You can, with all special Google logos, hover your computer cursor over the logo, and it tells you what the logo is commemorating.

Thanks again! And there I was thinking you were a walking Grove!

And the more observant will have noticed that each violin represents a season too

Oh gosh, that's clever of Google!

Wow, that is clever. I like this one!

Me too! Only just realised about the seasons.

I am totally disgusted that the Google Logo didn't bother with International Women's Day. I take it that, as usual, half the world's population doesn't matter.

You will find that the world is more than 50% men.

The ratio of men/women is about 1.01 (so it's not purely the number of men that puts women in a "minority" position).

BTW, looks like the Baltic states and northern Russia are the places to be guys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio

EDIT. Er, hang on, I've changed my mind. They're all over 65!! I'm not quite there yet.

EDIT a bit more. Those stats are quite interesting. Apparently 7% more males than females are born, but clearly mortality rates are higher earlier in males so in the older age groups there are more women than men.

Quite a nice St. Patrick's Day logo now online...

I like it! (and I'd completely forgotten it was St Patrick's Day )

Film director Akira Kurosawa is commemorated on today's Google logo

No special logo today, but has anyone clicked on the link to Google Animal Translate - a new application for smartphones?

Only on the Android though. Perhaps iPhone users don't fall for this stuff. Mind you I've already got a Pig Latin translator on my iPhone.

A very good Hans Christian Andersen logo today

What's more barry, when I moved my mouse over the logo, it changed, several times!

*clicks*

Oh yes, so it does

It's lovely! Happy 205th birthday HCA

Very nice.

and if you want to see them all at once ...

http://socialmediaseo.net/2010/04/02/first...stian-andersen/

Am I the only one at the age of 47 21 who still sheds a tear for The Little Matchgirl?

There was one story in the complete edition of HCA's fairy tales that my father warned me against reading because it was so sad - The Ice Maiden (not to be confused with The Snow Queen). I still haven't attempted it!

'Earth Day' today, apparently!

Is this part of a trilogy,"Earth, Sea & Sky"?

Or perhaps,"Earth, Wind & Fire"?!

Or even,"Earth, Air, Fire & Water"? (Admittedly more of a quadrivium though)

I don't remember The Ice Maiden - I'll have to look it up The Little Matchgirl is so very sad, but I've just got a copy of Gregory Maguire's short story Matchless, where he weaves the matchgirl's story in with one of another child. Good stuff Another one I can't bear to read is Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince ("swallow, little swallow"... ) Where are the tissues?



It's very pretty, but I've been spoiled now - I want things to happen when I click on it or move the cursor over it - I want action logos

What do we do on Earth Day?

You mean,"What on earth do we do on Earth Day?"!!

Apparently the 40th anniversary event

According to the Telegraph:
"A rally that is expected to attract tens of thousands of people will be held this weekend in Washington DC with speakers including James Cameron, the Titanic and Avatar director, The Rev Jessee Jackson while Sting will also sing".

Well that's all sorted then.

Aaaaah...neither can I...that and 'The Selfish Giant' I find quite impossible to read to children. It's not just the heart-breaking sadness of the story (yes, that repeated, 'Swallow, swallow, little swallow' is quite unbearable) but the children's faces and the spell that Oscar's language and story have over them that gets me every time...

*sob*

A very nice St. George's Day logo today!

Three days in a row with a special logo : today's rather impressive effort commemorates the 20th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble space telescope...

Just tried clicking on the logo so I was taken to lots of info about the telescope. Then I found a link to making a model of the telescope - and suggestions that one might hold a telescope making party and then go to see a film about it all . Do people really do this? Perhaps I've been sitting here long enough - I need to get out more. Tesco here I come.

I bawl my eyes out every time I read this one! I cry even more at Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose

As for today's logo, I love it! It's awesome.

Yes, impressive was the word when it popped up this morning - a full page-width horizon!

Good one today.

I was rather hoping that if I moved my cursor over the door, the new PM would step out, and then we'd know without having to wait for the count

Tchaikovsky logo today...

Yes, I've seen this one but I missed yesterday's.

The 'l' in Google was replaced with the door to 10 Downing Street

They should appear here in the fullness of time - all the Google logo specials ever - even the non-UK ones that we don't otherwise get to see

Thanks - have bookmarked the page!

Delicate logo today - H M Barrie: Peter Pan.

Clever use of Captain Hook's shadow.

Er...think it's JM not HM (His Majesty???)!

I think the story of JM Barrie and the Llewellyn Davies boys is one of the saddest true stories ever..

Excellent logo today for pac-mac's 30th birthday!

Great stuff! How on earth did I miss that when I logged on?

(Incidentally, initially I thought you'd written 'Pack-a-Mac' and wondered why a roll-up Mackintosh warranted being acknowledged with an anniversary, especially when it hasn't been raining recently! )

Can anyone tell me how to play it? I've put my coin in, and am obviously meant to do something, but I keep getting gobbled up before I've worked out what!

Oops I meant to type pac-man!!

Use the arrow keys to navigate the maze, eat the big pills to make the ghosts vulnerable.

Hrm, running around in a dark room with repetitive music/noises, munching pills....

Arrgghh! Went on to do a search, got so caught up in playing now can't remember what I was going to search for!

EVIL pacman

Thanks Sol - I'll give it a go! I evidently didn't mis-spend my youth in quite the same way as you!

I think my attention span must be tiny compared to when I was little and playing this game. 5 minutes is enough! It's a very clever idea though!

My youth wasn't that badly misspent

Pacman must have been a raver