Anyone know why Google's logo today is a barcode?

[Earth Bound Misfit]

:shrug:

Edit cuz I'm an IDJIT

Anyone no why Google's logo today is a barcode?:silly:

2nd Edit: Nevermind.

New Google Logo Celebrates The Barcode

Michael Arrington
TechCrunch.com
Tuesday, October 6, 2009; 9:43 PM

Google's new logo is a barcode which, as far as we can tell, says "Google." Today is the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted, No. 2,612,994 (pdf), on October 7, 1952. The original patent was for a system that would encode data in circles (a bulls eye pattern), so that it could be scanned in any direction.

[Hokie]

1. When Google has special logos just hover the mouse over it

I did a WTF on it this morning also.

On edit: Of course, Orly Taitz and the Brifers will assume this is a secret message to Judge Carter to dismiss Barnett v Obama and for the Obots to completely destroy her POS web site. Google already has up a warning that her site is infected with Malware.

[pokerfan]

2. Which is also the key to xkcd webcomics

Well, maybe not the key but at least a secondary joke.

http://xkcd.com/256

[pokerfan]

3. Google Barcode Logo FAQ

http://www.googletutor.com/2009/10/07/google-barcode-logo-faq

[Earth Bound Misfit]

4. Nice link, thanks for posting.

Everything you always wanted to know about bar codes

*but were afraid to ask.

:evilgrin:

Seriously, "Google Tutor"--- I never knew of the site, thanks for linking.

[david13]

5. Perpetual answer: click on it and see. Sometimes they have

groovy stuff, sometimes hokey.
dc

[Duer 157099]

6. Speaking of barcodes, check out the "bokode"

http://web.media.mit.edu/~ankit/bokode/

We show a new camera based interaction solution where an ordinary camera can detect small optical tags from a relatively large distance. Current optical tags, such as barcodes, must be read within a short range and the codes occupy valuable physical space on products. We present a new low-cost optical design so that the tags can be shrunk to 3mm visible diameter, and unmodified ordinary cameras several meters away can be set up to decode the identity plus the relative distance and angle. The design exploits the bokeh effect of ordinary cameras lenses, which maps rays exiting from an out of focus scene point into a disk like blur on the camera sensor. This bokeh-code or Bokode is a barcode design with a simple lenslet over the pattern. We show that an off-the-shelf camera can capture Bokode features of 2.5 microns from a distance of over 4 meters. We use intelligent binary coding to estimate the relative distance and angle to the camera, and show potential for applications in augmented reality and motion capture. We analyze the constraints and performance of the optical system, and discuss several plausible application scenarios.