St. George’s Day Google Doodle
Zorgloob points out that Google UK is running a Doodle today for St. George’s Day. According to Wikipedia, this is England’s National Day (kinda like July 4 in the U.S.).
Google Puzzle
Philipp linked to a Google sliding tile puzzle (that he may or may not have created himself). It’s like those little pocket plastic sliding puzzles I hated when I was a kid, where you had to fix a picture of Mickey Mouse, except in this case you are fixing an image of the Google home page.
Oh, and I didn’t hate the game. I just hated that the only way I could win was by pulling out all the pieces and snapping them back in order. Of course, you can’t do that online.
Google Alerts In Hebrew
Google Alerts are now available in Hebrew, reports a poster at Blogoscoped.
What? That’s the whole news. You want more?
Fine, try this:
Four people are sitting, one in front of the other.
The first guy is wearing a red hat.
The second is wearing a blue hat.
The third is wearing a red hat.
The fourth, the last one in the back, is wearing a blue hat and has a blindfold covering his eyes.
They are told that there are two red hats and two blue hats, and that everyone is wearing a hat. First to figure out correctly which hat he is wearing, wins the prize. No turning around, no discussing.
After a period of complete silence, one of them guesses correctly and wins.
Who was it?
Another Google Redesign: Google Dark
Want to change how Google looks? Well, here’s another Greasemonkey script to do the job. This one, called Google Dark, makes for a, well, darker Google. It looks pretty nice.
(via Digg)
View Freedom Tower In Google Earth
If you want to see what New York’s Freedom Tower (expected to begin construction as early as 2035!) would look like against the skyline, Ogle Earth has a KMZ file with the 3D building in it. You can also display all the proposed new buildings and the old World Trade Center, if you want. And if you really want to compare, you can drop in the Burj Dubai, the already-under-construction tallest building in the world. All in one KMZ file. Nice.
Naturally, the buildings were made in SketchUp. I like.
(via Digg)
Things Not To Like About Google
Google OS had a list of 10 things they don’t like about Google search. Every one of them seems like a legitimately good idea (like showing the full size of a page, not just that of the HTML document), although all have not been implemented for good reasons. I think, that if any one of them does happen, it’ll be #3: An option to search Google straight up, without localization or personalization.
Happy BDay Jason !
Jason Schramm, who writes for the Apple Watch blog here on the Blog News Channel, and who’s behind RadioFirefox and a lot of other sites, had his birthday today. So, yet again we wish somebody a very very happy BDay… *start chorus*
- HAPPY
BIRTHDAY
JASON !!!
From your loyal fans 
Visit Jason’s million sites, start here:
Google Bought Measure Map And Players To Be Named Later?
Valleywag alleges (do they ever do anything else, after all?) that when Google bought Measure Map, the deal allowed Google to hire two members of the team to be named later.
The alleged deal: Adaptive Path would agree to let Google hire two members of the team. But AP wouldn’t know which ones until after the agreement. Then Google, like an America’s Top Model panel, interviewed everyone at AP and scooped up its two favorites.
So Adaptive Path had to sign a contract not knowing which team members would say goodbye. It’s almost like seeing a family break up — except the orphans get a six-figure salary.
If true, that is pretty interesting. Valleywag says they snapped up Jeff Veen, who started Measure Map, and someone else who they’re not telling. So, are we going to start treating Web 2.0 hires like Major League Baseball free agents? Weird.
No More AOL Free Hours
Heh. When America Online made the strange move of renaming themselves to an ancronym that no longer stands for anything (AOL LLC) and made dial-up and broadband cost the same, they also eliminated the “25,952 FREE HOURS!!!” offers. Well, good for them, but how about not sending out those CDs anymore? I’m building a great window decoration out of AOL CDs…
Why did I keep this tab open for 20 days?
Google Toolbar Patent Lawsuit Going Forward
Yeah, I’m clearing out some old tabs, don’t complain. A judge has allowed a lawsuit against Google complaining patent infringement in the Google Toolbar to proceed. Netjumper’s patent has something to do with retrieving information via a web browser, and I’d be interested in more details, especially why its Google’s, and not all the other search toolbars, that is being sued.
SNL’s Google Song
Most of what Saturday Night Live does lately just doesn’t work (by which I mean “It isn’t funny”), and this song, “Goo Goo Googling Him” is a perfect example. Still, for us Google-watchers, it is something to watch.
Mostly because we’ve seen it done better.
Justin Pfister has the video for download.
(via Philipp)
Damn, now I’ve got it stuck in my head again…
You may find then
She’s already killed six men…
Craprr
Some fellas I know are writing a new blog, Craprr, which focus on all the, well, crap on the Internet. From stupid Web 2.0 companies to funny stuff on YouTube and net-get-rich-quick schemes, it’s all in there (especially if it’s got an “r” at the end of the company name). What makes me a fan is the blog has that “it” voice that works so well on some of the more popular blogs (and not the by-the-numbers voice I use) that makes me think Craprr will take off.
Check it out, or subscribe. Say you were there before it got big, full of itself, and became teh suX0rZ.
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