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

134

You guys are too good. I stopped when I hit 42. Not a gamer obviously.

My 6 year old son just got 138. So, I had to have another go, obviously. I got 155.


Geggs

Well, I got 140. SO I guess I'm about 6-year-old level.

My highscore was 135, but my bf made 159.

Wow!

It took me a while to get the hang of it, but I got 156 in the end (although I nearly broke the spacebar in the process )

This is some sort of insidious plot on the part of Google...

I'll bet they're trapping all the energy of the people who spent half their working day hitting the spacebar...

They'll bottle it and sell it to NASA.

164.


Geggs

177. Playing this too much now.


Geggs

You know what's really nice? You can play it on touch screen devices.

You have to press the space bar?

Today's Google Doodle - UK Centric

William John Swainson, of pictures of birds, butterflies, flowers and snails.

Swainson's thrush, an accidental in the UK.

Didn't know who Swainson was, but do now.



MMF

Google 'search' homepages have changed in Canada and the US.
The upper bar of clickable links to Maps, Mail, Images, etc
has been removed and replaced by LARGER link buttons on
the bottom and smaller fine print links in the upper right.

No new images or doodles for weeks now.

And it's fully eight months since I first 'reported a problem'
to Google Maps going dark on fifteen km of the highway I live on.
This includes several alternate Google inquiry forums and emails
to people who said they had insider connections to the Maps peeps.


~jwf~

I don't like the new google either. Sometimes I am looking for something on exclusively francophone websites, but am only offered the option "German language sites" or "any language", and have to skip the first half-dozen pages which come up with English language sites with the same word in.

This is always a problem. Also when you type in the url of an English language website you are often automatically redirected to the German version. Very annoying.

Friedrich Nietzsche's 169th birthday.

God was right - Nietzsche is dead!

oh. Guess he won't want any of that cake, then.

I don't know, though. It was the custom in several ancient cultures to leave food offerings for the dead, and food is left at the graves of loved ones on the Day of the Dead in Mexico. So have your (notional) cake in his memory, if you wish. I'm not sure what he'd think, not being into philosophy.