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Google.pl's crazy doodle
- mtts 15y agoDoodle is awesome. So is the book these are from. The baby cannon. Hehehehe ...
- bdonlan 15y agoWhat exactly is this based on?
- aamar 15y agoThe Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. Great book, 60 years old today: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/23/google-doodle-stanislaw-lem-anniversary http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/23/google-dood...
- praptak 15y agoThe graphic is inspired by Daniel Mróz, the author of the Cyberiad illustrations (Click the "?" at the beginning.) The puzzles contain some motives from the Cyberiad (2+2=7, the machine that can do everything that starts with "N".)
- karteek 15y agoIts got a nice set of puzzles/games in it. Not sure what it is about. Any polish users to rescue? Edit: After going through all of them, I got redirected to search term "Stanisław Lem"
- bobbles 15y agoWhen you finish the game it takes you here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem
- joshu 15y agoIs that Klapaucius or Trurl? I think it's Trurl.
- shrikant 15y agoYep, Trurl built the insane robot that gets cheesed off when you insist on the correct answers in arithmetic operations. Edit: Yup, can confirm this - Klapaucius asks the robot that create anything beginning with "N" to create "nothing" causing it to implode.
- kitsune_ 15y agoStanislaw Lem is probably my most favorite sci-fi author. He's very popular in Europe, but not so much in the US it seems. His works are hilariously funny, philosophical and have a certain magic to them. When I saw the robot I was almost certain that it had to be about him. I don't know about the quality of the English translations of his books, but in German, they are fabulous. There are a lot of word plays that are hard to translate. By the way, many will recommend Solaris in here because there were two films based on it, one by Tarkovsky and one by Soderbergh. While it's not a bad book it's probably not his best and not entirely exemplary of his other books. This is a good introduction to his work: http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/vitrifaxintro.html http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/vitrifaxintro.html
- joshu 15y agoLem is awesome, but avoid the ones that have come to english via a multihop route. Books translated by Kandel are fabulous. Trurl invents an electronic bard. Klaupacius challenges it: "Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!" The electronic bard's response: Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.
- knowtheory 15y agoI can not agree emphatically enough. If one wishes to see another excerpt indicating how amazing Lem was via Kandel, i posted one of my favorite poems of all time, also from the same short story here: http://blog.knowtheory.net/post/88490831/the-best-poem-ever-even-in-translation-the-cyberiads http://blog.knowtheory.net/post/88490831/the-best-poem-ever-... The poem has only one blemish, which is the assumption that "Euler" rhymes with "ruler".
- tikhonj 15y agoHeh, the Tarkovsky film is actually the reason I read Solaris, but I rather liked it overall so would still recommend it.
- tikhonj 15y agoFor the curious: the doodle is for Stanislaw Lem, one of my favorite science fiction authors. For those who haven't read any of his books, I personally recommend Solaris and Fiasco, although most of the other books I've read by him are also great. Edit: Oh yeah, for something a little bit more funny, read Tales of Pirx the Pilot.
- AlexV 15y agoBrilliant doodle by Google! The drawings are exactly Lem's style, so I recognized them immediately, having grew up on Lem's book. Truly amazing and timeless books. :)
- deafmetal 15y agoThe Cyberiad is a great book for kids too. I must have read it when I was about 8 or 9 and it set me off on a life-long journey through Science Fiction...
- bermanoid 15y agoJust a warning: if you've made it almost all the way through, don't be a moron like me and bump a key on your keyboard, you'll get immediately bounced to an actual Google instant search, and you'll have to start over from the beginning...
- switz 15y agoYeah, I hit the "N" key when the big robot had a speech bubble with N in it. Oops.
- yesimahuman 15y agoAlso reminded me of this game: http://machinarium.net/demo/ http://machinarium.net/demo/
- kefs 15y agoMachinarium is great. I'm happy it was included with the original Humble Bundle. Which reminds me, everyone should go check out the recently released Humble Introversion Bundle. Pay what you want for 5+ great cross-platform games by independent developers, and choose who your money goes to.. charity or the developers. http://www.humblebundle.com/ http://www.humblebundle.com/
- ck2 15y agoThat definitely drew me in, kinda fun too. The owl reminds me of Bubo, the golden mechanical owl from the original Clash of the Titans.
- switz 15y agoCheck out some of Lem's drawings here: http://english.lem.pl/gallery/lems-drawings http://english.lem.pl/gallery/lems-drawings
- JoshTriplett 15y agoThis doodle appears on google.com at this point, not just google.pl.
- ggchappell 15y ago8 minutes after you. I'm getting a turkey w/ changeable feathers on google.com.
- andiw 15y agoNot for me (US), I see a thanksgiving turkey. Oh well...
- stock_toaster 15y agoI get the turkey too. If you click his wing he cycles feather colors and hates and shoes.
- grumblepeet 15y agoI'm getting it on google.co.uk too now
- askar_yu 15y agogoogle.ru has it as well.
- morsch 15y agoI'm getting it on google.de as well as on google.com (with country redirection turned off); the same was true last night. You never know what kind of localisation you get with google, and I'm not just talking about the doodle, but everything else.
- gulbrandr 15y agoThe JS script for the animations is here: http://www.google.pl/logos/2011/lem.2.js http://www.google.pl/logos/2011/lem.2.js
- vl 15y agoIt's only crazy if you haven't read Lem's stories.
- zalthor 15y agoIn case anyone was looking for the popup text info in english (hit the '?' on the right) http://www.google.pl/?hl=en http://www.google.pl/?hl=en
- sireat 15y agoI should mention that it is not only on google.pl, but should be on most (East?) European countries google.com . Great tribute.
- test5625 15y agoIf you want to read LEM, start with "The Star Diaries". It's concentrated. Each story is just 20 pages and is packed with futuristic ideas.
- cstuder 15y agoSome easter eggs (and spoilers) by the designer: https://plus.google.com/101765089097091765365/posts/1MaYwxJz62X https://plus.google.com/101765089097091765365/posts/1MaYwxJz...
- Tichy 15y agoMy nickname (Tichy) is from Lem's books. Definitely one of my favorite authors ever.
- kitsune_ 15y agoI actually wanted to register as Tichy on here, only to find the nickname already taken :)
- ableal 15y agoI suppose that Tichy Ijon (lastname firstname) is a pun on tachyon. Nicely fitting the current LHC head scratching ... My first look at the doodle popped up "Trurl and Klapaucius" in my head - and it's been many years. Queue one Cyberiad for re-read ...
- Anderkent 15y agoI was surprised The Star Diaries were not mentioned here. Definitely a recommended read.
- praptak 15y agoHere are some original pictures by Mróz, whose style inspired the doodle: http://solaris.lem.pl/galeria/rysunki-mroza/category/23 http://solaris.lem.pl/galeria/rysunki-mroza/category/23 Site already lags, be patient.
- D_Alex 15y agoAnd here is the story to which the final scene in the Google doodles refers: English: http://english.lem.pl/home/bookshelf/how-the-word-was-saved http://english.lem.pl/home/bookshelf/how-the-word-was-saved Polish: http://www.wattpad.com/133117-stanislaw-lem-cyberiada http://www.wattpad.com/133117-stanislaw-lem-cyberiada Well worth the 5 mins it takes to read!
- dagge 15y agoWhat tools did they use to create this doodle?
- alex3t 15y agoSame on google.ru and others European sites
- marcel-oelke 15y agoAwesome!
- teja1990 15y agoI had no idea about Stainslaw Lem till now. Just because of that doodle , I'm gonna read his work :)
- cfontes 15y agoI love Douglas Adams and it looks like the same kind of literature... I've never heard of Lem before so, gonna give it a try. Thanks for the info, it's really hard to find good Sci-fi with a hint of humor on it.
- bprieto 15y agoActually, Lem is more like a XX century Jonathan Swift, but if you love Adams you will like Lem.
- btreeworship 15y agoIt is currently also the doodle at http://www.google.de/ http://www.google.de/ I found myself forgetting what my original search desire was after playing through the animation. In my opinion, it was one of the best ones google has done.
- trurl 15y agoAWESOME
- shortlived 15y agoLEM!
- RyanMcGreal 15y agoHere's the Guardian's take: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/23/stanislaw-lem-google-doodle http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/23/stanislaw-lem-go...
- subdecoy 15y agoEndut hoch hech!
- ageyfman 15y agoLem is great, and this doodle is a great remembrance. Great job, Google.
- mechanical_fish 15y agoOkay, redundant though this is, I should underline that this Doodle is very specifically about Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad, which is great and I highly recommend it. As joshu says, English speakers should look for the Kandel translation, which is unbelievably good. Meanwhile, Polish speakers should count themselves fortunate that they can read the original!
- ratfink 15y agoThe constructor you control in the doodle is Trurl, the other at the end is Klapaucius. The ending is from the first story in the Cyberiad where Trurl build a machine that can create anything that begins with the letter 'N' the Klapaucius tells it to create nothing and the machine destroys half the universe before they get it to quit. Here is the full text to that first story: http://webspace.webring.com/people/fc/churud_geo/cyberiadn.html http://webspace.webring.com/people/fc/churud_geo/cyberiadn.h...
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