Bloody Googlism!

[max_und_moritz]

So now some US Republicans are ticked off that Google logos ignore US-only holidays like Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and a long list of Rah Rah Yankee days. They´re especially irritated that the 50th anniversary of the launching of the spacecraft Sputnik merited a special logo for the folks of Google and their own self-glorification days didn´t (uh

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[esteven]

and google.de had a German flag on October 3rd. ;D

[max_und_moritz]

*cheers and remembers with goosebumps the cries of "Deutschland Einig Vaterland"*

[esteven]

I continue to be touched by the fireworks and the solemn national anthem on the first Unification Day. Just for once there was no bloodshed.

[esteven]

and I always like the St Patrick's Day.

[max_und_moritz]

Tee hee, that´s a universal one too, since the Irish colonised half the world in the 10th century, in the 16th century, and again in the 19th century :p

[esteven]

The green always looks fetching. ;D

have I ever mentioned I miss your mails somewhat rotten? And yes, I know you don't have time.
*sniffle*

[max_und_moritz]

I miss our mailings too :(( I´m alone now at work with mountains of work and a slavedriving überboss. It´s all I can do to sneak online now and then for a few minutes.

The rest of the free time (hah) I study like mad, though I´ve no clue why. I´ll pass the simultaneous, but the consecutive I never learned and all I know is self-taught and won´t be enough.

[ozfille]

I would support Lawrence of Arabia day. What date would you suggest? *g*

[max_und_moritz]

Grargh, even his birthday is disputed - some say August 15th (like Napoleon - neither they nor their fans would approve of shared glory :p) and some say August 16th. But which one would *he* choose? The day he took Aqaba, the day Damascus fell, his death-day...?

A question for the Laurentians at large, forsooth! *g* You tell me ;)

[ozfille]

Probably he would choose his death day.

[bagira]

Ehhh.... At the risk of being late for court...

Memorial day is no way a ra-ra holiday--it's a day to honor the fallen veterans, including the ones that died helping liberate Europe in 1940s.

And yes, Google is a US company. They may have hundreds of millions of users, but they are based--and got their start in--the United States. I really don't understand why they WOULDN'T honor our holidays together with--gosh--something as important to the world as the Persian New Year.

Also, if you consider that Sergei Brin is a Russian immigrant-- i.e. someone, whose family brought him here from the Soviet Union, thinking that this here, with all its Yankee Ra-Ra-ness is a better place than there, with all their Sputnikness--and so far, he's stuck around--Google's attitude appears a little bit hypocritical and not a little ironic.

[max_und_moritz]

Oops, I read it wrong in Wikipedia then, because I understood it as a one-country celebration of patriotism:

"Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May (observed in 2007 on May 28). It was formerly known as Decoration Day. This holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country. It began first to honor Union soldiers who died during the American Civil War. After World War I, it was expanded to include those who died in any war or military action. One of the longest standing traditions is the running of the Indianapolis 500, which has been held in conjunction with Memorial Day since 1911. It is also traditionally viewed as the beginning of summer by many, for many schools are dismissed around Memorial Day."So thank you for the clarification, Tanya

[bagira]

"This holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country

[max_und_moritz]

Yes, thousands of soldiers died fighting for Europe, but so did thousands of Aussies and New Zealanders (also in WWI) and Brits, and they´re not claiming first billing though their losses were terrible too...

But Google´s not completely ignoring American holidays, that´s the point - there´s Independence Day and Thanksgiving, for instance. So you have three nationalities? *high-fives* (I don´t know if the Jewish and the Orthodox New Year days are among the holiday logos, like the Chinese and Western New Year days.)

(At least we should agree on today´s googlogo *sniffs*)

[blanhe2]

I noticed the commotion about the sputnik day... and I wondered why the hassle about that one. Ah well.

*hugs* don't get too overworked... you are missed here too!

[max_und_moritz]

*hugs* everybody´s overworked here right now... we´re way understaffed and it´s foreseen it´ll get even worse soon *rolls eyes*