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Monday, May 27. 2013

This day in history


And you were there.


I imagine you've seen some pretty splashy 'doodles' in place of the 'Google' name when there's an important event to honor, like the birthday of some Italian painter from the 17th century.  Lesser events, like the Junior League's Summer Cotillion or the Annual Cornhuskers County Fair, don't get any doodle at all.


Or Memorial Day.


After all, to the sensitive leftists who run Google, that would be glorifying war.


And we can't have any of that.


Now, I could be wrong and maybe they did this last year and I just didn't notice, but I went to Google just now and my jaw nearly hit the floor.




It practically leaps off the page!

Posted by Dr. Mercury in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 15:00 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yeah, it leaps from a great distance - like on the horizon.

It ain't much but it is better than nothin'.
#1 mudbug on 2013-05-27 16:09 (Reply)
They consider themselves Internationalists more than Americans. That's lots of fun to say, but in the real world, it's hard to keep much intellectual consistency in how one's life is lived. It's sorta like writing a book about independence and personal responsibility while living in your parents' summer cottage.

Which is pretty much what Thoreau did, actually.
#2 Assistant VIllage Idiot (Link) on 2013-05-27 16:53 (Reply)
Lessee, now... Nope, still don't like or trust gobble.
#3 Sam L. on 2013-05-27 18:11 (Reply)
I actually was surprised to see any reference to our military, given Google's history of what they put up on their homescreen. Recently, I was more expecting to see something celebrating the Boy Scouts and "equality." Maybe they'll wait until the policy takes effect before doing that.
#4 Jim on 2013-05-27 18:52 (Reply)
At least it's not a disappointment because you're not expecting much to begin with.
#5 Rosalie on 2013-05-27 19:09 (Reply)
Ever since they ignored Easter I have no time for google doodles...
#6 stevo on 2013-05-27 19:34 (Reply)
This day in history: a French porn flick won the hearts of the world's cinema elite and took the Palme d'Or at Cannes....which is why I never go to the movies.
#7 Agent Cooper on 2013-05-27 19:50 (Reply)
Google seems to be mainly about taking and not giving. Google is the one who gathered bank account and email account information while their street-view vehicles were out taking pictures, isn't it? Never trust them, who knows what tracking stuff they try to put in their programs, etc.
#8 Thomas on 2013-05-27 20:49 (Reply)
In fairness to Google, this is the doodle that they selected as the "Doodle for Google" winner for 2013 and displayed on 23 May:

http://www.google.com/doodles/doodle-4-google-2013-us-winner

So... "anti-military" isn't really right. It's more a case of "military agnosia," an unawareness of what actual people had (and still have) to actually do in order to get the rule of law and peace here. They can just barely get their heads around a little girl running to meet her Dad after a long deployment (hence the doodle). They genuinely can't picture that same girl following a caisson four or five days after she's been notified. They "get" the suffering of missing your Dad for a year, at least when they get reminded of it; they don't "get" a little girl being deprived of her Dad forever, and that little girl's future children being deprived of their Grandad preemptively too.

I don't think this is unique to Google. I think that the vast majority of Americans no longer have any direct experience with the military and so have no emotional understanding that "freedom isn't free" or that what we have now is not the default case for humanity.
#9 Janet on 2013-05-28 09:12 (Reply)
Good points, although I'd note two things:

1. They displayed in on May 23, not May 27.

2. It was voted 'most popular', so they really didn't have any choice. They certainly, however, had a choice on when to display it.

And they're certainly not alone, but no other company has a 'doodle' displayed to millions of people a day. When they suddenly don't display a doodle on an actual national holiday, that says a lot.

But, after their leaps-off-the-page tribute yesterday, I'd say all is forgiven. I'm going to mention this in a post later today.
    #9.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-05-28 09:21 (Reply)
    In Google's defense, I'm not sure, given the intended tone of the holiday, that a big colorful animated doodle would really be appropriate.
    #10 Matt on 2013-05-28 10:08 (Reply)
    Right, so why not run the one Janet mentioned?
      #10.1 Dr. Mercury (Link) on 2013-05-28 10:11 (Reply)
      For several reasons, I stopped using Google as my search engine, and switched to ask.com. They had a large, respectful flag display yesterday. No yellow ribbons. No small size. Just a beautifuly screen-filling graphic of a flag.

      I honestly believe that all conservatives should make the switch. Ask has better privacy settings. And they don't go around saying dumb things like "Do no evil." And they don't support every liberal shibboleth ever known. And they see themselves as Americans.
      #11 Park Slope Pubby on 2013-05-28 12:19 (Reply)

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