Today's Google Doodle

Julia Child's 100th birthday

I miss Julia. I can't believe it's been 8 years since she died.

Maria Montessori's 142nd Birthday

A Star Trek anniversary today. I like the "piece" on the "O" in the captain's chair. :-D

Would have taken me a REALLY long time to figure out what this was, if they hadn't told me. Cute, though.

I would never have recognized the Montessori one as spelling out "google" if I hadn't known already!

Ok, I've got stuff to do and just spent 5 minutes playing around. You can click on the console and get sounds. Then click the elevator doors and they open, click Uhura, too. Then there are multiple screens with famous scenes.

Love the Tribbles!

This article explains each page.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Tech-Culture/2012/0907/Did-you-find-all-the-secrets-in-Google-s-Star-Trek-The-Original-Series-doodle/Meet-the-Trekkers

I wish there was a way to save the interactive doodles, not just a screen shot.

ETA:Glad to see that the StarTrek interactive doodle is still there AND I found a link on one of the YouTube videos! - its in Dutch, but everything works.

http://www.websonic.nl/googledoodles/doodle_filmtv.php#startrek

plus this site offers all the old doodles with the interactive elements intact.

Cool!

Oh, that was WAY more fun once I realized it was interactive! Funny stuff. But I'm VERY disappointed that clicking on Spock did nothing.

Coolest thing I have seen all week, thanks!

PeggyC said:

But I'm VERY disappointed that clicking on Spock did nothing.

Now you know how Nurse Chapel felt. ;-)

I know, I know. I always felt sorry for Nurse Chapel. That is, when I didn't want to slap her. I mean, seriously, get over it!

Clara Schumann's birthday

Not to complain, but...

The doodle makes her look more like a homely piano teacher than a fiery and brilliant composer/pianist who greatly influenced music in the Romantic era.

Still cool though.

nohero said:

PeggyC said:

But I'm VERY disappointed that clicking on Spock did nothing.

Now you know how Nurse Chapel felt. ;-)

lol

Sometimes the concept is there but they're tooo stylized

google's 14th anniversary

I can't get the image animation to work on the gif inserted above.

It's working on my computer.

It's a little lame as far as Google images go.

check out google australia - different occasion and pic.

David Uniapon's 140th birthday

:-D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Unaipon
Inventor
Unaipon took out provisional patents for 19 inventions but was unable to afford to get any of his inventions fully patented. His most successful invention (provisional patent 15 624), a shearing machine that converted curvilineal motion into the straight line movement which is the basis of modern mechanical shears, was introduced without Unaipon receiving any financial return and, apart from a 1910 newspaper report acknowledging him as the inventor, he received no credit.[7] Other inventions included a centrifugal motor, a multi-radial wheel and a mechanical propulsion device. He was also known as the Australian Leonardo da Vinci for his mechanical ideas, which included pre WWI drawings for a helicopter design based on the principle of the boomerang and his research into the polarisation of light and harnessing the secret of perpetual motion.[8]

And so much more!!!

Not familiar with the subject (obviously not the underwater Nemo that I know), but today's page has much more to it than it appears.

Click on the little blue flag at the bottom, and more is revealed -- over and over. Don't even have time to get to the end.

But it's worth a look-see today!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/9608878/Winsor-McCays-Little-Nemo-cartoon-celebrated-in-Google-Doodle.html

https://www.google.com/search?q=Bob+Ross&oi=ddle&ct=bob_ross12-hp&biw=1745&bih=877

I used to love watching Bob Ross (and the happy, happy trees) - he made it look so easy and watching him was like taking a tranquilizer or two!