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

The .co.uk Doodle is a Welsh woman being served tea by a large red dragon. It's not interactive and 'Google' is just faintly in the background. The only part of 'Google' to be incorporated in the picture is the 'e', which is formed by a loop in the dragon's tail.

Not a great Doodle, but dragons are always welcome round here.

Should have mentioned. For those of you that don't know, today is St. David's day, patron saint of Wales.

A most welcome dragon indeed.
The little old lady is kinda cute too.
Curiously, just putting google.co.uk
was sufficient to reach it.


And may all your leeks be fruitful.

~jwf~

It's Elizabeth Browning 208th birthday today..

Appears to be UK only.

Today's Doodle is an animation celebrating the Spring equinox. Nothing fancy, just a bit of fun.

Cute.

I seem to have set my Google to .fr and it's on there too.

Well, the equinox is universal, so I'd expect everybody to get that Doodle.

I wouldn't say it's Universal. Planetary, sure, but not universal. >

https://www.google.co.uk

It's Charlotte Bronte's birthday.

And she hasn't invited me to her party so I'm not getting her a pressie.

PP.

Perhaps in a couple of years' time (the big 00) we might get our invites for a really big bash.

Various critters are animated on the doodle for Earth Day today.

On google.co.uk but not on google.com

"The Dung Beetle wishes you a Happy Earth Day"

Nah, it was on .com as well.

Along with a Rufous hummingbird, a veiled chameleon, a moon jellyfish, a puffer fish and two Japanese macaques.

German and Austrian google has an anilated doodle for the 156th birthday of Max Planck.

St Georges day in The People's Republic of England. So the whole of the UK gets it.

http://www.google.co.uk/

PP.

Hey, less of that! The whole UK had the doodle for St. David's day (Welsh patron saint), and probably St. Patrick's day (Irish) and St. Andrew's day (Scottish), too. Besides, I don't think the doodle's that great. The dragon on St. David's day was better.

Regarding the doodle for Max Planck's birthday, I read the description as an 'annihilated' doodle. Oops!

I rather like today's dragon.

I didn't see St. David's when it was up, but I just checked the previous doodles. I still prefer today's but they're both nice.




I just noticed I missed Octavio Paz's 100th birthday as it was restricted to Spanish speaking nations.
http://www.google.com/doodles/octavio-pazs-100th-birthday-born-1914
I've only read one of his books, The Monkey Grammarian, but wow! It was a tough read, conceptually. I don't think that was due to poor translation either. I think I've almost never enjoyed a book while barely understanding it as much as this (with the possible exception of A Brief History of Time).

Here is the NY Times review.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/03/books/books-of-the-times-077183.html

Including Paz's own description of the book.

>>OCTAVIO PAZ sums up ''The Monkey Grammarian'' in a single sentence, without commas: ''In this text Hanuman contemplates the Garden of Ravana like a page of calligraphy like the harem of the same Ravana as described in the 'Ramayana' like this page on which the swaying motions of the beeches in the grove opposite my window accumulate on this page like the shadows of two lovers projected by the fire on a wall like the stains of monsoon rains on a ruined palace of the abandoned town of Galta like the rectanglar space on which there surge the wave upon wave of a multitude contemplated from the crumbling balconies by hundreds of monkeys like an image of writing and reading like a metaphor of the path and the convergence of all the texts in this paragraph like a metaphor of the embrace of bodies.''<<

I should dust it off and read it again.

Today's doodle celebrates the 77th anniversary of Cinecitta film studio. 'Google' isn't very clearly defined in this picture - only the second 'o' and the 'l' are obvious (to me, anyway). But it's a nice enough doodle.

Rather disappointing that a doodle relating to moving pictures doesn't have a neat little animation to amuse us!