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Wuzzat Fermat?Famous math guy ( link).
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Oh well, Google Chrome is OK sometimes.
Works with Chrome for me, after all it's Google's product. You just need to keep the cursor still while hovering over the pic and you get a balloon text with a joke in it. It helps if you know who Fermat was and his theorem, too. Kind of a nerd joke for math geeks.
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No, don't get me wrong. I did mis speak there. I use
Google Chrome, but it did not show anything. I guess it's better
luck for me next time.
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It was gone by the time I saw your post last night, Jackie.
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Google does it again. Jorge Luis Borges's birthday.
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Re Jorge Luis Borges  When searching google.com, this colourful montage appears showing a maze of “magical realism”. An old man is standing in the picture of complex scenery including a library, labyrinths, staircases and “forking paths”. Clicking on the original picture takes the viewer to information about Jorge Luis Borges. He would have been 112 today.
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Link to other thread on this site Borges
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All Queen fans go today, and click on the button. So cool that they do things like this!
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Very interesting, I'll admit.
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it can be found in many places - here's one.
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All Queen fans go today, and click on the button. So cool that they do things like this! And this time I did not miss it.
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Thank you, I appreciate that. Should have been obvious to Google it. I'm not firing on all cylinders of late (read that as you will!), but I hope for better in the near future.
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Poor you Peter....hope you get better soon.
I missed it too, so thankfully have caught it here.
Absolutely fabulous Google.
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Hoping for a full return to health, Peter.
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Thank you, my friends. The worst seems to be over, but I ain't dancin' yet! Hope to go to the theater tomorrow night: last show of the season.
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That always perks you up, enjoy.
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 Doogle Google turns Thirteen!Going to Google's website on Tuesday you will see a birthday cake with one of Google's earlier logos. Clicking on the doodle will take you to a search results page, with - what else? - Google as the top result. Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They originally called the new search engine "BackRub." Eventually, changing the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol." the number one followed by 100 zeros. I cant imagine Backrub ever being as catchy!
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Though its not a very exciting doodle I felt it must be commented on...because this woman deserves to be remembered. Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish–French scientist who among her achievements coined the word, radioactivity. 
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Thanks for the update, Candy.
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...because this woman deserves to be remembered.
I second that.
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"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful." ― Marie Curie
At a public meeting to name the new High School, there were suggestions to name it after "Ronald Reagan," and other political heros and war heros, but my oldest who would be attending the school raised her hand and suggested "Marie Curie High School." All suggestions were rejected in favor of a geographical name (consistent with the other high schools in the county).
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We have one named for Warren Buffet, the Oracle.
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Today's US Google doodle. Click on the individual tail feathers, the feet, and the head. Then click on the wing.
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When I click on your link, I get our Turkey: the same
one explained above.
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no! ours is brilliant...best doodle made so far i think! try googling google doodle stanislaw lem
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no! ours is brilliant...best doodle made so far i think! try googling google doodle stanislaw lem That is pretty awesome, all right. thanks.
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 Google Doodle ~ depicting scenes from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer on November 30th. The full-width illustration greeting web users logging on to the search engine portrays an episode in the novel in which the protagonist is made to whitewash a fence. Resembling a drawing from a children's story book, the picture appears to show Tom and his friend Ben at various stages of the paintwork job, with the 'e' and half the 'l' of "Google" subjected to their brush. Did you know that Mark Twain was his pen name? He was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 176 years ago. Remember this thread??I wonder if changing those words has made any difference in the end.....
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I just finished reading (the authentic) Tom Sawyer for the first time in fifty years, and, after a couple of books in queue ahead of it, will read Huckleberry Finn for the first time ever. Wonderful writing.
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You're right - two very fine books which are among my top favourites. Indeed, my daughter is named after Tom's girlfriend, Judge Thatcher's daughter.
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Google Doodle ~ depicting scenes from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer on November 30th. The full-width illustration greeting web users logging on to the search engine portrays an episode in the novel in which the protagonist is made to whitewash a fence. Resembling a drawing from a children's story book, the picture appears to show Tom and his friend Ben at various stages of the paintwork job, with the 'e' and half the 'l' of "Google" subjected to their brush. Did you know that Mark Twain was his pen name? He was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 176 years ago. Remember this thread??I wonder if changing those words has made any difference in the end..... Yes, I remember the thread, and I repeat what I said then: It is the nonsense we have in this country called "Political Correctness" perpetuated by the media. There is a show on AMC now called "Hell on Wheels" which makes Twain mild by contrast, and there is no political correctness in its vocab. Just the way it was with the building of the Transcontinental railroad.
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I read both of them or an either/or situation, at least once
a year. And I only do that with no more than three books,
as there are so many out there that are good. I have all
the Huck movies on DVD and watch them a lot as well.
I live close to where Twain lived and wrote and have been
there as well. Its like home.
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Boo on Google for their physically incorrect snowflake. But go ahead and click on the colored squares anyway. Be sure to have the sound set at a reasonable level.
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Somewhere I was told that not one snowflake is like the other. And still it can be incorrect?
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All snowflakes are based on hexagons. This one is an octagon. The molecular structure of water does not allow that.
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