Last week, the world spent 10.7 million hours playing with Les Paul's doodle
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:19:48 AM
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| A GOOGLE homepage doodle posted last week honouring guitar legend Les Paul has cost the world $268 million, despite only setting the internet giant back a mere $15,000, Extreme Tech says. Extreme Tech says the amount covers 10.7 million man-hours in lost productivity, assuming the average Google user earns $25 an hour. "During the two days that the Les Paul doodle was online, those 740 million visitors, according to analytics from RescueTime, spent 26 seconds more on the Google home page than normal," it said. "740 million times 26 seconds is 5,344,444 hours - and over two days, that's a... |
World's oldest doodle found on rock
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:19:48 AM
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| Scientists have discovered what is believed to be one of the world's oldest doodles - an ancient scrawl carved onto a rock by a caveman 4,500 years ago. Cambridge University experts believe the crudely etched circles are the Neolithic version of a modern office worker's scribbles on a post-it note. The 6.6in (17cm) chunk of sandstone was discovered by an amateur archaeologist from the bottom of a deep quarry in Over, Cambs., during a university fun day. |
Holidays by Google
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:19:48 AM
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| What makes a holiday a holiday? Or, what makes a holiday worthy of a celebratory logo on the worldâs most popular website like Google? This question recently prompted me to talk with Michael Lopez, Googleâs lead logo designer, to find an answer.September 19, for instance, is Rosh Hashanah. YouÂll see synagogues celebrating the Jewish New Year and youÂll hear the ÂShana tova! greeting on the streets of New York. But if Google is true to form, you wonÂt find it a special Google logo marking the day. In the past, however, you will have found Google celebrations of both the... |
CNN Reveals Sarah Palin Fantasies
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:19:48 AM
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| CNN, the most trusted name in - doodling? In a showcase piece of just how far the network has sunk journalistically speaking, they have produced a segment that could only be described as childishly one-sided. The title of the piece - Palin Fantasies Revealed in Doodles. The reality is that the analysis of these doodles reveals more about CNN's fantasies than anything else. It is a piece so laden with PDS overtones, so bereft of integrity, that one has to wonder how it can possibly be offered up by CNN as news. |
Book Compiles Doodlings of Presidents
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:19:48 AM
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| NEW YORK - As a president, Herbert Hoover ranks near the bottom in the hearts of most historians, condemned as the dull-minded bureaucrat who looked on while the nation sank into the Great Depression. But in at least one respect, Hoover's sad, single term wasn't a waste of time. In fact, he was apparently never more productive than when supposedly wasting his time, assembling what may be his supreme presidential legacy: The nation's foremost executive doodler. "Presidential Doodles," just released by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, collects the random sketches and drawings of Hoover and most... |
Psychologial Scribblings (Bill Gates Doodles)
Sunday 27th of May 2012 07:19:48 AM
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| It seems that recent analysis of Tony Blair is actually a case of missing person: A page of doodles found on Tony Blair's desk at last week's economic summit in Davos sparked a wave of excitement in the media. Psychologists and handwriting experts were drafted in by the press in the hope of getting a glimpse into the inner workings of the prime ministerial mind. Newspaper stories contained phrases such as "struggling to concentrate" and "not a natural leader". Now - and with not a little glee - Downing Street has revealed that the scribblings were not the work of... |




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