Google’s tribute to Ella Fitzgerald on what would’ve been her 96th birthday.
Today’s Google Doodle honors the Brothers Grimm (and the 200th anniversary of their first publishing of fairy tales).
What a great family! :)
The fine folks at Google continue to wow with the specialty Google Doodle, this one celebrating what would have been the 78th birthday of Bob Moog, godfather of the synthesizer. The doodle is already live in such parts of the world where it’s already May 23rd, but for Americans yet have a bit to wait. This follows up another massively popular musical doodle from last year, in honor of electric guitar pioneer Les Paul.
Can’t wait!
Mies van der Rohe’s architecture celebrated with a Google Doodle to mark design pioneer’s 126th birthday
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the groundbreaking German architect whose sharp, angular designs still feature prominently on city skylines across North America, got a Google Doodle Tuesday for his 126th birthday.
In Toronto, Mies is responsible for the Toronto-Dominion Centre, a six-acre cluster of buildings that, on any given week day, houses about 20,000 workers. (Google; Reuters)
Today’s (animated) Google Doodle is a nod to Heinrich Hertz, who first proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.
Aww, thanks Google. You always remember (my birthday, and a scarily large amount of private information, I’m sure).
![Today, Google marks the 113th birthday of American sculptor Alexander Calder with a doodle on its homepage
hyperallergic:
, but it’s not just any doodle, according to CNet:
… [it] sways when a person tilts an accelerometer-equipped laptop. The Google doodle … tilts when a laptop tilts and slowly spins if a person clicks and drags on the sculpture. The swaying feature requires not just an accelerometer-equipped laptop but also a browser that can expose that information to a Web application. In my tests on a Mac this morning, that meant Chrome but not Safari or Firefox.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loqiamvENy1qzaos7o1_500.png)
Today, Google marks the 113th birthday of American sculptor Alexander Calder with a doodle on its homepage
, but it’s not just any doodle, according to CNet:
… [it] sways when a person tilts an accelerometer-equipped laptop. The Google doodle … tilts when a laptop tilts and slowly spins if a person clicks and drags on the sculpture. The swaying feature requires not just an accelerometer-equipped laptop but also a browser that can expose that information to a Web application. In my tests on a Mac this morning, that meant Chrome but not Safari or Firefox.
