paul Guitar, pioneer in muti-track recording and a recording star both as a solo artist and with Mary Ford in the 40's and 50's
He also recorded the #1 hit It's been a long long time with Bing Crosby (1945) and the #4 hit Rumours are flying with the Andrews Sisters (1946).

Had he not dies 2 years ago, he would have been 96 years old today.


Check it out on Google, friends, before it's gone. It's so much fun (or maybe I just have too much time on my hands :laugh:).
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 09, 2011, 08:57:47 pm
Now that's cool.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 17, 2011, 12:13:12 am
Here's one depicting yesterday's total lunar eclipse:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMLYLgwnfCU[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 19, 2011, 10:26:55 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/fathersday11-hp.jpg)
Happy Father's Day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on June 19, 2011, 12:45:36 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/fathersday11-hp.jpg)
Happy Father's Day


We had the same 1.5 weeks ago at Father's Day.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 21, 2011, 01:19:22 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture5-8.png)

Summer Solstice 2011
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on July 04, 2011, 01:45:50 pm


(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Catchall/Googlefourth_of_july11.jpg)

I don't get the one with the eagle.  Is that a guitar and a grapefruit?  ???
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on July 04, 2011, 02:37:37 pm
I don't get the one with the eagle.  Is that a guitar and a grapefruit?  ???

I'm not certain, but this is my guess.

If you look at "Google" as the United States, the "G" is the West Coast and California, hence the Golden Gate Bridge.  The "L" is the statue of Liberty in NYC.  The lower-case "g" would be the restof the East Coast, with the bottom of the 'g' representing Florida, where we get our oranges.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on July 04, 2011, 02:40:35 pm
And there's a rainbow!  ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on July 04, 2011, 03:11:50 pm
I'm not certain, but this is my guess.

If you look at "Google" as the United States, the "G" is the West Coast and California, hence the Golden Gate Bridge.  The "L" is the statue of Liberty in NYC.  The lower-case "g" would be the restof the East Coast, with the bottom of the 'g' representing Florida, where we get our oranges.

You're a real thinker there, Chuck.  Maybe the guitar is for Nashville.  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 12, 2011, 12:40:30 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/stbasilscathedral11-hp.jpg)
450th anniversary of St. Basil's
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 20, 2011, 05:14:43 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/gregormendel11-hp.jpg)
Gregor Mendel's 189 birthday
(the father of genetics)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on July 20, 2011, 06:22:55 pm
Such pleasing peas!  ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 22, 2011, 10:03:20 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/calder11.png)
Alexander Calder's 113th birthday
(apparently, the first of many)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on July 23, 2011, 06:12:35 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/calder11.png)
Alexander Calder's 113th birthday
(apparently, the first of many)

he had more than one birthday??? This one is pretty I like it!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 23, 2011, 08:02:43 am
he had more than one birthday??? This one is pretty I like it!

hardy har har!

No, silly. They were saying that there would be more images to follow, but instead, there is currently nothing showing - just the boring regular google image.

Also, strangely enough, that image appeared only for a few hours yesterday evening.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on July 23, 2011, 09:14:45 am
hardy har har!

No, silly. They were saying that there would be more images to follow, but instead, there is currently nothing showing - just the boring regular google image.

Also, strangely enough, that image appeared only for a few hours yesterday evening.

Heh no I was honestly confused! Yes, I only saw this one yesterday too.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on August 06, 2011, 11:32:27 am
Google celebrates what would have been Lucille Ball's 100th birthday:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oE1PrQP09E[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on August 06, 2011, 12:40:56 pm
Wonderful Lucy!  Happy Birthday!  8)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on August 06, 2011, 12:48:09 pm
Thanks to my fellow Google doodlers, who share the doodles I can't see in this (*#~*grmpf##!*) country. :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on August 06, 2011, 04:55:09 pm
fantastic google doodle today.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 17, 2011, 04:46:09 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/pierre_de_fermat-2011-hp.jpg)
410th anniversary of the birth of Pierre de Ferma

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/8706390/Pierre-de-Fermats-birthday-celebrated-in-Google-Doodle.html

...

Pierre de Fermat, was born on 17 August 1601, 410 years ago. A lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse and a gifted amateur mathematician, he made breakthroughs in several fields of calculus, probability, geometry and number theory, but is best known for a brief note he made in the margin of a book of arithmetic.

His enigmatic aside set the scene for perhaps the greatest mathematical mystery of all time.

It had been known for centuries that it is possible to find numbers a, b and c in which: a2+ b2 = c2. That is, some "square" numbers - the product of a number multiplied by itself - added to certain other squares, created a third square. Examples of these so-called "Pythagorean triples" include 32+ 42 = 52, or 9+16 =25. Another example is 52+ 122 = 132.

However, it had been the subject of argument whether that held true for any other power: or, as mathematicians would put it, whether there was any whole number n for which an + bn = cn. Many believed it was not, but no-one could prove it mathematically.



Around 1637, Fermat wrote of this problem, in the margin of Arithmetica by the Greek mathematician Diophantus: "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain." However, he never wrote out what that proof was, despite living for another 30 years. This led many people to believe that he had never, in fact, proved it.

In 1993, more than 300 years after Fermat's death, Andrew Wiles, a professor of mathematics at Oxford University who had been obsessed with the 'Last Theorem' since he was 10 years old, put forward a proof of the conjecture. However, it was shown to be incomplete. It was not until 1995 that he finally managed to finalise the proof, and show that as Fermat said, an + bn = cn was only true when n=2. Far from being a simple proof, his paper was more than 100 pages long: certainly too long for a margin.

The story of Fermat's Last Theorem, the centuries spent trying to find a proof and Professor - now Sir - Andrew Wiles's final victory, is recounted in a book by Simon Singh, a physicist and author also famous for his battle to change the libel laws after he was sued for calling pseudoscientific medical treatments "bogus".

Previous 'geeky' Google Doodles have celebrated Gregor Mendel, recognised as the founder of genetic theory, Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and the 25th anniversary of the discovery of buckminster-fullerene or Buckyballs, a strange and useful carbon molecule.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 24, 2011, 04:31:06 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/jorge_luis_borges-2011-hp.jpg)
112th anniversary of Jorge Luis Borges
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on August 24, 2011, 05:10:30 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/jorge_luis_borges-2011-hp.jpg)
112th anniversary of Jorge Luis Borges

Had to google him! Cool pic!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on September 05, 2011, 05:36:33 am
(http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01988/Google_1988248c.jpg)
Freddie Mercury (front man of the band Queen) would have been 65 today

The Google, when clicked on, is a mini video.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on September 05, 2011, 10:27:37 am
In the US, we get a tiny flag for Labor Day.  To get the Queen doodle, you have to use google.ca.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 05, 2011, 11:28:04 am
To get the Queen doodle, you have to use google.ca.

Here you go:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0gIFxYhrk[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 16, 2011, 12:25:47 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture1-6.png)

Albert Szent-Györgyi's 118th Birthday

From IBN Live (http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-does-a-vitamin-crich-doodle-for-albert-szentgyorgyi-118th-birthday/184538-11.html):

New Delhi: A pair of oranges find a place of pride on the Google home page in commemoration of the 118th birthday of Albert Szent-Györgyi. The Hungarian physiologist credited with discovering vitamin C and also the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle was honoured with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.

Born in Budapest, Austro-Hungary on September 16, 1893, Szent-Györgyi's family included three generations of scientists. Prior to the First World War Szent-Györgyi studied at the Semmelweis University, but showed more interest in his uncle's anatomy lab. During the war he served as an army medic but managed to take leave from military service on medical grounds. On his return from the war, Szent-Györgyi finished his medical degree.

During his research career Szent-Györgyi worked in a number of universities. He was awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1937 for "For his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion process with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid"

With communism taking control of Hungary after the Second World War, Szent-Györgyi emigrated to the United States in 1947. He died in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on October 22, 1986.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on September 16, 2011, 12:36:51 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture1-6.png)

Albert Szent-Györgyi's 118th Birthday



I had another Hunh? moment with today's Google doodle. Looks like the logo of a fruit company to me. :laugh:
I like how they make me look up stuff. :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on September 16, 2011, 06:06:10 am


I had another Hunh? moment with today's Google doodle. Looks like the logo of a fruit company to me. :laugh:
I like how they make me look up stuff. :)

I thought it looked like a retro fuit company logo too!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 23, 2011, 11:22:11 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture1-7.png)

From PCMag.com (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393517,00.asp#fbid=Wj2z0bS3vTV):

Google Doodle Honors 75th Birthday of Muppets Creator Jim Henson

By Chloe Albanesius
September 23, 2011 08:11pm EST

Google is celebrating the 75th birthday of Muppets creator Jim Henson with an interactive homepage doodle that turns the average Web user into a puppeteer.

"Become a digital puppeteer today and tomorrow with our homepage tribute to Jim Henson!" Google tweeted.

Henson's birthday is on Saturday, September 24, but Google got the party started early Friday night. The doodle features six original characters crafted by the Jim Henson Digital Puppetry Studio and brought to life on the Web by Google engineers. Each colorful creature sits atop a small button; press it and the character will follow your mouse's movements. Clicking on the character, meanwhile, will make it "talk."

"It's so fitting since Jim was such a prolific doodler," Mel Horan, art director at the Jim Henson Company, said in a video (below) about the doodle project. "His creative process began with a single doodle and evolved into these amazing characters he brought to life. We tried to capture that and merge it with Google's logo."

The characters were designed at the Henson Company and modeled into a digital puppet in Jim Henson's Creature Shop before being handed over to Google.
Jim Henson doodle

"There are also special animations to discover as you play with the doodle," teased Kris Hom, a software engineer at Google.

Henson's son Brian wrote a guest post for the Google blog, in which he remembered his father as "one of those rare parents who was always ready to play again."

"Although he loved family, his work was almost never about 'traditional' families," Brian continued. "The Muppets were a family—a very diverse one. One of his life philosophies was that we should love people not for their similarities, but for their differences."

Jim Henson "loved gadgets and technology," Brian wrote, and his company "continues to develop cutting-edge technology for animatronics and digital animation, like this cool Google doodle celebrating Jim's 75th birthday. But I think even he would have found it hilarious the way today some people feel that when they've got their smartphone, they no longer need their brain."

Tomorrow, meanwhile, YouTube will launch The Jim Henson Company's featured playlist, which includes a retrospective of Jim's performing career and rare behind the scenes clips. It will be introduced by puppets Bobby Vegan and Samson Knight, voiced Bill Barretta and Brian Henson, respectively.

From Sam and Friends to The Muppet Show


Henson was born in Mississippi in 1936 and later relocated to the Washington, DC area, where he got his start in 1954 performing puppets on a Saturday morning TV show. The following year, while studying at the University of Maryland, Henson earned his own own five-minute, twice daily TV show on a local NBC affiliate, Sam and Friends. The show, which Henson produced with his future wife Jane Nebel, featured an early version of Kermit the Frog.

Henson's first nationally known character, according to his company, was Rowlf the Dog, who was a regular on The Jimmy Dean Show in the early 60s. When public TV producer Joan Ganz Cooney was developing Sesame Street several years later, she asked Henson to create a cast of characters for the show, which resulted in such iconic creatures as Bert and Ernie, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Grover, and Cookie Monster.

It was not until 1975, however, that Henson's Muppets got a show of their own, and the world was introduced to Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, Gonzo, Scooter, Lew Zealand, and Rizzo the Rat. The show attracted a slew of celebrity stars, and produced a number of feature films, the next installment of which is scheduled to be released later this year.

Henson also brought his creations to the big screen with The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. The staff who worked on those movies were the beginnings of the Henson Creature Shop. He did not leave TV behind, though, also working on Fraggle Rock, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, Jim Henson's The Storyteller, and Jim Henson's Greek Myths.

Henson died in 1990 in New York City after a brief illness.

"Jim was clearly a great visionary. But he also wanted everyone around him fully committed creatively. If you asked him how a movie would turn out, he'd say, 'It'll be what this group can make, and if you changed any one of them, it would be a different movie,'" his son Brian wrote. "Every day for him was joyously filled with the surprises of other people's ideas. I often think that if we all lived like that, not only would life be more interesting, we'd all be a lot happier."
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 23, 2011, 11:37:55 pm
It's fun:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qtFeF6o82o[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on September 26, 2011, 03:37:10 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture1-7.png)

From PCMag.com (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393517,00.asp#fbid=Wj2z0bS3vTV):

Google Doodle Honors 75th Birthday of Muppets Creator Jim Henson

Henson's birthday is on Saturday, September 24, but Google got the party started early Friday night. The doodle features six original characters crafted by the Jim Henson Digital Puppetry Studio and brought to life on the Web by Google engineers. Each colorful creature sits atop a small button; press it and the character will follow your mouse's movements. Clicking on the character, meanwhile, will make it "talk."


 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

OMG, I'm laughing out loud in my cube now.

I'm just realizing that they're "puppets" and don't talk unless you provide the voice.  I sat at my computer at home for 30 minutes the day this appeared, trying to figure out why there was no noise and playing with the volume on my speakers.

It wasn't until I just read the "talk" in quotes in the bolded part above did I get it!!!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on September 27, 2011, 12:28:52 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture3-12.png)

Google's 13th Birthday!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on September 27, 2011, 01:19:24 am

It wasn't until I just read the "talk" in quotes in the bolded part above did I get it!!!!


Me neither. ::)
I also fiddled with volume, even tried another computer, lol.
I only heard the sounds in the vid Fran posted, so thanks Fran!

What I did see though, was how the red monster to the right ate up Beeker (name?) next to him, which wasn't in the video.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on October 03, 2011, 06:32:49 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/Sonstige/4dc41a98.jpg)
German Unity Day

Our national holiday is today, and we enjoy a long weekend.
The band consists of the flags of the 16 federal countries.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 03, 2011, 07:11:48 am

(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/Sonstige/4dc41a98.jpg)
German Unity Day

Our national holiday is today, and we enjoy a long weekend.
The band consists of the flags of the 16 federal countries.
Happy Gemany Day (Can we Say that?)

!6 federal countries? You mean withing Germany the united 'states' are called countries?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on October 03, 2011, 07:22:53 am
Happy Gemany Day (Can we Say that?)

I know what you mean with it, so of course you can say it. Thank you! But we don't say it. We really say the long form Tag der deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity).



Quote
!6 federal countries? You mean withing Germany the united 'states' are called countries?

Yes. Bundesländer is the word (in plural)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 12, 2011, 04:27:53 am
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJNKSUpywNc[/youtube]
Art Clokey's 90th anniversary

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/gumby-and-friends-pay-tribute-to-art-clokey-in-interactive-google-doodle/192195-11.html

A set of five Google-coloured clay balls spring to life on Google's home page as a tribute to Arthur 'Art' Clokey, a pioneer in the art of stop motion clay animation.

October 12 is Art Clokey's 90th birth anniversary. Born on October 12, 1921 Clokey's birth name was Arthur C Farrington. After his parents divorced and his mother remarried, his step-father sent him to an orphanage. He was later adopted by Joseph W Clokey, a musician who introduced him to the world of arts.

After graduating from University of Southern California, Clokey experimented with short clay animation films including the three minute short Gumbasia (1953), that featured his most famous character Gumby. The interest generated by his short films led to the The Gumby Show.

In 1995 Clokey, along with Dallas McKennon, released a feature film Gumby: The Movie, but it could not match the success of the TV series. Art Clokey died at the age of 88 on January 8, 2010.

Wednesday's Google Doodle features some of Art Clokey's most famous characters including Gumby (the original clayboy), Pokey (Gumby's best friend and sidekick), the Blockheads ('J' and 'G' - the mischievous troublemakers), Tara (Gumby's girlfriend) and Prickle (Gumby's good friend).
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on October 12, 2011, 06:39:01 am
I like today's!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 21, 2011, 05:24:04 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/mary_blair-2011-hp.jpg)
Mary Blair's 100th anniversary
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 31, 2011, 12:07:27 am
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPAa7BqgSbw[/youtube]

Happy Halloween 2011!

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 07, 2011, 01:29:36 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/curie11-hp.jpg)
Marie Curie's 144th birthday

note: I thought it too small so I enlarged the image. the sheriff

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/07/marie-curie-birth-google-doodle?newsfeed=true

The birth of Nobel prize-winning scientist Marie Curie has being marked by Google with a picture of her at her work bench on the search engine's home page. The Polish-born physicist and chemist is renowned for her pioneering work on radioactivity and for her important contribution to the fight against cancer.

Curie was born in Warsaw on 7 November 1867, but moved to Paris in 1891 to pursue her studies in mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne. Working alongside her husband Pierre, she is credited with discovering polonium and radium, the former named after the country of her birth. The couple were awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 1903, jointly with Henri Becquerel, the discoverer of radioactivity.

Curie also promoted the use of radium for therapeutic purposes. During the first world war she helped develop small, mobile X-ray units that could be used to diagnose injuries close to the battlefront. As director of the Red Cross radiological service, she toured Paris gathering money, supplies and vehicles. In October 1914 she set off to the front. She worked there with her daughter Irene, then aged 17, at casualty clearing stations, X-raying wounded soldiers to locate fractures, bullets and shrapnel. She also held training courses in the new techniques for medical orderlies and doctors.

Curie went on to receive a second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry, in 1911.

Curie was a victim of the element she used to help others, dying on 4 July 1934 of pernicious anaemia, developed through years of exposure to radiation. She was the first woman to be interred in the Pantheon in Paris for her own achievements, and was arguably the first woman to make such a significant contribution to science.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Front-Ranger on November 07, 2011, 10:01:50 am
Great doodle, sheriff! An article (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395956,00.asp) appearing today in PC Magazine tells about the doodle as well as Google's history of doodles, including a slide show. Did you know they've applied for a patent on it?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 18, 2011, 05:03:01 am
Weird doodle today ...

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/Louis_Daguerre-2011-hp.jpg)
Louis Daguerre's 224th birthday

The search engine's home page honours the French physicist, who developed the process for transferring photographs onto silver-coated copper plates.

His discovery was made by an accident, according to the writer Robert Leggat, who said Daguerre put an exposed plate in a chemical cupboard in 1835 only to later find it had developed a latent image.

The daguerreotype process was unveiled at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1839.

It became the first commercially successful way of getting permanent images from a camera.

The Google doodle, marking Daguerre's birthday on November 18 1787, features a traditional image of an early family photograph with the heads of the figures in the image replaced with the letters that spell out Google.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on November 18, 2011, 06:22:33 am
I quite like todays!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 23, 2011, 10:51:06 am
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXOsL64ztVk[/youtube]

Love the interactive ones!!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 23, 2011, 10:58:43 am
:)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp64_m6Ofpo&feature=related[/youtube]

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 23, 2011, 11:02:40 am
Here's the pirate!

[youtube=425,350]
&NR=1[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on November 23, 2011, 12:24:13 pm

Since we don't have Thanksgiving, we have a different doodle.
In honor of Stanislav Lem:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Oxn3Qm2pw[/youtube]

Interactive, three levels to play.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on November 23, 2011, 12:59:28 pm
Since we don't have Thanksgiving, we have a different doodle.
In honor of Stanislav Lem:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Oxn3Qm2pw[/youtube]

Interactive, three levels to play.
Wow, that's an amazing doodle!

And I LOVE the music!

Found the doodle on German Google, but I have no patience with that sort of computer games.  ;D
My computer game skills and patience are on level Tetris.  ::) :laugh:
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 30, 2011, 03:54:11 am
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/11/30/1322614205579/Mark-Twain-Google-Doodle-007.jpg)
Mark Twain's 176th anniversary
in three images, this being the middle one

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/30/google-marks-mark-twain-birthday?newsfeed=true

Google celebrates Mark Twain's 176th birthday today with its latest doodle, which depicts a famous scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

The full-width illustration greeting web users logging on to the search engine portrays an episode in the novel in which the protagonist is made to whitewash a fence. Resembling a drawing from a children's story book, the picture appears to show Tom and his friend Ben at various stages of the paintwork job, with the 'e' and half the 'l' of "Google" subjected to their brush.

Although the writer's 176th birthday may seem a somewhat arbitrary milestone to mark, he remains a towering figure in American literature whose works enjoy an enduring popularity today.

Born on 30 November 1835 in the town of Florida, Missouri, Twain penned Tom Sawyer in 1876 and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in 1885. The two novels are his most famous works and count among America's best-loved tales.

The scene from Tom Sawyer chosen by Google to celebrate the anniversary of his creator's birth sees Tom painting the fence as punishment by Aunt Polly for dirtying his clothes in a fight with a boy from St Louis
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 08, 2011, 06:50:20 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/Diego_Rivera-2011-hp.jpg)
Diego Rivera's 125th's Birthday commemoration
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 12, 2011, 01:12:13 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture6-13.png)

From The Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/dec/12/google-doodle-robert-noyce-birthday?newsfeed=true):

Google doodle celebrates Robert Noyce

Google home page pays tribute to microchip co-creator and early
pioneer of digital revolution on his 84th birth anniversary

By Jasmine Coleman

The co-creator of the microchip and driving force behind Silicon Valley, Robert Noyce, has become the latest famous figure to be honoured by Google.

The search engine's Doodle design celebrates what would have been Noyce's 84th birthday with a stylised electronic chip on its home page.

The entrepreneur is credited along with Jack Kilby with the invention of the integrated circuit, which sparked far-reaching digital developments and gave the high-tech Californian region its name: Silicon Valley.

Noyce co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. So it seems fitting that he should get a birthday tribute from one of Silicon Valley's most powerful technology companies.

Noyce died in 1990 in Austin, Texas, aged 60. His family set up the Noyce Foundation, which works to improve the teaching of maths, science and literacy in US schools.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 31, 2011, 05:18:37 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2011/newyearseve-2011-hp.jpg)
Happy 2012
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on January 11, 2012, 10:51:24 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/steno12-hp.jpg)
Nicolas Steno's 374th anniversary

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/9006549/Nicolas-Steno-remembered-with-a-Google-doodle.html

Steno was a Danish anatomist and geologist famous for his "principle of original horizontality", the theory that layers of rock are formed horizontally.

He also devised the "law of superposition", the basic idea that the oldest layers of the earth are at the bottom unless they have been disturbed.

His work on geological layers meant he was also seen as a pioneer of stratigraphy, the study of strata or layers.

Steno's research on fossils included his exploration of how solid objects could be found inside one another, which was published in his 1669 dissertation Prodromus.

He died in 1686 aged 48.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on January 28, 2012, 04:57:05 am
(http://img1.colinmcdermott.co.uk/world-record-snowflake-google-doodle.jpg)
125th anniversary of the largest snowflake

minor animation; as the large snowflake falls, the cow raises it's head and a couple of birds fly off the 'e' Also, the 'ground' shakes when the snowflake lands.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on February 07, 2012, 01:26:01 am



(https://www.google.com/logos/2012/dickens-2012-HP.jpg)


Charles John Huffam Dickens
7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Dickens_Gurney_head.jpg/220px-Dickens_Gurney_head.jpg)


Title: Re: Google Doodles - Valentine's Day
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 14, 2012, 05:09:16 am
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qXcSw0YHjo[/youtube]
Happy Valentine's Day
(includes a boy/boy image at the 1:08 minute mark and a girl/girl image moments later)

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/shownews.aspx?id=GADEN20120194428&Sec=NEWS&nid=176143

This year's Valentine's Day Google Doodle is very different from the straightforward one that Google usually puts up. Last year, Google put an artwork doodle - inspired by a work of art 'LOVE' by American artist Robert Indiana.

This time, it's a music video doodle in the form of a short animated love story of a boy trying to capture a girl's heart - the music set to Tony Bennett's rendition of Hank Williams' classic song 'Cold, Cold Heart'.

The default image is of a boy holding up a Valentine, with the Google logo in the background - clicking the 'play' icon on the Valentine, plays the video.

With brazen bravado the boy initially sees no flaw in his plan. He attempts to gain her love through every possible present! Furiously Googling away to glory he finds gifts to woo her with - roses, a dinosaur sweater, a teddy bear, a scuba helmet, balloons, a rabbit but alas, to no avail! She is not impressed. Finally, with a big sigh... the boy realizes that showering her with gifts isn't going to work at all. He takes up his own skipping rope, and as Google gives us all a lesson in what true love really means, he begins skipping alongside her.

She doesn't want fancy dinosaur sweaters! She wants a man to stand beside her. And jump rope. It's quite cute that Google seems to deign to the fact that one can't Google one's way into others hearts; that love cannot be bought - one needs just, to be genuine.
Title: Re: Google Doodles - Valentine's Day
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 14, 2012, 05:31:30 am
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/doodletiles.jpg.png?uuid=MJjHilbEEeGPtOF24ncgtg)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on February 14, 2012, 04:24:41 pm
cute!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on February 22, 2012, 07:35:33 am



(http://www.google.com/logos/2012/hertz-2011-hp.gif)
(http://www.google.com/logos/2012/hertz-2011-hp.gif)
(http://www.google.com/logos/2012/hertz-2011-hp.gif)

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's 155th Birthday!




http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/22/heinrich-rudolf-hertz-google-doodle?newsfeed=true

(http://static.guim.co.uk/static/5e8a33fc00d9d9e6d2e5ca71dd905bae18283811/common/images/logos/the-guardian/news.gif)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz celebrated
in a Google doodle

German physicist, whose experiments led to the wireless
telegraph and the radio, has his 155th birthday marked


(http://3d-car-shows.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Heinrich_Rudolf_Hertz-300x225.jpg)

Google's latest animated doodle celebrates the 155th birthday of Heinrich Hertz, the German physicist whose experiments with electromagnetic waves led to the development of the wireless telegraph and the radio.

Born in Hamburg, where he demonstrated great skill in grasping the dynamics of physics even in boyhood, he later enrolled to study the subject in Berlin following a year at the University of Munich.

In Berlin, his progress in investigating electromagnetic phenomena was so rapid that in February 1880 he received his PhD – on electromagnetic induction in rotating spheres – at the age of 22.

After becoming a professor at Karlsruhe Technische Hochschule in 1885, Hertz turned his attentions to open electrical circuits and demonstrated electromagnetic induction to his students using a condenser discharging through an open loop.

In the course of doing this, he noticed an unanticipated phenomenon, the emergence of 'side-sparks' in another nearby loop. By 1888, he was able to demonstrate that the electromagnetic emissions associated with these sparks behaved like waves.

The finding, which effectively clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by the British physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1884, was hailed as confirmation that electromagnetic waves could be transmitted and received.

Hertz's name later became the term used for radio and electrical frequencies, as in hertz (Hz), kilohertz (kHz) and megahertz (MHz).

He died in Bonn in 1894 (aged 36) after contracting Wegener's granulomatosis, a rare disorder in which blood vessels become inflamed, and was buried in Ohlsdorf, Hamburg.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 29, 2012, 11:49:20 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture10-6.png)

Leap Year
and
The 220th Birthday of Italian Composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini
(29 February 1792 -- 13 November 1868)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 08, 2012, 04:31:26 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/WomensDay-2012-hp.jpg)
International Women's Day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on March 08, 2012, 03:51:42 pm
I like that one.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 14, 2012, 04:40:42 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/yoshizawa12-hp.jpg)
Akira Yoshizawa's 101st birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 17, 2012, 01:44:54 am




(http://www.google.com/logos/2012/stpatricksday11-hp.jpg)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!
(March 17th, 2012)



Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: RouxB on March 17, 2012, 01:55:38 am
the best doodle EVER!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 20, 2012, 04:12:08 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/spring12-hp.jpg)
First Day of Spring
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on March 23, 2012, 10:05:44 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture4-3.png)

Juan Gris's 125th Birthday

From Jonathan Jones at The Guardian:

Juan Gris: why the unsung cubist deserves his Google doodle (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/mar/23/juan-gris-google-doodle-cubist)

Google has done well in its latest Google doodle to pay homage to the least celebrated of the three great masters of cubism.

Juan Gris gets a Google doodle – and the word Google at the top of the famous search engine's welcome page has been written in hard-to-disentangle cubist kaleidoscopes of guitars, violins, eyes and music – because it's the 125th anniversary of his birth on 23 March 1887. But what is so great about Juan Gris that he should get this honour when (some might object) they have never done a Google doodle for Beryl Cook?

Cubism was, and is, the most revolutionary and profoundly beautiful modern art movement. It was discovered – for once, it makes sense to speak of an artistic idea being "discovered" like a scientific truth – by Picasso and Braque before the first world war. Their insight was complex. A painting does not have to show reality from a single point of view, as pictorial artists did from the 1400s to the late 19th century. Our eyes move about all the time, inside our restless bodies. So a cubist painting captures a series of perceptions all in one assaying of an object. Nor does the surface of a painting have to be like a window you look through: the planes of a cubist composition collide with the picture surface and even burst out from it when bits of chair cane and other objects are stuck to the canvas. And why should painting only be about looking? Cubist paintings try to somehow grasp the tactile, tangible reality of everything.

Picasso and Braque had imitators, but only one artist seriously took up their challenge to become a third great cubist painter and that was Gris. Like Picasso he was Spanish but worked in Paris, and his portrait of Picasso pays homage to a contemporary he was happy to see as a leader. Yet his interpretation of cubism is very personal. His paintings are more joyous, entertaining, and overtly ludic than those of the first cubists. He achieves this without reducing the new way of seeing to a sterile decorative style, which is why he is so important. In his 1912 painting Man in the Cafe, the 20th century explodes out of an elegant cafe-goer's smart suit: the fun of the painting is that he is totally recognisable, far more so than the people in Picasso's greatest cubist works, but also manifestly disintegrating and transforming before our eyes.

Juan Gris painted a world in revolution. A very good source for a Google doodle as reality melts with the heat of technological change.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on March 27, 2012, 12:12:41 am



(http://www.google.com/logos/2012/Mies_Van_der_Rohe-2012-hp.jpg)


Ludwig Mies van de Rohe
Architect
March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969
(126th Birthday)



(http://www.designboom.com/portrait/mies/b2.jpg)
mies over model of crown hall
courtesy the illinois institute of technology
 


(http://www.designboom.com/portrait/mies/b4.jpg)


(http://www.designboom.com/portrait/mies/b1.jpg)


http://www.designboom.com/portrait/mies/bg.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on April 09, 2012, 02:21:40 am




(http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/google_doodle_Eadweard_Muybridge.jpg)





http://www.slashgear.com/google-doodle-celebrates-galloping-eadweard-muybridge-08222016/


Google Doodle celebrates
galloping Eadweard Muybridge

By Chris Davies
Apr 8th 2012


Hit up Google’s homepage today and you’ll see the company’s colorful logo devolved into a section of equine squares, commemorating the 182nd birthday of Eadweard J. Muybridge. Responsible for the zoopraxiscope in 1879, Muybridge used the stop-motion projection display to prove that all four of a horses’ hoofs leave the ground while they’re running.

In fact, the doodle itself celebrates one of Muybridge’s best-known projects, known as “Sallie Gardner at a Gallop.” Until that footage, horse experts had believed the animals were completely off the ground when the legs were at full, spread extension.
 
Muybridge wasn’t only interested in how horses moved; the scientist also looked at other animals, including the more lumbering bison. His motion display technology was also used for entertainment, such as stop-motion footage of dancing, with a series of lectures at the Chicago 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition recorded as the first commercial movie theater.
 
His life wasn’t all galloping animals, however. Muybridge was also found guilty of “justifiable homicide” after shooting his wife’s lover in 1874. The scientist died in 1904.


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on April 10, 2012, 07:56:11 pm
I love how they stylized the word "Google"!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 14, 2012, 03:36:34 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/doisneau12-hp.jpg)
Robert Doisneau's 100th anniversary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/14/robert-doisneau-google-doodle?newsfeed=true

His photographs once adorned the walls of student residences everywhere but now on the centenary of his birth, 14 April, Robert Doisneau, the French photographer, is himself the latest subject of Google's homepage, the Google doodle.

Doisneau was born on 14 April 1912 and is best known for the photograph, "The Kiss by the Town Hall" in which in a young couple, oblivious to the bustle around them kiss. The photograph, which has the Paris town hall in the back ground and the tables of a cafe in the foreground, has been reproduced on cards and posters.

It was first published in Life magazine in 1950 and Doisneau allowed people to think that it was not a staged photograph. One couple, believing they were featured kissing in the photograph, sued the photographer. In court, Doisneau revealed that it was another couple who he had seen kissing and then asked them to model for him. He then took them to a series of locations in Paris. The couple who wrongly believed they were in the photograph lost their claim.

Doisneau's speciality was street photos and he avoided fashion or other forms of reportage. He was awarded a series of prizes for his work and he died in 1994.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on April 14, 2012, 07:47:37 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/doisneau12-hp.jpg)
Robert Doisneau's 100th anniversary


You beat me to it. :)

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on April 14, 2012, 09:21:02 am


(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/doisneau12-hp.jpg)
Robert Doisneau's 100th anniversary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/14/robert-doisneau-google-doodle?newsfeed=true

His photographs once adorned the walls of student residences everywhere but now on the centenary of his birth, 14 April, Robert Doisneau, the French photographer, is himself the latest subject of Google's homepage, the Google doodle.

Doisneau was born on 14 April 1912 and is best known for the photograph, "The Kiss by the Town Hall" in which in a young couple, oblivious to the bustle around them kiss. The photograph, which has the Paris town hall in the back ground and the tables of a cafe in the foreground, has been reproduced on cards and posters.

It was first published in Life magazine in 1950 and Doisneau allowed people to think that it was not a staged photograph. One couple, believing they were featured kissing in the photograph, sued the photographer. In court, Doisneau revealed that it was another couple who he had seen kissing and then asked them to model for him. He then took them to a series of locations in Paris. The couple who wrongly believed they were in the photograph lost their claim.

Doisneau's speciality was street photos and he avoided fashion or other forms of reportage. He was awarded a series of prizes for his work and he died in 1994.



Thank you for posting!!





(http://theworldofphotographers.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/doisneau-1.jpg?w=584)



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(http://theworldofphotographers.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/doisneau-6.jpg?w=584)



(http://theworldofphotographers.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/robert-doisneau-5.jpg)



(http://theworldofphotographers.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/8zl7u0v9.jpg?w=584&h=576)



Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on April 15, 2012, 07:00:36 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/c87b1a4b.jpg)

180th birthday of Wilhelm Busch

Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was an influential German caricaturist, painter, and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts.[...]
Max and Moritz as well as many of his other picture stories are regarded as one of the main precursors of the modern comic strip. [...] Busch has become posthumously known in German by the honorary epithet of Großvater der Comics ("Grandfather of Comics").[...]
Many couplets from Busch's humorous verses have achieved the status of adages in the German language, such as "Vater werden ist nicht schwer, Vater sein dagegen sehr" ("It's easy to become a father, but being one is harder rather") or "Dieses war der erste Streich, doch der zweite folgt sogleich" ("This was the first initial trick, but then the second follows quick"). Only Goethe and Schiller are quoted more frequently in German than Busch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Busch



Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on April 21, 2012, 04:08:33 am

(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/70d5677e.jpg)
230th birthday of Friedrich Fröbel


Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (or Froebel] (April 21, 1782 – June 21, 1852)
was a German pedagogue, a student of Pestalozzi who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. He developed the concept of the “kindergarten”, developed the Froebel Gifts educational toys, and also coined the word now used in German and English.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel)


I like that you can read the word Google on second view. Clever.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on April 21, 2012, 05:11:34 am
Oh, I didn't even notice that! Yes, clever.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on April 21, 2012, 08:40:27 am

(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/c87b1a4b.jpg)

180th birthday of Wilhelm Busch

Wilhelm Busch (15 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was an influential German caricaturist, painter, and poet who is famed for his satirical picture stories with rhymed texts.[...]
Max and Moritz as well as many of his other picture stories are regarded as one of the main precursors of the modern comic strip. [...] Busch has become posthumously known in German by the honorary epithet of Großvater der Comics ("Grandfather of Comics").[...]
Many couplets from Busch's humorous verses have achieved the status of adages in the German language, such as "Vater werden ist nicht schwer, Vater sein dagegen sehr" ("It's easy to become a father, but being one is harder rather") or "Dieses war der erste Streich, doch der zweite folgt sogleich" ("This was the first initial trick, but then the second follows quick"). Only Goethe and Schiller are quoted more frequently in German than Busch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Busch


               This rather reminds me of the Katzenjammer Kids   Or the Captain and the kids.  By a German emmigrant Rudolp Dirks..
                       Chrissi..

                                                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Katzenjammer_Kids

          I used to love reading them in the newspaper.




             The style and content seem quite similar.  With maybe a bit of Tin Tin thrown in for good measure...?
           It is so facinating how artists as well as musicians influence each others style.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on April 21, 2012, 10:10:11 am
       This rather reminds me of the Katzenjammer Kids   Or the Captain and the kids.  By a German emmigrant Rudolp Dirks..
                       Chrissi..

                                                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Katzenjammer_Kids

          I used to love reading them in the newspaper.




The style and content seem quite similar.  With maybe a bit of Tin Tin thrown in for good measure...?
           It is so facinating how artists as well as musicians influence each others style.


You got that right, Janice! Great catch. :)

From wikipedia: "Max and Moritz, for instance, was an inspiration for the Katzenjammer Kids."

And from the Katzenjammer Kids entry: "The Katzenjammer Kids was inspired by Max and Moritz, a children's story of the 1860s by German author Wilhelm Busch."
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 22, 2012, 06:09:52 am
a dozen or more images that go from
to(https://www.google.co.in/logos/2012/earthday12-hp-a.jpg)
Earth Day, 2012
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on April 22, 2012, 07:27:12 am
Oh, that's lovely!!

You see the flowers actually grow and bloom!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on April 22, 2012, 12:03:28 pm



(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/70d5677e.jpg)
230th birthday of Friedrich Fröbel


Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (or Froebel] (April 21, 1782 – June 21, 1852)
was a German pedagogue, a student of Pestalozzi who laid the foundation for modern education based on the recognition that children have unique needs and capabilities. He developed the concept of the “kindergarten”, developed the Froebel Gifts educational toys, and also coined the word now used in German and English.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel)


I like that you can read the word Google on second view. Clever.




[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHlKze-_-Ts&feature=related[/youtube]



Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on April 22, 2012, 04:23:25 pm
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Nice!

Chrissi, what does the child say at the end?

I think I can hear  "es ist aber..." ("but it's..."), but I can't make the last word out.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on April 23, 2012, 12:52:58 am
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Nice!

Chrissi, what does the child say at the end?

I think I can hear  "es ist aber..." ("but it's..."), but I can't make the last word out.


It says "Es ist aber voll." = But it's full.
Doesn't make much sense, but I think it's baby-speak for "Jetzt ist aber gut" resp. "Jetzt ist aber genug" meaning 'nuff said.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on April 23, 2012, 01:45:57 pm
Aber natürlich!  :D

Yeah, I can hear it now.  :)

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on April 24, 2012, 12:42:06 am




(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/4/24/1335227108323/Google-doodle-zipper-009.jpg)

(http://static.ibnlive.in.com/ibnlive/pix/sitepix/04_2012/gideon-sundback-google-doodle-240412.jpg)


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXOI3dwNOGs[/youtube]
:D


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on April 24, 2012, 12:05:59 pm
The zipper doodle is awesome!   :D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on April 27, 2012, 04:59:05 pm
Not exactly a doodle, more of and "Easter egg", I think.

Try and google "zerg rush", and see what happens.

No idea what it means, but it's way cool!!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 04, 2012, 06:01:40 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/haring-12-hp.png)
Keith Haring's 54th birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on May 04, 2012, 07:44:34 am





Google Doodle Salutes Graffiti Artist
Keith Haring
By Kathy Ceceri
May 4, 2012 4:59 am


(http://www.wired.com/geekdad/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/haring-12-hp.png)


May the 4th is the birthday of the late artist Keith Haring, who died in 1990 at the age of 31 of AIDS-related complications. Google is celebrating the artist’s memory with a Doodle drawn in Haring’s distinctive style. Part of what made New York City such an exciting place to live in the 1980s for young art students like me was the chance encounters with graffiti by Haring, who plastered over subway posters with his own white-on-black “radiant babies” and other cartoon-like drawings. Haring went on to exhibit his paintings in museums, and his designs still live on in clothing and housewares.

Haring’s drawings were simple, but they often carried deeper meanings. Yet they could be understood and enjoyed by kids as well. One of the first words my older son ever read was “Exit” — thanks to a Sesame Street clip featuring animated drawings by Haring. The Keith Haring website includes a family-friendly portion with coloring games and educational content for kids.

According to Wikipedia, the artist established the Keith Haring Foundation in 1989 to raise funds for AIDS organizations. The store he founded, the Pop Shop, is now online (and is offering a 10 percent discount today if you use the code HAPPYBIRTHDAY).

If you’re not familiar with Haring’s work, it’s worth the time to take a look around.


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Sk-B4AKJpuo[/youtube]

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on May 04, 2012, 07:46:51 am


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_03iqB8b9s&feature=related[/youtube]
Uploaded by MATTSKITV on May 5, 2010


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvGQiwd0E90&feature=related[/youtube]
Uploaded by TellmeMAG1 on Dec 21, 2010

Culturo-scope...
Après Warhol et avant de célébrer le 50ème anniversaire de la naissance de J-M Basquiat ce 22 décembre, retrouvons Keith HARING dans le cabaret parisien Shéhérazade, s'entretenir avec . Ils évoquent son surnom "Le Michel-Ange du métro de New York", ses influences, pourquoi il a choisit le métro pour faire connaître son art, sa première exposition, sa rencontre avec Andy WARHOL et Jean Michel BASQUIAT, la valeur de ses peintures, ses expositions parisiennes, le peintre qu'il aurait voulu être, et pour finir, Keith donne une définition de lui-même.Le tout illustrés par des photographies des oeuvres de Keith HARING.

Extrait de "Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches" - 20/01/1990
Découvrez le magazine Tell me sur Fb : http://www.facebook.com/tellmemagazine




Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on May 04, 2012, 08:04:33 am



[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4Gx43SN05s&feature=related[/youtube]
Uploaded by RavenFoxBaby on Sep 29, 2009



Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on May 04, 2012, 08:12:02 am




(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Keithharingportrait.png) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Haring)


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on May 09, 2012, 12:52:20 am



http://zeenews.india.com/news/net-news/doodle-honour-for-howard-tutankhamun-carter_774172.html

Doodle honour for
Howard ‘Tutankhamun’ Carter

Zeenews Bureau
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 09, 2012, 09:45




(http://www.google.com/logos/2012/Howard_Carter-2012-hp.jpg)




Mountain View, California: After the much appreciated Doodle honouring zip inventor Gideon Sundback, Google is now celebrating the 138th birthday of famous English archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter.
 
Carter, who gained fame as the discoverer of “Tomb of Tutankhamun”, was honoured by Google by a portrayal of the Tomb of Tutankhamen at the centre of its homepage.

The boy king ‘Tutankhamun’ is undoubtedly the most famous of Egyptian pharaohs. He died in his teens and remained a mystery for over 3300 years until Carter and George Herbert discovered his tomb in the ‘Valley of the Kings’ in 1922.
 
Tutankhamun's mummy still rests in his tomb and is on display since the last four years. Howard Carter was born in London, England on May 09, 1874. His father, Samuel Carter was a skilled artist and trained his son to follow in his footsteps

After the discovery of “Tomb of Tutankhamun”, Carter gained fame as an expert on Egypt and its treasures. Many films have also been made on the life and adventures of Howard Carter. He died in London on March 2, 1939, at the age of 64 of cancer and lies in rest at the Putney Vale Cemetery in London.
 
On his gravestone is written: “May your spirit live, May you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes, Sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness “and “O night, spread thy wings over me as the imperishable stars”.


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on May 10, 2012, 09:22:14 am


   I am such an Egyptophile, I am an absolute geek when it comes to this.  We went and took our children to
see the exhibit when it was in Los Angeles in the In the early 70s.  It was such a wonderful thing to see, speciall for such a lover as I am, of all things ancient Egyptian. 
   Going to Egypt and seeing the sites there in person was on my bucket list for many many years.  The difference is that now days, beyond my health issues, it is almost taking you life in you hand to go there. 
It truly does scare me, after all the killings, kidnappings, and general unrest in that country.  Ah well
I still enjoy seeing the Tut material, and to use it like this is really cool.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 13, 2012, 12:30:50 am
(http://www.gizbot.com/files/2012/05/mothers-day-google-doodle-130512.jpg)
Mother's Day 2012
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on May 13, 2012, 05:56:46 am
So Mothers Day is May for Canada and America? In the UK its March.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 13, 2012, 11:38:57 am
Here's the full animation:

[youtube=425,350]S29ac3gNVAs&feature=related[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on May 13, 2012, 03:04:16 pm
^^^^^^^^^

Cute!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on May 18, 2012, 12:09:38 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture16-1.png)

From PCMag (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404563,00.asp):

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.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on May 18, 2012, 01:21:00 pm


   That is so adorable, and so summer's beginning friendly.. I just love it.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2012, 12:31:21 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/moog12-hp.png)
[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+.


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2012, 12:38:52 am
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]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on May 23, 2012, 03:55:55 pm
Today's doodle is really something else!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 30, 2012, 03:30:07 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/faberge12-hp.jpg)
Peter Carl Fabergé's 166th birth anniversary
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: RouxB on May 30, 2012, 04:50:58 pm
Sheriff, did I ever thank you for bringing doodles to my attention? I was aware of them in half-brain so of way but now I look for them, read the descriptions and have even saved a couple.

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 30, 2012, 05:53:38 pm
Glad to be of service. And glad to be able to assist in keeping some part of BetterMost interesting when coming back 'home'.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: RouxB on May 30, 2012, 08:08:37 pm
And I still think of you whenever I hear Gordon Lightfoot and remember sitting in our living room at Banff Boundary Lodge talking about his music.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 31, 2012, 04:02:02 am
And you reciting the entire lyrics of 'Beautiful', my favourite Lightfoot tune, while the best I could do was recognising them as his.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: RouxB on June 04, 2012, 04:57:54 pm
next time I'll sing to you
 :-*
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 06, 2012, 09:57:54 am
For today:

[youtube=425,350]8hgoLfy7nS0[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on June 09, 2012, 05:24:50 pm
Quick, before the day is over and the doodle gone. Apparently this doodle is Germany exclusive, since neither of Fran, Roland or John posted it.



(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/Sonstige/bac6d739.jpg)

200th birthday of Johann Gottfried Galle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Galle)
German astronomer
First person to view the planet Neptune
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 17, 2012, 05:21:46 am
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/commercial/2012/6/17/1339892925876/Fathers-Day-Google-doodle-008.jpg)
Father's Day 2012


**** We are not impressed ****
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: mouk on June 17, 2012, 09:36:22 am
D'accord avec toi Roland, they could have done better for Fathers' Day. Here is the one for the Greek elections today:

(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t79/noelie_bucket/Greece_Elections-2012-hp.jpg)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on June 17, 2012, 01:55:24 pm
I think it's cute.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eib4MANVaZk[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on June 17, 2012, 02:12:16 pm
At first I wasn't impressed, I only had the static image.  Today the video has started working for me, and now I think it's cute.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on June 17, 2012, 06:30:11 pm
   I agree, it is not striking at all. 
   It looks almost like an afterthought done by an underling.  One who really didn't want to do it, because they were told to make something, at lunch the day before it had to go to press. It appears, that person didn't have much of a real relationship with their father either.  I do agree with Chuck however.  It is better when you see the entire video. 
   A fathersday Google should leave the "warm fuzzies."
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on June 22, 2012, 10:44:23 pm
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/commercial/2012/6/23/1340409112950/Alan-Turing-Google-doodle-008.jpg)
Alan Turing's 100th birthday

A functioning Turing machine, a representation of a computing device, is the latest Google doodle, which celebrates the birth of Alan Turing on 23 June, 1912.

A Turing machine is a device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules and was developed by the scientist in 1936.

Turing, the father of computing and artificial intelligence, is best known for his contribution to cracking the German Enigma secret codes with the creation of early computers such as the bombe.

The cracking of the code allowed the Allies to track German military and naval units and destroy them.

Before the war started, Turing had already made an impact on the theory that would pave the way for the construction of the first computers. In 1938 he received his PhD from Princeton in the US.

After the war, Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory and the University of Manchester.

In 1942, Turing was found guilty of homosexuality. He agreed to be chemically castrated which entailed being given female hormones. Two years later he killed himself at the age of 41.

In 2009, the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, officially apologised for Turing's treatment, although he was not given a posthumous pardon.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on June 22, 2012, 10:58:31 pm


(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/commercial/2012/6/23/1340409112950/Alan-Turing-Google-doodle-008.jpg)
Alan Turing's 100th birthday

A functioning Turing machine, a representation of a computing device, is the latest Google doodle, which celebrates the birth of Alan Turing on 23 June, 1912.

A Turing machine is a device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules and was developed by the scientist in 1936.

Turing, the father of computing and artificial intelligence, is best known for his contribution to cracking the German Enigma secret codes with the creation of early computers such as the bombe.

The cracking of the code allowed the Allies to track German military and naval units and destroy them.

Before the war started, Turing had already made an impact on the theory that would pave the way for the construction of the first computers. In 1938 he received his PhD from Princeton in the US.

After the war, Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory and the University of Manchester.

In 1942, Turing was found guilty of homosexuality. He agreed to be chemically castrated which entailed being given female hormones. Two years later he killed himself at the age of 41.

In 2009, the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, officially apologised for Turing's treatment, although he was not given a posthumous pardon.




[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=84pbZSt_a9k[/youtube]
Published on Jun 22, 2012 by tagSeoBlog


Alan Turing was born 100 years ago. Google celebrates "the father of computer science and artificial intelligence" with an interactive "intelligence test doodle". It's a kind of "Turing machine".

I have to think some minutes before I checked how it works. Here are the results of the 6 tasks. When you did it correct one more Google logo char is filled with color.

Very nice doodle - but it takes some time :-)

Please give it a * Thumb UP * if you like.

More about the tragic live of Alan Turing: http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/
More about the Turing-Doodle: http://www.tagseoblog.de/binaeres-raetsel-doodle-fur-alan-turing-inkl-loesungen (german)

Music: "Cut Trance" by Kevin MacLeod




Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on June 23, 2012, 05:54:16 pm
Okay, that test is completely beyond my ken.  ???

I'm reading a book right now that takes place in 2312, and they're still using the Turing test to figure out if someone who looks human is really an android.  :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on June 24, 2012, 09:13:42 am
Okay, that test is completely beyond my ken.  ???


It's beyond me, too. I managed to get till the last letter in Google, without knowing what I'm doing. I kept clicking on the buttons like a monkey, with no idea why, and it led me to the "e".


Quote
I'm reading a book right now that takes place in 2312, and they're still using the Turing test to figure out if someone who looks human is really an android.  :)

At least now I know I'm human. :laugh:
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on June 24, 2012, 05:58:54 pm



     Well I don't have the foggiest notion of what I did.  i got the whole thing to come up.  But for the life of me, I don't know why.?????  Maybe it is just to see if you can follow instructions?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 01, 2012, 01:58:13 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/Canada_Day-2012hp.jpg)
Canada Day 2012

The crown is particularly offensive to the french quarter of the country, but we're no longer relevant in this 'Conservatives' controlled world.

Quite possibly the worst google doodle ever.

(and yes, the French Google has the same doodle today)  >:(
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 04, 2012, 03:17:58 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/hartland-12-hp.jpg)
111th anniversary of world's longest covered bridge

It's located in Hartland, New Brunswick, that province's smallest town (pop 902 - if you don't count the pets  ;D )

Strange that they would have a Canadian google doodle on the 4th of July (American Independance day)

BTW, in another thread, somebody said s/he didn't know that Canada and the US had their independence days so close together ... Well, it's NOT an independance day here in the Great White North. That would be like saying all of Europe celebrates 'Bastille Day' on their National day. We just hate being confused with our cousins to the south.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: RouxB on July 04, 2012, 02:59:32 pm
Strange that they would have a Canadian google doodle on the 4th of July (American Independance day)

Making up for the Canada Day doodle  ;D
U.S. doodle today is very much redwhiteandblue
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 04, 2012, 04:35:11 pm
Hey Roux - you're suppose to share it so we too might see it!

(http://static.ibnlive.in.com/ibnlive/pix/sitepix/07_2012/google-4th-of-july-doodle-040712.jpg)
American Independence Day 2012

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-doodles-this-land-is-your-land-on-4th-of-july-us-independence-day/269413-11.html

New Delhi: It is the 4th of July and Google is up with a doodle on its US home page that celebrates one of the United States' most famous folk songs - This Land Is Your Land.

The letters of the Google logo in the colours of the flag of the United States are formed of the opening lines of Woody Guthrie's legendary song - "This land is your land, this land is my land." To further embellish the folk roots of the doodle, the 'L' in the Google logo is represented by an acoustic guitar.

Google has been posting 4th of July doodles since 2000 and there have been 16 different Google doodles commemorating the American Independence Day till date. In 2000 there were four different versions of the doodle.

The Fourth of July Google doodle is viewable only to Google users in the United States, users from other countries visiting the Google home page get to see the Google logo and not a doodle.

Below search box beneath the 4th of July Google doodle is a line of text that reads, "Celebrate freedom. Support and free and open Internet," clicking on which takes you to Google's Take Action page, that urges users to celebrate freedom by supporting a free and open Internet. The page includes a one-minute video with quotes on life, liberty and the pursuit of digital democratisation from people from all walks of life.

Google has also posted a US flag made up of the quotes on its Take Action page and has released it into the public domain to encourage users to copy, modify and distribute the image without permission.

There is another Google doodle on the Google home page of the country that lies to the north of the US. The doodle on the Google Canada homepage marks the Nelson anniversary (111th) of the Hartland Covered Bridge, New Brunswick. The 391 metre long bridge across the Saint John River is the world's longest covered bridge.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on July 04, 2012, 06:49:53 pm
             


                         I      LOVE      THAT      RED WHITE AND BLUE 

                                                            DOODLE
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: RouxB on July 04, 2012, 08:12:29 pm
Hey Roux - you're suppose to share it so we too might see it!

(http://static.ibnlive.in.com/ibnlive/pix/sitepix/07_2012/google-4th-of-july-doodle-040712.jpg)
American Independence Day 2012

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-doodles-this-land-is-your-land-on-4th-of-july-us-independence-day/269413-11.html

New Delhi: It is the 4th of July and Google is up with a doodle on its US home page that celebrates one of the United States' most famous folk songs - This Land Is Your Land.

The letters of the Google logo in the colours of the flag of the United States are formed of the opening lines of Woody Guthrie's legendary song - "This land is your land, this land is my land." To further embellish the folk roots of the doodle, the 'L' in the Google logo is represented by an acoustic guitar.

Google has been posting 4th of July doodles since 2000 and there have been 16 different Google doodles commemorating the American Independence Day till date. In 2000 there were four different versions of the doodle.

The Fourth of July Google doodle is viewable only to Google users in the United States, users from other countries visiting the Google home page get to see the Google logo and not a doodle.

Below search box beneath the 4th of July Google doodle is a line of text that reads, "Celebrate freedom. Support and free and open Internet," clicking on which takes you to Google's Take Action page, that urges users to celebrate freedom by supporting a free and open Internet. The page includes a one-minute video with quotes on life, liberty and the pursuit of digital democratisation from people from all walks of life.

Google has also posted a US flag made up of the quotes on its Take Action page and has released it into the public domain to encourage users to copy, modify and distribute the image without permission.

There is another Google doodle on the Google home page of the country that lies to the north of the US. The doodle on the Google Canada homepage marks the Nelson anniversary (111th) of the Hartland Covered Bridge, New Brunswick. The 391 metre long bridge across the Saint John River is the world's longest covered bridge.


I tried but I am just such a techidiot sometimes  :P
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 14, 2012, 09:49:58 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/klimt12-hp.jpg)
Gustav Klimt's 150th anniversary

http://www.pcworld.com/article/259253/google_doodle_celebrates_life_of_gustav_klimt.html

Google likes to doodle, so it's fitting the Internet search engine with a penchant for artistic creativity would mark the 150th anniversary of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt's birth with a special rendering of its homepage.

Saturday's doodle infuses Google's name in gold into a reproduction of "The Kiss," which is arguably Klimt's most famous piece of art.

Klimt's paintings are some of the most expensive in the world. In 2006, Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer -- the "Mona Lisa" of Austria— sold for $135 million, eclipsing the then-record $104.1 million paid at auction for Picasso's 1905 "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)."

The Kiss, a square oil painting with gold leaf that depicts a couple embracing, is currently hanging in a Vienna palace museum.

As for the artist himself, Klimt is known for co-founding the progressive Vienna Secession movement of the 1890s, although he fell out of favor with many influential people because of his paintings for the University of Vienna, which depicted scenes of turmoil.

Later, Klimt surrounded himself with rich patrons who commissioned much of his work. The celebrated artist also is known for his romantic affairs and the many children he fathered, although his lifelong companion was fashion designer and businesswoman Emilie Flöge.

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on July 14, 2012, 12:10:27 pm
Today when I went to Google.com, I got the Klimt doodle.  But most often, I get no doodle, simply the Google search bar.  Is there a url that will always result in getting the doodle?  ???
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: RouxB on July 14, 2012, 12:53:07 pm
Hmmm, I always get the doodle, both on my phone and on my computer. What do you use for your search engine?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on July 14, 2012, 04:39:11 pm
Hmmm, I always get the doodle, both on my phone and on my computer. What do you use for your search engine?

Mozilla Firefox
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 24, 2012, 12:22:15 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/earhart12-hp.jpg)
Amelia Earhart's 115th birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 27, 2012, 02:55:04 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/opening_ceremony-2012-hp.jpg)
London Olympics - Opening Ceremony
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 28, 2012, 04:45:11 am
Day One

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/olympics-archery-2012-hp.jpg)
Archery

During the parade of nations yesterday, the (Canadian) commentators were pointing out the specialty of the flag bearers and nations. At one point it was mentioned that thanks to The Hunger Games, it is expected that there will be an increased interest in archery.

B.T.W. - recently read the books and liked 'em. Haven't yet seen the movie.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 29, 2012, 03:57:30 am
Day Two

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/olympics-diving-2012-hp.jpg)
Diving
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 30, 2012, 10:05:18 pm
Day Three

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/fencing-2012-hp.jpg)
Fencing

Best on yet, I think - they're using two letters in the image.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 31, 2012, 04:34:01 am
Day Four

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/olympics-rings-2012-hp.jpg)
Men's Rings

Did anyone else notice that in this an yesterday's doodle, there's a shadow of an audience. I completely missed that yesterday. Also, the first three doodles are shown in daylight, while these last two are adorned with nighttime stars.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 01, 2012, 08:48:36 am
Day Five

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/field_hockey-2012-hp.jpg)
Field Hockey
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 02, 2012, 04:40:33 am
Day Six

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/table_tennis-2012-hp.jpg)
Table Tennis

***Lame***
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 03, 2012, 08:30:40 am
Day Seven

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/shot_put-2012-hp.jpg)
Shot Put

***lamer - where's the integration of the word to the image?***
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 04, 2012, 03:32:42 am
Day Eight

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/pole_vault-2012-hp.jpg)
Pole Vault
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 05, 2012, 09:20:05 am
Day Nine

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/swimming-2012-hp.jpg)
Synchronised Swimming
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on August 05, 2012, 06:08:49 pm
Day Nine

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/swimming-2012-hp.jpg)
Synchronised Swimming

I like this one!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 06, 2012, 06:02:48 am
I like this one!

Me too Kelda however, again today, we're back to the mundane ... And what's with the ... ooo, they apear to have de-Americanised the flying cigar in the sky - to ... fireworks? (above the 'G')

Day Ten

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/javelin-2012-hp.jpg)
Javelin
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 07, 2012, 05:00:19 am
Day Eleven

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/hurdles-2012-hp.jpg)
Hurdles

I look & keep looking but can't find anything interresting (imaginative) about these oh-hum doodles. The 'Googles' look merely like billboards in many of these.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on August 07, 2012, 10:10:56 am
Day Eleven

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/hurdles-2012-hp.jpg)
Hurdles

I look & keep looking but can't find anything interresting (imaginative) about these oh-hum doodles. The 'Googles' look merely like billboards in many of these.

I know!  They had four fuckin' years to create something cool, fer Pete's sake.  ::)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on August 07, 2012, 10:21:01 am
 



                  You haven't transposed todays Google completely.  If you will go back and check.  It has a go button in it, and it then has the
athlete walking up to the line, then running the steeple or high jumps.  Whichever.  It is an animated one.. I thought it was pretty cute/
   
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on August 07, 2012, 10:24:06 am
That is cute!  Were some of the others animated?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 07, 2012, 10:33:22 am
You haven't transposed todays Google completely.  If you will go back and check.  It has a go button in it, and it then has the
athlete walking up to the line, then running the steeple or high jumps.  Whichever.  It is an animated one.. I thought it was pretty cute

I haven't seen any 'button'. Maybe none are available here - or maybe I haven't downloaded a necessary update (as was the case with an earlier interactive doodle a month or two ago)

Hopefully others were animated, cause, IMO, they've been generally below par.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 07, 2012, 10:38:14 am
here's the you tube explanation and sample

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxEvnWsHrSU[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 08, 2012, 04:01:12 am
Day Twelve

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/basketball-2012-hp.png)
Basketball

Good use of the letters today. Also the score is smartly used to remind folks that these are the 2012 Games.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 08, 2012, 04:14:32 am
I've been noticing the shapes of the area of the images .... Starting with yesterday's Hurdles - the area in which the picture is drawn is that of an open labtop computer - cause it's a interactive game too (also the shape of a hurdle itself). Then I went back and noticed:

Day One - Archery - in the shape of as arrow - like a one way sign
Day Two - Diving - waves
Day Three - Fencing - sorta pointy
Day Nine - Synchronised Swiming - again wavy (but just the top)

The other days are beyond my current capacity for explanation.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 09, 2012, 04:00:30 am
Day Thirteen

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/slalom_canoe-2012-hp.jpg)
Slalom Canoe
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 10, 2012, 07:49:17 am
Day Fourteen

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/football-2012-hp.png)
Football (soccer)

I don't get it ... What does the google letters on-the-sides-of-the-net mean? Why 'xx' on one score board and '12' on the other?  I'm sure some meaning was intended, but I don't get it.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on August 10, 2012, 08:45:04 am
Maybe "XX" = 20; therefore 20 12.  Kinda lame.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on August 10, 2012, 10:16:09 am
Maybe "XX" = 20; therefore 20 12.  Kinda lame.


              "By George, I think he's got it."
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 10, 2012, 05:44:09 pm

              "By George, I think he's got it."

Shouldn't that Be "By Elizabeth,(or by Lizzy) I think he's got it"?    :laugh:

Good one Paul. Now about the letters of google ..
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 11, 2012, 07:12:32 am
Day Fifteen

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/gymnastics-2012-hp.jpg)
(rythmic) Gymnastics
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 12, 2012, 03:53:56 am
Day Sixteen

(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/closing-2012-hp.jpg)
Closing Ceremonies
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 15, 2012, 04:47:00 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/Julia_Child-2012-hp.jpg)
Julia Child's 100th Birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on August 15, 2012, 01:33:47 pm


      I really love the new doodles.  I learned how to innovate in cooking by watching Julia..  She truly enhanced the eating in this country...
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on August 31, 2012, 08:04:11 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/montessori-hp.jpg)
142th birthday of Maria Montessori
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on September 07, 2012, 12:45:32 pm



(http://static.ibnlive.in.com/ibnlive/pix/sitepix/09_2012/star-trek-the-original-series-070912.jpg)
(http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/technology-live/2012/09/07/startrekx-large.jpg)
(Heh! Keep going till you get to the Gorn!)


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on September 07, 2012, 02:04:18 pm
Aw, that's the first Google Doodle that's really given me joy!  Love all the sound effects, too.  ;D  8)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Aloysius J. Gleek on September 07, 2012, 03:08:22 pm


Aw, that's the first Google Doodle that's really given me joy!  Love all the sound effects, too.  ;D  8)


Did you find the tribbles??

(look in the transporter room!)

 ::) :D ;D


Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on September 07, 2012, 07:51:39 pm

Did you find the tribbles??

(look in the transporter room!)

 ::) :D ;D

I had missed them til someone on Facebook pointed it out.  Wonderful!  :D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on September 13, 2012, 02:16:23 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/clara_schuman-2012-hp.jpg)
Clara Schumann's 193rd birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on September 27, 2012, 09:20:51 am
(http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/09/Google-Doodle-Celebrates-14th-Anniversary.jpg)
Google's 14th anniversary
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on September 27, 2012, 09:21:58 am
AND, from 1998, Google's first ever doodle:  :D

(http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/09/Google-Doodle-Celebrates-14th-Anniversary-Burning-Man.jpg)

Also from (http://cdn.inquisitr.com/inquisitr_png.png)

http://www.inquisitr.com/345000/google-doodle-celebrates-search-giants-14th-anniversary/

In honor of our red, yellow, green and blue friend, here are 10 fun Google facts:

1. Google hires goats. No, really. The company hires 200 goats (as well as a herder with dog) from a company called California Grazing to help keep Google HQ clear of weeds and brush. The company points out that this is more environmentally friendly and “a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers.”

2. The first ever Google Doodle (below) is almost as old as the company itself. In 1998, founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page took a weekend off to go enjoy the Burning Man festival in Nevada. The result was the ‘Burning Man’ Doodle you see below – a way of telling users that if there was a crash, well, it would have to until Monday, mkay?

3. Google doubled its traffic overnight with the introduction of its improved spell checker in 2006, which asked users: “Did you mean ____?”

4. Why’s the Google home page is so bare? Well, legend has it Brin and Page didn’t know HTML, and wanted to design a quick interface. Hence, sparseness. Indeed, in the beginning, Google didn’t even possess a “Submit” button – hitting the RETURN key was the only way to kickstart your search.

5. Of the 3 billion+ searches conducted on Google each day, around 15% are being typed in for the first time.

6. Google says a single search takes up roughly 1kJ (kilojoules). In green terms, that’s about the same as .2g of CO2 emitted per search.

7. Google’s California HQ – a.k.a the Googleplex – is better than your office. Fact. Amongst the sights in the Googleplex, you’ll find a grand piano (in the lobby) and replicas of SpaceShipOne and a T-Rex skeleton (nicknamed “Stan”). Employees enjoy a huge gym, free laundry rooms, two swimming pools, multiple sand volleyball courts, and eighteen cafeterias, each with a different menu.

8. In its original form, Google, or “Backrub” as it was known then, was hosted on ten 4GB hard drives, which in turn were stored in a case made of Lego. And it looked like this:

9. “Google” became a verb in 2006, when both the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary recognized it.

10. Users can search Google in dozens of different languages – including Klingon. Because you never know what the future holds.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 07, 2012, 01:03:46 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/bohr11-hp.jpg)
Neils Bohr's 127th anniversary

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/niels-bohr-google-doodles-the-danish-nobel-laureate-in-physics-127th-birthday/298593-11.html

Niels Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1922 "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them". October 7 is his birthday and on the occasion of the Danish physicist's 127th birth anniversary Google has posted a doodle on its home page. Niels Henrik David Bohr was born in Copenhagen on October 7, 1885. His father, Christian Bohr was a Professor of Physiology at Copenhagen University.

During World War II Bohr, fearing arrest by the Germans, escaped to Britain from where he went to the US to work on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. The Manhattan Project lead to the development of the first atom bomb.

The Niels Bohr 127th birthday Google doodle showcases his contributions to science and shows the Bohr atomic model. This model introduced by Bohr in 1913, was a radical departure from earlier descriptions of the atom and showed the atom as one with a small nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits in a structure similar to the solar system, with electrostatic forces providing attraction, not gravity.

Niels Bohr died in Copenhagen on November 18, 1962. His son, Aage Bohr, was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on October 15, 2012, 07:30:31 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/nemo12-hp.jpg)
107th anniversarry of Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland

Whah? Who??

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/15/winsor-mccay-google-doodle

Google has celebrated the 107th anniversary of Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland with one of the search engine's most elaborate doodles ever.

The doodle recreates the adventures of the main fictional character from the illustrator's comic strips, which first appeared on 15 October 1905 in the New York Herald.

Widely regarded as one of the great figures in the comics form, McCay's bold and stylistic innovations in the early part of the 20th century redefined what the medium could do and set a standard followed by Walt Disney in decades that followed.

Born in Michigan in either 1869 or 1871 – the date is disputed – McCay received some basic art training while attending business school before going to work in the printing and engraving industry in Chicago. He later moved to Cincinnati, where his first major comic strip series was A Tale of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle, which appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer over more than 40 instalments.

Little Nemo, based on the adventures of a boy of around six-years-old, ran in the New York Herald from 1905 to 1911. The strip, which ran only on Sundays, features Nemo's adventures as he tries to reach the Princess of Slumberland, daughter of King Morpheus, who desires Nemo for a playmate.

McCay was hired by William Randolph Hearst in 1911 and went to work on Hearst's New York American, a morning newspaper, as an editorial cartoonist. He also started to experiment with animated cartoons and creating the classic Gertie the Dinosaur as well as a short Little Nemo film.

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Meryl on October 15, 2012, 03:19:42 pm
"Little Nemo in Slumberland" is now a new opera by Daron Hagen and will be performed by Sarasota Opera next month.  8)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on October 18, 2012, 01:02:38 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture8-12.png)

Herman Melville Google doodle marks 161st anniversary of Moby-Dick (http://gadgets.ndtv.com/others/news/herman-melville-google-doodle-marks-161st-anniversary-of-moby-dick-281209)

NDTV Correspondent, October 18, 2012

Herman Melville, celebrated author and the man behind the all-time classic Moby-Dick, is the inspiration behind Thursday's Google doodle.

Moby-Dick is the great epic of whales and waling. It tells the story of Ahab, Captain of the Pequod, and of his revenge-mission and insane pursuit of Moby Dick, the fierce white whale. Among Ahab's crew is Ishmael, a young man undergoing a gruelling rite of passage and pursuing a different salvation. As the Pequod circles the globe like a latter-day Noah's Ark, so Moby Dick ranges and digresses through space and time, through mythologies, religions and philosophies.

The Google doodle depicts a scene from the book where Captain Ahab leads a boat to strike at the huge white whale.

Herman Melville had written Typee and Omoo before he wrote, what he believed was his masterpiece, Moby-Dick. He was shocked by the less-than-flattering reception the book received. One critic described it as "[A]n ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact. The idea of a connected and collected story has obviously visited and abandoned its writer again and again in the course of composition. The style of his tale is in places disfigured by mad (rather than bad) English; and its catastrophe is hastily, weakly, and obscurely managed."

It wasn't until way after Herman Melville's death and the end of World War I that Herman Melville was rediscovered and Moby-Dick found favour with the critics of the time. The book is now, of course, regarded as one of the all-time classics and considered essential reading for students in many countries across the world.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 06, 2012, 03:09:29 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture4-4.png)

Election Day 2012
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 08, 2012, 06:39:31 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/bram-stoker-2012-hp.jpg)
Bram Stoker's 165th anniversary
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: David In Indy on November 09, 2012, 03:25:12 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/bram-stoker-2012-hp.jpg)
Bram Stoker's 165th anniversary

:laugh: :laugh:

I LOVE it! How cool?!!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 11, 2012, 11:34:40 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture10-7.png)

Veterans Day 2012
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 11, 2012, 04:16:50 pm
For Remembrance Day here in Canada Google merely added a small poppy in the centre of their home page:

(http://www.google.ca/images/icons/hpcg/poppy_red_42.gif)

A few years ago, John McDermott recorded this touching tribute to the men & women remembered today.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PSv4cE-dhw[/youtube]
Bringing Buddy Home

The Vimy Ridge monument portrayed in this amateur video is featured on the new Canadian 20$ bill.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on November 11, 2012, 05:02:50 pm
That's what they did here in England too.

(where I happen to be right now)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 12, 2012, 01:46:36 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture2-3.png)

Auguste Rodin's 172nd Birthday

From India Today (http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/auguste-rodin-the-thinker-on-google-doodle/1/228803.html):

Auguste Rodin's 'The Thinker' on Google doodle

Google doodle on Monday celebrates the 172nd birth anniversary of French sculptor Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin, better known as Auguste Rodin. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past.

Born into a working-class family in Paris on November 12, 1840, Rodin had an inclination towards art from his early age and pursued drawing and painting at the Petite Ecole, a school specializing in art and mathematics.

Rodin, who is appreciated for his manner of dealing with the subject and muse, emphasized to capture the intellectual force of his subject. The google doodle commemorates the sculpture The Thinker (1879-1889) which is among the most recognized creation of his works. It is a marble and bronze sculpture and is now in the Musee Rodin in Paris.

Among his various works, the best known included The Thinker and The Kiss. 'The Thinker' depicts a man in sober meditation and often interpreted as philosophy.

Rodin, considered to be the father of modern sculpture, rebelled against the established rules of the time. His work was criticised during his lifetime and it wasn't until after his death that his work came to be fully appreciated.

Rodin's most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character and physicality. Rodin was sensitive to the controversy surrounding his work, but refused to change his style.

During his lifetime, he developed a fan following and by the time he was 60, he was well known around the world. While his popularity suffered a dip right after his death in 1917, his legacy became stronger a few years later.

His famous works include The Age of Bronze (L'age d'airain) 1877, The Walking Man (L'homme qui marche) 1877-78, The Burghers of Calais (Les Bourgeois de Calais) 1889, The Kiss 1889 and The Thinker (Le Penseur), 1902.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 13, 2012, 12:16:02 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/canadarm12-hp.jpg)
31st anniversary of the first use of the Canadarm in space

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/11/13/tec-google-doodle-canadarm31.html

The image on Google Canada's home page depicts an astronaut floating in space and manipulating the Canadarm to spell out the L and E in Google.

Google's chief doodler Ryan Germick says the suggestion for the image came from the company's Canadian offices a few months back.

He says his team chooses from "hundreds and hundreds" of doodle ideas to work with and is on track to have completed about 300 by the end of 2012.

Germick says the Canadarm doodle took "several tens of hours" to complete.

The Canadarm had its first mission on Nov. 13, 1981 on the U.S. space shuttle Columbia.

"For doodles, we really try to sort of celebrate things that are exciting to Google as a culture and we think will be exciting for our users," says Germick.

"We're big proponents of technology and innovation and knowing this is one of the really cool things that Canada has done for space technology we thought it would be the perfect thing to celebrate."

The Canadarm is 15 metres long with a 33-centimetre diameter and a weight of about 410 kilograms.

The dexterous robotic arm was used to move and retrieve satellites and provide support for astronauts during spacewalks, among other tasks.

Its final mission with shuttle Endeavour ended June 1.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 20, 2012, 05:11:53 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/childrensday-2012-hp.jpg)
Children's Day 2012
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on November 20, 2012, 12:22:58 pm

Google Germany:
(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/otto-von-guericke-2012-hp_zps749384fa.jpg)

410th birthday of Otto von Guericke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Guericke)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on November 22, 2012, 11:19:24 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture16-2.png)

Thanksgiving Day
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on November 26, 2012, 01:12:27 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/ernie_coombes_mr_dressup_85th_birthday-960008-hp.png)
85th anniversary of Ernie Coombs (Mr. Dress-up)

From Wikipedia

...
After Butternut Square ended
(1964 - 1967), Coombs developed Mr. Dressup, which became one of English Canada's longest-running and most beloved children's programs. As Mr. Dressup, he presented arts and crafts, songs, stories and games for children with his friends Casey and Finnegan, a child and a dog who lived in a treehouse in Mr. Dressup's back yard. Casey wasn't given a unisex name intentionally, but it was a serendipitous choice because the character's childlike voice left Casey's gender ambiguous. Over the years, when viewers would ask Coombs whether Casey was a boy or a girl, he would ask, "What do you think?" However the questioner responded, he would say, "You're right!"

Later in the series, when the show's principal puppeteer, Judith Lawrence, retired, Casey and Finnegan were replaced by a small cast of anthropomorphic animal puppets. Coombs believed very strongly in gentle, wholesome children's programming that encouraged kids to use their creativity and imagination. In each episode, Mr. Dressup would dress up (hence his name) in a costume from his Tickle Trunk, and lead children in an imagination game. Many times his puppets would also appear in costume as well.

(Born in Lewiston, Maine,) Coombs became a Canadian citizen in 1994. The series continued production until its final taping in February 1996, when Coombs retired. The same year, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada. Repeats continued to be shown on CBC Television until they were discontinued in 2006.

Coombs suffered a stroke on September 10, 2001, and died on September 18, 2001 in Toronto, Ontario when he was seventy-three years old.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 10, 2012, 06:17:12 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/ada_lovelaces_197th_birthday-991005-hp.jpg)
Ada Lovelace's 197th anniversary

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/9734018/Ada-Lovelace-in-Google-Doodle-tribute.html

Ada Lovelace, the mathematician known as the world's first computer programmer, is celebrated today in a Google Doodle on the anniversary of her birth.

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was the daughter of Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Byron, and was born in London in 1815.

Ada Lovelace never knew her father, who left England forever just four months after her birth, and she became interested in mathematics as a young adult, later working on inventor Charles Babbage's early mechanical computer.

Her notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine, as the device was known, included an algorithm that was to be processed by the machine, earning her the distinction of the world's first computer programmer.

Today is the 197th anniversary of her birth, and the Google Doodle in her honour portrays the Countess writing equations onto a long sheet of paper with a quill.

The progression from her calculations to the modern day laptop is also detailed in the image, with three interim images of technological breakthroughs in computing since the 19th century.

Her lasting legacy for young women in technology is remembered on Ada Lovelace Day, which is dedicated to the celebration of the achievements of women in science and technology.

The Countess was married in 1835 to William King, who was created Earl of Lovelace in 1838.

She died in 1852 at the age of 36
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 18, 2012, 01:11:29 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/120th_anniversary_of_the_nutcracker_ballet-992006-hp.jpg)
120th anniversary of the Nutcracker Ballet
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 20, 2012, 01:19:58 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/200th_anniversary_of_grimms_fairy_tales-986006-hp.jpg)
200th anniversary of Grimm's Fairy Tales
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on December 21, 2012, 03:39:35 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/Sonstige/end_of_the_mayan_calendar-993005-hp_zpsce0f6e19.jpg)
End of the Maya calendar
 ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on December 21, 2012, 06:11:49 pm
 :laugh: :laugh:

Too funny!

But - where did you find it? I just get the boring old google logo today, nothing else.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 21, 2012, 10:05:43 pm
The Grimm's Fairy Tales' Google doodle from December 20th was interactive:

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYINF8GjtKw[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on December 22, 2012, 05:06:18 am
:laugh: :laugh:

Too funny!

But - where did you find it? I just get the boring old google logo today, nothing else.


Google Germany.
How about Canada and the US? Did you have the Maya doodle?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 22, 2012, 06:09:45 am

Google Germany.
How about Canada and the US? Did you have the Maya doodle?

Local apocalypse I image. We in Canada had a day off - between the Grimm Fairy tales and the sure-to-follow Christmas 2012 Googles.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Kelda on December 23, 2012, 12:07:41 pm
We had that Mayan image on Google UK
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 24, 2012, 04:12:53 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/holiday_series_2013_1_-998005-hp.jpg)
Happy Hollidays 2012
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 24, 2012, 04:18:11 pm
Plus for tomorrow, Google will present the following ... that is to say if they do worldwide what they've done for Google Australia ...

(http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2012/12/christmas-google-logo.jpeg)
Christmas Google 2012
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 28, 2012, 05:49:05 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2012/leonardo_torres_quevedos_160th_birthday-994005-hp.jpg)
160th anniversary of Leonardo Torres Quevedo, inventor of Niagara's Whirpool Aero Car
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on December 31, 2012, 01:44:39 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-14.png)

Remembering 2012
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on December 31, 2012, 07:03:01 am
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture7-14.png)

Remembering 2012

Quite a mish-mash this year. Starting with the Star Treck ship in the window you knew it wasn't your usual google.

Clicking on different parts of the larger image you're brought to a google that was created earlier this year along with a short review of it's content's raison d'être.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on January 01, 2013, 02:04:01 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2013/new_years_day_2013-983008-hp.jpg)
Happy New Year's 2013
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on January 16, 2013, 01:12:12 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2013/zamboni-1005006-hp.jpg)
Frank Zamboni's 112th birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on January 31, 2013, 11:22:15 pm
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/Google/Picture5_zps48235e6c.png)

Jackie Robinson's 94th Birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 04, 2013, 03:30:23 am
(https://www.google.ca/logos/2013/last_day_of_the_canadian_penny-1027005-hp.gif)
Last day of the Canadian penny
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 04, 2013, 12:39:41 pm
Last day of the Canadian penny[/center]


Huh? ???
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on February 04, 2013, 12:54:01 pm
Huh? ???


I thought the same thing.

Is Canada doing away with their penny?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on February 04, 2013, 01:29:05 pm
Sounds like a smart idea to me.  Probably costs more to mint them than they're worth. 

Just round up/down. 

We should do the same thing here in the US.  As it is, people treat pennies as if they're worthless--throw them out, leave them at the counter, etc.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 04, 2013, 05:49:45 pm
Sounds like a smart idea to me.  Probably costs more to mint them than they're worth.  

Just round up/down.  

We should do the same thing here in the US.  As it is, people treat pennies as if they're worthless--throw them out, leave them at the counter, etc.

You got it right Paul. They say it costs 1.6 cents to produce each penny.

They've postponed this day a couple a times already, but today was the last day for distribution of the coin to banks, and merchants are to round up and down for cash purchases as you said. The credit card purchases will still be to the penny as will the debit card charges.

They're already talking of (someday) getting rid of the nickle (5 cent coin).
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 05, 2013, 01:44:40 am
Thanks Paul and Roland.
I still have a Candian penny from the Alberta 2011 trip. Better keep it for luck! ;D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on February 05, 2013, 07:06:36 am
Canadian pennies are always showing up in US change somehow.

Do you have the reverse problem?
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 05, 2013, 07:47:10 am
Got me a jar of American coins - mostly pennies, but nickles, dimes and quarters are there too. It's been near 2 decades since I last travelled south of the border (a little thing called HIV bigotry).

They (the coins) are generally accepted as equals (to the local currency) here, but I have chosen to segregate them. Use to be, when there was a large difference in value between the two currencies, you'd find almost only pennies but these days either currency will do. Of course, in the past half decade, I have rarely used cash, showing a decided preference for credit cards.

(now, let's analyze the various words I used for money: coins, pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters, currency(ies), cash, credit cards) hummmm :laugh:
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on February 05, 2013, 09:35:59 am
That's funny!

I have seen Canadian pennies get mixed in with US change, but not the "larger" coins.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 06, 2013, 03:34:51 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/mary_leakeys_100th_birthday-1026006-hp_zps89597cbb.jpg)
100th birthday of Mary Leakey! :D
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on February 06, 2013, 10:00:31 am
Whoever comes up with the Doodles has a great imagination.  I don't think I could ever do this kind of stuff.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: bentgyro on February 06, 2013, 04:10:31 pm
I'm in retail and have to do the rounding up or down with change.  I'm a generous rounder (don't tell my boss, LOL) and usually only go up if the amount ends in 4. ::)
we have always taken US coin at parr and even most vending machines take Us coin.
I hope that they don't do away with all coins and I know that they would like to do away with cash, period.  At my age I still like the option of cash or card, you can't track cash and cards can be easily controlled by outside forces.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 14, 2013, 08:39:45 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/valentines_day_and_george_ferris_154th_birthday-1032005-hp_zpsf69a5e08.png)

Valentine's Day and 154th birthday of George Ferris

Beautiful, if you ask me. Love the colors. Rich reds and blues. Nothing better than that. :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on February 14, 2013, 09:07:08 am
Chrissi, did you play the game?

If you click the heart, the wheels spin, when the carriages meet up, the faces of two animals appear (I'm assuming they are in the carriages) and then a cartoon appears of them attempting to do something romantic.

 :laugh:
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 14, 2013, 09:51:14 am
Chrissi, did you play the game?

If you click the heart, the wheels spin, when the carriages meet up, the faces of two animals appear (I'm assuming they are in the carriages) and then a cartoon appears of them attempting to do something romantic.

 :laugh:


Ack! No, doesn't play on my computer. >:(
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on February 14, 2013, 10:39:14 am
Ack! No, doesn't play on my computer. >:(

It doesn't work on my computer at work, but it does on my computer at home.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on February 14, 2013, 12:03:33 pm

Ack! No, doesn't play on my computer. >:(

YouTube to the rescue:

[youtube=425,350]O1OSpNsxF64[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 19, 2013, 03:29:02 am
YouTube to the rescue:

Thanks, Fran! :)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 19, 2013, 04:06:41 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/nicolaus_copernicus_540th_birthday-10410053-hp_zps35663287.jpg)

540th birthday of Nikolaus Kopernikus
(it's a moving one again, watched it on youtube)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Front-Ranger on February 20, 2013, 11:45:52 am
That was the best looking doodle yet!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on February 22, 2013, 06:54:36 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2013/edward_goreys_88th_birthday-1056005.2-hp.jpg)
(Amercan illustrator) Edward Gorey's 88 birthday

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/feb/22/google-doodle-celebrates-edward-gorey

A Google doodle has been unveiled today to mark what would have been the 88th birthday of cult author and illustrator Edward Gorey.

Gorey, who died in April 2000 at the age of 75, was known for often macabre drawings and picture-stories which gained him a worldwide cult following. The doodle features six cartoonish pictures spelling out the name of the search engine in his surreal cartoonish style.

Gorey's work inspired the film director Tim Burton and the goth rock band Nine Inch Nails. His macabre books frequently showed children or other hapless victims succumbing to an undeserved death.

As well as his own picture story books, the Chicago-born artist illustrated works by authors including Samuel Beckett, TS Eliot, Edward Lear and Muriel Spark, as well as drawing new pictures for Aesop's fables and the Brer Rabbit stories.

Gorey was an eccentric. In the 25 years between 1957 and 1982 he did not miss a performance by the New York City Ballet, attending in an outfit consisting of an enormous fur coat and white tennis shoes.

His melodramatically sinister sets and costumes for the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula netted him a Tony Award for costume design.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on February 22, 2013, 03:57:52 pm


Different one in Germany today:
(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/arthur_schopenhauer_225th_birthday-1031005-hp_zps4e462308.jpg)
225. birthday of philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 04, 2013, 05:45:02 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2013/miriam_makebas_81st_birthday-1417005-hp.jpg)
Miriam Makeba's 81's Birthday

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/technology/miriam-makeba-award-winning-south-african-1741612

The first singer to popularize African music around the world has been honoured with a Google doodle.

Miriam Makeba, nicknamed Mama Africa, rose to prominence in the 1960s and would have celebrated her 81st birthday today.

The Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist was best known for the song 'Pata Pata'.

Makeba recorded and toured with the likes of Paul Simon and Harry Belafonte during a glittering career.

She was an active campaigner against apartheid through three decades in exile and was loathed by South Africa's white minority rulers.

She had her citizenship revoked in 1959 and was only able to return to her homeland 31 years later.

Makeba died of a heart attack in November 2008 after performing a concert in southern Italy.

Nelson Mandela paid tribute at the time, saying: "Despite the pain she felt to leave behind her beloved family and her country, she continued to make us proud as she used fame to focus attention on the abomination of apartheid.

"It was fitting her last moments were on stage."

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 11, 2013, 04:19:51 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2013/douglas_adams_61st_birthday-1062005-hp.jpg)
Douglas Adam's 61st Birthday

Douglas Adams, noted author and humorist, is the inspiration behind Monday's Google doodle. Adams is of course best known for his cult classic book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Douglas Adams was on born on 11 March 1952 in Cambridge England. He showed a flair for writing from an early age and went to graduate in English literature in 1974. After graduation, he moved to London with an aim of becoming a TV and radio writer. It was here that we met Monty Python's Graham Chapman, and the two went on to form a writing partnership, albeit for a brief time.

Adams was credited with writing one of the sketches in a Monty Python episode, becoming one of only two people outside the original Monty Python members to be given a writing credit. Adams and Chapman also attempted non-Python projects, but got nowhere and Adams was forced to series of non-writing-related jobs.

While Adams continued to do some writing, his career took off after he got an opportunity to work with the BBC as a radio producer. It was here that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was born as a science-fiction comedy series for the radio. The first series - consisting of six episodes - was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March and April 1978, and received an excellent response. A seventh episode was broadcast on 24 December 1978.

The first four episodes of the series were adapted into the book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was first published in 1979, initially in paperback, and reached number one on the book charts in only its second week. The book sold over 250,000 copies within three months of its release.

A second series of five episodes was broadcast one per night, during the week of 21-25 January 1980. Four more books followed, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), Life, the Universe and Everything (1982), So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984) and Mostly Harmless (1992). Adams also wrote 3 episodes of popular TV series Doctor Who.

Douglas Adams was an avid technologist, and a Macintosh user from the time the original Mac came out in 1984 until his death in 2001. His very last post to his own forum was in praise of Mac OS X and the possibilities of its Cocoa programming framework.

Adams died of a heart attack on 11 May 2001, aged 49.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Fran on March 11, 2013, 11:07:56 am
It's interactive:

[youtube=425,350]8RxzvCpZUgE[/youtube]

So clever!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on March 17, 2013, 12:12:14 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2013/st_patricks_day_2013-1108005-hp.jpg)
St. Pat's 2013

And they dance ... plus see all past St. Pat google doodles since 2000

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgn4a3SMRRY[/youtube]
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on March 17, 2013, 01:10:40 pm
I thought today's Doodle was very cute.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on March 25, 2013, 05:00:58 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/Nach%20Neugestaltung%20der%20Website/adalbert_czernys_150th_birthday-1110005-hp_zpsffd1d3cb.jpg)
150. birthday of Adalbert Czerny (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalbert_Czerny), one
of the founders of modern pediatrics.

Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 02, 2013, 05:24:47 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2013/maria_sibylla_merians_366th_birthday_-1256008-hp.jpg)
Maria Sibylla Merian's 366's birthday

Google doodle today celebrates the 366th birth anniversary of German naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian. Merian was well known for studying as well as making detailed paintings of plants and insects. She is credited of making significant, though not well known, contributions to the field of entomology due to her observation of metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

Merian was born on April 2, 1647 in Frankfurt and began painting images of insects and plants at the age of 13, with encouragement from her stepfather. Married at the age of 15, she began giving painting lessons to wealthy women, which got her access to well-maintained gardens of the elite. In these gardens, she began observing insects, including the caterpillars and butterflies.

 Neues Blumenbuch, the first book by Merian, was released in three parts between 1675 and 1680. Later, she studied the lifecycle of a butterfly and released the book with sketches and illustrations of various species and the plants they feed on.

 Merian had two daughters and was divorced in 1692. After her divorce, she continued to work with many contemporary scientists of the time.

 The doodle by Google shows butterfly, caterpillars, cocoon, reptiles and insects that are painted on vines that create the company's logo.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 25, 2013, 08:38:36 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2013/ella_fitzgeralds_96th_birthday-1212009-hp.jpg)
Ella Fitzgerald's 96th birthday
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 25, 2013, 09:34:01 am
Ella Fitzgerald's 96th birthday

OMG, she's 96? God bless her! Hope she has a very happy birthday!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on April 25, 2013, 10:03:24 am
OMG, she's 96? God bless her! Hope she has a very happy birthday!

No, she would have been 96 today had she lived. She died from complications brought about by her diabetes in 1996 (17 years ago).
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 25, 2013, 10:06:55 am
No, she would have been 96 today had she lived. She died from complications brought about by her diabetes in 1996 (17 years ago).

Duh, my bad. I was thinking of Aretha Franklin.  ::)

But it's impossible to imagine what music in the 20th century would have been like without Ella.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: southendmd on April 25, 2013, 10:30:45 am
Duh, my bad. I was thinking of Aretha Franklin.  ::)

But it's impossible to imagine what music in the 20th century would have been like without Ella.

I agree with you about Ellla.

However, Miss Aretha is only 71!!
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on May 23, 2013, 12:54:07 am
(http://www.google.ca/logos/2013/140th_anniversary_of_the_rcmp-1580006-hp.jpg)
140th anniversary of the (Canadian) North-West Mounted Police
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on June 24, 2013, 08:31:48 am
Google and gay pride month.

If you open Google and simply type in the word 'gay', and then search when you get the results, you will also get this image.


(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XPuXsenSJi4/UccpI0B5fqI/AAAAAAABKcc/x0Io2n0tA7s/s640/gay-google-2003.png)
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on June 24, 2013, 05:49:37 pm
That's cool!

I just tried it, it works here too.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: CellarDweller on June 24, 2013, 06:34:26 pm
Sonja, I think they did it for all countries.
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sason on June 24, 2013, 07:07:21 pm
I hope you're right, Chuck.

But somehow I doubt Google would do it in countries like Russia or Arab countries (others too), where discrimination against LGBT people is still thriving.  >:(
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on June 25, 2013, 01:09:17 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/Nach%20Neugestaltung%20der%20Website/antoni_gauds_161st_birthday-15390052-hp_zps156fa7c8.jpg) (http://s575.photobucket.com/user/Penthesilea09/media/Nach%20Neugestaltung%20der%20Website/antoni_gauds_161st_birthday-15390052-hp_zps156fa7c8.jpg.html)

161st birthday of Antoni Gaudi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD).
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Sheriff Roland on July 01, 2013, 07:27:34 pm
(http://www.google.ca/logos/doodles/2013/canada_day-1973005-hp.jpg)
La fête du Canada Day 2013
Title: Re: Google Doodles
Post by: Penthesilea on September 22, 2013, 07:22:19 am


(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/Penthesilea09/Nach%20Neugestaltung%20der%20Website/german_elections_2013-2034005-hp_zpse6afe460.jpg)
German Election Day