Google Doodles

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

(Heh! Keep going till you get to the Gorn!)

[Meryl]

Aw, that's the first Google Doodle that's really given me joy!  Love all the sound effects, too.   

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

Aw, that's the first Google Doodle that's really given me joy!  Love all the sound effects, too.   

Did you find the tribbles??

(look in the transporter room!)

 

[Meryl]

Did you find the tribbles??

(look in the transporter room!)

 

I had missed them til someone on Facebook pointed it out.  Wonderful! 

[Sheriff Roland]

Clara Schumann's 193rd birthday

[Sheriff Roland]

Google's 14th anniversary

[Sheriff Roland]

AND, from 1998, Google's first ever doodle:  

Also from

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.

[Sheriff Roland]

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

[Sheriff Roland]

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.

[Meryl]

"Little Nemo in Slumberland" is now a new opera by Daron Hagen and will be performed by Sarasota Opera next month.