h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned today's Doodle. It's a YouTube animation celebrating this year's Perseid meteor shower.

Hmmm... apparently the Perseids aren't falling over the U.S.


I also notice that they dropped the URL selection from the share feature on the doodles. Now it's only G+, FB and Twitter options.

http://g.co/doodle/9uzxmz

Today's Doodle (possibly UK only) celebrates the 80th birthday of children's author Diana Wynne Jones.

Today's Doodle, again possibly UK only, celebrates the birthday of horror and mystery author Sheridan le Fanu.

Nothing here.

The Doodle also appears on Google.ie. I'd have been surprised if it didn't. Sheridan le Fanu was born and died in Dublin, after all!

Slideshow for Tolstoy: http://g.co/doodle/avz5cn

Tolstoi on google.de, too.

I would expect Tolstoy to be commemorated in most Western countries.

One journalist marked the anniversary by doing War and Peace in 186 words. I think it was in the Independent.

I am wondering if Canada got a unique doodle today,
inauspiciuously celebrating the 239th birthday of a
Canadian heroine - Laura Secord - whose name was
later appropriated as a brand of chocolates.

Here are the official facts of the history as blessed
by the Truth in Advertising and History Division:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nFOAp5KCw


~jwf~

Just on my way to explain this. Thanks ~ jwf ~

Oh hello my fellow Canadian.
I may get to meet you in late February.
Planning to escape winter and head south -
wrestle some allicrocs in Florida and then
west across Texas and Arizona to California
heading up the west coast in late February or
early March to see the tulips bloom in BC while
waiting for the snow to melt on the Prairies before
coming home cross country. Perhaps by way of Edmonton
to visit anhaga.
< / >

Cheers
~jwf~

PS: To avoid further off topic interruptions please
communicate your reaction directly via email to john
w fulton 13 (all one word) at yahoo dot ca.

There's a cute animation for the first day of Autumn.

Today's Google Doodle is of a Routemaster bus.

On the Buses in the UK today.

Looks like a Canada only doodle here today.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/google-doodle-honours-famed-inuit-art-pioneer-kenojuak-ashevak-1.2037313

Art purists may object to the way they incorporate the
name Google into this facsimile of her art. It is based on
her work The Enchanted Owl which was put on a Canadian
stamp about ten years ago.


~jwf~

Today's doodle celebrates the 100th birthday of Thor Heyerdahl.

Today Google celebrates the 382nd birthday of Sir Christopher Wren.

That's on the UK one. The Irish Google and the generic Google.com are both plain and doodle-less.