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

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

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

TRiG.

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/

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

Today's is in honour of Thomas Edison's 164th birthday

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.

Today's doodle is Yuri Gagarin.

And today's is a steam train.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.)

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

http://www.google.fr/

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

It was on the uk version later in the day

Proof that Google read h2g2

slapstick google

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

160th anniversary of the first World Fair

Must subscribe to this thread!

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.

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!


~jwf~