刚才突然发现Google主页搜索框下方挂上了一条黄丝带，而且该图片没有任何转向链接，鼠标悬停也没有任何提示。

之前Google每逢纪念日的时候总会推出一款特别的纪念logo，在主页放置没有任何官方说法的图片还是头一次。

查看页面原文件，发现该图片的名称为 ribbon memorial day.gif，搜索了一下，大体搞清楚了黄丝带的来历：

维基百科：

亡兵纪念日，又名阵亡将士纪念日，是美国的一个纪念日，于每年5月的最后一个星期一。

下面是更详细的介绍（来源 美国大使馆）：

1866年这一年，美国正在慢慢从漫长血腥的南北战争中恢复过来。幸存的士兵们回到家乡，带着伤残的身体和要诉说的故事。亨利·韦尔斯（Henry Welles），纽约滑铁卢的一个药店老板听到士兵们的故事并有了一个主意。他建议城里所有的商店停业一天为埋葬在滑铁卢的士兵们默哀。5月5日早晨，市民们将花束、花圈和十字架放在公墓里北方士兵的墓碑前。大约在同时，乔纳森·洛根（Jonathan Logan）将军正在准备另一个纪念仪式，这个仪式是为了在战争中幸存的士兵。他带领退伍军人穿过市镇到墓地用旗帜装饰共同作战的士兵的墓地。这不是一个令人快乐的庆祝活动而是纪念。人们叫它装饰日。

乔纳森·洛根将军在宣布纪念日时说：“1868年5月30日，我们要在士兵们的墓上撒上鲜花，或用其他方式装饰他们的墓地，他们在保卫自己的国家和最近的革命中牺牲，他们的身体被埋葬在这块土地上的几乎每座城市、村庄和小村落里。在悼念中没有既定的仪式，但是退伍军人协会的地方分会和伙伴们可以按照自己的方式安排环境允许的合适的活动和参拜仪式。”

这两个仪式在1868年合二为一，北方诸州在 5月30日举行这个仪式。孩子们朗诵诗歌并唱内战歌曲，退伍老兵穿着制服戴着勋章来到学校跟孩子们说内战的故事。然后老兵们就在市民的跟随下来到墓地。他们装饰士兵们的墓地，为站在国旗旁边的士兵拍照。向空中鸣枪，向为保持美国完整统一献出生命的北方士兵致敬。

1882年，这个节日更名为纪念日，同样哀悼在之前的战争中牺牲的士兵。在美国北方各州，这个日子被定为一个法定假日。南方各州在不同的时间哀悼他们战死的士兵。1971年尼克松总统宣布纪念日和其他的一些节日为国家假日，纪念日定为5月的最后一个周一。

美国的所有城市都在5月的最后一个周一举行仪式向为国捐躯的男人和女人们致敬。

该Logo的设计融入了众多中国元素，除了福娃、祥云火炬、北京2008奥运会会旗之外呢，在远处的背景里，是中国传统的12生肖的手绘版；而弥漫着的细小的庆祝彩带更让人联想到中国爆竹燃放后产生的效果。只是不知道擅自使用福娃标志和2008奥运会会旗会不会是侵权啊？呵呵，替Google担心一下～ 以下是每日更新的各比赛日Google logo：

20080824: 奥运会最后一天Google logo：12生肖齐聚。看来全世界都希望看到大团圆的场面，在08奥运即将曲终人散的时候，Google及时推出了12生肖欢聚一堂的logo，很有象征意义。而且，发现没有，中国龙第一名！

20080823: 第十五比赛日Google logo：小鸡打网球。

20080822: 第十四比赛日Google logo：中国武术？跆拳道？

20080821: 第十三比赛日Google logo：小兔撑杆跳：

20080820: 第十二比赛日Google logo：兔马赛跑。又是田径主题，嗯嗯。

20080819: 第十一比赛日Google logo: 蛇在和一群外星人游泳！这让我想起来n年前乔丹主演的准3D影片《太空也入樽》，当时就是乔丹利用篮球打败了外星入侵者。如今菲尔普斯已经拥有了这种超能力，8金的光环足以让地球人为之惊呼到下一届奥运会了！又想起前几天好多人关于Google logo在丑化中国的争论，这些人可以闭嘴了吧：按照你们的观点，Google是不是又把菲尔普斯妖化成了一条毒蛇？事实不是这样的，Google很单村，只是单纯的把中国12生肖里的动物借用一下，仅此而已。

20080818: 第十比赛日Google logo: table tennis。中国的过球乒乓球！主角也依然是中国元素：中国龙。

20080817: 第九比赛日Google logo: 赛艇主题。两只浆和赛艇形成了Google中的E，不过我觉得这个logo设计的中规中矩。

20080816: 第八比赛日Google logo: 虽然我比较喜欢马这种动物，但我还是不大明白今天的logo这是怎么样一种运动？马术？这匹马踢的是什么球啊？那后面的球门怎么还有个蚯蚓在守门么？有点莫名其妙。

20080815: 第七比赛日Google logo: 羽毛球运动主题。不过怎么是一个外国老头在抡拍子啊？

20080814: 第六比赛日Google logo: 中国龙扣篮。这是我继开幕式那张logo之后最喜欢的logo，龙元素的表现很成功。前日看到网上奥运主题的Google logo竟然能惹来很大的争议，我倒是觉得没有必要太较真，奥运会，本来就是一场全人类的Party，不就是玩吗～

20080813: 第五比赛日Google logo: 小猴吊环。最近几日的Google logo都是中国12生肖的变体，可是奥运会比赛周有两周唉，拭目以待Google把12生肖用完了再采用什么样的中国元素。

20080812, 第四比赛日Google logo: 小牛跳体操？

20080811, 第三比赛日Google logo: 小猪跳水。同样右下角被打上了中国印：谷歌印。

20080810, 第二比赛日Google logo: 小老鼠举重。继续突出中国元素（2008是鼠年）与奥运主题：

北京时间下午4点左右，Google和谷歌又同时推出该Google的加强版：在右下角加上了一个中国印，放大之后可以辨认出来这样三个汉字：“谷歌印”！

20080809, 第一比赛日Google logo：

To be continued…

P.S：此外，谷歌(google.cn) 的搜索结果页的顶部也换成了奥运主题，如下图所示。而Google的搜索结果页并没有这个图片，依然是Google风格的空白。

20080808:

20080812: 体操主题

20080815: 田径主题

20080821：中国元素

原本打算庆祝：2003年儿童节
拒绝原因：太幼稚

原本打算庆祝：香烟问世150周年
拒绝原因：政治上欠妥

原本打算庆祝：植入式广告（Product Placement）发明50周年
拒绝原因： 星巴克给的钱太少

原本打算庆祝：Google 箴言“不做坏事”提出5周年
拒绝原因：太自恋

原本打算庆祝：Googol（一个1后边跟100个0）提出65周年
拒绝原因：太极客

原本打算庆祝：纪念艺术家M.C. Escher的草稿之一
拒绝原因：太恐怖

原本打算庆祝：庆祝JPEG图片压缩算法提出20周年
拒绝原因：压缩损失太严重

原本打算庆祝：几年荷兰画家蒙德里安(以抽象几何图案等为特点的) 诞辰130周年
拒绝原因：太抽象

原本打算庆祝：版权法案（Copyright Act）成立90周年
拒绝原因：使用©符号涉嫌侵权

原本打算庆祝：任天堂红白机成立20周年
拒绝原因：宠物鸭协会严正抗议

来源：有意思吧

整理：okyle.cn

今日的Google logo 主题是：large hadron collider，字面翻译是：大型强子对撞机。

欧洲核子研究中心(CERN)的世界最大型强子对撞机，已于北京时间10日下午3时34分左右正式启动，将第一束质子束流注入对撞机。专家指出，该对撞机正式启动具有里程碑意义，中国将参加相关试验的物理分析。

在瑞士和法国边界地区的地底实验室内，科学家们正式展开了被外界形容为“末日实验”的备受争议的计划。他们启动了全球最大型的强子对撞机(LHC)，把次原子的粒子运行速度加快至接近光速，并将互相撞击，模拟宇宙初开“大爆炸”后的情况。科学家希望借这次实验，有助解开宇宙间部分谜团。但有人担心，今次实验或会制造小型黑洞吞噬地球，令末日论流言四起。

    这项实验在深入地底100米、长达27公里的环型隧道内进行。科学家预计，粒子互相撞击时所产生的温度，比太阳温度还要高10万倍，就好比137亿年前宇宙发生大爆炸时那一剎那的情况。

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a gigantic scientific instrument near Geneva, where it spans the border between Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. It is a particle accelerator used by physicists to study the smallest known particles – the fundamental building blocks of all things. It will revolutionise our understanding, from the minuscule world deep within atoms to the vastness of the Universe.

Two beams of subatomic particles called ‘hadrons’ – either protons or lead ions – will travel in opposite directions inside the circular accelerator, gaining energy with every lap. Physicists will use the LHC to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, by colliding the two beams head-on at very high energy. Teams of physicists from around the world will analyse the particles created in the collisions using special detectors in a number of experiments dedicated to the LHC.

There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions, but what’s for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator, as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe. For decades, the Standard Model of particle physics has served physicists well as a means of understanding the fundamental laws of Nature, but it does not tell the whole story. Only experimental data using the higher energies reached by the LHC can push knowledge forward, challenging those who seek confirmation of established knowledge, and those who dare to dream beyond the paradigm.

Google logo 0604：第一次热气球飞行

找了半天资料，还是没找到关于“第一次热气球飞行”，ms第一次热气球飞行不是今天啊？？

莫名其妙，占个位，有空过来补。最近太忙了……

1953年人类第一次登上喜马拉雅山脉珠穆拉马峰：5月29日,英国登山队的新西兰人希拉里和印度籍夏尔巴人丹增·诺尔盖两人从南坡首次登上顶峰。

It was Sir Edmund Hillary, who was born in New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese Sherpa, who reached the summit first, at 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953.

Obviously, this logo is to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Walter Gropius’ birth. A photo of the great architect will be posted at the bottom of this page, and the following is some information about him: (courtesy to wikipedia)

Born in Berlin, Walter Gropius was the third son of Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber. Gropius married Alma Mahler (1879-1964), widow of Gustav Mahler. Walter and Alma’s daughter, named Manon after Walter’s mother, was born in 1916. When Manon died of polio at age eighteen, composer Alban Berg wrote his Violin Concerto in memory of her (it is inscribed “to the memory of an angel”). Gropius and Alma divorced in 1920. (Alma had by that time established a relationship with Franz Werfel, whom she later married.) In 1923 Gropius married Ise Frank (d. 1983), and they remained together until his death. They adopted Beate Gropius, also known as Ati. Gropius, like his father and great-uncle Martin Gropius before him, was an architect. But all sources agree that Walter Gropius could not draw, and was dependent on collaborators and partner-interpreters all through his career. In school he hired an assistant to complete his homework for him. In 1908 Gropius found employment with the firm of Peter Behrens, one of the first members of the utilitarian school. His fellow employees at this time included Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Dietrich Marcks. In 1910 Gropius left the firm of Behrens and together with fellow employee Adolf Meyer established a practice in Berlin. Together they share credit for one of the seminal modernist buildings created during this period, the Faguswerk, Alfeld-an-der-Leine, Germany, a shoe lace factory. The glass curtain walls of this building demonstrated both the modernist principle that form reflect function and Gropius’s concern with providing healthful conditions for the working class. Other works of this early period include the office and factory building for the Werkbund Exhibition (1914) in Cologne.

Gropius’s career was interrupted by the outbreak of the first world war in 1914. Called up immediately as a reservist, Gropius served as a sergeant major at the Western front during the war years, was wounded and almost killed.[1] Ironically the war provided an opportunity which would advance his career during the post war period. Henry van de Velde, the master of the Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar was asked to step down in 1915 due to his Belgian nationality. His recommendation of Gropius to succeed him led eventually to Gropius’s appointment as master of the school in 1919. It was this academy which Gropius transformed into the world famous Bauhaus, attracting a faculty which included Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, Herbet Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Otto Bartning and Wassily Kandinsky. Students were taught to use modern and innovative materials and mass-produced fittings, often originally intended for industrial settings, to create original furniture and buildings.

Also in 1919, Gropius was involved in the Glass Chain utopian expressionist correspondence under the pseudonym ‘Mass’. Usually more notable for his functionalist approach, the “Monument to the March Dead”, designed in 1919 and executed in 1920, indicates that expressionism was an influence on him at that time.

In 1923, Gropius aided by Gareth Steele, designed his famous door handles, now considered an icon of 20th century design and often listed as one of the most influential designs to emerge from the Bauhaus. He also designed large scale housing projects in Berlin, Karlsruhe and Dessau from 1926-32 that were major contributions to the New Objectivity movement.

With the help of the English architect Maxwell Fry, Gropius was able to get out of Germany in 1934, on the pretext of making a temporary visit to Britain. He lived and worked in Britain, as part of the Isokon group with Fry and others and then, in 1937, moved on to the United States. The house he built for himself in Lincoln, Massachusetts, was influential in bringing International Modernism to the US but Gropius disliked the term: “I made it a point to absorb into my own conception those features of the New England architectural tradition that I found still alive and adequate” (see [1]).

Gropius and his Bauhaus protégé Marcel Breuer both moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and collaborate on the company-town Aluminum City Terrace project in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, before their professional split. In 1944, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

In 1945, Gropius founded The Architects’ Collaborative (TAC) based in Cambridge with a group of younger architects. The original partners included Norman C. Fletcher, Jean B. Fletcher, John C. Harkness, Sarah P. Harkness, Robert S. MacMillan, Louis A. MacMillen, and Benjamin C. Thompson. TAC would become one of the most well-known and respected architectural firms in the world. TAC went bankrupt in 1995.

Gropius died in 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 86. Today, he is remembered not only by his various buildings but also by the district of Gropiusstadt in Berlin.

In the early 1990s, a series of books entitled The Walter Gropius Archive was published covering his entire architectural career.

今天的google logo是为了纪念伟大的德国建筑师Walter Gropius诞辰125周年。下面是一些关于Walter Gropius的资料：

      瓦尔特·格罗皮乌斯（Walter Gropius，1883-1969）简介：

      现代建筑师和建筑教育家，现代主义建筑学派的倡导人之一，包豪斯的创办人。1883年5月18日生，1969年7月5日卒。
    他对建筑功能的重视还表现为按空间的用途、性质、相互关系来合理组织和布局，按人的生理要求、人体尺度来确定空间的最小极限等。这些观点充分体现在下述建筑中：包豪斯校舍，他在英国和E.M.弗莱合作设计的剑桥伊姆品登学院（1936），他和协和建筑师事务所同人设计的哈佛大学研究生中心（1949～1950）以及西柏林汉莎区的高层公寓（1957）。
     格罗皮乌斯力主用机械化大量生产建筑构件和预制装配的建筑方法。早在包豪斯学校任教时期，他便致力研究使家具器皿等日用品和建筑设计适应工业化大生产的要求，认为只有这样才能进行大规模建筑并降低造价。他还提出一整套关于房屋设计标准化和预制装配的理论和办法。40年代初，他和K.瓦许曼合作研制了供装配用的大型预制构件和预制墙板。

   评价  70 年代以来，西方建筑界新的建筑流派和理论不断涌现，出现了批判现代主义建筑千篇一律、枯燥无味的倾向，认为这是偏重功能、技术和经济效益，忽视人的精神要求造成的。这种批判波及格罗皮乌斯。对于格罗皮乌斯在建筑理论和实践上的作用评价不一，但对于他创立包豪斯学校等在现代建筑教育上的贡献则是一致肯定的。格罗皮乌斯参加发起组织现代建筑协会，传播现代主义建筑理论，对现代建筑理论的发展起到一定作用。

Walter Gropius(瓦尔特·格罗皮乌斯) 1883.05.18-1969.07.05

      大家都知道，Google logo人性化的百变也是它独特的吸引人的地方。每逢一些特殊日子，Google都会依据既有的Logo做变化，产生既有应景的logo。今天发现Google.com换成了这样一幅具有光泽感，速度感的图片。鼠标悬停发现这样的label：invention of the first laser。

      马上上网Google一下，却发现中文网页介绍激光的发明的很少，只有少的可怜的信息。

1960年5月16日，在美国加利福尼亚的休斯空军试验室里，一束激光由红宝石棒中发出，虽然它仅持续了三亿分之一秒，然而它却标志着人类文明史上一个新时代的来临。

      最后在一个叫做laserfocusword的网站上找到了更详细一点的信息。激光的发明人叫做Theodore (Ted) H. Maiman，而他已经在2007年的5月5号与世长辞了。下面是关于他的一些生平资料，同学们可以自己看一下，在心里默默的缅怀一下这位伟大科学家：

    Maiman was born in 1927 and learned electronics from his father, Abe, an electrical engineer for the American Telephone & Telegraph Corporation (AT&T). He began his academic studies at the University of Colorado and earned a B.S. degree in engineering physics in 1949. Two years later he attended Stanford University and obtained a master’s degree in electrical engineering followed by a doctorate in physics in 1955. At Stanford, Maiman studied under the theoretician Willis Lamb, who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1955, months after Maiman received his doctorate.

    In 1960 Maiman invented the first functioning laser while working at Hughes Aircraft Company. Hughes’s managers had previously assigned Maiman to build a more practical version of the maser using microwave emission from chromium atoms in synthetic ruby crystals. Maiman created a new maser design that eliminated the external magnets in favor of a magnet inside the Dewar, thereby reducing the weight from 5,000 to 25 pounds. In 1962 Maiman established his own enterprise, Korad Corporation, which undertook the development and manufacture of lasers. In 1968, after selling the company to Union Carbide Corporation, Maiman founded Maiman Associates. From 1976 to 1983, Maiman served as vice president of advanced technology at TRW (now Northrop Grumman), where this photo was taken in 1985 to mark the 25th anniversary of his invention of the first working laser. He was most recently a director of Control Laser Corporation and a member of the advisory board of Industrial Research Magazine.

    Maiman is the author of the basic patent on the ruby laser and a number of patents on masers, lasers, laser displays, optical scanning, and modulation. He was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize and was given membership in both National Academies of Science and Engineers. He was also a recipient of 1983/1984 Physics Prize, the same year he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Three years later he became laureate of the prestigious Japan Prize, the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.

P.S.: 中国大陆直接访问www.google.com会被自动转向到www.google.cn而看不到Google百变的logo，大家可以在Google.cn主页点击页面右下方的Google.com in English来进入google英文主页。