Comments on: Google celebrates Star Trek's 46th anniversary with an interactive doodle!

By: Jesse Nikolic

Jesse Nikolic — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 06:47:00 +0000

It’s okay to be Takei.

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:39:00 +0000

And I bet you are a female comedian. And by female comedian I mean one like Jamie Frevele.

Just look like Lisa did it years ago: http://boingboing.net/2010/05/21/play-pacman-on-the-g.html

Now that I read it… I miss her.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:30:00 +0000

The Google results page has a tiny, little, barely visible doodle in the corner with nothing to indicate that it might be interactive unless I accidentally click on it.

By: marilove

marilove — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:24:00 +0000

I bet you’re a blast at parties. And by a blast I mean utterly obnoxious.

By: retchdog

retchdog — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:33:00 +0000

looks like we’ve got a live one here.

By: marilove

marilove — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:20:00 +0000

Or you could just use another browser … or Flash.

*plays worlds smallest violin*

ETA: It looks like they ddin’t even use Flash. Look at skeptacally’s comment before. Yeeeesh. Dude.

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:18:00 +0000

Wow, you’re kind of a pedantic douchebag.

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:16:00 +0000

If you type alt+F4 while you’re on the turbolift, you end up in Yeoman Rand’s quarters, and she’s just gotten out of the shower, and has had a bit too much Romulan Ale…

By: endrest

endrest — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:45:00 +0000

They don’t use Flash for their doodles. You probably have NoScript installed and need to authenticate googleusercontent.com to hear the audio events.

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 15:04:00 +0000

You get your google results in the toolbar, too?

By: Jack Kieffer

Jack Kieffer — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:35:00 +0000

One of my favorite Google Doodles by far!

By: retchdog

retchdog — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 06:58:00 +0000

well that’s your own problem.

seriously, what are you complaining about? you don’t use have this alleged special chrome api, so you need flash. but you don’t use flash, so … what exactly do you expect the world to do for you? i guess they could implement it in html5, but then again you’re probably surfing the web in lynx.

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:33:00 +0000

My recent brush with Star Trek
https://twitter.com/digitalArtform/status/236631577185107968

By: skeptacally

skeptacally — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:15:00 +0000

No problem here, though my Mac runs on Dilithium Crystals.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:39:00 +0000

What Chrome-specific API are you referring to, exactly?

There is an HTML5-standard for sound play-back. Not all browsers implement the full API, but it’s still an agreed-upon standard, towards which all browsers should be reaching.

If Firefox hasn’t implemented HTML5 sound, it makes some sense to fall back on Flash.

But I may be wrong — are you aware of a specific Chrome-only feature that this doodle uses?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:38:00 +0000

People who don’t know the word ‘toolbar’?

By: Cefeida

Cefeida — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:21:00 +0000

Good man! Someone had to warn BB that they were getting close to using up their daily allotment of words and emotions!

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 22:19:00 +0000

Still goateed, however.

By: Hubert Figuière

Hubert Figuière — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:48:00 +0000

I just don’t have Flash, as I said in the OC. And yes it should work without, they just didn’t make the effort.

By: Hubert Figuière

Hubert Figuière — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:47:00 +0000

But did you disable Flash before claiming it works?

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:25:00 +0000

That’s so Takei.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:24:00 +0000

Are you running no-script or something?
I see people say Chrome does so much more than Firefox, but I have yet to have it encounter a page it didn’t render properly.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:15:00 +0000

Wake up on the wrong side of the transporter did we?

On the other hand, Mirror-Universe Chentzilla is actually quite chipper.

By: Ramone

Ramone — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:11:00 +0000

Wake up on the wrong side of the transporter did we? Yikes.

FYI, not all Google doodles are seen in all countries, so not everyone who reads Boing Boing would have seen it immediately. They’d have to find the US version of Google:

http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/2012/All%20doodles

By: retchdog

retchdog — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:07:00 +0000

Yeah, we boingers would never stumble on it ourselves.

i wouldn’t. who actually visits google.com regularly any more?

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:05:00 +0000

You can’t spell “LGBTQ” without George Takei.

By: Chentzilla

Chentzilla — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:03:00 +0000

Hey, Trekkies: Google has treated us all to a really fun, interactive doodle to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the network premiere of Star Trek!

Yeah, we boingers would never stumble on it ourselves.

mess with a Redshirt (hint: the worried-looking one shaped like an “e”)

You can also identify him by his red shirt.

(The hair on the O-Kirk is glorious, I tell you.)

It’s in front of our very own eyes, you don’t need to tell us. Actually, the picture says it all. Except for where to find the interview – that’s the only non-superfluous part of this post.

Here’s what would be enough:
Hey, Trekkies: to celebrate the 46th anniversary of the network premiere of Star Trek, Google has treated us all to a really fun interactive doodle, which will be available from today until tomorrow — September 8, the actual air date in 1966.
StarTrek.com has an interview with the doodle’s creator (and Trekkie), Ryan Germick. Live long and prosper, Star Trek!

Not sure about that colon, though…

By: retchdog

retchdog — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:52:00 +0000

click on the hatch in the upper-left of the transporter room.

By: retchdog

retchdog — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:51:00 +0000

works for me. did you try reversing the polarity?

By: Dave X

Dave X — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:43:00 +0000

How did you find the Tribbles?