Googlified

Google Hungary has a special logo on their home page to honor musician Béla Bartók.

Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer, pianist and collector of folk music. He is considered one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and was also one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology, through his analytical study and ethnography of folk music. [Wikipedia]

This is the tenth doodle this month, including the Orkut logo for Easter I posted yesterday.

UPDATE: Turns out that there’s another doodle today, on Google Japan, celebrating the invention parametron by Dr. Eiichi Goto at the University of Tokyo in 1954. [via Google Blogoscoped]

A parametron is essentially a resonant circuit with a nonlinear reactive element which oscillates at half the driving frequency. The oscillation can be made to represent a binary digit by the choice between two stationary phases pi radians apart. [USPTO]

So this would be the 11th doodle this month, and sorry guys, I think I just created a rip in the space-time continuum by linking to a Google Blogoscoped post that has a link to this blog. :)

[via the Google Blogoscoped forum]