Cute. Super-Cute.
Google's Desktop Theme: Tea Party.
This has been available for some time but I thought I'd mention it, if only for the cute factor: the Google homepage has themes now.
The one I've chosen is called "Tea House" and features a busy fox who fishes, hangs laundry, feeds ducks, and has dinner on a pier. There's a fetching Japanese tea house to the right of the screen, and an orange orchard.
Between the farming, fishing, domestic labor, and animal husbandry, that fox is more self-sustaining than I am.
When you choose your theme, Google asks you for your zip code, and adjusts the fox's day accordingly. A sun rises, moves across the screen, and sets in synch with your own timezone. Neat-o.
I've always wanted, bizarrely, to witness the changeover from one activity to another; I have yet to catch the switch.
The other option I've loaded is their quotes of the day gadget. Today's was a particularly good one:
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." - Bertrand RussellAnd if you were as colorful as Bertie you'd hold the same.
Anways I've got a post about HGTV in the works, and might blog about the Canadian How It's Made as well.
P.S. — A lowercase i has appeared before the word "Google" on my homepage. What's that about? Piggybacking on the iPod craze?
3 comments:
I picked the tea house theme too, it's lovely. But like you I did think "iGoogle? what's up with that?"
I was curious, so I did a Google search. :) Here's what their blog says:
"For a while now, we Googlers have used a bit of shorthand to refer to the Personalized Homepage -- a name that connotes interactivity, the Internet, and personalization all at once. Please meet iGoogle, the new name for the Google Personalized Homepage."
I guess there are many levels to the "i" in iGoogle.
The "i" doesn't connote any of those things to me. It connotes Web 2.0 emptiness and fey affectation.
Thanks for your research.
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