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

Today's doodle celebrates the birthday of Saul Bass, the man who created the title sequences for such films as Around the World in 80 Days and Psycho. It's an animated doodle that refers to some of his most famous work. It's quite interesting to watch.

Jazzy. (Dave Brubeck soundtrack)

You want to do an Google image search for "Atari Breakout".

The new Google is commentating Frank Horby's 150th birthday today with it's logo surrounded by train engines and carriages and other items that you would see on a railway station.

UK centric.

Or even commemorating?

I'll leave my coat.

MMF

Does it have any moving parts?

PP.

Trains, no; Atari, yes.

Damn you Baron Grim!

I have managed to pause it. But that will only be temporary!

PP.

A new low in terms of interactive or esthetic values,
and of little interest beyond the borders of the Great
White North, but I fell obliged to inform the international
followers of this thread that Google.ca is celebrating the
140th anniversary of Canada's national police forces,
the Mounties.

The 'Mountie' isn't even worked into the letters; he just
seems to be saluting the 'Goo', which draws the eye to a
blue puddle of goo supposedly dripping off the Rockies in
an abstraction of a beaver tail. Not a moose in sight.
http://www.google.ca/
The link may or may not work for everyone - such are the
ways of Google's global thinking. But you can probably
find it if you 'google' it.


~jwf~

on .com, there is an image titled "Doodle 4 Google 2013 - 'Coming Home' by Sabrina Brady"

It depicts a young girl running to hug a returning soldier.

I assume this was a contest winner?

Today is the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest and Google's celebratory doodle is...

There isn't one.

I checked .com and .co.uk. I don't know what the Google address is for India or Nepal, so I couldn't check those. I don't know if a doodle will magically appear later, but this is one event that's going unmarked by Google.

I've found out why Google didn't mark the first ascent of Everest yesterday - they did it last year.

What can you say about an organization that can't get a date right.

I've noticed that Google tend to celebrate random anniversaries rather than big ones. It does make things a little confusing, though.


Geggs

>> celebrate random anniversaries... It does make
things a little confusing, though. <<

Unless of course it is couched in the mystique of
a Random Probability Drive. Then the brain is ready
for the exercise of reading meaning into coincidence.
Otherwise it is merely Trivial Pursuit in zero grav.

That Russian base jumper had the right idea for getting
into the history books with his record breaking 23,000 ft
jump off the top of the mountain in normal gravity.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/nepal/10085870/Watch-record-breaking-Everest-base-jump-filmed-on-daredevils-helmet-camera.html

The video will play automatically and it is the only one I've
seen that actually shows the landing. Imagine the wind-chill
factor at 125milesperhour.
Cool. Really cool way to celebrate the anniversary.

~jwf~

Today's Google Doodle celebrates the work of German Scientist Julius Richard Petri - credited for inventing the petri dish.

That's a heck of a coincidence. Sort of like how Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease.

And the way the assorted bacteria have been trained
to spell out the letters G-O-O-G-L-E as they grow.

I mean, how do they know?
How do you train bacteria?
Better than a flea circus.

~jwf~

Google.co.uk

Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are).

PP.