everywhere there is water there is life

Google is celebrating water on Mars with an adorable Martian doodle http://t.co/yxVclDFl4F pic.twitter.com/rc3mXgi0Gq

— Mashable (@mashable) September 29, 2015

PAC-MAN in Google Maps

have you ever wanted to play PAC-MAN in your neighborhood? me neither.
but now you CAN! Thanks Google Maps! I tried downtown Memphis since it's basically a grid. Enjoy!

fUTuRE fOnTz

you should read this article detailing google's year-and-a-half long process of designing the font of the future, intended for true cross-platform use. its called rOBoTo!

raccoons can be jerks sometimes.

here's a video of google partner, kevin rose, who catches a raccoon attacking his puppy (whose name is toaster), and drops some southern justice on him.

i was listening to a gross story on radiolab and i googled "botfly" and now i will never be happy again

don't google it

the google streetview donkey

a closer look

and now, 2012 by google

spoiler alert : i saw two of my favorite things in there.

google glass

i don't know about you, but i cannot wait to be a robot. especially for the "take a picture" feature. #instantgrahamonmyface

kill some minutes

If you haven't already, visit Google.pl, where a mesmerizing Doodle honoring Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem will joyfully consume at least 20 minutes of your day. Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of Lem's first but lesser known novel, The Astronauts, the black-and-white, pencil-sketched interactive Doodle is epic. (via)

66 strangers ended up in a scary internet place.

well, the inevitable finally happened. the site of our last fall's creepfest, letchworth village, home for the feeble-minded and epileptic, was featured on an episode of john's favorite show, ghost adventures. i haven't seen it yet, but i'm recording a rerun this week.

anyway, i was just perusing the 2Pz stats, and noticed an a strikingly high number of hits from a google search for "letchworth village" and put it all together. now, imagine with me, if you will, for just a moment (it helps if you close your eyes), that you're an unsuspecting regular ol' person who just caught an interesting television program and headed to google to find out a bit more.

and...open your eyes. this is where you find yourself.

helpful!

thx carly!

new country alert!

South Sudan, Capital: Juba

good luck South Sudan. Doesn't look like its on google maps yet, but maybe one day...

The new country is rich in oil, but one of the least developed countries in the world, where one in seven children dies before the age of five.

martha graham google doodle

background

nErD aLeRt! (f)art(z) edition!

you're going to want to take a peek at this.

Google Art Project, the brainchild of a small group of art-happy Google employees, brings the Street View technology of Google Earth and Google Maps inside 17 museums around the world. The roster includes The Uffizi, the Tate Britain, The Met, MoMA, and the Van Gogh Museum. (via)

thx lilly!

gulp

According to new google advanced search features, 2PzNaPpod is written at a VERY basic reading level. According to gawker, who has compiled a list of notable websites and their scores, we may be one of the dumbest websites around. Hehehe.

2010 zeitgeist by google.

someone on facebook pointed out that they missed michael jackson in the 'deaths' section. guess our boycott worked! (redacted)

here, lilly.

it's buttonless! get it? except for the buttons you type on....

the new psychic google...

...just made me clap my hands together and giggle like a baby!

HOW DID IT KNOW?!

here goes another one:

aaaaaaaaaaaAAAaaaaHHh!!! clap clap!!

harnessing the power of the internet...

...to make telephone calls.

Google entered a new business beyond Internet search on Wednesday with a service within Gmail to make phone calls over the Web to landlines or cellphones.

The service will thrust Google into direct competition with Skype, the Internet telephone company, and with telecommunications providers. It could also make Google a more ubiquitous part of people’s social interactions by uniting the service for phone calls with e-mail, text messages and video chats.

“It’s one place where you can get in touch with the people that you care about, and how that happens from a network perspective is less important,” said Charles S. Golvin, a telecommunications analyst at Forrester Research.

Gmail has offered voice and video chat for two years, but both parties must be at their computers. Google said the new service would work well for people in a spot with poor cellphone reception or for those making a quick call from their desk. (via)

thx googz!

playing dead

this plucky little british lass was playing dead on her street when google street view rolled by taking pictures.

everyone was aghast. except her mom who said:

"I understand how some people might have thought the picture looked like a dead body—I just wish she was that quiet all the time."

from gawker, suggested by kylie in transit.