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

google.de and google.at celebrate 40 years of the Yps magazine. The Thing you always wanted as a kid but hardly ever got because it was much more expensive than other magazines because of the Gadgets that came with it.

Every time you load Google it shows a different gadget from the history of Yps.

Not a Doodle, but thought y'all might find it interesting here.


Google's Project Flux (confidential).

(Note today's date)

http://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/project_flux.pdf

Halloween - Global Candy Cup 2015

https://www.google.com/doodles/halloween-global-candy-cup-2015

Yellow is winning handily.

I think that's the power of having a cat in the picture.

Okay, I give up.

How in the world do you play that game?

From the picture, it looks like you rub the space bar. Hitting the space bar takes me to the bottom of the screen, and I can't even see the little witch any more... I'm too dumb to play a game designed for the world's ten-year-olds.

You just tap the space bar. Every tap makes you jump upward a little. Repeated taps makes you continue upward. Not tapping lets you fall.

On mobile devices you tap the screen.

You can even just click the right mouse button as well.

Thanks!

Thanks from me, also ~ ~ . .. ...

Today's doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of George Boole, creator of Boolean algebra. The values x and y appear in the upper and lower halves of the 'g'. The other letters are coloured according to Boolean algebra. I had to know about Boolean algebra years ago in college, so I was pleased to see this doodle.

Range: worldwide except USA and bits of Africa.

http://www.google.com/doodles/george-booles-200th-birthday


In the USA you get the Day of the Dead:

http://www.google.com/doodles/day-of-the-dead-2015

Adolphe Sax’s 201st Birthday
http://www.google.com/doodles/adolphe-saxs-201st-birthday

Just misread that as 'Agaton' Sax, fictional Swedish detective and editor of the Bykoping Post. Who is nowhere *near* being 201 years old.

Mol

I note there was no saxophone music associated with that doodle.

I applaud Google's restraint.

Hedy Lamarr's 101st birthday. A fascinating woman.

http://www.google.com/doodles/hedy-lamarrs-101st-birthday


Her name was mentioned in an article I was reading in Wired magazine (from a few months ago... I'm so behind on my magazine reading) this morning suggesting we really need to learn that there are other women in science than just Marie Curie (who's birthday was Saturday).




Here's the article if you're interested: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/women-in-sciene/

Another woman in Science...

Lucy.

http://www.google.com/doodles/41st-anniversary-of-the-discovery-of-lucy

Google Oyster Eggs!

Search for "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away".



http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/google-have-created-special-treat-star-wars-fans

That's antihistamine money.

Not to be sneezed at

BKS Iyengar’s 97th Birthday

http://www.google.com/doodles/bks-iyengars-97th-birthday

He was instrumental in bringing yoga to the West in the 50's and 60's.

Today's doodle marks Beethoven's 245th birthday. It's an interactive doodle. Beethoven is trying to get to the concert hall, but various mishaps scramble his sheet music. You have to sort out his 5th Symphony, Für Elise and the 9th Symphony, among others.

This doodle's range is worldwide - and quite right too!