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

I found all of those listed (although I didn't notice the jack-o-lanterns toggling with the spider pull string). They are slightly wrong about the 'L'. It's not the skeleton, but the mummy in the door. However, there is also one more activity after you've opened all the doors. Clicking on the cat in the trash can will make it runaway, the doors all close, and the doodle ends.

On a curiousity tour of old links I found this:

http://h2g2.com/oldblobs/white/2259354.gif

which was seemingly animated in its original
context as part of:

http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A3463391

where it has a ghoulish Googlish feel to it.

You have to scroll down and right to see it
acting all jiggery-pokery.

I can't recall if it was meant to be animated
or if the link is just unstable - it was Jan 2005.


~jwf~

If there was any doubt that the 2012 Halloween
Google doodle was their best ever, here's what
they did 1999-2010.

http://youtu.be/dCZljpl9SbE


~jwf~

Possibly only in Canada but google.ca
has a minimalist tribute to the anniversary
of the Canadarm. Those on the shuttles are
now of course no longer relavent but there
is at least one still used on the space station
used to catch unmanned supply ships.

http://www.google.ca/
~jwf~

I think I spotted Rodin's 'The Thinker' in the doodle yesterday.

PP.

History of Computer Museum does tribute to Google Doodles.

http://youtu.be/xLE1w47eRY0

Yup, 1:23:34.
Enjoy.


~jwf~

Happy birthday, Mr. Dressup!

https://www.google.ca/

Today is honoring the Brothers Grimm... too bad they Bowdlerized Little Red Riding Hood. The BBW does NOT end up in jail. He's gutted... then filled with heavy stones... then collapses and dies.

I thought they filled him with stones and drowned him in the river

The version I recall from childhood had the woodsman
chop him open with the axe before he could swallow Red.
The gruesome details were vague and the possibility that
this operation saved Granny seemed quite unlikely to my
childish imagination but the lesson that an axe could be
more than just a woodcutting tool was not lost on me.

~jwf~

Actually, he originally used scissors to open up the wolf.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself: 'How the old woman is snoring! I must just see if she wants anything.' So he went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. 'Do I find you here, you old sinner!' said he. 'I have long sought you!' Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf. When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying: 'Ah, how frightened I have been! How dark it was inside the wolf'; and after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe. Red-Cap, however, quickly fetched great stones with which they filled the wolf's belly, and when he awoke, he wanted to run away, but the stones were so heavy that he collapsed at once, and fell dead.
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http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2591/2591-h/2591-h.htm#link2H_4_0023

And another thing..
Why was she called Little Red Riding Hood.
Little, obviously. Red, I suppose, she wore
a red hood - but in renderings seen in most
books and even the Disney cartoon version it
doesn't appear to be a suitable head covering for
any sort of riding. Like most hoodies it seriously
restricts any peripheral vision. Not the best idea
to have blinders on the rider; the horse perhaps.

~jwf~

Well, she wasn't. She was called "Little Red Cap", a "little cap of red velvet", she never went without it.

Not that I often rely, refer or recommend Wiki,
but their entry is exhaustive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood

Apparently the basic story is a French, more than
1000 years old and intended for toilet training.
A sort of 'dont poop where you eat' life-lesson.


~jwf~

Apparently it was Disney's very first cartoon.
Silent, 1922.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Hood_(1922_film)

And they probably still control the copyright on the characters.

Wasn't the red cap / hood some sort of allegory for the onset of pubity?

The Bros Grimm were not known for writing fluffy bunny stuff were they.

PP.

Returns from Wikilink. I should have gone there first.

PP.

Today's is the Mayan calendar (sort of thing).

Don't touch it. It could all go horribly wrong.

PP.

Found it!

google.co.uk

but not .ca or .com


~jwf~