Blogger handed out some schwags like the Blogger Gloves shown above, to the attendees of SXSW. Winner’s like almost over here at the Northern Hemisphere, 5 more days to go. :)
[photo by Michael Cote, used under a CC-license]
The Google Webmaster Central Blog posted the “real” portrait of legendary Googlebot for the first time! Cute, but it looks like a robot zombie (with a fang) to me.
Google recently put up this jobs billboard in the Fremont neighborhood in Seattle, featuring the famous Google Master Plan (probably a remake though, as the original one has been erased) to find talents in the area. Some interesting things on the billboard are:
[photo by Michael Lehmkuhl, used with permission]
We already know that Google has a history Lego obsession. And recently, blogger Keso received this neat Google branded Lego calendar from Google China. Now, yes, it’s kawaii, but would seriously be pain in the neck when you have to remodel it at the beginning of the month - every month. :)
[photo by keso, used under a CC-license]
Microsoft today formally offers to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. [more on Techmeme]
[photo by Simon Dickson, used under a CC-license]
The Google Brainchip cannot be reached for comment at this moment.
[photo by Johanna Hobbs, used under a CC-license]
Inspired by Google’s logo for celebrating Lego’s 50th birthday, AFOL(Adult Fan Of LEGO) Antonio Manfredonio replicated the logo with real Lego bricks. It looks exactly the same, except that the shirt is not red.
That’s the coolest thing I have seen all day.
[photo by Antonio Manfredonio, used under a CC-license]
This is an autonomous helicopter built by Googler Andy Rubin - “The Man Behind the Google Phone (Android, that is)”. Here’s a picture of the helicopter hovering.
[photo by Googler Don Loeb, used under a CC-license]
You got an apple (in the new Google Zurich office) with the Google logo carved on it using laser.
[photo by Ana Belén Ramón, used under a CC-license]
Google likes to have their logo everywhere, even on cupcakes. (In 2006 though, Google had a cupcake on their logo to celebrate their 8th birthday.)
[photo by Bryan Gosline, used under a CC-license]
This photo was taken in Google’s Amsterdam office. I forgot what’s the story behind the use of Goooooooooogle on the bottom of result pages (if there’s any), but I think it’s related to googol.
[photo by chuckbiscuito, used under a CC-license]
When you search “once in a blue moon” (in lower case), Google Calculator will return the mathematical value of “once in a blue moon” - 1.16699016 x 10-8 hertz (or approximately 2.715 years).
Rarely, once in a very long time […]. This term is something of a misnomer, because an actual blue moon - that is, the appearance of a second full moon in the same calendar month - occurs every 32 months or so. [Houghton Mifflin/Answers.com]
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