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Clicking on the keypad displays different images; anyone worked out the others? Here's an excerpt from the Guardian: The doodle features many of the touchston
by yskchu 14y ago
Clicking on the keypad displays different images; anyone worked out the others?
Here's an excerpt from the Guardian:
The doodle features many of the touchstones of Adams's popular writing.
It displays a cup of tea - a reference to one of his Dirk Gently detective novels, called The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul. It also shows a towel, an item Adams wrote was essential when travelling in space).
With a click of a lift door on the doodle, one of Adams's most enduring characters from the Hitchhiker novels, Marvin the paranoid android, is revealed.
There are many references to the Hitchhiker's Guide. With many clicks, some of Adams's best fictional inventions, including the Babel Fish, which can be inserted in your ear to translate any language, are on show.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/11/douglas-adams-celebrated-google-doodle http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/11/douglas-adams-ce...
- mediumdeviation 14y agoThe sequence of images that appear on the Guide are a reference to: - The Babel Fish - Earth's entry in the Guide - "Mostly Harmless" - "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. Its knack lies in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" - The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster - the effects of drinking which is "similar to having your brains smashed in by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick." - The Infinite Improbability Drive - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjbtZ4NgtdA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjbtZ4NgtdA - The creation myth of the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI. They believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being known as the Great Green Arkleseizure - Mankind are only the third most intelligent species on the planet. Dolphins are more intelligent than man, and mice are more intelligent than dolphins - Towels are a hitchhiker's best friend - Earth being demolished by Vogons - The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything - 42, as calculated by Deep Thought All of which comes from the Hitchhiker's Guide novels.
- simonh 14y agoI think it's more likely the cup of tea is the one used as a Brownean random motion generator for the infinite improbability drive.
- Uncompetative 14y agoBrownian Motion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion
- cstuder 14y agoI am kinda disappointed though, that the door doesn't sigh and thanks you for opening it and get's rather ecstatic when you close it again.