Like the buses...

...two come along together. Today's Martha Graham animation by Ryan Woodward brought a smile.

[Image from Metro]

The Google Doodle effect

I never liked the Mr Men series (the morals and humour just too clunky) and didn't encourage my daughter to read them as a child, although a few found their way into our house. But somehow today's series of Google Doodles, in celebration of the birthday of their creator, Roger Hargreaves, has added some subtlety to them.

Google background

This was a bit shocking first thing this morning.

Must have seemed like time for a bit of Bing. Wonder how it (or any other background you choose) works with doodles.

Carping about Google doodles

Google celebrates the (somewhat random) 368th anniversary of Sir Isaac Newton's birth with this lovely animated doodle, prompting some vitriol and counter vitriol at Guardian technology on whether Google's doodles should be celebrated.

Google's and Bing's anniversary priorities

Of course, it's Google's prerogative to be idiosyncratic. And no doubt Sesame Street has been massively influential on many of Google's doodlers (I love The Count, and the doodle's clever). But today was such a significant anniversary for Europe. You'd have thought they might have noted it.

Bing did (at least in the UK) with a stunning picture of the Reichstag interior. Although there was something rather blue and Microsoft-ish about it.


I'm not really sure they fared better in Germany. Bit of a cliché. Hopefully too busy celebrating to notice.

Most of the rest of the world saw the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, apparently called Sue, in Chicago's Field Museum. Maybe a way of putting our historical European troubles in to perspective?

Lunar doodle

Cute.

Samuel Morse's birthday on Google

For my list of favourite Doodles.

Birthday mystery

Google's delightful anniversary tribute to Joan Miro disappeared part way through the day today. How strange.