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Dedicated to the late Filipina pediatrician Dr. Fe del Mundo, Harvard medical school's first female medical student. Google Doodle honors her 107th birthday today.
Fe Villanueva del Mundo, OLD ONS OGH, (born Fé Primitiva del Mundo y Villanueva; 27 November 1911 – 6 August 2011)[1] was a Filipina pediatrician. The first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School,[2][3] she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines.[4] Her pioneering work in pediatrics in the Philippines while in active medical practice, spanned eight decades.[3][5] She gained international recognition, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1977. In 1980, she was conferred the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines, and in 2010, she was conferred the Order of Lakandula. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fe_del_Mundo
Adorama variable grade RC paper was used here. Autotoned to improve coloration.
It's Monday Dog Day, and here's a new acquaintence for you to meet. This is Sam, the almost literal teddy bear. I spent 20 minutes trying to find his eyes, finally gave up and just decided to play with him ... as well as anyone with these agre differences could "play." Sam is a 60 pound fluff ball and, if I understood the owner correctly, is a Sheeperdoodle.
About thirty years ago, there was a new "hobby," crossing almost any breed or even mutt with a poodle. It started with the Labradoodle, Lab and poodle. It just took off from there. Poodles are very smart. And the xxx part were usually fluff, friendly, and playful dogs you were guaranteed to fall in love with immediately. To this day, I have met everything but a poodledoodle.
Sam is an English sheepdog, but name it and I've heard of it including the Newfadoodle (Newfoundland +, loveabnoodle and weighing in at 160 pounds). I'll let your imaginations takeover or just google "doodle." I wonder if there's a Googledoodle? There is actually a Skiperdoodle which is a Schipperkedoodle and perhaps going to the extreme extreme, the Dachshunddoodle. You think I jest, but now I do want you to google "Doodle Dogs."
I'm not sure about this mixing for fun and profit (a Goldendoodle can fetch as much as $700, but I've never met one I didn't want. Tempermentally, the best of both breeds: however, the smaller the breed mixed with a standard poodle looks odd, and I'm not sure at all about all this diddlingdoodle which could ultimately end up with a playful idiot the size of a chihuahua where you might spend 12 years determining front from back and that needs to be vacuumed twice a day.
But, Sam is another sweetheart that takes up a third of your bed and, again according to the one owner, will not sleep anywhere but with you. I would wholeheartedly recommend the "breed" for those in Alaska who sleep without heat at night and who love to brush dogs because the Sheeperdoodle really needs a good daily brushing. On the plus side, you could knit comforters as a sideline and have a concession at the Juno Gift Shop selling to cruise passengers who've always wanted unique souveniers from Juno, Ketchikan, or even a special, the Dollydoodle.
The new Google offices in Los Angeles are right in the heart of Venice. After passing through some hardcore security, you walk down this hallway, which I guess is a bit like dying and going to Google heaven.
You probably know about all the various Google doodles that decorate the home page. I heard the first one was of Burning Man. I didn't see that one on the walls... but maybe you can!
- Trey Ratcliff
Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Try the interactive Google Doodle theramin here
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Today's (5 May 2023) Google Doodle honors Corky Lee. Lee was a Chinese American photographer who documented the efforts made by Chinese workers to build America's railroads.
Google Doodle for yesterday, Children's Day 2020 (2020-06-01), as displayed in Poland, included a number of origami-like shapes.
Google Doodle is the customized graphics around the Google logo. You can see more information about this particular one at
--Staroměstské Naměstí--
-On 9 October 2010, the Orloj's 600th anniversary was celebrated with a light show on the face of the clock tower. Two projectors were used to project several animated videos on the clock. The videos showed it being built, torn down, rebuilt, and peeled away to show its internal mechanisms and the famous animated figures, as well as various events in the clock's history. The video interacted with the tower's architecture, such as rain rolling off the arch, and showing the passage of time with moving shadows.
On its 605th anniversary, 9 October 2015, the Orloj appeared on the Google home page as a Google Doodle.
Google's doodle logo to commemorate and celebrate "Pi Day", 3/14/2010.
Pi Day and Pi Approximation Day are two holidays held to celebrate the mathematical constant π (pi) (in the mm/dd date notation: 3/14); since 3, 1 and 4 are the first three decimal digits of π. March 14 is also the birthday of Albert Einstein and the two events are sometimes celebrated together.
when the clothespin kids at the Pinhurst Elementary school spotted the google doodle today,
they decided to form themselves into a zipper on the classroom rug
to honor Gideon Sundback's birthday.
more info from here:
www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/24/gideon-sundback...
"Google's latest doodle, a giant zipper running down the centre of the search engine's homepage, marks the birthday of Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer most commonly associated with the development of the fastening device that revolutionised the clothing industry."
"100 possibilities project" clothespins
55/100
#TP168 Sometimes, the best advice is to get closer. Today, get really close to your subject. Use a macro lens if you have one.
It was a 111 year old secret energy theory that had brought the three men together — and to die because of that secret like was considered for this writer. But I spit the fire shit and I won the game before you got to the table now is the time for the end of your fable. Truth the hour is here, the subject a cutting-edge ancient idea that they were racing to finish by next year — but when the time came to get quickly to Southern California, they chose to fly a small, piston-driven airplane that was more than a quarter-century old.
As pilot Doug Bourn and passengers Andrew Ingram and Brian Finn sat idling at the southern end of the Palo Alto Airport's lone runway Wednesday morning the thrum of the Cessna 310's twin engines rising as they awaited clearance for takeoff, the fog was so dense that they wouldn't have been able to see the cars they had arrived in. Bourn had to get the earliest start, coming from Santa Clara to put his plane through its pre-flight checklist.
At 56, Bourn was the senior member of the Tesla team headed to Hawthorne, where the car company performs some design work, he was also the only one of the three with two motorcycles. Ingram, 31, had been able to roll out later from the apartment on Palo Alto's Homer Avenue, where he lived with his cat Gizmo.
Finn, 42, lived so close to the airport that on mornings like this, when fog held the sound close to the ground, he almost certainly could hear the planes struggling to gain altitude. When something went horribly wrong just seconds after takeoff Wednesday, Finn came within two blocks of crashing into the home where he lived with his wife and 1-year-old daughter.
Investigators from the National
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Transportation Safety Board are just beginning the lengthy job of figuring out what caused the plane to come tumbling out of the sky — killing all three men on board.
The plane clipped a PG&E power line and showered debris across an area the length of four football fields — more than double the distance Bourn would have been able to see as he throttled up. When the fuselage came to rest on East Palo Alto's Beech Street, destroying two houses but miraculously injuring no one on the ground, it marked the abrupt end of three classic Silicon Valley success stories.
As a senior electrical engineer, Bourn helped develop the Tesla roadster that is the Palo Alto-based company's showpiece. "Doug was a fine man, a superb engineer, an inspiration to those who knew him, and a big part of the success of Tesla Motors,'' Tesla co-founder Martin Eberhard wrote in an e-mail to his former colleagues.
When Bourn asked Eberhard for the use of a conference room at Tesla to teach his own flight school, Eberhard told him of his own yearning to be a pilot, curtailed by the airport shutdowns after the. The attacks of Sept. 11. "Doug, with his characteristic smile, tried hard to convince me to join his class and finish the program," Eberhard wrote. "Flying was one of his great joys and he wanted to share that joy with his friends.''
By all accounts, he was good at it. Federal Aviation Administration records show Bourn had his license since 1974, and had never been involved in an accident or cited for violations.
"When we would go flying, I remember him taking great measures to inspect the aircraft, to figure out and file his flight plan, to make sure everything was properly planned out," said Ellen Humphrey, who met Bourn when they worked at a company called Zilog and was married to him for three years. "Doug was a very skilled pilot, a very safe pilot. I know he wouldn't fly if he thought it was dangerous.''
Bourn's enthusiasm for flying led him to volunteer with the charity Angel Flight West, which uses private planes to ferry patients to medical facilities. "He was a guy who was very giving," said Paul Weihs, a pilot who flies out of the Palo Alto airport. "He donated his time, money and energy to fly sick people so they can get better. That's the nature of his character."
The same nature that led him to happily tinker with neighbors' computers or volunteer at a robotics club at Castilleja Middle School in Palo Alto.
On Wednesday, he was headed for Hawthorne, where Tesla chairman Elon Musk is preparing to take on NASA at his other technology startup, SpaceX. Design work on Tesla's new Model S is being done there, and Brian Finn — a senior interactive electronics manager who joined Tesla in 2008 — was a whiz at devising just the sort of features that make driving fun. He was spearheading work on an interactive touchscreen for the $50,000 electric sedan.
"Brian was one of the most passionate automotive engineers I have ever met," said Klaus Schaaf, a friend of Finn's when the two worked together at Volkswagen. "Cars, that was his world."
An avid guitar player and an insatiable skier, Finn made no attempt to conceal his passion for anything on four wheels. "Our free time was spent going to new car and wholesale lots," recalled Laurel Finn, his first wife. "He would say, 'Oh, look at this car! Look at that car.' That was like an evening's adventure for him. He liked looking at cars, and thinking about cars and dreaming about cars."
Andrew Ingram loved creating audio systems for cars that would blow your hair back even if you weren't in a convertible. At 31, he was a startup himself, a lot like the company he worked for. "He was really passionate about his work," said Ellen Leanse, who rowed with Ingram on the intermediate crew team at Redwood City's Bear Island Aquatic Center. "He was really excited, and proud of Tesla."
After taking up rowing in 2008, Ingram became legendary among his crewmates for wearing Lycra shorts that looked like blue jeans — complete with fake pockets. "They were like his signature," Leanse said. "He just had so much fun on race day putting them on. They were definitely something he knew was tacky, and he had a lot of fun with that."
Recently, he brought his team a lemon poppyseed cake, baked by a woman he had just started dating. "It's so sad because I just feel like he was a really talented, really lovely young guy, at a real moment of coming into his own," Leanse said. "He was really just the nicest guy."
CONTROVERSY ON THE INTERNET (from the internet)
Google’s decision to mark Easter Sunday with a doodle of leftist icon Cesar Chavez atop its search engine angered some users in what they see as a snub of Jesus on the day Christians mark his resurrection.
Google defended the decision by saying it reserves the spot for historical figures and events, but a review of its past doodles shows it has never honored Jesus on Christmas or Easter, despite his historical and spiritual significance to billions around the world.“I thought the Chavez-google thing was a hoax or an early April Fool's Day prank,” Fox News contributor Dana Perino tweeted. “ ... are they just going to leave that up there all day?”
The Daily Caller website also chimed in, noting the establishing ties between Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt and the Obama administration.“While Google frequently decorates its logo to celebrate various holidays and special events, it is unclear why the company chose specifically to honor Chavez’s birthday, instead of Easter Sunday,” the website read.In 2011, President Obama proclaimed each March 31 to be designated Cesar Chavez Day in honor of the co-founder of the United Farm Workers union. The civil rights activist died in 1993 at age 66.
“Through boycotts and fasts, he led others on a path of nonviolence conceived in careful study of the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi and Mahatma Gandhi, and in the powerful example of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” the presidential proclamation said of the Arizona-born civil-rights leader.Glenn Beck also noted the perceived slight in a message that retweeted at least 360-plus times.“Cool for Google to not celebrate Easter but really?!!? Go to google.com,” Beck wrote. “HAPPY Caesar Chavez day everybody!”
Microsoft’s Bing, in contrast, featured brightly-colored Easter eggs on its main search page on Sunday. But Google, which last illustrated an Easter doodle in 2000, downplayed the controversy.“We enjoy celebrating holidays at Google but, as you may imagine, it's difficult for us to choose which events to highlight on our site,” a Google spokesperson told the Washington Post on Sunday. “Sometimes for a given date, we feature an historical event or influential figure that we haven't in the past.”
The California-based Mexican Heritage Festival, however, praised the selection.“Bravo Google for honoring Cesar, a man of faith and peace on this Easter Sunday,” the organization tweeted.Others, meanwhile, took the opportunity to poke fun at the sometimes-surprising way Google alters its logo on its ubiquitous search engine.“Google's Cesar Chavez doodle controversy: Much adoodle about nothing?”
Karen Lopez asked.Google has created more than 1,000 doodles since 1998, when the concept was born when company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin altered the logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
“Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists,” a Google website reads.The ideas for the doodles come from several sources, including Google users.“The doodle selection process aims to celebrate interesting events and anniversaries that reflect Google's personality and love for innovation,” the website continues.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/04/01/google-creates-controvers...
New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count is incremented by one. In many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner.[1] The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on 1 January (New Year's Day), as was the case with both the old Roman calendar and the Julian calendar that succeeded it. The order of months was January to December in the Old Roman calendar during the reign of King Numa Pompilius in about 700 BC, according to Plutarch and Macrobius, and has been in continuous use since that time. In many countries, such as the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, the UK, and the United States, 1 January is a national holiday.
During the Middle Ages in western Europe, while the Julian calendar was still in use, New Year's Day was variously moved, depending upon locale, to one of several other days, among them: 1 March, 25 March, Easter, 1 September, and 25 December. These New Year's Day changes were generally reversed back to January 1 before or during the various local adoptions of the Gregorian calendar, beginning in 1582. The change from March 25 – Lady Day, one of the four quarter days – to January 1 took place in Scotland in 1600, before the ascension of James VI of Scotland to the throne of England in 1603 or the formation of the United Kingdom in 1707. In England and Wales (and all British dominions, including the American colonies), 1751 began on March 25 and lasted 282 days, and 1752 began on January 1.[2] For more information about the changeover from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar and the effect on the dating of historical events etc., see Old Style and New Style dates.
A great many other calendars have been in use historically throughout the world, some of which count years numerically, and others that do not. The expansion of Western culture during recent centuries has seen such widespread official adoption of the Gregorian calendar that its recognition and that of January 1 as the New Year has become virtually global. For example, at the New Year celebrations held in Dubai to mark the start of 2014, the world record was broken for the most fireworks set off in a single display,[3] which lasted for six minutes and saw the use of over 500,000 fireworks.
Nevertheless, regional or local use of other calendars persists, along with the cultural and religious practices that accompany them. In many places (such as Israel, China, and India), New Year's is also celebrated at the times determined by these other calendars. In Latin America, the observation of traditions belonging to various native cultures continues according to their own calendars, despite the domination of subsequent cultures. The most common dates of modern New Year's celebrations are listed below, ordered and grouped by their appearance relative to the Gregorian calendar.
Currently working on problem 6 of 12
I was sworn to secrecy until today...
My daughter and I were given the rare opportunity to help create a Google Doodle for Sesame Street. The photo shoot was awesome, the Google bots were super nice, and lunch kicked ass (even though we had to pay). Imagine our disappointment this morning when we saw that we were taken out of the final Google Doodle. Still had a great time in Mountain View.
This papercraft is a Google Doodles Logo, designed by Google Doodles for Holidays 2015.
The mouthwatering aromas of freshly prepared food, the warm glow of candles, the beautiful colors of festive decorations... whatever makes your season bright, we think getting together with family and friends ...
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Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and Pokey, earns Google Doodle today in honor of what would have been his 90th birthday. If Google can pay homage, so can I.
Google's Pac-Man Logo celebrates PacMan's 30th Anniversary today.
You can actually play the Pac-Man video game on the logo by clicking your mouse pointer!
This is probably the coolest Google Doodle logo EVAH!
One of my friends in highschool had memorized the PacMan patterns, so he could play for HOURS on end -- he only stopped when he got too tired.
René Laennec’s shyness and a woman’s ample chest led to the invention of the most recognisable piece of medical equipment
Google Doodle: René Laennec would have been 235
It’s hard to imagine a doctor without picturing a stethoscope.
But before the invention of the medical i...
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Google is celebrating Josef Frank today with another Google doodle logo today, on the 125th anniversary of his birth.
Josef Frank: (born in Baden bei Wien, Austria on July 15, 1885; died in Stockholm on January 8, 1967) was an Austrian/Swedish architect, engineer and textile designer. He worked with Oskar Strnad and was familiar with the Vienna Circle. During 1933 he relocated to Sweden, where he worked for the Svenskt Tenn design company and produced numerous design items until his death. During 1965 he won the Grand Austrian State Prize for architecture.
Doodle
A doodle is an unfocused or unconscious drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes.
Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class. Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available.
Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, patterns and textures.
Etymology[edit]
The word doodle first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton.[1] It may derive from the German Dudeltopf or Dudeldop, meaning simpleton or noodle (literally "nightcap").[1]
The meaning "fool, simpleton" is intended in the song title "Yankee Doodle", originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. This is also the origin of the early eighteenth century verb to doodle, meaning "to swindle or to make a fool of". The modern meaning emerged in the 1930s either from this meaning or from the verb "to dawdle", which since the seventeenth century has had the meaning of wasting time or being lazy.
In the movie Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Deeds mentions that "doodle" was a word made up to describe scribblings to help a person think. According to the DVD audio commentary track, the word as used in this sense was invented by screenwriter Robert Riskin.[citation needed]
Effects on memory[edit]
According to a study published in the scientific journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, doodling can aid a person's memory by expending just enough energy to keep one from daydreaming, which demands a lot of the brain's processing power, as well as from not paying attention. Thus, it acts as a mediator between the spectrum of thinking too much or thinking too little and helps focus on the current situation. The study was done by Professor Jackie Andrade, of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, who reported that doodlers in her experiment recalled 7.5 pieces of information (out of 16 total) on average, 29% more than the average of 5.8 recalled by the control group made of non-doodlers.[2]
Alexander Pushkin's notebooks are celebrated for their superabundance of marginal doodles, which include sketches of friends' profiles, hands, and feet. These notebooks are regarded as a work of art in their own right. Full editions of Pushkin's doodles have been undertaken on several occasions.[3] Some of Pushkin's doodles were animated by Andrei Khrzhanovsky and Yuriy Norshteyn in the 1987 film My Favorite Time.[4][5]
Notable doodlers
Nobel laureate (in literature, 1913) poet Rabindranath Tagore made huge number of doodles in his manuscript.[6] Poet and physician John Keats doodled in the margins of his medical notes; other literary doodlers have included Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Plath.[7] Mathematician Stanislaw Ulam developed the Ulam spiral for visualization of prime numbers while doodling during a boring presentation at a mathematics conference.[8] Many American Presidents (including Thomas Jefferson, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton) have been known to doodle during meetings.[9]
Some doodles and drawings can be found in notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci.
Google's funny logo sporting Big Bird's legs as elles -- this Google doodle logo is commemorating Sesame Street's 40th Birthday today.
The Google Israel logo today is celebrating the Tu Bishvat (פרוייקט ההר הירוק) holiday -- "New Year of the Trees".
I find it interesting that the Google name in the illustration is written out in "Earth Art" or "Crop Art", a variation of Environmental Art which can mostly be seen from airplanes, aerial photos, and satellite images.
Read more about Google's Earth Art Logo.
The Google Logo commemorating the 205th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen.
Andersen was the author of a great many fairy tales (faerie tales), documenting folk tales that were widely distributed throughout Europe.
The small, arrow-like symbol in the lower righthand corner is a navigational tool allowing one to view multiple alternative logos commemorating Hans Christian Andersen.
International homepages for Google are sporting the Mary Shelley logo today, celebrating her 213th birthday.
Mary Shelley was the author of "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" - which subsequently spawned generations of novels and movies immitating the story. The warning of the story of a scientist who creates something he cannot control particularly resounds today, with our rapid, paradigm-changing developments happening every other week or so!
Google's Mary Shelley logo can be seen at their international version sites such as: www.google.co.uk
Google continues to celebrate Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary with a Google Doodle Logo sporting The Count von Count and the Google logo letters represented by cute numbers!
--Staroměstské Naměstí--
-The oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates back to 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, the latter a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University. Later, presumably around 1490, the calendar dial was added and clock facade was decorated with gothic sculptures.
Formerly, it was believed that the Orloj was constructed in 1490 by clockmaster Jan Růže (also called Hanuš); this is now known to be a historical mistake. A legend, recounted by Alois Jirásek, has it that the clockmaker Hanuš was blinded on the order of the Prague Councillors so that he could not repeat his work; in turn, he broke down the clock, and no one was able to repair it for the next hundred years.
In 1552 it was repaired by Jan Taborský, master clockmaker of Klokotská Hora, who also wrote a report of the clock where he mentioned Hanuš as maker of this clock. This mistake, corrected by Zdeněk Horský, was due to an incorrect interpretation of records from the period. The mistaken assumption of Hanuš authorship is probably connected with his reconstruction of the Old Town Hall in years 1470–1473. The clock stopped working many times in the centuries after 1552, and was repaired many times.
In 1629 or 1659 wooden statues were added, and figures of the Apostles were added after major repair in 1787–1791. During the next major repair in years 1865–1866 the golden figure of a crowing rooster was added.
The Orloj suffered heavy damage on May 7 and especially May 8, 1945, during the Prague Uprising, when Germans set fire from several armoured vehicles and an anti-aircraft gun to the south-west side of the Old Town Square in an effort to silence the provocative broadcasting initiated by the National Committee on May 5. The hall and nearby buildings burned along with the wooden sculptures on the Orloj and the calendar dial face made by Josef Mánes. After significant effort, the machinery was repaired, the wooden Apostles restored by Vojtěch Sucharda, and the Orloj started working again in 1948.
The Orloj was last renovated in autumn 2005, when the statues and the lower calendar ring were restored. The wooden statues were covered with a net to keep pigeons away.