The Google Doodle thread

Markstrink · Post by **Markstrink** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:11 pm

I got 133 first try.

MHS · Post by **MHS** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:37 pm

159 first try.

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:48 pm

That settles it, it is a chick game.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 11:54 pm

139 was my highest....not sure how to do better..I hit it as soon as I can.

MHS · Post by **MHS** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 11:21 am

Daehawk wrote:139 was my highest....not sure how to do better..I hit it as soon as I can.

Hit so that the swing of the piñata would spew the most candy for the full sweep. I got 162 on my second try.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Sat Sep 28, 2013 5:15 pm

I got 165 by just bashing away. Hit it when it comes back each time, don't let it swing past the stick.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:40 am

Today's doodle honors the 123rd anniversary of Yosemite. Which is closed today thanks to government shutdown.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:46 am

KKBlue · Post by **KKBlue** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:26 am

Now, I've forgot what I was searching for...

However, I'm learning about a new person and have decided to create a new Pandora station.

Cuban-American Celia Cruz was honored with a Google Doodle on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. Cruz is often referred to as 'la Reina de Salsa', or 'the Queen of Salsa.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:56 am

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 6:48 pm

216th anniversary of the first parachute jump today.

I think you try to make it back to the starting pen but I'm not sure?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:32 pm

I made it to the ending penguins. I think it's as much about exploring as it is anything else.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 12:19 am

Edith Head, Hollywood costume designer. On Audrey Hepburn.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:33 am

Isgrimnur wrote:

Edith Head, Hollywood costume designer. On Audrey Hepburn.

Looking at the doodle and your description, I'm going to say she inspired the costume designer character in the Incredibles who I think was also named Edith.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Oct 28, 2013 11:55 am

Edna Mode. And you are correct by all accounts that I've seen.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:50 pm

Ok, today is cool but I don't know if there's an endgame or not.

(for posterity)

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:54 pm

I vaguely knew of her calculating prowess but had no idea about her book.

Wikipedia wrote:In 1977, she wrote The World of Homosexuals, the first study of homosexuality in India. In the documentary For Straights Only, she says that her interest in the topic came out of her marriage to a homosexual man, and subsequent desire to look at homosexuality more closely in order to understand it.

The book, considered "pioneering", features interviews with two young Indian homosexual men, a male couple in Canada seeking legal marriage, a temple priest who explains his views on homosexuality, and a review of the existing literature on homosexuality. It ends with a call for decriminalising homosexuality, and "full and complete acceptance—not tolerance and not sympathy".

Pretty amazing range.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:31 pm

I cant believe how she could do math. It's magic.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:01 pm

Isaac Asimov's The Feeling of Power

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Nov 22, 2013 11:50 am

The UK gets Doctor Who today.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 12:37 am

Go check it out today before it's gone.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:46 pm

Google doodle points to Olympic Charter in defending all athletes - Christian Science Monitor

naednek · Post by **naednek** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 6:32 pm

I saw that yesterday (didn't see the caption underneath it) and thought the colors were based off the olympic colors, not the symbol for the gay community.

Either way it's cool.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:35 pm

Olympic colors have no purple or orange. Red, yellow, blue, green, black white.

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 11:11 am

Isgrimnur wrote:Olympic colors have no purple or orange. Red, yellow, blue, green, black white.

From all the colors which make up the world's flags or something like that? ISGRIMSQUATCH!!! I need you!

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:04 pm

Rings

The symbol of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings, colored blue, yellow, black, green, and red on a white field, known as the "Olympic rings". The symbol was originally designed in 1912 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, co-founder of the modern Olympic Games. According to Coubertin, the ring colours with the white background stand for those colors that appeared on all the national flags that competed in the Olympic games at that time. Upon its initial introduction, Coubertin stated the following in the August, 1912 edition of Olympique:

...the six colors [including the flag’s white background] thus combined reproduce the colors of all the nations, with no exception. The blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue and white of Greece, the tri- colors of France, England and America, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, the yellow and red of Spain next to the novelties of Brazil or Australia, with old Japan and new China. Here is truly an international symbol.

The flag of Ireland wasn't a thing until the Easter Rising of 1916, and Ireland wasn't an independent thing until 1921, and its Olympic committee founded in 1922. Jack Yeats won their first medal in the 1924 Olympics, a silver medal under arts and culture for "Swimming".

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 2:25 pm

Armenia - 1990 (Orange (or apricot))
Bhutan - 1947 (Orange)
Dominica - 1978 (Purple)
India 1947 ("Saffron")
Ivory Coast 1959 (Orange)
Malta - 1964 (Grey)
Moldova 1990 (Brown)
Niger 1959 (Orange)
Sri Lanka - 1972 (Orange)
Uganda - 1962 (Grey)
Zambia -1964 (Orange)

----Holdings----
Bermuda 1910 (Brown) - British territory
British Virgin Islands 1960 (Brown, Pink) - British territory
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 2004 - Brown) - holding of Australia
Falkland Islands 1999 (Brown, Grey) - British territory
Montserrat1909 (Brown, Pink) - British territory
Northern Marianas Islands 1976 (Brown, Grey, Purple) - US Territory
Turks and Caicos 1968 (Brown, Pink) - British territory

The Meal · Post by **The Meal** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 3:02 am

Excellent reportage, Isgrim. Thank you kindly. I'll renew your contract for another six months.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:55 pm

A shout out to LM for today.

Percy Lavon Julian

Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was a U.S. research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:29 pm

Oops

Google has said its Google Doodle honouring a Japanese Go player on the 70th anniversay of D-Day was uploaded in error and issued an apology.

The Doodle for June 6 originally featured a stylised image of Honinbo Shusaku, a professional player of the traditional Chinese game Go, and was displayed on Google.co.uk.

The picture was later taken down and replaced with a Remembering D-Day link,free from pictures, to the search engine's Cultural Institute.
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Google.co.uk, Google.com, and Google.fr all display the link to the D-Day archive, while Google.hk and Google.co.jp still display the Honinbo Shusaku image.
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Google said the D-Day information on the Cultural Institute had always been planned for the date, and how it had created new content, including partnering with the Mémorial de Caen in France.
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Peter Barron, the search engine's director of communications, said the company had " always intended to highlight a new exhibition of imagery and archive material commemorating D-Day on our home page."

"Unfortunately a technical error crept in and for a short period this morning an international doodle also appeared. We're sorry for the mistake, and we're proud to honour those who took part in D-Day," he added.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:51 pm

Today's google doodle was designed by an 11 year old and is quite beautiful:

I love all the moving parts on the picture when you go to the search page.

"To make the world a better place, I invented a transformative water purifier. It takes in dirty and polluted water from rivers, lakes, and even oceans, then massively transforms the water into clean, safe and sanitary water, when humans and animals drink this water, they will live a healthier life."
- Audrey Zhang, 11

Sectoid · Post by **Sectoid** » Tue Jun 17, 2014 11:40 am

The Google Doodle today gave me a sad.

R.I.P. Paul the Octopus

Cortilian · Post by **Cortilian** » Mon Jun 23, 2014 11:24 am

The Doodle today is awesome.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:29 am

Today's Google Doodle is for Nelson Mandela's birthday.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:39 pm

Today's doodle is a Halloween game - challenging!

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:47 pm

I got to level three, somewhere in the 20k range for a score.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:50 pm

I made it to near the end of Level 4 - 32860.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 4:13 pm

I made it to the last level (was that 4, or 5?). But I only had one heart going in. I died on the first approach by the big boss. I don't recall the score.

Jeff V · Post by **Jeff V** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 4:17 pm

I got to 666, lost interest and closed the browser.

disarm · Post by **disarm** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 6:06 pm

I beat the game on my second try with a score of 100,630...