There’s a new Google Doodle, and this time it’s a little unusual: Not only is it a tribute to a relatively little-known person but it is also, for the first time in a while, not interactive. The honoree is a …
Continue ReadingCelebrate Art Clokey’s 90th birthday today with a Google doodle honoring his pioneering work in stop-motion animation! Clokey presented Gumbasia to the world in 1955 from University of Southern California. Then, from Gumby and Pokey in the 50s to Davey and Goliath in the 60s, his influence has been seen right up through this decade! […]
Continue ReadingImage: Google.com “Hmm, I’m not sure…Google it!” is a phrase I utter probably on a daily basis. Obviously, as a writer for GeekMom, I’m a nerd, a geek, a brainiac; what ever you want to call it and as such I tend to be the go-to gal for everyone in my office whenever they have […]
Continue ReadingOn September 24, Muppets creator Jim Henson would have been 75. And in his honor Google has rolled out its latest amazing Doodle a little early. The Jim Henson Doodle features six original Muppet characters whose shapes suggest the Google …
Continue ReadingBy this time, you probably all received Google’s tweet, saw today’s Doodle on Google’s homepage, as well as read the post by Chloe Albanesius on PCMag, or this other one by Alison Flood on The Guardian. So good posts, actually, that we hardly need another one. But Jorge Luis Borges wasn’t afraid of huge bibliographies, […]
Continue ReadingGoogle’s logo Wednesday is a chalkboard scrawl of one of the most famous mathematical puzzles of the last few centuries.
Continue ReadingToday’s Google Doodle celebrates the 113th birthday of Alexander Calder, inventor of the mobile. And fittingly, the mobile in their logo moves when you “push” it with your mouse — or tilt your Google Chrome and accelerometer-equipped laptop! Although famous …
Continue ReadingToday’s Google Doodle is a riff on Busytown, the invention of the great children’s author and illustrator Richard Scarry, who was born on June 5, 1919 and died in 1994. It took a while for me to warm to Scarry’s …
Continue ReadingA message to the fine folks at Google: You don’t have to greenlight every idea for a doodle that comes along. Birthdays of famous figures from history we can get behind — we’ve been known to dabble in that a …
Continue ReadingA message to the fine folks at Google: You don’t have to greenlight every idea for a doodle that comes along. Birthdays of famous figures from history we can get behind — we’ve been known to dabble in that a …
Continue ReadingGoogle’s homepage doodle today honors Harry Houdini, the famous magician, escape artist, and — through his attempts to contact his dead mother — a perhaps unintentional debunker of psychic charlatans, who was born on this date in 1874. A few …
Continue ReadingHappy Birthday, Will Eisner! Eisner was a giant in the world of comics, coining the term “sequential art” and creating memorable comics — among them, The Spirit, pictured in today’s Google Doodle. One of the comics industry’s highest honors are …
Continue ReadingToday is Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday, as you know if you’ve been on Google’s homepage. In addition to laying out the Laws of Motion, he also did innovative work on the properties of light, as can be seen in this …
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