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OMG - have you seen the new Google Doodle?

Post 21

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

smiley - bubbly

smiley - schooloffish

I hope they publish lots of swirling and colliding galaxies when I am 183smiley - biggrin


OMG - have you seen the new Google Doodle?

Post 22

TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4933306/how-does-todays-jules-verne-googles-doodle-work. A bunch of techies trying to work it out.

TRiG.smiley - geek


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Post 23

Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break

That is just sad...

(well, it is from a non-techie point of view, anyway...)

Less sad is this article on the foresight of Jules Verne - 8 inventions he predicted:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/pictures/110208-jules-verne-google-doodle-183rd-birthday-anniversary/


OMG - have you seen the new Google Doodle?

Post 24

Rod

smiley - wah that link's handle doesn't work for me (nor others I've tried - mac.Safari) smiley - sadface


OMG - have you seen the new Google Doodle?

Post 25

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

Today's is in honour of Thomas Edison's 164th birthdaysmiley - bubbly


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Post 26

Baron Grim

I was in a school play about Thomas Edison in grade school. I played the patent clerk. I only had two lines, but I had to sit at a desk on stage for the entire play.


OMG - have you seen the new Google Doodle?

Post 27

Baron Grim

Today's doodle is Yuri Gagarin. smiley - rocket


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Post 28

Mrs Zen

And today's is a steam train. smiley - smiley


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Post 29

Superfrenchie

smiley - sadface On Google UK, it is. Google Fr and Google Com have the usual logo. So unfair! smiley - wah


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Post 30

Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee

Never mind. It'll soon appear in the archive:

http://www.google.com/logos/

Which is fascinating, incidentally. All sorts of people I've never heard of. All sorts of iconography that is presumably meaningful in the relevant nations.


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Post 31

Baron Grim

Ah, brilliant... I knew there had to be a place to look at the old ones. What's great is I didn't know they had so many regional ones.


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Post 32

Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break

I'm just surprised that after the wonderful animated ones we've had lately, the steam engine doesn't do anything! Major opportunity missed, methinks!


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Post 33

Not the monkey - Skreeeeeeeeeeeee

I'd have thought that for Karel Capek's birthday (near bottom) they'd have had a robot. Or a newt.

http://www.google.com/logos/logos10-1.html

(Actually, the latter. In the play the robots are really androids, so they'd just've looked like random humans.)


OMG - have you seen the new Google Doodle?

Post 34

toybox

Who was it who complained about a non animated doodle? Today's one should make up for it smiley - biggrin

http://www.google.fr/

(Inexplicably, it doesn't exist on the co.uk version smiley - weird)


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Post 35

Mrs Zen

It was on the uk version later in the day smiley - smiley


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Post 36

swl

Proof that Google read h2g2 smiley - biggrin


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Post 37

Metal Chicken

smiley - magic slapstick google smiley - biggrin


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Post 38

Baron Grim

OOH... the Earth Day doodle is nice and animated. Move your cursor around it and watch the animals frolic.


OMG - have you seen the new Google Doodle?

Post 39

toybox

160th anniversary of the first World Fair smiley - cool


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Post 40

~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum

Must subscribe to this thread!
smiley - book
As we all know, not all google-doods are available
everywhere so this thread is important for making
us aware of new ones we might not otherwise see.
smiley - ok
It also allows discussion of details in them that
are sometimes too subtle for everyone. The current
issue of the First Whirled's Fare has a lot of new
features including a zoom window for closer looks
at all the images within the image.

And again let me point out that in some countries
clicking on 'I'm feeling lucky' when nothing is input
into the search window takes you to all the doodles
in a reverse chronological catalog list. Handy!

smiley - cheers
~jwf~


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