Googlified

A rather mysterious painting on a wall in the Google Phoenix office. I hope nobody’s turning into a werewolf (it shows a full moon). :D

Arooo!

[photo by Googler Don Loeb, used under a CC-license]

Googler Junyu Wang Kouliqin managed to transform this Google Lego calendar into the monster a dog pictured above. Or did the Lego transformed itself??

TRANSFORMER!!!

[photo by Googler Junyu Wang, used under a CC-license]

Google Transit recently became available to Chicago users and the Chicago team has been very active in promoting the service to the residents of the city, like passing out flyers and advertising on buses, as you can see.

According to the Google LatLong blog, “the [Chicago Transit Authority] serves an average of 1.6 million riders per weekday and nearly 500 million rides a year, so being able to provide this new service to our vast ridership and all of the 45 million tourists who visit this great city every year is a great stride in promoting the use and convenience of public transportation.”

[photo by Outsanity, used under a CC-license]

Turns out that Albus Dumbledore has a part time job working as the Headmaster of the Noogler School of Hacks and Wizardry at Google.

[photo by Sudhakar Chandrasekhran, used under a CC-license]

Blogger Joelle McNichol caught her cat installing Google Desktop. She describes: “Anthony and Jax cat managed to install Google desktop by falling asleep on the laptop.”

It’s so easy that even a cat can do it!

[photo by Joelle McNichol, used under a CC-license]

Google gave out notebooks like the one above at the Open Source Developers’ Conference in Taiwan that was held this weekend. You can see different images (the Earth zooming in and out, and Googleplex) by tilting the notebook at different angles. These things never get old - at least for me. :)

[video by icools, used under a CC-license]

The Google office in Chicago has a wall that display the special logos that were feature on Google home page. They have Bloxes, too. Ahh, Chicago is now in Google Transit.

[photo by Eszter Hargittai, used under a CC-license]

Okay, this is not an official doodle from Google, but this entry to the Doodle 4 Google contest by Erik Wawerczyk is simply superb. The doodle depicts the Google logo being touched by Flying Spaghetti Monster’s noodly appendages.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its system of beliefs, “Pastafarianism”. The religion was founded in 2005 by Bobby Henderson to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution.

May you all be touched by His noodly appendage. RAmen. :)

[via Church of FSM, image by Erik Wawerczyk, used with permission]

This is what happened - someone typed “Google” into Google at Google (New York), caused a worldwide Internet outage. As you can see in the above photo, you can’t even access Google at Google (New York).

“It’s not a laughing matter, you can break the Internet.” #

[photo by Simon Law, used under a CC-license]

Blogger Anne Helmond got this t-shirt with “Google knows I blog for Google” on it, (along with another t-shirt that has her personal tag cloud,) which she described as her “best graduation presents ever“.

“Google knows I blog for Google” - whatever that means…

[photo by Anne Helmond, used under a CC-license]

Googler Ario J. says, “[A]n engineer hands out mint vanilla and cayenne chocolate flavored ice cream that she made in her 20% time!”

I heard that “most people don’t even have a 5% project”, as Hans Cardinal, who claimed to be a ex-Googler, commented on a ValleyWag post titled, “Googlers vent: Working here sucks, too”. Maybe it really depends what project(s) the Googler’s working on (and the Googler’s position in the company).

[photo by Ario J., used under a CC-license]

Eugene Teo, Fedora Ambassador for Singapore and a mentor in this year’s Google Summer of Code for Fedora got this t-shirt from Google. “May the source be with you…”

[photo by Eugene Teo (thanks!), used under a CC-license]