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Today Google has blacked-out their logo to protest the SOPA act. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a bill that was introduced last year that would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Proponents of the bill say it protects
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Growing up I was a big fan of The Addams Family so when I saw todays Google Doodle, I figured I should blog about it. The Doodle was made to celebrate Charles Adams January 7 birthday. Charles Adams was a cartoonist who created the Addams Family characters which led to two TV shows, cartoons, movies
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A year-long photo exposure looks something like this because that’s exactly what this is. Photographer Michael Chrisman used a pinhole camera to make a 365-day exposure of the Toronto skyline from Jan. 1, 2011, to Dec. 31, 2011. A typical exposure with a DSLR camera on a bright day might last between 1/250th and 1/1000th of
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The New York Times Magazine decided to create a giant Lego building in the shape of the T in the New York Times logo for a cover. The inspiration for the scene was Central Park. In total the scene took eleven days of non-stop work in 16-hour shifts. Creating the round edges of the T
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After everyone bought an HP Touchpad during the firesale a couple months ago, they slowly began to realize that support is not so great in the land of WebOS. Lately though, developers have been releasing some killer apps that save the Touchpad from being JATWAA (Just Another Tablet Without Any Apps). Zinio has earlier this
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In celebration of Gumby creator Art Clokey’s what would have been the 90th birthday, Google today created a doodle that features Gumby and his pals and enemies. I say enemies because the Blockheads which make up Google’s capital ‘G’ and first ‘o’, are always trying to ruin Gumby’s plans on the TV show. And I
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Google Chrome has been out for almost three years now and it continues to gain in popularity. Starting about a year ago I started using Chrome exclusively whenever possible. The browser has become so popular that Google has built an operating system with the same name. Here are my top five reasons why I use
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To celebrate Les Paul’s Birthday (Lester William Polsfuss June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), Google created an interactive Doodle logo that lets you strum the guitar with your mouse cursor and create your own music. The Doodle was so popular that Google created a standalone website for it. Les Paul was an American jazz
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I grew up reading The Richard Scarry books about Busytown. Richard Scarry (June 5, 1919 – April 30, 1994) was a popular American children’s author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million units worldwide. Today Google celebrated what would have been Scarry’s 92nd birthday with a Google Doodle
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The National Winner of the 2011 Doodle 4 Google contest has been selected and today has their doodle posted on Google’s homepage. The winner is Matteo Lopez, age 7 from San Francisco. The doodle title is “Space Life” and here is Matteo’s description of his doodle: Is become an astronaut and explore space life. I
